Authors Note: I would like to thank Wolvenstrom for beta reading this chapter for me. Also here's what Luz currently looks like: deviantart com / naruto1234007 / art / The-Aftermath-958862735

Luz was beyond nervous at the moment. She was now backstage in the Hexsides auditorium waiting for Principle Bump to call her name out. Thanks to Amity, she had set up a time for Luz to show off her two spells to be initiated into Hexside. "Luz No-see-da" Luz steeled what little nerves she could and stiffly walked out onto the stage "So, the human that wants to be a witch. Against my better judgment, I've allowed you to take this exam into Hexside, despite the fact you have a criminal record. But can you even do magic with all your... human parts?"

"W-w-well to b-be f-fair, I checked th-at up and h-humans a-a-and witches aren't t-that dif-f-ferent b-b-biolog-g-ically"

"Riiiight, so can you do magic"

'Come on Luz, you can do this.' "I sure can." She reaches into the front pocket or her new grey hoodie that Willow made for her "It's said that humans can't do magic"

"That's a well-established fact!" Someone called out

"Thank you professor Hecklear." Bump motioned his hand "Continue miss."

She pulls out papers and shows them to both sides of the auditorium. "As I was saying. It's...an established fact that humans can't do magic. but I discovered a lost technique that changes everything" Principal Bump raised a brow at this. Getting down on her knees, which was a bit of a struggle thanks to her now 310lbs frame, Luz activated the light glyph and let the ball of light rise up. She then moved the plant glyph under the light and activated it, resulting in a small Mercury Fly Trap, which ate the light ball. Luz beamed and did jazz hands, or hand in her case now. "Mmmmagic."

Principal Bump's eyes widened "spells cast with paper? I've never heard of such a thing." He said to himself "But is it enough to pass the exam?"

Luz then pulled out another piece of paper "I've also been experimenting, I found that by combining glyphs in specific ways, I can do this" activating it, she made a large flower with glowing petals.

Principal Bump was now even more surprised "and you discovered this all on your own?!"

"yep, I read up on the different types of magic performed in the past and when I heard about lava magic I figured that that could be just broken down into fire and plant magic as its basic elements"

"how…very observant, however combining magic is against school rules"

"whys that?"

"When you study at Hexside, you're put into a specific track of which you can only learn from"

"what track were you in when you went to school?"

Principal Bump showed her his abomination sigil "I was in the Abomination Track when I attended here"

"did you ever want to learn other magic besides abomination magic?"

"…well…I did want to learn healing magic as well when I learned my vision was going to fade, but I was only allowed to choose one"

"Well, you're the principal now, can't you change the rules to allow students to learn from multiple tracks?" a thoughtful look came over Principal Bump's face as he got up and walked away "so did I get excepted?"

"huh? oh uh right, welcome to Hexside?" and a brochure smacked Luz in the face with enough force to knock her flat on her back

"ouch"

Luz, along with Amity, Emira, and Edric, was now headed to Hexside, Luz was currently wearing a plain version of the typical Hexside uniform with her left sleeve rolled and pinned up. Throughout the whole walk however witches and demons kept offering her food, and Luz being Luz, happily accepted everything given to her…though she could swear that half of it was made by Amity "you know, you two make a really cute couple" Emira said, making both girls freeze in place.

"uh, were not a couple," Luz said, her face now bright red

"you hang out after school, you spend all of your time together, you sleep in the same bed…"

"…and I may or may not have taken this for blackmail purposes" Edric held up his pinstagram and played a video of Luz and Amity in bed, while Luz was sleeping, Amity was getting rather frisky as if trying to grab as much of Luz's stomach as possible while also kissing her repeatedly.

Luz turned to Amity, whose face was now a deep purple "Amity?" Amity then fell forward but was thankfully caught by Luz, who then slung her over her shoulder "wow, either she's lighter than she looks, or I really am getting stronger the fatter I get"

"wish I was getting stronger like you," Emma said before she removed a hidden concealment stone revealing her 500lbs form

"Holy magic girdle batman! Amity's work?"

