A/N: And now, the moment we have all been waiting for: the 2nd season finale of "The Owl House: Coven of Rings and Darkness"! Now, it coincides with Amphibia: Secrets of Newtopia's own 2nd season finale so that the 2 bridges would meet together in "The Amphibia House: Coven of Witches, Frogs, & Frontiers", which is now re-scheduled once (only once, mind you) to be released on August 25th.
The Owl House: Coven of Rings and Darkness
Chapter 21: Gale of Darkness
Act I
Luz, Amity, King, Grimedale, and Crimsondale woke up and found themselves again in the In-Between Realm with Luz and Amity in half-titan form.
"Guys? Are you two okay?", King asked.
"Mm-hmm.", Luz assured.
"We're all right.", Amity added.
"How are you a Titan?", Crimsondale asked.
"Yeah, you look so cool!", Grimedale added.
"That's kind of a long story.", Amity blushed.
Suddenly, the five Titans overheard a conversation between Nechros and the Collector.
"A Titan-blasted idiot! That's what I am for believing you could help me with the Draining Spell!", Nechros berated.
"But—But, Nechros, please! You have to reconsider! I don't wanna lose my friends!", Collector pleaded.
"Silence!", Nechros snapped.
As he berated him further, King, Luz, Amity, Grimedale, and Crimsondale floated to the source of the voices and peeped over from behind a pillar, noticing that the frightened Collector was trapped in a mysterious floating orb while Nechros was speaking from a small round piece of glass floating nearby.
"No one in here is your friend! Can't you get that through your stupid head?! Why have each and every one of my attempts to convince you to help me failed? If you do not help me with the Draining Spell, you can forget about being released from your prison.", Nechros glared.
"Hey, don't you talk to the Collector like that!", Luz shouted with a snap before gasping upon realizing it came out of her mouth and covering it.
"Hm? Who's there?!", Collector puzzled.
Then, before Luz and Amity could speak, they, King, Grimedale, and Crimsondale all woke up with the three Titans waking up in Willow's lap, breathing heavily.
"It's okay, King, it's okay.", Willow spoke calmly.
King, Grimedale, Crimsondale, Willow, Alador, Ellie, Selena, Kroscha, Moscha, Emilia, Erebor, Boscha, Luke, Lucia, Maura, Evander, Gus, Caleb, Sophia, and even Sudd and Kloren were all aboard Evander's airship. Evander was showing them around his airship.
"Wow, that's impressive, Evander. You made all this yourself?", Maura asked.
"I did and you all are my very first guests. It's my personal masterpiece.", Evander spoke.
"That ship looks really amazing, eh!", Sudd said.
"You made all that yourself?", Vee asked.
"Well, over the 13 years searching for Maura, I got bored.", Evander explained.
Ellie paid no mind to this as she was worriedly pacing back and forth, Gus was inspecting his power amplifier, and most of the gang's palismen are huddled in a shaking pile. Caleb and Sophia did various adjustments to the air ship to help Alador steer it.
"I know how to fly a ship.", Alador said, irritated.
"Then fly faster! We're barely halfway there. Luz and Amity could be in trouble!", Ellie snapped.
"Maybe if I took the wheel...", Caleb began.
"Very eager to return to Nechros, eh, Golden Guard?", Alador glared suspiciously.
"Hey, at least we've never built him an army!", Sophia snapped.
"Watch your tone with me, young lady.", Alador snapped angrily as he let go of the steering wheel, causing the ship to tilt and Gus to fall out of his seat.
"Hey, here's a bright idea: don't distract the pilot!", Gus snapped, annoyed.
"He started it!", Caleb glared.
Soon, Alador, Caleb, Sophia, Gus, and Ellie all started yelling at each other angrily.
"Ee-yuh-oh.", Maura winced as King, Grimedale, Crimsondale, and Willow watched sadly from the back of the ship.
"I can't believe they're gonna face Nechros alone again. And we're powerless to help her.", King spoke sadly.
"We can't even manage to help each other.", Crimsondale sighed sadly.
"Maybe they're just hangry.", Kloren guessed.
Willow lifted up Clover, and nodded to her. Clover chirped and flew over to where the other palismen are. With that, the palismen pushed a box of cheeses, bread, and apples over to the arguing witches, interrupting their fighting as Evander and Vee noticed.
"Meow!", Ghost meowed.
"Oh, I get it. They really haven't eaten for some time, have they?", Evander asked before Gus' stomach growled.
"Look, we're all exhausted and terrified. Let's focus our energy on helping Luz and Amity instead of fighting each other.", Boscha suggested before everyone nodded.
They all took a snack from the box and Gus fist bumped Caleb and Sophia as an apology. Alador then gestured Caleb to steer the wheel with a sincere smile. To the side, Ellie was rubbing her hands together from the cold, but Alador summoned Abomination goo to cover her hands and sat down next to her. As for Evander, he served up some red drink in cups.
"Drink up. It's Cherry Blood, made from an Ogress's wild blossoms.", Evander offered.
"An ogress's wild blossoms?", Sudd asked.
"Cherry Blood, huh? Well, I'll be the judge of that.", Kloren said before he and Sudd took a sip.
A moment after, they widened their eyes and got excited.
"No way! This drink is amazing, little brother!", Kloren shouted.
"I know, eh?! It's like I can taste pure sweetness!", Sudd agreed.
"That was amazing!", Grimedale grinned as Clover flew back to her hand.
"There's always a way to help. You just have to look for the right opportunity.", Willow assured.
"Thanks, Willow. I'll... remember that.", King yawned before lying down to go back to sleep as Evander and Maura took a sip of Cherry Blood from their cups as well.
"Wow, bro! You really outdid yourself with that drink.", Maura grinned.
"I can't believe that it's been over 13 years already… since you were apparently taken by Melkor.", Evander said.
"Wha?", Maura puzzled.
"You probably don't remember this, but as soon as the attack on H.E.C.K. was over, you were kidnapped by a dark shadow and neither of us knew it was him. I couldn't stop it and you were sent to be a test subject for the abomination warrior experiment.", Evander explained as if then showed him looking around for a little Maura only to see her get taken by a pitch black shadow with glowing orange eyes in a dark alley.
"Maura, NOOOOOOOOOOO!", young Evander shouted.
Back in the present, Maura blinked in surprise.
"Oh, so that's what it was! I have dreams about that sometimes. So, bad news? He turned me into an abomination blob. But the good news? I was lucky enough not to be HIS abomination blob. So, mixed bag?", Maura grinned.
"There's something else, though. I still have no idea why he needed to make an army of sentient abominations for his invasion in the first place.", Evander said.
Then, Boscha spoke up.
"Okay, guys. Here's my plan. Nechros is a creepy old geezer who messed with everyone's lives as we know it. So, maybe it's time we shed some light on that with this. All we have to do is toss it at that guy, and boom! He's as good as dust. Literally.", Boscha said, holding out an aging potion.
Nevertheless, they all looked uneasy, but nodded in agreement as it needed to be done. After a moment, Sophia looked past the stormy clouds and saw the skull of the Titan up ahead.
"Buckle up, everyone... We're here.", Sophia spoke.
Then, it skipped to the logo of the show, except this time, "Amphibia" appeared before a bright spell circle was traced with the two inside before it was cast, merging the two logos into "The Amphibia House".
Act II
Outside the Titan's head, the stormy clouds were parted just enough to show both the moon and sun nearing an eclipse. All of the Coven witches from across the isles have gathered into a large, circular area. Nechros appeared on top of a raised platform in the center, and the crowd gasped. Nechros grinned deviously and then projected a larger version of himself with everyone starting to cheer.
"Children of the Isles! For too long, our world has been home to an insidious pox. A corruption that defiles the Titan's blessings. Now, that corruption has taken ahold of all 9 Coven Heads! But today, that changes. United with the Titan, and the power of the eclipse, we shall wipe out wild magic forever, starting with those 9 traitors after the Day of the Unity. Paradise awaits!", Nechros proclaimed, reaching toward the sun and moon.
Nechros' projection faded out, and he then strapped the Obsidian Guard to a sort of device and primed it on her back. Then, Nechros raised his arms and then drew a large glyph-like shape into the ground below himself and the Coven Gems. He raised his staff into the air and activated it.
"Goodbye, Boiling Isles.", Nechros smirked in a low voice before he slammed his staff into the ground and activated the glyph, sending large pillars of light into the air.
All of the audience's Coven Sigils started glowing. He then turned into goo and disappeared into the ground.
Meanwhile, Eda, Belos, Mithril, Tibren, Darius, Eberwolf, Mason, Vitimir, Adrian, Terra, Osran, Hettie, Raine, Lilith, and Hooty were all locked up in cells at the Conformatorium. Lilith turned to see Katya and Derwin already looking down sadly.
"Aw, titan darn it! After all that, we still failed!", Eda shouted in anger, if not sadness.
"Everyone thinks they're gonna be in paradise after today. It's over...", Raine said sadly.
"This is NOT how I wanted to go out! Locked up in a conformatorium cell of all places... Is that how it feels to be so... so...", Darius began.
"Powerless?", Eda asked.
"I was going to say trapped, but yes!", Darius responded.
"I can't believe that this is how it ends...!", Lilith spoke sadly.
"Thus, despair casts a blanket of darkness over us all, eliminating all traces of light, and with it, any hint of hope...", Hooty said sadly.
