Author's Note: I would like to thank Wolvenstrom for beta reading this chapter for me, enjoy


After being away from the Boiling Isles for over a month now Luz was preparing to go back to the Boiling Isles to see how things were going and if it would be safe to go back. After donning a special illusion ring that gave her the appearance of a willowy cyclops with long spiky blood red hair, she was ready to go "Now Luz, I know that you can handle yourself very well, but if it gets too dicey, I want you to teleport back immediately, do you understand?" Eda said in a stern, yet motherly tone

"Sure Eda, though as long as I have this little cutie" scratches the blue cat ear headband on her head "I'll be fine"

"I know…just…be careful" Luz gave Eda a quick hug before teleporting away.

Meanwhile

On the boiling Isles, the day after Luz had left, a new wanted poster had been put up which had increased her bounty to ten trillion snails.

If it increased anymore then one would start to wonder how exactly they'd pay the bounty without severely impacting the population of their currency.

There had also been a vast increase of members of the Emperors coven patrolling all towns and villages on the Boiling Isles, over the past month. Some emperor's coven members had also infiltrated schools, disguised as students, to try and get any information on Luz or her whereabouts. Gus, Willow, and Amity had been grilled relentlessly by top Emperors Coven members multiple times to find the about of Luz, they had even been tossed in the Conformatorium for 5 days, until public outcry forced their release. The group had used Gus' infinite history book to find out what Luz had done to cause such a reaction, needless to say, they were shocked to find out that Luz had destroyed the only way for her to be able to get home. Using the same book, they dug deeper into Emperor Belos and discovered his true dark history. They had naturally informed their parents of this new revelation who were just as shocked as they had been, though Gus' father had been the first to point out that no one would believe them due to being taught their whole lives that Belos was a benevolent man who would never cause harm. They also chose not to find out where Luz and the others were, just in case the emperor's coven tried to interrogate them with a truth spell or something.

Since Luz's disappearance Amity had been worried sick about her new girlfriend and whether she was okay or not, so much so that she started to actually eat her own high-calorie food in order to ease and calm herself, and by eating, that means gorge and by gorge, I don't mean gorge or Gorge.

I mean GOOOOORGE. All caps with three seconds holding the O at least. Their wasn't a single moment of the day she was awake that Amity Blight wasn't eating, and it showed.

In just over a month, Amity had packed on 115 pounds, with 80% of her new weight going straight to her lower half. Turning her thighs into hams and her rear into a handy shelf for balancing cups and small utensils on when her hands were full. Willow and Gus knew why Amity was eating the amounts of food she was, but chose not to say or do anything about it. The 3 of them were at the park relaxing and enjoying the nice day out, as they talked about some recent events, a cyclops that looked their age suddenly appeared out of nowhere, this was instantly followed by the intense urge to give her food.

"Guys!" the cyclops exclaimed with joy, making the 3 witches freeze at the sound of the voice

"LU-" Willow started but was cut off as the Cyclops put a hand over her mouth

"shhhh yeah it's me, I'm wearing a disguise ring!" she said just loud enough for the three of them to hear. Even though Willow could see that there was nothing between her and the disguised Luz, she could feel the big girl's stomach pressing up against her. Taking a quick look around, Luz removed the disguise ring for just a second to reveal her true appearance, before slipping it back on. The second she was back into her disguise her friends embraced her tightly, while also jumping for joy when they broke apart they all began asking their friend a thousand questions before Luz raised a hand to stop them "Before I say anything, is there a place where we can talk more in private?"

"Let's go to my house, there would be no one there to eavesdrop on us," Amity said

"Okay then, grab on" They did as Luz told, and in a second, they were in Amity's room. Gus and Willow let go, but Amity still held onto Luz. Luz then fully removed her disguise ring allowing her friends to fully see her properly, needless to say, they were quite shocked at how big she had gotten since they last saw each other, Amity certainly wasn't complaining about Luz's larger figure.

Unable to hold back any longer the 3 witches all offered Luz a large amount of food each, which she happily ate. To the 3 witches' shock, however, Luz actually asked for more "Wait you're actually ASKING us for more food?!" Willow questioned

"yeah, I've found myself becoming hungrier and hungrier lately. The amount of food I've eaten in the past that would ordinarily fill me up, doesn't even touch the sides anymore"

"you must have just gotten used to eating so much that it now takes more to feel full" Willow theorized

"well for a human in the demon realm, that's a good thing," Gus said before he made Luz a loaded doughnut the size of a steering wheel, which Luz wolfed down.