"yep, I couldn't help myself! Her trudge-stuffed abomination brownies were just too irresistible!"

"Don't you mean fudge?"

"Whats fudge?"

"...have you tried working out?"

"yeah, but it's like any weight I gain from Amity's food is permanent. Whatever that girl makes sticks to you like a kid's fingers on the door of a toy store" she said before slipping the concealment stone back on "It takes a 'lot' of work than normal to work anything off. I may be wearing a concealment stone to make myself look thin, but I still feel every pound I gained from her food"

Luz then turned to Edric "don't look at me, I never eat anything Amity makes. No matter how hard she tries" he said as they continued walking.

The rest of the walk was spent in silence with Luz the only one speaking, and even then that was only just to thank witches and demons for the food. As soon as they reached the school grounds, Amity came too. "huh? Wha? Luz!"

"hey there sleepy head, we're here" Amity went red in the face again as as Luz placed her on her feet

"Luz, I…" Luz held up her hand

"Let's save this for after school, okay?"

"...Kay," Amity said, clearly ashamed of her actions.

Emira and Edric headed off to their classes while Luz and Amity joined up with Gus and Willow "Luz!" the two called out

"Hello, fellow Hexoleos!" Luz greeted

"Hello, classmate!" Willow replied

"I knew you could do it, Luz!" Gus said proudly before he summoned letters reading out 'BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME!' earning a glare from Willow, Amity just looked at her feet, finding them more interesting than anything else at the moment "uh hee hee, sorry, I was, uh, just covering all my bases"

"So, do you know who those witches are?" Willow asked, gesturing to the nine banners

"yeah, those are the heads of the main nine covens. Each one excelled at a magic school like Glandus, St. Epiderm, and, of course, Hexside, Emira told me that"

"It's good that you know that, so, are you prepared to enter these hallowed halls?"

"Hmm, that's what I'm gonna figure out right now. [Goes inside.] See you on the other side, friends"

"See you later, Luz" Gus replied before summoning letters spelling out "GOODBYE FOREVER!" earning an even harsher glare from Willow "you know what? I'm uh, I'ma just get rid of these"

Willow then turned to Amity and noticed that something was off about her "Amity, are you okay?" she asked, Amity just shook her head

"Willow…I messed up with Luz…big time"

"Sorry but class is about to start, let's talk about this at lunch"

"yeah…okay" and the three of them headed inside.

Meanwhile

In Principal Bump's office, said witch was sitting in his chair while watching a crystal ball "A terrible development at Glandus High School. Students and teachers were found dead with no injuries to speak of, the cause of death still remains unknown" the reporter said, Principal Bump gave a concerned look, while hoping that whatever caused that would remain far away from Hexside. His door then opened and he saw Luz walk in, her mouth packed with something.

Swallowing whatever it was, she smacked her lips "hmm, tastes like chicken"

"I have no idea what that is. Now, today we'll be visited by the Emperor's Coven for a routine inspection. If we want to impress them, you'll need to join a coven track before they arrive"

"Actually, Principal Bump, I've made my own schedule." She unfurled the scroll "First, Vet Care for Mythical Beasts, then Healing and Dealing, and then after lunch—"

Principal Bump looked at the list "getting a head start already, I was going to say this in a little while, but I might as well tell you this now. What you said during your initiation test, stuck with me. I thought it over and I've decided to allow students to study multiple tracks at once…judging by your list, I take it you want to study a bit of everything"

Luz got serious "more than anything"

"That's the spirit" he then twirled his finger and Luz's plain uniform gained multiple colors on it "now off you go to class" and with another twirl of his finger, Luz was lifted up off the ground and headed to her first class. *screams* "The Choosy Hat! It broke free"

Luz stood in front of a door that had 'Beast Keeping 101' above the door, she could hear a loud ruckus going on inside. As soon as she entered a small griffin, the size of a lion reared up at her "Puddles! Don't!" and as if on pure instinct, Luz dodged the swipe and punched it across the face. The griffin stopped completely and began to tear up "well, you deserved that for acting like that" a witch said firmly, making the griffin start to cower under its master firm look "sorry about that, are you the human who's joined our school?" she asked before offering Luz a very large deep fried potato

"yes I am, I'm Luz" Luz replied before accepting it and eating it.