As Eda looked back, a vision briefly appeared on the screen: younger versions of Raine, Lilith, Darius, Alador, Odalia, Principal Bump, and Perry Porter. The other younger selves fade away until only Raine and Lilith are left. The vision then disappeared to reveal current Raine and Lilith looking sadly at Eda. She just turned away sadly, starting to shed tears.
"I'm sorry we couldn't protect you, Luz...! I'm so sorry...!", Eda sobbed.
In the head of the Titan, Nechros reformed himself at the center where his portal is, accompanied by the Obsidian Guard, and then noticed Andrias' message on the monitor before answering.
"Yo, Nechhy. It's time for Plan B.", Andrias spoke.
"Plan B? Now, whatever could be the matter?", Nechros asked.
"That depends. How are things going on your end?", Andrias asked.
"Just wonderful. Everyone is all gathered at the Day of Unity and the draining spell has been activated. It cannot be stopped now, not even if I wanted to.", Nechros replied.
"Well, that's good, because things on my end bombed! Good news, the box is fully charged. Bad news, they caught on to me and stopped my invasion before it can begin!", Andrias panicked.
"You don't say...", Nechros said, not the least bit shocked or surprised.
"Wait. You don't sound even a little bit surprised.", Andrias said.
"If you are asking me for my help, I'm afraid that's impossible.", Nechros smirked.
"What? Wait, that wasn't the deal! You said that you'd join us in multiversal conquest if we helped you with the draining spell...! Those were your words!", Andrias said.
"And I'm sorry, but you have outlived your usefulness the moment you were thwarted by mere frogs, toads, and newts. Besides that, I just realized I only have enough Titan's Blood to open the portal.", Nechros said as he took off his cape and tied his hair back so that he looks much more like Nigel.
He then took out the portal key and drained the last of its Titan's Blood into a device that powered the portal.
"But I trusted you! You said we were friends! WE SHOOK HANDS ON IT!", Andrias snapped.
"You see, the funny thing about shaking hands is..., they actually need to touch each other.", Nechros smirked as he aimed his key over the power down button.
"We gave you the draining spell! I even convinced the Collector to teach you magic stronger than anyone else's, rivaling only Snaga's daughter's own Titan Magic!", Andrias shouted furiously.
"And that's why I won't assist you. Can't have you convincing him to give that to anyone else. Goodbye.", Nechros said, unfazed as he powers off the machine, ticking Andrias off the way he was years ago.
"NECHROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!", Andrias roared angrily, giving off a loud echo heard from outside the dungeon out to town.
Just then, Gammamoo and Kikimora then walked through the door in their Abomatron with the orb containing Luz and Amity.
"Emperor, we just wanna tell ya, congratulations on this momentous day!", Gammamoo congratulated as his abomaton and hers knelt.
"We come bearing a gift. You had been looking for the Golden and Platinum Guards, and here they are! Perhaps this act is worthy of us returning to our old posts. Or, if you're looking for a new right hand...", Kikimora added as Nechros slowly walked toward them.
"Have you two as my right hand? I'd sooner cut off my whole arm.", Nechros rebuffed.
"You wouldn't believe how easy it is to do that, actually.", Nechros thought to himself.
"But, uh, we just want to help.", Kiki said.
"You want to help?", Nechros said before he took the cloak-covered mirror and dragged Kikimora and Gammamoo out with magic.
"Go find a hole to wither away in.", Nechros spoke, leaving a shocked Kikimora and Gammamoo behind.
Then, he went back in the room where the portal and a captive Luz and Amity were held.
"Of course they'd mess up such a simple task.", Nechros said before he dispelled the bubble, releasing Luz and Amity.
"But while the same can't be said for that witch with you, I am glad to see you, my fellow human.", Nechros said.
But Luz did not move, surprising him.
"What, no fight left? Or did you learn your lesson from last time?", Nechros asked.
Just then, Luz finally looked up, confident as her eyes turned ghastly black around her golden irises.
"You wish.", Luz said confidently.
She and Amity morphed into their half Titan forms, inhaled, and used an invisibility spell to disappear. Then, they reappeared behind Nechros, which he saw.
"Spicy toss!", Luz and Amity shouted, releasing waves of flames towards Nechros, who deflected it with his staff.
"Of course not.", Nechros sighed before he began to attack them.
Act III
As the Eclipse continued, Caleb and Sophia each lifted up their gloves, revealing the Emperor's Coven sigil underneath. They looked at Alador with worried expressions on their faces. The scene then panned to a reveal of the draining spell location, with the eclipse in the foreground. King, Grimedale, and Crimsondale looked on with a concerned expression, only to be surprised by a passing Emperor's Coven ship.
"Your ship is not authorized for travel. Land immediately!", the Coven Scout shouted.
"Odalia...!", Boscha growled angrily.
"Why can't you just leave us alone...?!", Selena added.
Gus then cast an illusion spell, changing the ship's appearance to a flock of birds.
Unfortunately, that didn't work.
"Don't be fooled! Take them down!", the Coven Scout shouted before several Abomatons kept shooting at the birds.
Caleb and Sophia suddenly wrapped the Coven Scouts around their own cloaks, but got knocked off their staffs by an Abomaton. Sophia managed to catch hers and float to safety, but Caleb failed to catch it and screamed while falling as Flapjack flew after him. Suddenly, he was caught by Willow and blushed, grabbing his staff. But the Abomatons kept shooting, but got turned off by Boscha and Selena. The illusion around the ship vanished as the five returned aboard.
"Why did I make those things so powerful? Stupid Alador, stupid!", Alador scolded to himself.
The ship suddenly rumbled, startling a concerned King, Grimedale, and Crimsondale. Sure enough, two more ships with more Abomatons were tailing them.
"Oh, geez. Oh, geez!", Sudd spoke in worry.
"Fire!", the Coven Scout ordered before the Abomatons did so.
With that, Evander's ship was destroyed and started rocketing towards the ground. Everyone held on to the rails as it slowly zoomed towards King's eye.
Meanwhile, at the conformatorium, the ship suddenly crashed through the wall, breaking it apart, leaving the prisoners inside stunned, amazed, and surprised. Everyone groaned as they got up and saw Eda and the others.
"What the...? Eda? Ms. Lilith?", Boscha puzzled.
"Blue blur? Everyone? Aw! Are you all really here?", Eda asked.
"Yeah. We all are.", Selena responded.
"Almost all. Where's Ellie?", Boscha asked.
"Over... here...!", Ellie groaned.
It turns out that Evander landed on top of Ellie.
"She's safe beneath my chiseled legs. No need to worry.", assured Evander.
"Okay...! Time to get off me, please!", Ellie grunted.
"What happened out here?", Gus asked.
"Nechros was waiting for us all and ambushed us!", Belos responded.
"But since you all crashed the ship through the wall, we can all break out of here and head him off at the Head of the Titan.", Darius said.
"We just have to get there before the activated spell can take hold. If there even IS enough time.", Raine added.
"Where's Daggertail?", Willow asked.
"Probably bound up in chains in the lowest floor by now.", Eda responded.
"Chains?", Maura puzzled, remembering how she was in chains at one point in her life before giving a smirk to Evander.
"Hey, bro. Be right back. I'm gonna go break some chains.", Maura grinned.
With that, she morphed into living goo and bounced toward the center of the tower.
"Whoo-hoo!", Maura shouted as she fell down.
"Now, this seems like a stretch. No pun intended.", Eda commented.
"We must hurry, Eda. There's not much time left.", Nathan urged, earning her nod before she took off with Belos leading the way for the rest to follow.
Meanwhile, Maura landed into the lowest floor and reformed back to her usual witch state before looking around and spotting Daggertail.
"Ah! So, you're Daggertail. Nice to meet you.", Maura grinned.
"Who is this?", Daggertail asked.
"I'm Maura.", Maura greeted.
"Maura? Don't you mean Mauler?", Daggertail asked.
"No. I mean 'Maura'. 'Cause that's my name. Although, it would be a good title.", Maura responded.
"Please, if you're going to torture me, at least be quick and be done with it...", Daggertail sighed.
"Well, that's not the plan. Nor am I torturing you. I actually have a better plan in mind, which is to, you know, help you escape. But things are about to get...weird.", Maura said.
"And how do I know I can trust you?", Daggertail asked.
"Well, you just have to.", Maura said.
"Why would I possibly trust you if we just met?", Daggertail asked.
Just then, some voices sounded nearby.
"There! It's coming from the cell with the dragon!", the Coven Scouts shouted.
Maura quickly turned to Daggertail.
"Because if you don't, you're gonna die in chains!", Maura urged.
"In chains?", Daggertail asked in shock.
"Now, promise!", Maura urged.
"Promise what?", Daggertail asked.
"Promise me you won't freak out!", Maura replied.
Then, Daggertail turned and saw the coven scouts halfway there, judging by the sound of their footsteps.
"Fine, I promise.", Daggertail said.
"Promise promise?", Maura asked.
"On my life.", Daggertail responded.
"Then say it again.", Maura said.
"I promise!", Daggertail urged.
"Oh, wow. Even when you see the scales?", Maura asked.
"Wait, what kind of scales do you mean?", Daggertail puzzled.
"JUST PROMISE!", Maura shouted.
