Authors Note: this will be a bit of a short chapter. I would like to thank Wolvenstrom for beta reading this chapter, enjoy
Luz was currently frustrated, she had to make an abomination for her abomination class, but she failed to even bring a pot of sludge to life in any form. While she could have asked Amity for help, she was actually busy having a family day out with her dad and siblings and she didn't want to ruin that by asking her to help her with school work. She knew that Willow knew how to make abominations, but the could barely get them to hold their form. Both Gus and Eda knew next to nothing about abominations, plus Eda was out for the day, so it was just her, King and Hooty.
"Ugh! I don't get it, I've followed the instructions on how to make an abomination precisely, and I still can't get it to come alive" she then leaned into the pot "come on, please come to life, for me" nothing "King, Hooty, any ideas?"
"Maybe if you put an abomination glyph in there it'll come to life" King suggested. Drawing an abomination glyph on a piece of paper she placed it on top of the goo and activated it, but all that happened was the quantity of abomination goop increased a bit "well, that was a bust" King said
"hmm oh I know!" Hooty exclaimed and he zoomed through the house. He returned with a potions book and began flipping through the pages "here we go, a life potion! Eda's used this on vegetables many times to get them to cook themselves"
"has she gotten them to cook themselves?"
"Not once"
"why would she need to cook anyway, she can just magic up food"
"she says it gives her a chance to use her potion making skills"
"well then, let's get cracking on this"
It took them a while, but soon they had made the life potion, Luz even added a few drops of titans blood to it to power it up. Pouring the whole potion into the abomination goo, the three peered around the pot and watched as it started to bubble rapidly and the whole pot shook "ITS GONNA BLOW!" King shouted, Luz teleported herself and King outside while Hooty retracted and closed the door. A loud boom was heard from inside the owl house, followed by silence
"on a scale of one to ten, how bad do you think it is?" Luz ask
"I'd definitely say a ten" King replied
"ugh, it feels like a 20 to me" Hooty added, opening up they saw that every square inch of the living room was purple.
Reentering the owl house, they looked around at the completely purple room. "Eeew Eda is not going to be happy with this" King said
"well, let's get cleaning" Luz said dejected. Just as King went to get the cleaning supplies, everyone froze as all of the abomination goo began rippling before it began receding into the centre of the room. Luz, King, and Hooty watched as the goo began taking form. Finally it stopped, now taking the form of a small, smooth, bulky, abomination that was in a kneeling position. Raising its head, it's eyes snapped open revealing that they looked like normal eyes, only the irises glowed blue. It looked around in awe, taking in everything for the first time
"Luz, I think we may have given this abomination true sentience" King whispered, making the abomination look straight at them
"hello" it said in plain English while sounding like a little boy
"um hi" Luz greeted back with a small wave. Getting to its feet, it stumbled over to Luz who kneeled down, catching the little abomination as it finally lost its balance
"who are you, are you my mummy?" the little abomination asked, Luz went sparkly eyed
"oh my gosh you're so adorable" she said before hugging him "yes I am your mummy" Luz said as she picked it up "and this is your uncle King and Hooty"
"hey" both King and Hooty said in union, both unable to know how to respond to this situation.
"hi uncle King and Hooty" it said while waving at them before looking at its waving arm in awe
"and what's your name little guy?" Luz asked
"hmm I don't have a name…I think"
"hmm oh I know, how about Plasmorph" the abomination's face lit up
"Plasmorph! Plasmorph! Plasmorph!" it said excitedly
"then Plasmorph it is" she then turned to King and Hooty "hows that for being a witch. I completed my assignment and I got a son in the process" she said before kissing the top of Plasmorph's head, realising that it was actually a lot more stable than other abominations the had seen and felt and she wasn't getting covered in abomination goop at all.