"I'm Viney, nice to meet you"

"ike ise" Luz said with her mouth full of fried 'potato'. The class teacher then came up and asked the same thing to which Luz gave the same answer before the teacher gave her a meatball the size of a baseball.

"I take it you don't have a beast of your own at the moment?" the teacher questioned

"no, I don't sorry"

"That's fine, you can use the class pet, Boopsie"

"awe what a cute name where is the little guy?"

"right behind you"

Luz turned around to see a giant, hairless, scar-covered, demonic-looking bulldog that had to be taller than Eda "this, is a Boopsie?" Boopsie then began panting and stuck its tongue out before giving Luz a massive lick, soaking her front "Heehee E...ww?". Thankfully the demon dog's saliva was the same consistency as water and smelled like roses. "Good Boopsie" Luz said while patting its side while trying to regain her composure. The teacher was actually surprised at how well Luz was at vet care, to which Luz explained that her mum was a vet, so she knew a thing or two about taking care of the sick and injured. What was even more impressive was that she was able to do it all despite only having one arm. As Luz expected, everyone in the class came up to her and offered her food of all different types, and when she asked if anyone had something to drink after eating a dry sort of food that sucked all of the moisture out of her mouth, she ended up waterlogged from all the drinks she was offered. Students had also asked her why her school uniform was multi-colored, to which she replied "you'll find out later".

While Luz was enjoying her first class at Hexside, an inspector from the Emperor's coven arrived at the school "welcome to Hexside, inspector" Principal Bump greeted

"Greetings, Principal Bump. *Bows* If everything's in order, the Emperor's Coven will be happy to give a substantial donation to the school's funding"

"Excellent. Please come this way. We've prepared a show with some of our finest students"

An abomination and a similar-looking creature comprised entirely of vines were fighting on stage. The two creatures were being controlled by Amity and Willow respectively. The fight ended with the two creatures merging into one being before it turned to the Inspector and Principal Bump and gave a bow "And that concludes the presentation from the Plant Track and the Abomination track" Willow said as she and Amity also gave a bow.

Principal Bump politely applauded the show "that was some real Hexside magic, huh?"

"Yes, this is... good. But let's see if your students can put up more of a fight!"

"yes, yes—wait, what?" the inspector slammed her hands down on the stage. Her face then deformed, revealing that she was in fact a greater basilisk. "Is, uh, this part of the inspection?"

"Monstrosity, fight!" Willow and Amity said in union. The two girls creation ran forward and grabbed the inspector. The inspector fully transformed into a basilisk and tried to fling the monstrosity into the air, but roots in its feet kept it attached to the stage. The greater basilisk flipped over and sliced the monstrosity in half with its tail before eating one half and then the other in quick succession. It growled and then slithered toward the two girls, who began backing away

"the life force at Glandus High was tasty. But I hope yours will be more filling" Principal Bump ran between the two girls and the inspector

"Girls, stay back. She's an impostor!" the basilisk then inhaled deeply, causing a glowing ball of light to come out of the three witches' chests, which the basilisk swallowed. Their skin turned grey and the three of them fell to the ground, lying perfectly still with eyes glazed over. The basilisk gave an evil laugh before it began eating the life force of the other students in the Paranoratorium.

As the bell rang to signal the next class, students began filling the halls heading to their next class. As Luz headed to her next class, which was healing and dealing, she heard many different-sounding screams. This made her, as well as many other students, stop and look in the direction of the screams. At the end of the hall, they saw a student seemingly paralyzed in fear, before there was a powerful sucking and a glowing ball came out of his chest before he fell to the ground. The students watched as a greater Basilisk appeared around the corner and licked its lips. The students turned and ran while screaming in terror as the Basilisk began sucking in waves of life force from the students with them all dropping like flies.