"All right, fine! I promise I will not freak...", Daggertail began before seeing Maura grow and turn into a large abomination girl, who then proceeded to morph into a dragon.
"Out...", Daggertail finished, stunned in awe.
Just then, the Coven Scouts finally arrived in time to see not just Daggertail, but also Maura, much to their shock.
"Huh? Wait, did any one of us bag another dragon?", a coven scout asked.
"No, this one's new, I assure you.", Daggertail smirked.
"This is the part where you run.", Maura smirked.
Back inside the secret chamber, Luz and Amity nearly hit the ground, but activated a safety hover glyph which slowed her falling, and they ran away, avoiding Nechros' attack and the Obsidian Guard's. Luz hid behind a wall, panting.
"I didn't realize you're already combining glyphs! You do have a strange intuition with these. It took me years to figure that out. Almost like the Titan himself didn't want me to have that knowledge.", Nechros said as she placed an ice spell on each pillar as she and Amity ran, the latter placing fire spells on the other set.
Luz and Amity activated the spells but Nechros, very aware of the attack, destroyed the ice shards and blew away the flames.
"Though you're both still decades away from beating me.", Nechros said, narrowly avoiding a fire attack before restraining Luz and Amity with his hand, morphed into goo while Amity was trapped by the Obsidian Guard with both screaming in anger.
"Eat dirt, Nechros!", Amity snapped.
"It's Nigel. And despite our differences, I want to help you, Luz. I can send you home. I have just enough Titan Blood for one more trip.", Nechros assured as Luz looked towards the door and back at him.
"Please. I don't want to see another human life destroyed by this place.", Nechros pleaded as Amity noticed Boscha, Luke, Kroscha, Moscha, Dolly, Emilia, Erebor, and Amiyah getting into position while telling her to be quiet as Luz responded harshly back to Nechros.
"I never was human in the first place. And my life was already destroyed the moment you attacked me, my friends, and my family, turning us against each other! All because you are such a hypocrite. You talk big about protecting humanity, but after everything you've done, you're barely human yourself.", Luz glared as while she spoke, Nechros' scar on his face returned.
"I do pity you. These monsters have warped your sense of reality, especially her.", Nechros said while Luz's expression remains angered as did Amity.
"Perhaps it'd be merciful to put you out of your misery.", Nechros sighed, activating a spell to petrify her and Amity, causing their bodies to slowly turn to stone.
"Wait. Wait, wait, wait! You—You can't! You—", Luz panicked.
"Oh, but I can. Clearly, this witch has poisoned your mind, just like Evelyn did with my brother! And now, look where you are, despite the fact that neither of you possess the knowledge or skill...", Nechros began before Boscha leapt up with a yell and tossed an aging potion at Nechros, who only swatted it away right back at her only for her to dodge with the potion hitting the surprised Emilia, Erebor, Kroscha, Moscha, and Dolly instead, making her gasp as the smoke covered them.
"No!", Boscha shouted.
"...to defeat me.", Nechros finished smirkingly.
When the smoke cleared, though, the five were actually grown into young, adolescent teenagers.
"Huh? What the...?", Emilia puzzled.
"Did we actually...?", Erebor began.
"Grow into teenagers? Yes. Yes, we did.", Kroscha responded.
"Huh. Well, at least we know they're okay. Sort of.", Luke said.
Then, Luz and Amity looked around the room and spotted a branding glove.
"Y-You do realize you've been gone from the Human Realm for centuries. Times must have changed.", Amity said.
"Yeah. You wanna be known as the Emperor of the Witch Hunters, right?", Luz asked.
"Witch Hunter General.", Nechros responded.
"Sure, sure. Uh, Witch Hunter General. But those aren't really a thing anymore. No one's gonna take you seriously if you start ranting about the Demon Realm. Not to mention a fashion sense like that...", Luz responded.
This prompted Nechros to glance at his clothes, surprised.
"Yikes, my dude.", Luz commented, unimpressed.
Nechros threw Luz and Amity away as they knocked over the table and, spotting the branding glove, immediately hid it behind Luz.
"So what? You're offering to be my modern-day guide?", Nechros asked.
"We're not offering anything.", Amity responded.
"But I do wanna make a deal.", Luz added, intriguing Nechros.
"We can't beat you. I know that. So... I will return to the Human Realm, and I will be your guide. If you spare my friends. Amity included.", Luz said.
"Luz...", Amity said, worried.
Nechros, however, scoffed at this with Luz and Amity almost completely petrified. At the same time, though, Belos, Leif, Mithril, Eda, the 9 Coven Heads, the CATs', and the rest of the Hexside Squad arrived, seeing in horror, Luz and Amity being petrified.
"Luz, no...!", Belos gasped in horror.
"Luz...!", Leif gasped.
"Not Amity, too...!", Willow added.
"Come on. You'll need living proof that this realm exists. You'd do anything to save humanity, well, I'd do anything to save the people I love. Please... Nigel!", Luz pleaded as tears started welling up in her eyes.
"Nigel...?", Raine puzzled with everyone else murmuring in surprise.
Nechros looked satisfied with Luz actually using his name. Then, he got a brief message from someone.
"Yo, Necchy! Time for Plan B.", the voice spoke, furthering his smirk.
"I'm sorry, Luz, but my answer is 'no'. I did like the offer.", Nechros smirked.
Sadly, Luz and Amity could only turn to see the people they love horrified by their fate. Even Camila, who was only able to watch in her mind while bound by her mental chains, was the most upset.
"No...! My little carino...!", Camila spoke sadly.
"Mom... I'm so sorry that I couldn't save you... Eda..., King... looks like we're gonna be split up again. I feel like I should be used to this feeling by now, but... I still don't know what to say.", Luz spoke sadly before she finally turned completely to stone.
The sight of this left Camila completely upset as she started to sob loudly.
"NO! LUZ!", Camila sobbed, unable to do anything but.
"Guys..., please take care of Dad for me...", Amity pleaded, turning completely to stone as well.
"No...! Mittens...!", Alador sobbed softly as he started tearing up.
"And now, the fun part: eliminating the...", Nechros began as he turned around only to see everyone else before him, much to his slight surprise.
"And I just keep getting reminded of my failures. Oh, well. At least you arrived just in time to see the traitors disposed of.", Nechros sighed.
While everyone else was wracked and paralyzed in despair and sadness, only Luke, Lucia, Caleb, Sophia, King, and Eda crumbled onto the ground, starting to shed tears as they started thinking back on their fond memories with Luz and Amity ending with the most recent memory back in the CATs' hideout. Sad as they are, they became angry as their eyes turned blank white, beginning to spark out black lightning, much to Nechros' puzzlement.
"How could you...?! How DARE you...!", Luke began.
"It wasn't enough to take our mom away by brainwashing her...! You had to use her to help you petrify Luz and Amity...!", Lucia added.
"All they ever did was try to help everyone even when it wasn't their own business, and yet, you dare call them traitors and execute them like that?!", Caleb added.
As the sparking, and anger, got worse, Nechros began to get afraid as he stepped back.
"How could you...?! How could you...?! HOW DARE YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!", Sophia roared, her eyes finally turning blank gold with rage.
Soon, Luke, Lucia, and Caleb roared, too, their eyes turning the same primal color as Sophia's. As if that wasn't bad enough, their auras exploded, rising up like pillars all the way up until the top of the skull of the Titan broke apart, unveiling said pillars. Their roars continued, distorting little by little as their magical power grew exponentially disastrous.
"Oh, no...!", Osran spoke in worry.
Even Camila, in her mindscape was growing very concerned.
"No...! No, no, no, no! Not again!", Camila panicked, powerless to stop them from exploding with rage.
"What's going on?!", Ellie shouted.
"I don't know! Maybe it's a natural titan thing!", Evander guessed.
But as their angry roars continued, Luke, Lucia, Caleb, and Sophia's mouths began contorting into boney muzzles with fangs and they grew horns as well as skeletal claws and fur all over their body up until they had completely turned into feral titans, fueled only by rage. This left Nechros shocked.
"No...! This can't be!", Nechros gasped.
"This is not a natural Titan thing.", Belos said in fear.
"I'm afraid I would have to agree. This is what happens when you make a Titan, halfling or otherwise, very angry. And petrifying Luz and Amity right in front of them? This was the worst mistake imaginable...", Mithril agreed.
"GIVE THEM BACK! GIVE! THEM! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!", the 4 Titans roared at Nechros.
"I can't! The spell is impossible to reverse!", Nechros spoke, finally stammering in fear.
"THEN, DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!", the 4 Titans roared again before all charging in toward Nechros.
But then, the Obsidian Guard stood in their path. Yet that did nothing to stop them! They just pressed on right through her. Worse, they even dealt blows to her (one for each Titan) before she wound up hit against the wall, damaging both devices on her and causing her to fall limp.
"Camila!", Belos panicked before flying over to her.
They only growled as they glanced to Belos hurrying over to a comatose Obsidian Guard.
"Please, my love...! Stay with me!", Belos panicked, checking her pulse.
Unfortunately, he had no answer from her. Fortunately, though, he was able to pick up a pulse, which put his fears to rest, relieved.
"I see. So, that's what he used to submit her to his will. Thank Titan, those accursed things are destroyed...", Mithril spoke, just as relieved as he stepped forward and saw the broken devices near Camila.