A few hours later Eda returned with an empty sack "anything eventful, destructive, or otherwise happen while I was gone?" she ask
"yeah, Luz became a mum"
"WHAT?!" and she raced up stairs
kicking the door open she saw Luz lying on her stomach with an odd looking abomination next to her, both drawing glyphs
"wow nice entrance Eda"
"Luz, Hooty just said that you became a mum"
"Yep, Eda say high to my abomination Plasmorph, Plasmorph, this is Eda" Plasmorph got up and walked over to Eda before hugging her
"Hello Eda, my name is Plasmorph"
"Ew sentiment"
"oh Eda don't be like that" Luz said
"so you were able to give this thing sentience" she then picked up Plasmorph, who giggled
"you're really pointy"
"Uh thanks…this is definitely a different level of sentience, I mean I once gave a whole horde of abominations sentience and they acted mostly the same, only independent of the one that made them…and they also went on a rampage throughout the school, ah good times"
"me and Plasmorph are going to blow Professor Hermonculus away with how great of an abomination he is" Luz said as Plasmorph turned into a liquid, splashing on the floor before reforming into a smaller version of Luz
"now I'm mummy" it said in Luz's voice
"almost 650lbs and I still look good" Luz said as she admired Plasmorph
"great, you're rubbing off on her" King stated flatly
"hey cutie, think you can turn into that cutie" Luz asked while pointing at King. Plasmorph grinned before turning into a purple version of King, who then walked up to King
"wow, talk about perfection" King said before the two began mirroring each other. Luz made a normal Luz sound and began rolling around on the floor before she passed out
"great, you two made her go into a cuteness coma" Eda said, she tried lifting Luz up with her magic, but she could hardly make her budge "ah nut's to this, I'll just leave her there"
"I call her belly!" King said before he scampered over to Luz and leapt up onto her gargantuan belly, sinking into it a bit. Plasmorph turned into its normal self before finding a comfy spot on it's mummy, soon joining King in the land of slumber.
Plasmorph was standing up in the abomination pot Luz was using for class, Luz had decided to walk to school, after what happened at Grom, she had started limiting what she ate and had started working out, mostly in the form of lifting weights and jogging around the outside of Bonesborough. Luz stopped for the 5th time to catch her breath, she could see Hexside in the distance "come on Luz, you can do this, when you get to school, you can relax, until then, push forward" she said to herself and she continued on her way.
When she finally made it to school, she collapsed on to the front steps in a sweaty, wheezing, heap "this was so much easier 200 pounds ago" she muttered
"are you okay mummy?" Plasmorph asked,
"just…fine…sweetie, ugh"
"Luz?! Are you okay?!" the familiar voice of Gus rang out.
Luz turned her head and saw Gus kneeling by her side "just…a little…out…of shape"
"I think you were a little out of shape 500lbs ago"
"good one…I walked to school today instead of teleporting"
"is this about what Grom turned into?"
"yeah it is, don't get me wrong I love it here, and I love the food here, but people in the human world can be really cruel to people who don't "fit in". back home i was pretty much an outcast *grabs her belly* but with this, i'll be even more of an outcast, though when I think about it, i'm 99.9% sure my mum wouldn't do or say what Grom did"
"who are you?" Gus looked up and saw Plasmorph poking it's head up
"ah! What is that thing?!"
"I'm Plasmorph. That's my mummy" Gus looked at Plasmorph and then to Luz
"Gus, meet Plasmorph, my abomination/child"
"this is weird, even for you, abominations don't look or sound like that"
"oh?" Plasmorph then oozed out of the jar, landing in a puddle before reforming into an egg with a face and limbs "is this what abominations look and sound like" it asked in a high sophisticated voice.
"cool! Can you turn into anything?!"
Plasmorph then turned into a smaller purple version of Gus "I think I can" it said before turning back to normal. Luz, having regained her strength, stood back up and placed Plasmorph back into the jar, giving it a kiss on the head as she did.
"Luz!" Luz and Gus turned and saw Willow and Amity heading towards them, they watched as Amity rapidly picked up speed until she dived right into Luz's arms and kissed her softly.
"wow, I wouldn't mind being greeted by you like that everyday" Luz said as their lips separated
"and I wouldn't mind greeting you like that everyday" Amity replied and she poked Luz's nose.
Luz's first class of the day was Abomination 101. She was excited to show off Plasmorph to the class and especially to the teacher, who had thought very little of Luz. Amity and Willow had both been taken aback by Plasmorph's appearance, and question how it was the way it was, before Luz could give away this information, the bell screamed/rang and everyone headed into class. Luz had instructed Plasmorph to stay in the jar until she said so. Professor Hermonculus nodded in approval at a horned students abomination "much better than last time, though try to work on how many arms it has" he said, gesturing to the 4 armed abomination
"oh that is intentional, two are for holding and the other two are for pounding" the student replied
"I see, then I'll bump your grade up a mark" the student beamed before headed back to her seat "okay next up, Luz" Luz smiled and heading up to the front with her jar "so Luz, have you been able to even give your abomination life?"