As Luz ran for her life, literally, she watched as Viney from the Beast Keeping class opened up a large section of the lockers and stepped in "WAIT FOR ME!" she shouted as the Basilisk was on her heels. Luz dived through the opening and it closed right before the Basilisk rammed into it. Luz was now gasping for air as she lay on her back. Looking around, she saw several other students the first one she recognized was Viney. Another two students she recognized were Skara and Boscha, the latter of whom looked ready to kill her. There was also a male student, a dog wearing a hexside uniform, and the giant-eyed demon girl she had seen around town. Luz looked around, she was now in a very spacious area with different colored and shaped doors all over the walls "where am I?"

"the last place you'll ever see alive if you don't shut your mouth!" Boscha snapped, making Luz flinch

"cram it Boscha," Viney said, making the triclops scowl

"hey, if it wasn't for me we never would have found this place"

"she destroyed the detention room in a rage after she was thrown in it following her fight with Amity and Willow" Viney explained, making Boscha growl "and while it was under repairs the "detention track" was made. While we were in it, we discovered this place. It's called "the secret room of shortcuts". This place connects the different parts of the school. The witch who made it is known as..." She gestures to a defaced portrait and wall of signatures. "Lord Calamity!"

"What did you do to get tossed into detention, you seemed pretty well-behaved in class," Luz asked

"Jerbo, Barcus, Skara, and I tried mixing different kinds of magic. Jerbo mixed plant magic with abomination magic. Barcus mixed Potion magic with oracle magic. I tried mixing healing magic with beast-keeping magic…which in hindsight was kinda unconventional. And what did you do Skara?"

"I tried mixing Bard magic with healing magic, I could heal a room full of people at once but Bump said 'a witch must hocus focus'." She moaned "Who cares if it's not proper? isn't helping people better than following the rules?"

"well I do have some good news about that, Principal Bump is going to allow students to study multiple tracks at once, hence why mine multi-colored"

"that would explain why we were pulled out of the detention track yesterday"

"*muffled* You're the human right?" the giant-eyed demon said in a muffled voice while extending a sandwich out to Luz, who happily accepted it

"yeah I am, I'm Luz"

"*muffled* Eileen. Wow, I can't believe I'm seeing a human face to face, I'm a member of-"

"Can we actually focus on the fact that there's a giant Basilisk killing everyone in the school" Boscha snapped

"you're right, can we use this place to get out of the school and warn someone?" Luz asked

"or to just escape" Skara added

"yeah we can, but unfortunately the only door that leads to the outside is too small for the three of you," Viney said while gesturing to Luz, Boscha, and Skara.

Boscha scowled "so we either stay here and wait until that thing kills everyone and leaves, or we fight it and hope for the best"

"*bark* *bark*"

"Barcus says if we're smart, we can overcome any enemy"

"hey guys, out of curiosity, does anyone here know any spells that speed up digestion?" Luz asked

"I do…why?" Viney asked, Luz, grinned

"Well I'm super hungry and I could really use a lot of food to fill up this belly of mine" she said. Pressing down on their instinct button as everyone materialized a large amount of food.

After a large amount of food was borderline forced down Luz's throat and rapidly digested thanks to Viney, Luz was now 380lbs. After telling everyone her plan they all agreed to it, mostly due to no one having any better ideas.

"Hungry! Still hungry!" the greater Basilisk said after eating the life force of another 5 students

"has anyone told you that you may have an eating disorder?"

"huh?" 3 vials of liquid dropped from above and smashed on the ground creating a large smokescreen. As the Basilisk was blinded by the thick cloud of smoke, it didn't see a piece of paper being tossed in front of it. A giant Mercury Fly Trap emerged from the piece of paper and bit down on the Basilisk. The Basilisk screeched in agony as the plant's digestive juices started to rapidly dissolve away its flesh. It unfortunately was able free itself relatively quickly though as it slashed the head of the plant to ribbons, where it dropped to the ground.