"Mithril, can you heal her until she awakens?", Belos asked.
"I will try.", Mithril assured.
Meanwhile, the 4 Titans growled with a glare toward Nechros, making him gasp right before they roared and attacked him. While Luke and Lucia slashed him by the face, leaving fresh red scars with blood dripping out each one, Caleb and Sophia both leapt onto his right arm, tore off his right sleeve, and bit into it, making him yell in agonizing pain. Before he knew it, the vengeful titans started draining away the spell circles' glow and causing his arm to start destabilizing before they released their fangs from it. As a result, Nechros collapsed and transformed into his monster form. When the change was done, he stood up and looked back at the Titans, roared viciously at them, and charged with scythe arms only for King to jump into the fray, looking feral as his eyes were glowing blank purple, and roar with a sonic shout, blowing away his scythe arms to the point that he had no arms at all, also producing a shield around himself and the 4 feral Titans. As soon as the shield vanished, King snarled at him, shedding tears.
"There's gotta be some way to bring them back..., right, Mom?", Amiyah asked sadly, starting to cry herself.
But for Eda, seeing her sad was the last straw, never mind what happened to Luz and Amity.
"Back up, kid... I don't think I can control myself right now...", Eda only responded.
The curse got worse to a point that her eyes not only blackened completely, but were also starting to turn blank red in rage. As Amiyah could only watch, Eda roared and grew in size, reverting to her original Owl Beast form. This time, though, her eyes have become orange and she now has extra sets of wings. Roaring again, she joined King, who rode on top of her with both Eda and King giving off beastly, inhuman roars, and they all helped Luke, Lucia, Caleb, and Sophia attack Nechros. While the 4 Titans slashed at Belos where it hurts the most, King released his power on Nechros, blowing some of his goo off. Little did anyone know that a shockwave was given off from their savage, furious assault. And with each shockwave given off, a little bit of a light glows in the sky in front of the eclipse, forming a ring. Eventually, it was Owl Beast Eda's feral slash across Nechros' waist that brought him down, allowing Caleb, Sophia, Luke, and Lucia to surround him.
"Hunter, why are you hurting me? I only wanted to help you!", Nechros whimpered, afraid as he showed his human face.
But even his human face is grievously despised by Caleb and Sophia.
"Help?! HELP?! After what you did to our sister?!", Sophia snapped.
"THERE'S NO WAY THAT'S TRUE!", Caleb roared before slashing him by the face, knocking him over to the edge as Caleb and Sophia marched angrily toward him.
But as they did with Luke and Lucia following, Nechros saw Flapjack and Mordecai.
"Sophia?! Caleb?!", Nechros exclaimed, his face turning monstrous again before roaring as he prepared to attack as best he could.
Unfortunately for him, he never got a chance because he missed, clearly damaged by the Titans' vengeful rampage. Having had enough, Luke and Lucia pounced on him before he could try anything and rent him apart with feral rage and savagery beyond comprehension as they slashed him repeatedly until they smashed their clawed fists against him. Luke then picked up the weakened monster and tossed him into the wall, making him go splat! Goo dropped from his remains as everyone glared at the sight of Nechros's remains. After a moment, the 4 titans panted, turned around, and then roared loudly in vengeful pride, their revenge finally exacted upon the murderous Witch Hunter. Unfortunately, as they roared, the whole area shook, the shockwaves from said roar heading towards the ring, finally forming it into a portal as the eclipse turned into a black slit in an orange ball of light. And worse yet, this means the eclipse finally started. Belos, Mithril, and Cotton fearfully watched the eclipse as Camila groaned, starting to stir awake. Soon, they all noticed their sigils burning and glowing veins appearing on their bodies.
"No. We're too late.", Darius said in fear.
Then, Eberwolf clutched his arm in pain. Eventually, Camila woke up and saw her two babies, and Lia, starting to get drained, too.
"No...! My babies...!", Camila whimpered.
Soon, the Coven Heads started to collapse to the ground, affected by the draining spell, worrying the 4 Titans.
"Darius? Darius? Darius, wake up!", Sophia shouted in worry.
To make matters worse, the portal sent out sparks of lightning toward the area close to where Belos and the others are, bringing with them Anne, Sasha, Marcy, her siblings, and of course, their respective found families, including a sort of salamander-like warrior, as well as King Andrias himself and all the orcs.
"Well, well, well... Today's my lucky day. I never thought I'd see this event with my own eyes.", Andrias grinned before noticing the petrified statues of Luz and Amity.
"Oh. These statues are new. But where did they come from? And for that matter, where's Necchy? I have more than a few words for him...!", Andrias glared before turning to see red goo splattered onto a wall.
"Oh, my frog! Is that what happened to him? Oh, well. He had this coming. Shame they couldn't be all here for the party, 'cause it's about to get started.", Andrias smirked.
Just outside, from seeing Melkor beginning to emerge from the portal in the sky, finally rearing his dark, demonic head, the other witches and Coven Scouts, upon seeing this, started to scream and attempted to escape and run away but were trapped inside by the Abomatons. They were in total horror as they saw Melkor land in the ground, the pressure releasing a ring of fire around him, forcing the panicked witches to back away. The giant, demonic Titan stood upright and then roared in triumph, having finally arrived in the Boiling Isles.
"Oh, yeah, baby! Arriving in another world and it feels so good!", Andrias shouted before laughing.
"At last..., the Conquest shall begin!", Melkor spoke before laughing evilly.
Act IV
Luz and Amity slowly woke up and groaned as they blinked their eyes.
"Ugh... what happened...? What's going on?", Luz puzzled, finally noticing the draining effect going on, especially with herself, prompting her to clutch her chest, if she even could, except there was not much she could do, other than she was practically already doing so.
"Oh, no! The Draining spell! I... I have to stop it!", Luz panicked before trying to move around.
But when she did, she looked down and saw her petrified body.
"Aw, farts... I got petrified...", Luz sighed.
"Luz?! Oh, thank Titan, you're awake.", Amity grinned.
"Amity, you're okay, too!", Luz spoke, relieved.
"Are you all right?", Amity asked.
"Not exactly. But at least I'm not dead, so that's something. Actually, at this point, I think I'm just all rock stiff.", Luz grinned.
"Wait. Did you say, rock stiff?", Amity asked.
"Uh..., yeah. That's what I said.", Luz replied.
"So, that's how petrification works... But how can we see everything that's going on now?", Amity asked.
"I don't know. I guess it affects Titans differently?", Luz asked.
Suddenly, they heard a beastly roar and looked outside. To their horror, the helpless statues saw Melkor laying waste to the Boiling Isles with a vicious roar.
"Oh, no... It's Melkor...!", Luz gasped.
"He did it...! He came through. And now, he's destroying the Boiling Isles...!", Amity said, starting to get sad.
"It's all our fault...!", Luz said, starting to sob, albeit painfully and whisperingly.
"Hello. How is that your fault?", a voice asked.
Luz stopped sobbing for a moment before suddenly seeing in front of her none other than...
"Anne...? Anne! You're actually here?!", Luz exclaimed in surprise.
"And you and your girlfriend are turned to stone?! What happened?", Anne asked.
"Nechros tricked me and Luz into helping him meet the Collector in the past and now, we're all in trouble.", Amity responded.
"Are you serious? I'm the one who should be blaming myself for getting us all in this same exact mess in the first place. Andrias tricked me, Sasha, and Marcy! He tricked our siblings, he even tricked all of us, and none of us were smart enough to even realize that!", Anne realized.
"Yep. I know the feeling.", Luz agreed.
"Listen, I'll go get my friends and my siblings and come to you. And we'll try to help you and Amity break free!", Anne urged.
"Yeah. You got it.", Luz responded.
Meanwhile, outside, Maura and Daggertail saw Melkor as the former rode on the latter.
"Yikes. Now, that is how you make a metal entrance.", Maura commented.
"There's no doubt about it. It's Melkor! He must be stopped.", Daggertail said.
"Okay, what's the plan?", Maura asked.
"I'll hold him off. You need to get to the Head of the Titan and help the others against Nechros.", Daggertail urged.
"Wait, what?", Maura asked before Daggertail grabbed her with his tail and flung her away without piercing her with his daggers from his tail.
"Not cool, man!", Maura shouted as she was flung toward the head.
Then, Daggertail flung his daggers toward Melkor, barring him from causing further destruction enough for him to notice the dragon.
"This has gone on long enough!", Daggertail shouted.
"Huh? Isn't that the dragon from the festival?", one witch asked as the others spoke in surprise.
But Melkor only growled at him.
"I'm afraid you're too late to save your dear companion, dragon. There's no doubt that my granddaughter is bound to be collecting dust as a statue by now. Or better yet, crumbling to dust!", Melkor discouraged before leaping toward the dragon, who managed to barrel away from him and fly up into the air.
"You DARE condemn Luz to petrification?! YOU DARE?!", Daggertail roared before he went down and zoomed toward Melkor, coating himself in fire. Of course, the Titan was barely able to get his guard up before the dragon struck, sending him upward and away from the witches.
Meanwhile, Ellie saw Maura dashing through the air.
"Maura...? Maura! I gotcha! I gotcha!", Ellie shouted.
Sure enough, Ellie caught Maura, or rather, she landed on top of her, but still. Then, the two got up.
"Hey, guys. What'd I miss?', Maura asked.