"I sure have, abomination, rise…Plasmorph, that you"
a huge blob shot out of the jar and landed on the floor with a splat. Everyone watched as the goop reformed into a kneeling Plasmorph "tada!" it said while giving jazz hands, there were awes at this from the class
"impressive miss Noceda, a bit on the small side though. Can it speak"
"oh he can do more than speak, Plasmorph, show Professor Hermonculus what you can do" Plasmorph then proceeded to transform into various different things it had seen. When it stopped Luz clapped, as did the rest of the class
"did I do good mummy?"
"you did amazing sweetie" Luz said before she held out her arms, to which Plasmorph jumped up into them, and she proceeded to give it a kiss on the head.
"I've honestly never seen an abomination with this level of adaptability nor this level of scentience before. Tell me miss Noceda, how were you able achieve this stupendious level of abomination magic?"
"oh well I um just followed your notes, believed in myself and pushed through"
"you hear that class, work hard enough and you'll be able to achieve this. You may take your seat Luz, next Amity" Amity strolled confidently up to the front of the class before her arms turned into large abomination arms. Slamming both palms on the ground, a wave of abomination goop came out, covering the floors, before 30 abominations rose up from it "by the titan" Professor Hermonculus muttered. He, as well as all of the students were aware of Amity's new powers, but no one was expecting her to be able to do this
"woo Amity! Amity!" Luz cheered, while Plasmorph danced. Amity blushed at this and smiled, though the smile disappeared when a glob of abomination goop hit her in the face. With eyes narrowing, her gaze then shifted over to a nonchalant looking Boscha, getting an idea, she then used her food magic to turn an abomination into sweetened cream. Two abominations then grabbed and restrained Boscha, before making the cream on go gown her throat.
"Amity Blight! What are you doing to Boscha?!" Professor Hermonculus exclaimed
"just let this happen Professor" Amity replied, making more abominations join in in restraining the triclops "she needs to know her place is beneath my boot". When the last of the abomination disappeared past Boscha's lips, the abominations let go of her and Amity retracted all of the abomination goop back into her body, while Boscha moaned in pain and fullness. Amity gave a bow before strutting back to her seat, where she was given a quick hug from Luz and Plasmorph.
When lunch finally rolled around Luz and her friends met up at their usual table "so Luz, how did showing off Plasmorph go?" Gus asked
"It went great actually, and Amity put Boscha in her place" Luz replied
"really? What did she do?" Willow asked as she played with Plasmorph, Luz then told her friends exactly what Amity did to Boscha. "maybe that'll make her back off" Willow stated, before a fist came down and splattered Plasmorph
"my baby!" Luz exclaimed
"I don't know how you made that thing, but I know you cheated to make it the way is!" Boscha snapped as Plasmorph reformed around her arm
"hello, you're ugly" it said
Boscha saw red for a moment before she swung her arm, flinging Plasmorph across the cafeteria and splattering up against the wall. Plasmorph's face appeared on the splatter and it giggled before reforming. Once it was back to normal, it walked back over to its mama, leaving the occasional gooey foot print as it did.
Once it made its way over to it's mama, she picked it up and held it protectively while glaring daggers at Boscha. "oh come off it human, you're acting like that thing is actually your child, it's just a blob of goop that does whatever you say" Luz let go of Plasmorph and stood up at this, raising both arms up she put two fingers on her forehead and teleported in front of Boscha before punching her right in the face, knocking her flat on her back with a broken nose
"If you ever touch my son again, my next punch will go right through your skull!" Boscha removed her hands from her face and looked at the blood on them. Getting back up, Boscha looked at the still furious Luz, she then saw that Luz's friends had all gotten up as well, ready to defend her. Boscha then raised her hands and took a step back
"you're right, I apologise for my actions" she then turned around and left, grabbing and dragging Eileen away as she did
"I honestly thought that she was going to try and end you" Gus stated with the others nodding. A tear then rolled down Luz's cheek "I think I broke my hand with that punch" she said through clenched teeth, thankfully her healing goop spell remedied that rather quickly.