"From the humblest of beginnings, a hero will rise" the Basilisk looked up and saw Luz "I've trained with long-forgotten techniques to discover the power of mixing magic! I am—"

"Dinner!"

"Wah!" Luz began running as fast as she could as the Greater Basilisk righted itself and began chasing after Luz. As the Basilisk rapidly got closer to Luz, she called out "Viney! Do the thing, do the thing!" Puddles then flew through the halls and attacked the Basilisk

"Attagirl, Puddles! Jerbo, now!" Viney called out

"On it!" Jerbo replied, An abomination that he created opened a door in the floor as Jerbo summoned several thorny vines. The vines latch onto a door handle in the ceiling. The Basilisk clawed at Puddles and threw her before it fell through the opened door. Getting stuck in the door of the floor of the Secret Room of Shortcuts, the Basilisk turned its head and saw a student with a giant eyeball for a head, Eileen then poured a potion on her head, and in a puff of smoke, she was now 5 times bigger. Raising a foot she stomped down hard on it, sending it through the door in the floor of the Secret Room of Shortcuts and into the auditorium, where it crashed on the stage. It was about to get up only to be pinned down by a demonic-looking abomination. Jerbo then came down with his abomination and helped hold down the basilisk as well.

Up at the top Luz and Skara stood at the edge of the first door that opened up "okay Skara, let's go!" Luz said and the two then hugged each other tightly and jumped down through the two open doors and landed on the Basilisk's stomach, making it release all of the life forces it had consumed, as well as knocking the breath out of it. The witches watched as glowing balls of light went into the bodies of the lifeless witches who had been lying around the auditorium. The witches then sprang up while taking a deep breath.

The group cheered that their plan succeeded, but their cheers were quickly silenced "you little brats!" The basilisk growled out as it rose up. It opened its mouth to suck out its life force when Boscha was thrown onto the basilisk by her abomination, she then wrapped her arms around its neck and squeezed tightly

"What are you doing? Egh. A witch is-K! Spsed to use magic."

"Magic of these guns! there's just one more life force I need to remove from you, YOUR'S" *snap* and with that, the basilisk fell to the ground, dead.

After having the dead basilisk removed from the school, an assembly was held in the auditorium. Principal Bump appeared on the stage "silence students" he started, silencing even "as all of you were aware, a basilisk infiltrated the school and ate your life forces, including my own. Our lives would have all been lost if it hadn't been for these brave students, who not only freed our life forces but also killed the basilisk preventing it from taking any more lives" everyone in the auditorium cheered and clapped as the students who had defeated the basilisk stood proudly on stage.

After school finished for the day, Luz, who was stuffed to the max, exited, happy that her first day of magic school went better than she expected it to go…sure it went a bit pear-shaped with the whole basilisk fiasco, but she left now being seen as a hero and Principal Bump had pointed out that Luz was the reason he was now going to allow students to start taking multiple tracks at once.

Luz turned to Amity with a serious look on her face "Amity, after what your brother and sister showed me this morning, I've decided to stay with Willow for a while"

Amity forced a smile onto her face "s-s-sure L-L-Luz" she strained out

"don't get me wrong, I like you, and I think you're cute, but I think that you like my weight and feeding me more than me as a person" Luz stated, Amity stayed silent, she knew that Luz was right, she did only see Luz as someone to fulfill her desires and her obsession with feeding people. She gave Luz a small nod before she ran off. Luz felt a pain in her chest at seeing her friend run off

"I think she needs to get her feelings in order," Willow said,

"wait, what did she do?" Gus asked, to which Luz told him what happened. He was a bit confused but just brushed it aside. After a bit more walking, Gus split off from the two girls, and they continued to Willow's house.

When they finally arrived Luz took in Willow's house in awe, everywhere she looked, she saw sculptures and paintings, all of them being Luz's sort of weird. "Welcome to Park Homestead" Willow said proudly

"whoa, Willow, are your dad's awesome art collectors"

"Oh, no, my dad's actually made all of this. My dad Gilbert makes paintings with different shades of abomination goo, and my dad Harvey uses his construction magic to make sculptures"

"wow, these sculptures look like they could come alive any minute now"

"yeah, my dads take great pride in their work, come on, I'll show you around" and Willow showed Luz around her house, occasionally offering her food.