Then, she noticed the draining spell being active as some energy was leaking out of them into the portal.
"Oh, right. The Draining Spell.", Maura said.
"Willow, are you okay? Come on, I'll help you up.", Caleb assured as he picked Willow up despite starting to be drained himself.
"No...! I already lost Luz! I can't lose you both, too!", Camila sobbed, holding the whining Masa and Lia.
"Don't worry, Mrs. Noceda. We won't let that happen.", Ellie assured.
When Camila looked up, she was surprised to see a couple of sights: one of which was familiar while the other was anything but.
"Ellie...? And who is this?", Camila asked.
"Oh. Hiya. The name's Maura.", Maura greeted.
"That is a long story.", Ellie responded.
Meanwhile, Luz and Amity have now explained everything to Anne, her siblings, and her friends.
"So, you two are used by someone just as evil, too?", Anne asked.
"Yeah... Another thing we have in common.", Anne said dejectedly.
"It turns out Nechros was a witch hunter and a master of manipulation. He had us tricked. Even Lilith. He tricks everyone.", Amity added.
"Just like Andrias...", Marcy realized.
"Well, where is Nechros, anyway?", Sasha asked.
"I don't know. But judging by the gooey remains violently splattered all over that wall, something must've went down.", Luz responded.
"Well, that serves him right, huh?", Grime smirked.
Then, Anne widened her eyes as she realized something and looked back to her friends, amphibian and all.
"You know what? We may have all made mistakes, but these two? They're evil!", Anne said.
"Here we go...", Andrias sighed, unimpressed.
"And as soon as we figure out how to free you two, we're gonna stop 'em. Right here, right now. Sasha! Marcy!", Anne urged as she powered up with blue hair, branches with flowers, and blue eyes.
"We got your back.", Sasha assured as Marcy primed her crossbow and their siblings primed their signature weapons while also powering up to their pink and green states.
"And we've got yours.", Grime grinned.
Soon, every amphibian steeled themselves into battle.
"We're all with you, guys. 'Til the end.", Sprig grinned.
"You can transform like that, too?! You guys are literally the coolest...!", Luz teared up with joy.
"You guys are serious...! Okay.", Andrias spoke before drawing his sword, the blade of which was laser-like instructure.
"Let's have some fun.", Andrias smirked.
As for Daggertail, he throttled Melkor right towards the top of the skull of the Titan, breaking it and pushing right past the bridge toward the catacombs below.
"I will kill you for everything you have put Luz through, monster!", Daggertail roared, scraping Melkor against the rock wall.
Soon after Daggertail went further below and then fired his flame-coated daggers at Melkor, who jumped around, helter-skelter around the walls. At one point, however, Melkor coated himself in flames and then leapt toward Daggertail, who was barely able to dodge the attack, prompting Daggertail to fire at the evading titan again, this time from above. it went on for a moment before Melkor leapt for an attack again and missed again. But very soon, he leapt and began pushing Daggertail down. When they neared the deep precipeces below, though, the dragon was able to turn the tables and push him toward them. But Melkor was able to latch onto one of them with his claws. When the Titan landed, he bounced back up and pushed the dragon toward a wall.
"Time to put you back in your place!", Melkor growled, preparing to pummel the dragon.
But he was suddenly clutched in the mouth by one of his talons and then throttled toward the same wall, allowing Daggertail to get some space between him and Melkor. But he quickly caught up and climbed up one of the pillars. As soon as he got up he fired a blast from his mouth, which the dragon barely evaded. The Titan then suddenly teleported and arrived at another pillar, causing it to destabilize and crumble, hopping from one pillar to another, leading to the same catastrophic result.
"He's trying to bring the whole skull down...!", Daggertail realized.
After a moment of destruction, he leapt up with Daggertail following in pursuit. Then, from out of nowhere, Melkor appeared, ready to take him down! But the dragon was ready; he was able to brush him off with his talons straight toward another wall and another pillar. When he landed, he took a moment to collect himself before he roared and pounced toward the dragon, who flew away backwards. This prompted him to leap from pillar to pillar just to try and catch up as well as attack, except he missed. By this point, Melkor leapt away from Daggertail, destroying the pillars he hops onto as a means to try and slow him down.
"It pains me to see how far you have fallen, my friend! That is if you even have the right to be considered that anymore!", Daggertail scolded angrily, firing his flaming daggers.
In response, the Titan only burst in flames again and leapt toward Daggertail, who managed to dodge it, prompting him to land on the ground and turn around in time to see Daggertail catching up.
"You cannot flee from me, vile creature! You will answer for your horrific crimes against Luz!", Daggertail began, firing his flaming daggers at him again.
When they struck at him, he brushed the smoke away in time to see Daggeratil right in front of him.
"You... will... BURN!", Daggertail finished, crashing him through another wall with his talons.
He looked up just in time to see Daggertail launch a barrage of flaming daggers, urging him to leap backward out of harm's way. He even went upward as Daggertail followed at one point. When he went for another attack and missed, he landed in another pillar and turned around with a roar.
"If you dare to resist against me, dragon, then you shall be destroyed!", Melkor snarled, stretching out his clawed hands and putting them together closely to form a small ball before clasping them together and lifting it up, turning it larger in size in the process.
After a moment, he pushed the ball upwards, jumped, and began molding it into a flaming spear. But still, Daggertail was determined to avenge Luz.
"You have nothing left... but your death!", Daggertail roared before he then flew toward Melkor just as he clutched the spear and was about toss it when Daggertail rammed his chest, the spear becoming lodged in the dragon's through the weak spot in the process. In a burst of flame, Daggertail flew up in agony just as Melkor fell, prompting Anne and the others to exclaim in shock and take off, especially some of the toads.
"Nope. No, no, no.", a toad spoke before hopping off just right before Melkor did.
Play Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Music: "The High Evolutionary"
As soon as he was able, Melkor looked up and saw Daggertail flying in the air in pain, exclaiming, even.
"Daggertail..., no!", Luz spoke sadly.
Eventually, the golden light in Daggertail's eyes dimmed away until the light in his eyes vanished with a hiss, literally. Then, he started to fall down into the ground.
"Daggertail!", Luz shouted.
"Now, that... is the most metal way to go.", Maura spoke, moved and saddened at the same time as the dragon fell down.
The moment daggertail landed into the Day of Unity stage with everyone there barely able to get out of the way, a quake hit, shaking everything. And what's worse, Amity's statue to land roughly and start to chip away at the bottom.
"No...! No, no, no, no, no! You can't break apart! You just can't!", Luz pleaded.
Unfortunately, she did. Fortunately, it was only a little bit of her. And even more fortunately, when it did, her head was freed from the stone-mask, allowing her to breathe freely again. This was puzzling to both.
"Huh. Wait a minute... that's it! Luz, I think I know how we can break free!", Amity grinned.
"Really?", Luz asked.
"Yeah. All we have to do is...", Amity began.
But before she could continue, Luke roared in anger once again.
"YOU MONSTEEEEEEER!", Luke roared, charging toward Melkor.
"No, Luke! Don't! He's too powerful!", Luz shouted.
"He's about to get himself killed. We better hurry!", Amity urged.
Meanwhile, Luke leapt up and was about to attack when Melkor instead smacked him aside back onto the ground, urging a livid King and Eda to try and go after him only for Anne to get in their way.
"No, guys! Stop! He's too strong for you!", Anne shouted.
But Owl Beast Eda screeched as she smacked Anne aside right into a wall, knocking her out of her Calamity powers, much to her friends and families' concern.
"ANNE!", Sasha and Marcy shouted.
"Anne! Anne!", Sprig shouted as he ran over to her first with the others catching up.
King snarled and Owl Beast Eda screeched angrily again as they all caught up to a woozy Anne.
"Come on! Get up, Anne!", Hop Pop urged.
But before she even could, Melkor roared viciously again, towering above Anne and the others. Suddenly, he thrusted his fist toward them and smashed them against the ground.
Stop Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Music: "The High Evolutionary" (1:45)
A moment after, however, a sudden slash propelled upward, forcing the fearsome Titan back, collapsing onto the wall near the portal door, which fizzed out for a moment. When they opened their eyes, they gasped in surprise.
"Say whaaat?", Hooty and Polly spoke in unison.
It turned out that Luz and Amity had saved them, all wrapped in a fog, surrounded by magic glyphs in the air. From seeing this, while Andrias was shocked, Melkor was visibly peeved.
"No, it can't be...!", Andrias gasped.
Luz and Amity's palismen all came out and morphed into staffs for them to grab onto before they posed.
"We're back!", Luz smirked, astonishing everyone.
"I… wait! Uh, I think… Couldn't keep me away from… Hang on. Ugh! I still can't think of anything to say!", Luz spoke in frustration as the glyphs vanished and Amity giggled.
Eda squealed and reverted to Harpy form as King hugged her happily.
"It's Luz, all right!", Eda grinned.
"LUZ! You're alive...!", Camila spoke in glee, hugging her.
"Luz...?! LUZ!", King sobbed, hugging Luz as well.
"Hey, there, buddy!", Luz spoke, giggling as she hugged him back.
Even Caleb, Sophia, Luke, and Lucia were relieved as they turned back into half Titans.
"You're okay...!", Lucia sighed.
"I thought we lost you for good...!", Luke added.
"Ah, you couldn't get rid of me that easily.", Luz said before widening her eyes.
