Belos groaned as he slowly rose from the sea, not even feeling the burns as he shook his head.
"Who did that?" He asked, blowing out smoke form his mouth.
"I did." A new, FAMILIAR voice said.
He looked and saw the tall being, as big as him!
She had purple fur with a gray patch from her neck to her stomach with long black hair down her back right above a bushy fox-like tail. She had visible bone ribs near her hips while her 3 fingers were bone claws and two clawed feet as well as bone kneecaps were above them. The most eye catching parts of her was the skull on her head with long horns and a small ball of light above them as well as a strange symbol on her chest.
'YOU!' Belos standing up full and blasted a stream of magic fire at her!
"WEH!" She screamed, the Bi Blast destroying the fire and hitting Belos!
"Guh!" Belos grunts as he stumbled back, breathing heavily from the pain.
As he was recovering, the tall being held her hand out to King, Eda, and Collector to encase them in a magic bubble.
"Stay back." She said, moving the bubble back.
Eda wanted to argue, when she noticed something, the Titan's skull had two cracks, one above it's eye, and one on its cheek.
"No, it can't be..." Eda said, in disbelief, "Luz?"
"LUZ?!" King and Collector shouted in shock.
The giant titan, Luz, chuckled at their reactions as she nodded to them.
"I'll tell you later, I promise." Luz said before seeing something flying up to her eye. "Stringbean?"
The snakeshifter palisman hissed and nodded to Luz, flying towards her right hand and stretching as far as she could to become a purple ring on her ring finger. Even if Luz was a Titan, her palisman wanted to be by her side always.
"Thank you Stringbean for being so loyal to me." Luz said, glancing to see Belos getting up. "Let's have some fun."
With a flick of the wrist, Luz made the magic bubble take Eda, King, and Collector to New Hexside as she walked towards the boiling sea!
"Why must you always get in my way?!" Belos shouted at Luz, realizing who she was.
"Why you ask? Is that rally anyway to speak to a Titan?" Luz asked, smirking before breathing! "WEH!"
The Bi Blast hit him again, making Belos groan in pain again before he growled!
"ROOOOOOOOAH!" He roared at Luz as he charged at her.
"RAAAAAAAAAH!" Luz screamed as she charged at Belos as well, jumping off the land and tackling Belos further into the boiling sea!
Boiling water flew high in the sky, as the battle between gods began.
At New Hexside, everyone could feel the shaking again as they stumbled around!
"What was that THIS time?!" Boscha asked, nearly falling over.
"Boscha, you need to see this!" Skara said, looking through the window.
Boscha, along with just about everyone in the gym, ran to the windows.
Boscha dropped her jaw in shock at what she saw, herself and everyone else shocked as well!
'OH! MY! TITAN!' Boscha thought, ignoring the magic bubble landing before the school.
The bubble vanished and Eda, King, and Collector looked at the two Titans. The two grabbed each other's hands, trying to take the other one to a knee, the largest test of strength ever witnessed by witch kind.
"Come on, Luz." Eda said.
"Uh, Eda?" King said.
Eda looked and saw that the mold that comes from the fire Belos blasts is starting to spread, and it was heading right to the school.
"We need to stop it from covering the school." Eda said, "King, I need you to get inside and make sure the students are safe. Kid-"
Eda looked at the Collector, who looked a bit scared. She kneeled down and put her hand on his shoulder.
"Hey, look at me." Eda said softly, "You said you were sorry for everything?"
Collector nodded.
"Then it's time to make up for what you did. You made a mess and now it's time to clean it up." Eda said, "I need your help. You're powerful, I need you to get something to keep the school covered from this."
"B-But my magic, this stuff is messing with it." Collector said, showing the mold on his hands.
"That? Don't sweat it, kid. I have a way to get rid of it." Eda said before looking at King. "King, mind doing a little mold clean up?"
"How can I help?" King asked.
"Simple, use that little... scream thing you do." Eda said.
"But... that cancels out collector magic." King said, "That could do serious damage to him!"
"Not if you focus." Eda said, "Don't go all out like before, try and use it as like a whisper, aim for the hands and nothing else."
"H-h-how do you know this will work?" King asked.
"I don't, but our option, and time, are limited."
King looked at Collector and after a minute, the Collector nodded, giving him the go ahead.
"I trust you, King." Collector said, holding his hands out.
Nodding back, King took a small breath as he cupped his hands over in front mouth to aim at the god child's hands.
'Just a little whisper, enough to blast this mold off.' King thought.
"Weh." He softly shouted, launching a quick and small sound wave.
Collector flinched as it hit, feeling the mold forcefully pealed off his hands in a painful second.
"I... I did it." King said, looking in awe at his feat.
"I knew you could, sweetie." Eda said.
Collector looked at his hands, seeing they were mold free and feeling the magic slowly returning to his fingers.
"Okay, but if I'm protecting the school and King will be inside, what will you be doing Ms. Eda?" Collector asked.
"Simple." Eda said as she reached into her hair and pulled out an instrument. "If Belos thinks he can corrupt the Isles, then two can play that game."
"But how are you going to play without one arm?" King asked.
"You let me worry about that." Eda said with a smile, flapping into the air. "Now get inside, hurry! Collector, be sure to get that shield up!"
Eda put her instrument in her mouth to hold and reached into her hair, pulling out some duck tape and taped the instrument to her right arm numb.
"There, that should do it." Eda said, her bell cittern now tied to her right arm stub from the neck down. "Bad being in the air should keep me from being affected, hopefully."
BOOOM!
Another quake shook the Isles as Eda look back to the bad, seeing Luz had body slammed Belos into the water.
"Come on Luz, take him down." Eda said, looking worried but having hope.
Looking back to the green infection coming closer to the school, Eda stayed in the air as she moved her cittern into a playing position.
'Alright, Owl Beast, let's jam.' Eda thought, playing her instrument as her black gem began to glow.
Music began to fill the air, and corruption began to spread to the mold.
Both waves clashed, spreading over each other in a deadlock as the green mold was actually crying out in pain from Eda's dark corrosion.
'It's working.' Eda thought, ecstatic to see her curse was able to fight off Belos's decay/infection.
Unfortunately, her theory of being protected in the air didn't work, as she began to feel pain as her body was covered in black corruption again. She kept playing through the pain, even as it reached her wings and caused her to fall to the ground. She landed on the ground, hard. She groaned but got up and played.
"If I stop now, then every kid in that building is dead." Eda said, falling to a knee, "Have... to keep... going!"
The corruption went up her neck, beginning to cover her head.
"Come on... come... on." She said, struggling to play, "Owl beast... please... help, I... I can't stop, I need you to do something... please... Luz won't truly win if everything she cares about is killed by that mossy bastard."
The corruption slowly began to cover her face and she began to close her eyes and stop playing. She fell to the ground and she was completely covered in corruption as well as the mold beginning to cover her. Suddenly, her gem started glowing and released a massive blast of corruption across the surrounding area, destroying the moss and removing itself from Eda. The witch herself was laying in a crater and losing consciousness, looking around as she was no longer in Harpy From. Her vision was getting blurry, seeing King and the Collector rushing over to her before she fully passed out.