"And finally we have my room," Willow said proudly, Luz looked around, Willow's room was filled with plants of various types and sizes, she also had pictures of her and Gus, as well as pictures of her and Amity up on the walls. There was also a desk, a bed, and shelves of books.

"Nice room" Luz said, clearly impressed

"Thanks, it's not much, but I like it"

"wow Willow, these plants are so cool!" Luz said as she walked up to the largest one which looked like a certain plant from a little shop of horrors

"that's Betsy, I've been growing her to enter her in a plant growing competition next month"

Luz then turned back to Willow "well given how big it is you're sure to win" she said before Betsy rose up and bit down on Luz "hmmgmmffthhfm!" Luz cried out

"Betsy! No!" Willow shouted and she used her magic to free Luz.

"Are you okay Luz?!"

"Yeah I'm fine," Luz said, her hair now completely messed up.

"Betsy, Luz is my friend, not food, do you understand?" Betsy nodded before going back to its original position. "Sorry about that Luz, she gets that way around new people"

"It's fine, I'll only be having nightmares for a few days," Luz said before two red needles embedded themselves into both sides of Luz's neck "ow! What the?!" Luz exclaimed before she pulled the two needles out

"oh sorry about that Luz, the twin Dart Shooters I have, love doing that to new people as well"

"These aren't poisonous are they?"

"Oh, no they're not"

"phew tha…" Luz trailed off as she tensed up, went wide-eyed, and clenched her teeth tightly, before falling back with a thud

"They just cause almost full body paralysis for 5 hours"

"take eee to Gus's house thlese" Luz said to Willow, who nodded in acknowledgment before going to get her heavy-duty wagon.

When Willow arrived at Gus's house, she was now hauling Luz and three wagons of food "wow, now that was a workout"

"you're really strong Willow"

"hehe thanks, Luz, well here we are" and she knocked on the door

"I'll get it!" They heard Gus's voice ring out, there was a pause before the door opened "oh hey Willow, what's up"

"hey Gus, do you think that you and your dad could take in Luz, I don't think she would survive at my house, especially in my room" Gus looked and saw the paralyzed Luz

"dart twins got her?"

"In the neck"

"ouch, you doing okay Luz?"

"I'd give you a thumbs uth ut I can't ove"

"when they first got me, they got me in the butt" this made the two girls laugh.

"And what's so funny here?" Gus's father asked as he walked up, becoming surprised at the sight in front of him.

"Hey Dad, can Luz stay here with us"

"wait isn't that the criminal who broke all of those prisoners out?"

"They were just a bunch of weirdos who were locked uth for not fitting into society" Luz explained, surprising Perry

"Wait, really?"

"All fanfic writers and guys who eat their own eyes."

Perry pinched the bridge of his nose. His tax snails paid for 'that'?

"so can she stay with us please?!" Gus pleaded

"of course, she can," Perry said before thinking to himself 'maybe if she stays here, Augustus will stop going on about her, plus I'd be the first reporter to interview a human'

Gus hugged his dad tightly while thanking him profusely before Willow brought in Luz and the wagons of food. "She should be able to move in about 3 hours from now," Willow said before she headed back home, slightly disappointed that Luz would be staying at Gus's house instead of her's.

By the time Luz could move again, it was dark out. Feeling that there would be riots, as soon as she could move, she began devouring all of the food people had given her, while Gus and Perry wrote down notes on human behavior. By the time Luz had finished all of the food, she was too stuffed to move. "Wow Luz, I've never seen you eat that much in one sitting"

"if I didn't, you'd probably have half the town banging on your door, trying to feed me the food they made" Luz explained before a belch erupted from her mouth "I'm so sorry for that!" she said while going bright red in the face, making the two witches laugh.