"Ah! That's what I should've said!", Luz spoke, frustrated again.
"Hey. Lookin' good here, Noceda.", Anne grinned.
"Back at ya, Boonchuy.", Luz smirked.
"Okay, you gotta yell me how you broke out of that petrification spell!", Erebor spoke excitedly.
"Well, uh... I'll explain later.", Amity assured.
"They managed to survive the petrification spell! But that's impossible...!", Andrias said.
"Isn't it more like improbable at this rate, Dreyas?", Leif asked.
When the fog cleared, it revealed her in her true Amphibia form, much to everyone's surprise and Andrias's shock and anger.
"You...! YOU had a hand in all this, didn't you?!", Andrias blamed.
"Don't give her too much credit, Andrias!", Camila glared.
"Ah... Snaga. So, you did break out of Nechros' spell.", Andrias glared.
"So..., after all these years, you had all the pieces right where you wanted them.", Camila glared.
"Give yourself some credit, Snaga. It was your betrayal and Leif's that pushed me this far. That was the last straw! Just the push I needed to follow in my father's footsteps and lead Newtopia to greatness once again!", Andrias smirked.
"You gave us no choice! The only thing she ever wanted was for you to see the error of your ways and use your power for good. But you and I know better...! After what you did to my family...! After what you did to me...! After what you did to Luz..., we both know there's only one thing you understand!", Camila glared.
Then, she morphed into her full Titan form and roared, blasting Andrias back a few feet before vanishing while dashing around him.
"Where'd she.. GO?!", Andrias exclaimed as Camila struck him, causing his crown to come off and land on the ground by the tip, making everyone gasp.
"Whoo! Go, Mrs. Noceda!", Sasha whooped.
"Go kick his butt!", Luz shouted.
"You should've stayed away from my familia!", Camila snarled.
Angered, Andrias tried to crush Camila, but missed as she vanished.
"What?", Andrias puzzled before he looked up and saw her on the ceiling before she leapt off toward him.
"FIRE!", Andrias shouted before the frobots fired at her but missed as Camila dodged in midair before striking, prompting Andrias to use his shield, holding the angered Titan back as much as he could as Luz watched in awe.
"Luz, on three!", King urged, hopping onto her shoulder as Camila pressed harder against the shield, which sparked out blue lightning on the pillars as Andrias groaned with a bellow.
"One...", King began as Andrias' said bellow turned into a roar.
"Two..., Luz smirked just before Camila pressed harder, causing the shield to crack further.
"WEH!", Luz and King shouted in unison, breaking the shield further and allowing Camila to shatter it before she struck Andrias and forced him to roll to the edge of the bridge before he stopped and shook his head to get better focus.
"All the millenia you spent in Amphibia and you haven't changed a bit! You hurt my friends…! My family…! And me too many times! I'm going to finish it AND you, like I should've done a long time ago! I told you…! You should've stayed away from my familia!", Camila glared.
Andrias only growled angrily, drawing his sword.
"ENOUGH!", Andrias shouted, smashing his blade against the ground, shaking it enough to disorient everyone, even causing Luz and Amity to fall off the bridge.
"Luz!", Camila, Leif, and Belos shouted in fear.
As if that wasn't bad enough, Andrias lifted his left foot above Polly, attempting to crush her.
"POLLY, NOOOO!", Anne shouted.
Before he could step on her, Frobo interfered with King Andrias with his arms entangling him.
"Polly, I will save you.", Frobo spoke boldly.
"Oh, look at that. One of my robots. Must be defective.", King Andrias guessed, guarding his laser sword, right before destroying Frobo with one punch.
"FROBO!", Polly shouted.
As sad as she was, she started to get mad, getting ready to take revenge.
"You... YOU MONSTER!", Polly shouted.
"Don't worry. You're up next.", King Andrias said right before he punched in Polly's direction, horrifying everyone!
But that horror turned into puzzlement, if not surprise, as Polly was nowhere to be seen and in her place was Stumpy, holding back the king's fist with its vines.
"What the...?", King Andrias puzzled.
"Stumpy...!", Rose spoke in worry.
Worriedly, she spoke in pumpkin tongue to Stumpy, saying, "Get out of there! You'll be crushed!", much to Leif's worry as she gasped from seeing this.
In response, the pumpkin only turned back to Rose and spoke back, saying to her in pumpkin speak, "I need you to promise me... that no matter what happens to me..., you will find a way to restore me!", making Rose gasp in tears. A moment afterward, she looked down in despair and distress.
"I will...!", Rose sobbed.
"Annoying little squash.", Andrias said.
With that, he swiftly crushed Stumpy with a punch. While this had everyone shocked with heartbroken gasps, Rose was even more heart-broken.
"STUMPYYYYY!", Rose shouted.
With that, she started to sob while on her knees, the triplets also crying sadly as well, thinking back on her moments with Stumpy. One flashback played, showing Rose calming Stumpy down while in the Planter Family Tunnels.
"That's right, Mama Rose is here.", Rose grinned to it before the beast chuckled.
Rose was still crying before another flashback played, showing Rose feeding the imprisoned Stumpy when returning to the Plantar Family Tunnels.
"Oh. There you are. I told you I'd be back. And I brought some late-night snacks for ya.", Rose grinned, sliding said provisions through the empty spaces in the bars, allowing it to eat some dirt and plant food before then absorbing the water and sighing.
"Glad you like them..., Stumpy.", Rose grinned.
"This isn't fair...! He was just a boy...!", Rose sobbed, gaining a quite angry expression.
A third flashback played, showing Rose driving Stumpy on their way to Newtopia.
With her angry expression growing worse and a thin blue aura developing, Rose closed her eyes for a moment and opened them abruptly. She let out a shrill yell of rage, sorrow, agony, and hate as her pupils turned dark blue and her sclerae turned ghastly black. Jackie gasped as she realized what this meant.
"Oh, no...!", Jackie gasped.
Play Super Dragon Ball Heroes Music: "Final Battle"
The blue gem underwent a violent reaction, connecting with Rose. Before anyone knew it, at the same time a blue aura appeared around Rose, a circular ring suddenly shrank toward her, causing the background to turn red before another ring shrank toward her, causing the background to turn dark blue. The blue aura transformed into a black flame with a blue inner flame in the center getting bigger and surrounding her with sparks of black lightning with a blue light around each spark as well, terrifying all who saw it. Only Melkor wasn't terrified as he seemed more intrigued about this development while recovering.
"Rose, no! Stop! Calm down! I know how much you're hurting, believe me, but nothing's worth losing yourself!", Jackie urged, grabbing Rose from behind.
"GIVE HIM BACK TO ME! GIVE! HIM! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!", Rose tearfully shouted, the aura exploding, knocking Jackie away from Rose with Anne catching her, and going up into the sky as a pillar with an outer blue light and an inner black light before it dissipated, the rings enlarging away from Rose, changing the background to red again at first and then back to normal.
"Oh, no...! She completely lost her mind!", Anne said.
"I know... Just like we did back before in our trial...", Jackie responded.
Furious beyond all reason, Rose leapt with a roar toward Andrias and quickly kicked him in the side right before punching Andrias in the face, causing black lightning to arc from those strikes and destroy the frobots and also making Andrias to spin around right before punching him in the stomach, crashing him into a wall. All anyone could do was stare out the hole Rose made in fear and sadness, especially for Leif.
"Oh, Andrias... How many innocent lives do you have to destroy before they end up walking a dark path like you...?! How many...?!", Leif sobbed.
But while everyone else watched in horror and sadness, Melkor watched with intrigue, noticing that the blue gem's light has corroded into a black light with a blue glow inside.
"How peculiar...", Melkor said to himself.
Sure enough, a voice called out.
"Hey, everyone!", Polly shouted.
The fog from the impact on the wall cleared, revealing that she now has legs.
"Guess who just got her leg-! Whoa!", Polly exclaimed as she stumbled for a brief moment.
"MY LITTLE BABY'S GOT LEGS!", Hop Pop shouted, excited.
"This is weird.", Sprig commented.
Meanwhile, Luz and Amity held on by the claws etched onto the wall.
"Whoa...!", Luz spoke, chuckling a bit afterwards upon noticing how deep her claws got. "Overdid it a little. Still getting used to this body."
Then, the two got down on the floor above the edge and peeped over with gasps.
Meanwhile, Andrias was barely able to recover as he looked up and was utterly stupified.
"How...?! How is she so strong at only half power?! How many push-ups did she do?! How many sit-ups?!", Andrias shouted before noticing Rose charging toward her.
She roared as she charged toward him, grabbed his tail, and started smashing him all over the ground like a ragdoll repeatedly.
"WHAT KIND OF JUICE FROM A JUICE BOX DID SHE DRINK?!" Andrias shouted in both fear and pain.
"What now?", Amity asked.
"We have to get him to stop the draining spell, but Rose looks like she's ready to murder him before we could! She's all...berserk mad!", Luz urged in worry.
"Forget it. It's pointless.", Gammamoo spoke before Luz and Amity turned to face him and Kikimora lying in their respective Abomatons, forlorn.
"Andrias can't stop the spell any more than they can. And even if Nechros was alive, he'd fare no better. Only the Collector has that power.", Kikimora said.
"What...? You knew about him?", Luz asked, both her and Amity walking towards Kiki and Gamma.