Meanwhile
Once out of the cafeteria, Boscha pinned Eileen up against the wall with her gut "okay one eye, you're going to tell me how its possible to make non-sentient abomination goop, sentient" Eileen gulped
"Um well, the only thing that I can think of would be that she mixed a life potion into the goop, but life potions only last for 4 hours or are damaged enough that they 'die'. If what you did didn't kill it then its probably got about an hour or so before it fully wears off" Eileen stated "thank you for this information" and Boscha released her before walking off.
As the rest of the day went by, Amity was tasked with keeping an eye on Plasmorph while Luz attended other classes. Amity saw this as a way to prove to Luz that she was an awesome girlfriend, so throughout the day, she kept a hawks eye on Plasmorph to make sure it didn't get into any trouble. She started to get nervous however as she saw that Plasmorph was starting to break down. She used her magic to restore it, but that only lasted for about 5 minutes, before it started to break down again. Each time it broke down, it got even worse. Amity watched as one of its eyes slid down its body until it reached its foot, before she slid it back up. When the bell rang signalling the end of the day, Plasmorph extended its arms up to Amity for upsies, only for its arms to fall off. "um mama Amity, am I okay?" it asked as it looked down at the splattered remains of its arms.
"looks like this thing has lasted longer than I thought" the two turned and saw Boscha. "that ugly blob that's trying to be a witch must have used a life potion in making this thing, though its lasted longer than Eileen said it would" Amity formed her arm into a spear and pressed it up against Boscha's chest
"call my girlfriend that again, and I'll bury this spear in your heart" Boscha smirked before she grabbed the spear and flung Amity to the side. Boscha then swung her leg forward and splattered Plasmorph on impact.
There was a long pause, but Plasmorph didn't reform "and time is-" *SMASH* Amity's eyes widened as she saw a beyond furious Luz holding the remain of a chair, she had just teleported into the class room where she saw and heard the whole incident
"Lu-" *SMASH* *SMASH* *SMASH* *SMASH* anyone who had remained in the room had completely moved back as Luz broke an additional 3 chairs and a desk on Boscha. Before she could break anything else on the unconscious Boscha she was restrained by 3 abominations, made by Professor Hermonculus
"everyone, leave, now" he ordered and any remaining students left. "Miss Noceda, please calm down" he said as Luz continued to struggle "it was just an abomination, you could make another one"
"no I can't! I used a life potion with some titan's blood to bring him to life! He was unique. He wasn't some mindless sludge. He thought, he had feelings" Luz finally went limp "he was my son" she said before she began bawling.
Amity stepped forward "Professor Hermonculus, could you give us some privacy and take away the lump?" the Professor nodded before the abominations let go of Luz and grabbed Boscha before dragging the unconscious girl out. Luz fell to her hands and knees and continued crying. Amity got down on her knees and hugged her girlfriend "Luz, I understand that you saw Plasmorph as something special, something more than just an abomination. You felt like it was your child, and I feel the same way every time I make an abomination, but at the same time, I know that they're not real. Because you brought yours to life with a life potion instead of normal magic, it's time was limited from the start" Luz slowly stopped crying and just held onto Amity tightly, a tightness that Amity returned.
Luz was now standing in front of a small grave, holding a jar that contained the remains of Plasmorph placing the jar into the hole she gave a quiet goodbye before she covered it up. "Come on kid, I'll make yah those ciscuits that you love" Eda said as she guided Luz back inside while King leapt up onto Luz and hugged her to which she returned.
As Luz lay on her bed, she heard a knock on her window, looking up she saw Amity flying on her staff. Getting up she opened the window "Amity? What are you doing here at this time?"
"well I knew that you were sad about what happened to Plasmorph, so I made this for you" she then presented to Luz a roughly made plush version of Plasmorph that was leaking abomination goop. Luz took it and looked at it "…you hate it, don't ya? It's too ugly, isn't it? You know what, give it back to me—"
"I LOVE IT!"
Authors Note: and another chapter done, the next one will be the storm which will end up diverting greatly from the original story. let me know what you thought of the chapter in the reviews