"As far as we understand, he's neither witch nor demon, a child from the stars. Nechros only talked to him when he thought no one was around, but we were always listenin'. Nechros took advantage of him because he was afraid of him.", Gamma stated.
Luz and Amity gave determined looks.
"Take us to him! Please.", Luz pleaded.
"If that means kicking Andrias's butt, gladly.", Kikimora responded as her Abomatron and Gamma's both stood up slowly and gestured to a staircase leading downwards.
Back on the bridge, Sasha called out to Polly.
"Polly! Get the box! Get the box!", Sasha urged, pointing to the pedestal now on the center of the bridge.
"On it!", Polly shouted before she ran to the pedestal as Andrias noticed right before getting lifted up.
"Whoa! Stop that little brat!", Andrias ordered before getting smashed into the ground again with the frobots aiming at Rose.
"Not that brat! THIS brat!", Andrias shouted, pointing to Polly right before getting struck in the face again.
Several frobots turned back to Polly as ordered and shot at her, but missed, She slid under them, and this made the two robots shoot each other by mistake, allowing Polly to get the Calamity Box as Rose started swinging fast punches at Andrias into the gut. Then, she let out a roaring yell as she threw one last punch at him, causing her black and inner blue aura to explode upward through the hole on the Titan's skull.
"Got it! Whoa...", Polly spoke as the skull of the Titan suddenly shook.
It turned out that the portal was starting to power down with Melkor's body flashing between existence and non-existence.
At the same time, Andrias was weakened and could only look up at the berserk Rose.
"GIVE HIM BACK TO ME! GIVE...! HIM...! Back...", Rose said before finally passing out as both the aura and black lightning vanished, prompting Andrias to chuckle and pick her up.
"Looks like she can't control it.", Andrias smirked.
Meanwhile, the group cheered Polly on.
"Go. Polly, go!", Sasha cheered.
"You did it!", Marcy cheered.
"You did it, girl.", Anne beamed.
"All right!", Jackie whooped.
But King Andrias wasn't through yet.
"Not so fast. You've all got spunk, real chutzpah. But this ends now.", King Andrias discouraged, holding Rose in his right fist.
"Sorry, Stumpy... I tried to avenge you...", Rose spoke weakly.
"I have to admit: even I'm surprised. Somehow, you drew out more than half power, kid, which means... I can't let you live.", Andrias glared, making Camila growl angrily from the sight of Andrias' threat.
Somewhere, deep down the Titan's bones, Luz, Amity, Gammamoo, and Kikimora have arrived to a place filled with skeletons and Golden Guard and Platinum Guard masks.
"What is this place?", Amity asked.
"Where all the failures before Hunter and Heather end up.", Gamma said darkly.
"So, that's what happened to them after he...", Luz began before stopping and shuddering sadly.
With that, Luz and Amity stepped forward and spotted the crescent-shaped mirror, with Nechros' former robe hanging with it. After hesitating for a moment, Grimedale and Crimsondale touched the mirror, and out came the Collector. However, his demeanor has changed as a result of Nechros' betrayal against him.
"Leave me alone. I don't associate with fibbers.", the Collector said before blowing a raspberry.
Then, to his surprise, he saw Luz and Amity together, making the Collector gasp in shock.
"Luz?! Amity?!", the Collector exclaimed.
"Hey, Collector.", Luz greeted.
"Look. We know you've been speaking with Nechros. And we also know you tried to talk him out of the Day of Unity. It's good that you wanted him to stop, but... he's just not reasonable.", Amity said.
"I don't understand... I thought I was doing the right thing.", the Collector spoke in worry.
"No, no, you did good, Collector. But this is a little more complicated.", Luz assured.
"There is another way to make things right. We need you to stop this draining spell and stop Andrias.", Amity urged.
"See, knowing Leif, she would want Andrias to stick to the good side his own way. But most of us don't agree with that. So, maybe we just need to remind Andrias about who he really is. If you do that, we'll even let you in on a new game. A game we like to call 'The' uh- 'The Owl House'!", Luz beamed.
"Ooh, how do you play?", Collector asked.
"Oh, gosh! I love that game!", Luz chuckled nervously.
"The memories last a lifetime!", Amity added.
"And we can even show you and have King play with us if you want. We're gonna need a lot of players, like, a whole island's worth of players but, uh...", Luz began before sighing. "There's this whole ding-dang draining spell. We all know what that means..."
Then, the Collector got an idea.
"Wait, if you and Amity are Titans, you can both let me out. I can stop the spell! And we could play together!", Collector assured.
"Thanks, Collector.", Luz grinned.
"Wait, you two aren't tricking me into doing your chores like Nigel, are you?", Collector asked.
"What?! No! We are not like him!", Luz responded.
"In fact, we'll even swear on it. Pinky swear.", Amity added, offering her pinky finger out to him with Luz doing the same as well and the Collector laughed deviously at this.
Unfortunately for them, Melkor noticed this from below and roared viciously, causing the ground to start rumbling before he started to slide down across the wall, scraping his claws against the wall.
"We'll even let you out right now. W-What do we need to do? D-Do-Do you need our... blood? A small drop of it?", Luz asked.
"No, silly!", Collector replied, going towards the mirror and sticking out his pinky finger.
"Just... follow my lead.", Collector assured.
Back on the bridge, Andrias delivered his ultimatum, holding Rose over the edge of the bridge.
"Now put back the box or this twerp learns how to fly.", Andrias demanded.
"Andrias, stop! You don't have to do this!", Leif urged.
"Au contraire.", Andrias only glared.
"Anne... don't...!", Rose said desperately before King Andrias squeezed her.
"Rose! Polly, do what he says.", Anne urged in a panic.
Sadly, Polly returned the Calamity Box to the pedestal, allowing the castle to rise again.
Downstairs, the Collector places their pinky hand in the mirror. But before Luz and Amity could link it, Melkor landed behind the two, making them gasp as they turned to see him before he towered over the two and roared.
"Amity, I'll hold him off! You need to free him!", Luz urged.
"But what about you?", Amity asked.
"Just do it!", Luz urged before casting a spell circle on the demonic Titan, pushing him back.
With that, Amity linked her pinky with the Collector's. And when she pulled it out, a hand started coming out of the mirror, linked to his pinky finger. The mirror slowly broke as Luz pushed harder to keep Melkor from getting close to the Collector. Once broken, the mirror dropped to the ground and a hooded entity appeared as Luz turned around and Melkor looked ahead to see a flash of bright light emitting from them. Amity, Luz, Gammamoo, and Kikimora shielded their eyes while Melkor gave a smirking growl as the screen faded to white and faded to Polly mourning Frobo.
"Frobo...", Polly spoke sadly.
For Leif, seeing this much despair was the last straw for her.
"Andrias... I will NEVER forgive you for what you have done! Do you hear me?! NEVER!", Leif shouted, making everyone gasp in shock.
Even Camila was sad for her. She never saw her snap like that. She felt shocked and sad for her.
"Leif...", Camila spoke, sad for her.
Even Andrias was sad, at least for a moment. But after that, he chuckled evilly.
"I never asked you to.", Andrias smirked.
"Ok, dude. You have what you want. Now please, just put her down. She's the best little sister I could ever have with my friends, and with my family, in this world or any other world.", Anne pleaded, moving Sprig.
"Anne...", Sprig spoke.
"Aw...", Ivy said, just as moved.
"That's the thing about friends, isn't it? The more you love them, the more it hurts when they go. Allow me to demonstrate.", Andrias only smirked before he dropped Rose toward the edge of the bridge.
But the drop was suddenly halted by something unseen as a squeaking sound was heard. To everyone's surprise, they saw who caught Rose, and it's shown to be the hand of the Collector, now in a 3rd-dimensional state of his shadow form.
"Whatcha playin'?", the Collector asked with everyone surprised.
"Collector...?!", Camila spoke in shock.
"He's been freed?", Belos puzzled.
"Oh, crud...", Anne reacted.
"Wait a minute... Is that...? Could it be...?", Andrias asked before the Collector turned around and saw him.
"AH! Collector! It IS you!", Andrias shouted in surprise before laughing boastfully as Leif and Camila got puzzled.
"Y-You're actually free? But how? Who helped you?", Andrias asked.
"Just my new besties, Luz and Amity. We hung out every time they fell asleep. Why do you ask?", Collector asked as Luz and Amity arrived.
"Oh, you don't say. Say, what happened to that Nechros guy, anyway? Where is he?", Andrias asked.
"You mean that fibber? I helped with the draining spell like he asked, and all he ever did for me was throw me off a bridge.", Collector replied, making Andrias widen his eyes.
"Oh, boy...", Andrias said, starting to get nervous.
"I'm not angry, though. I haven't seen him since, anyway.", Collector responded.
"Oh. So, you're not the one who did... that?", Andrias asked, gesturing to the red splatter of goo on the wall.
"Nope. Say, since it's been a while, you wanna play tag?", Collector asked, twirling his finger around before Andrias was moved right in front of him.
"Oop!", Andrias exclaimed.
"I'm it.", Collector spoke before he tapped Andrias's nose and he was immediately launched above the door, getting damaged. Then, he fell down onto the bridge in front of the portal door as the group was equally shocked and horrified.
"Oh, snap.", Polly commented.
Although, Andrias got up and chuckled a bit.
"Whew...! Maybe it was that beatdown I had earlier, but that actually hurt less than I thought it would.", Andrias grinned.
The Collector laughed just as joyfully.
"Too slow!", Collector spoke before looking back at the others.
"You guys look slow too. Do you need a head-start?", Collector spoke, raising his finger as he started walking towards them.
"Do you need a head start?", Collector asked.
But before the Collector can reach the group, Luz and Amity blocked the path.
"Whoa, there, Collector! Buddy, pal!", Luz urged.
"Luz! Amity!", Collector spoke happily.
"Remember what we talked about? You gotta help all our friends outside, or, uh, we won't get to play 'Owl House'.", Luz reminded, looking back at the group.
"Uh... Owl House? I play it everyday!", Willow grinned.
"I play it every hour!", Gus added.
"I play it every half hour!", Boscha added.
Then, Caleb and Sophia squealed nervously.
"We'll explain the rules later, but remember, we need lots of players.", Amity said.
The Collector then walked forward and everyone cleared the way. They all looked outside and spotted the eclipse draining the magic out of everyone outside. They then enlarged their eyes to spot everyone unconscious as a result. After thinking for a while, he decided to stop the spell.
"Hmm. Okay! Boop.", Collector spoke, moving the moon beside the sun with a touch of their finger.
The spell immediately stopped as the group watched. Willow, Gus, Caleb, Sophia, Luz, and Amity noticed that all the cursed veins have disappeared.
"Ah... Finally, I can breathe without feeling pain again...!", Luz sighed in relief.
Back outside, everyone started to groan and wake up.
"We did it. We saved everyone.", Amity grinned.
Then, Luz noticed the portal still active, albeit weaker now.
"Wait. Why is that portal still up there?", Luz asked.
"Fool! The life force of every witch gathered on the Day of Unity was merely the key by which the union of Amphibia and the Boiling Isles, as well as my return, was guaranteed. Disrupting the spell and sparing the witches below will accomplish nothing to stop my conquest.", Melkor discouraged, now in his human form clad in black and silver armor with long, flowing, black hair.
He then raised his hand, coated in black red energy and started to mentally attack the Collector, attempting to brainwash him, prompting him to hold his head in pain.
"Oh, double crud...", Luz groaned.
"Get out of my head!", Collector exclaimed.
Soon, due to the mental conflict, every part of the island started to disassemble to prepare for the game as the group watched in shock. Luz shielded King from the impact just as Camila shielded her. As the platform in front of the group hovered away and they stepped back, Willow looked back and immediately spotted the portal door.
"I think there's a way out!", Willow said.
The others then started to follow her, but Luz stopped at the last minute and looked back. Amity noticed this.
"Luz, come on!", Amity urged.
"Everyone—Eda, I-I can't just leave them!", Luz responded.
"Luz, please!", Amity pleaded as tears started welling in her eyes.
Eventually, Luz relented and everyone ran towards the portal, even Rose, who noticed one of Stumpy's seeds and picked it up for safekeeping. When Willow, Caleb, Sophia, and Gus reached the remnants of Nechros, Caleb and Sophia hesitated to step over it.
"Guys!", Gus shouted.
Sophia eventually overcame it and ran over the goo. However, unbeknownst to her and everyone else, a small drop of Nechros' goo dripped onto her. As everyone reached the flickering portal, Luz saw that it's about to collapse. After waiting for a while, the light returned and Sophia opened the door, bewildered in wonder. Unfortunately, Andrias noticed this, mainly the fact that Marcy had gotten to the box and was already using it to stabilize the portal on the door.
"What?", Andrias puzzled.
"Please work, please work, please work!", Marcy pleaded.
At first, it showed the In Between Realm and then cut to the rain in the Human Realm.
"It's human rain. It's okay.", Gus assured.
He, Willow, Caleb, and Sophia ran inside before Amity ran forward, but then looked back.
"Luz?", Amity asked.
She had already activated plant spells and was pulling the vines in order to keep the portal from falling apart, although so far, she had great difficulty holding them together.
"Luz, what are you doing?", Amity asked before the door suddenly disconnected from the Human Realm, but eventually returned as the others attempted to go back.
"I-I have to keep the portal running. We'll find a way back to you!", Luz assured.
"Nooo!", Andrias shouted before he rushed towards Marcy, but were stopped by Anne, Sasha, and Grime.
"Me, Anne, and Grime will hold him! Just go!", Sasha urged.
Jackie, after hesitating for a moment, nodded and she, her friends and siblings, as well as the Plantars took the opportunity to head into the portal with the witches, not to mention with Polly dragging Frobo's head in Anne's backpack.
"Go! Go, go, go! I-I can't hold the portal much longer!", Luz urged.
"Quick, into the portal everyone, hurry!", Marcy urged, pointing to it.
Andrias growled, brandishing his sword before he attempted to crush Sasha, but she rolled out of the way, giving Grime the opportunity to drive the warhammer into his leg. But he knocked Grime off and then smacked away both Anne and Sasha with his tail straight into the wall.
"THE BOX!", Andrias shouted, running toward Anne, Marcy, the Plantars and the toads, who were catching up to the portal.
"Marcy!", Luz shouted before she took off after her.
"Marcy, hurry!", Anne urged.
"I just need to-", Marcy began.
But Marcy was cut off as Luz managed to arrive in time to help her, but also, unfortunately, both her and Marcy got impaled right through the area near their chests.
"LUZ!", Amity shouted in panic, prompting Belos, Luke, Lucia, Caleb, Sophia, and Camila to notice what happened to her and Marcy, much to their horror.
"No...!", Luke gasped in horror as Lucia just gasped, covering her mouth as she started to shed tears.
"Aaaand we've been impaled...!", Luz groaned.
"Yes. Yes, you have. Yeet!", Andrias shouted, flinging Luz and Marcy up toward one of the debris and crashed at the bottom of it before falling and landing on another.
"LUZ!", everyone else shouted.
"MARCY!", Anne and Sasha shouted right before Melkor appeared behind them and slashed them from behind, creating a white flash that knocked them toward Marcy and Luz, all four of which were now bleeding, although 3 out of 4 clones were unexpectedly made, as Andrias started putting his laser sword in his scabbard slowly.
"Now look what you made me do...", Andrias glared before he finished putting it in the scabbard in a fast motion.
Angered, Eda's inner Owl Beast immediately took over her. It screeched and pounced towards Andrias, who knocked her back.
"Ha! I expected that.", Andrias smirked.
"Come on, Amity! We all need to go!", Boscha urged.
Amity contemplated for a while before she moved away from her and the others.
"I'm sorry. I can't come with you to the human realm. Not without Luz. But I can keep you all safe.", Amity said, starting to float away until she was close enough to where she can hold and cradle Luz.
"Wait... you're staying with her?", Eda asked, recovering from Andrias' attack.
"It's the only way to make sure she survives.", Amity explained.
Then, tears started to drip down Emilia's face.
"Amity...!", Erebor spoke, worried for her.
"No!", Emilia sobbed.
"It's okay. If all goes well, we'll find a way to reach you, no matter how long it takes.", Amity assured.
"Then, you're going to need someone to help patch the connection through when this is over.", Mithril stated.
"Mithril...", Amity said.
"Belos, Camila, it truly has been an honor to serve you both. But for now, you must prepare for dire trials ahead and continue your journey without me...", Mithril stated.
"Mithril...", Belos spoke sadly.
as King went over to Amity and Luz.
"Luz, I'm so happy I had you as a big sister.", King said.
"King, on three. One...", Amity began.
"Two...", King began before he inhaled deeply and...
"Fly, you fools.", Mithril urged.
"WEH!", Amity and King shouted, using their sonic shout and causing Boscha, Selena, Ellie, Maura, Evander, Willow, Gus, Luke, Lucia, Caleb, Sophia, Belos, Camila,Eda, Lilith, Amiyah, Della, Lia, Masa, Anne, Sasha, Marcy, Jackie, Rose, Allison, Pat, Max, Alexis, and their triplets to get knocked into the portal and Human Realm altogether, dropping the box, which emitted a bright light, closing the portal.
After being transported, they all woke up and groaned. Very soon, they all got up and turned to notice a family in one of the few cars they all landed on.
"What the...?!", Polly puzzled in surprise.
The family was quite paralyzed, although the father took a photo of them. Everyone looked around as they were shown to have ended up on Earth in the middle of a dark, stormy night.
"Oh, my frog!", Sprig shouted in surprise.
"What is this place?", Hop Pop asked.
"It looks like we're back on Earth.", Camila said.
"But so much has changed since I last saw it... What is this place on Earth, really?", Belos asked, stunned.
"Home...", Anne, Sasha, Marcy, and their respective siblings responded.
Later, at Anne's house, a picture of Anne, Jackie, Rose, and their triplets with both their parents was shown, panning out to reveal the interior of the house. Mrs. Boonchuy was stirring something with a sad look on her face when suddenly, she heard someone knocking on the door.
"I'm coming. I'm coming.", Mrs. Boonchuy spoke before opening the door and gasping at quite the sight: Anne and her sisters, and brother, at the door.
"Hi, mom.", Anne greeted.
"We're back...", Jackie added.
A/N: Looks like this is how the 2nd season ends. In a dark manner... Both figuratively AND literally. And now, for Amphibia's side of it.