Once she was full she began telling them everything that happened to Her, Eda, King, and Hooty since they teleported away. The 3 witches were in awe as Luz told them about her adventures and experiences on Ribcage Isle, now wanting to visit and experience it for themselves, they were also interested in meeting Raven. "Oh and I shouldn't forget to introduce this little sweetie to you guys" She then took off the cat ears on her head and they turned into the snake shifter that was Stringbean, who turned into a staff, making her friends go slack-jawed.

"Luz has a staff!" Gus said

"Why does that make me nervous" Willow added

"Her name is Stringbean and she is perfect," Luz said and she gave the statue form of Stringbean a kiss. "now I think its time you guys answer a few of my questions, for starters, Gus, did I miss a birthday or something?"

"Witch puberty, it kinda hits you all at once"

"Yeah it did." She nodded looking "Human puberty happens over years. I'd kill to have it happen that fast."

"Well if it makes you feel better. It was horrifically painful." He said chiperly.

"ReallY?"

"Ohhh yes. Everything stretches all at once. I could feel my bones get longer under my skin. My muscles burning. All of my baby teeth and fangs feel out all at once and new ones grew in. I couldn't move for two days...aannnd now I'm gonna block out that memory." Gus said while Amity and Willow flinched at remembering their own experiences with witch puberty

"Oh...well..." Suddenly grateful she hadn't started turning into a witch a few years earlier, she turned to her girlfriend "And now Amity" She then slapped her hand on Amity's butt and gave it a squeeze and a jiggle "Exactly did all of this come from?" she asked, making Amity blush and give a tiny eep "well?" she asked in a playful taunting tone

"I found eating a great way to calm myself after you disappeared, it makes me look ugly having such a huge ass, doesn't it?" Luz wrapped her arms around Amity and the two flopped onto their sides on Amity's bed. Luz then whispered into Amity's ear

"It didn't make you look like you have a huge butt. It 'gave' you a huge butt...and I wouldn't mind if it was huger" and she began nibbling on Amity's ear, making the young witch go cross-eyed

"eh hem" the two girls snapped out of it and sat up straight to see their friends sporting some blush "We are still here you know" Willow stated

"hehe sorry, got a bit carried away. So how have things been since I left?" Willow and Gus recounted events that had happened involving the emperor's coven essentially being out for Luz's blood "Have things died down over the past week?" Luz questioned, making her friends perk up a bit at this

"Actually, now that you mention it, things have died down, quite significantly in fact, did something happen that you know about?" Gus said

"yeah, Mayor Jullaré told me that some coven scouts came to Ribcage Isle but because they had no jurisdiction, they couldn't do anything and he sent them on their way with a very…colorful message to Emperor Belos"

"what was the message?" Willow asked

"Eda said that if I ever repeated a single word he said, she'd remove my tongue with a blunt knife, same with King"

"you know Luz we found out some shocking facts about Emperor Belos" Willow said

"What did you find out about him?"

"that he's actually Philip Wittebane, Caleb's younger brother"

"WHAT?!"

"I know right?"

"How is that possible?!"

"Evelyn cursed him by giving him immortality without preservation, so his body would continue to degrade over time, he also tried to counter this with a glyph combo he carved into his arm but that only made things worse for him, now he's barely able to stay in his normal form, having to use the essence of Palisman's to essentially keep him together at this point. He then managed to get into contact with an ancient being known as The Collector who taught him powerful magic, more powerful than anyone on the boiling isles. He used this magic to try and eliminate all witches by altering the demon realm itself"

"How?"

"he's the reason why we have plagues, gorenados, shale hail, painbows, boiling rain, and even why the sea is boiling"

"haven't you told anybody this?!"

"Our parents know, but Gus' dad made a good point that no one would believe us due to everyone believing that Belos is a benevolent being who could do no wrong"

Luz frowned at this before a thought came to her "Do you know if he tried to kill Caleb again?"

"We actually did check that and while he did come back, everyone in Bonesborough attacked him and chased him out of town," Gus said

"ha, nice"

"oh and we also found out that Ocki lived a full life and even got married and had kids," Amity said trying to turn the conversation to a more positive one

"awe good for her," Luz said, now sporting a bright smile

"turns out she's also the reason some demons and witches can shapeshift naturally"

"huh?"

"her shapeshifting ability has been passed down from generation to generation, despite how diluted her basilisk genes are, her shapeshifting abilities are still natural to any of her descendants"

"wow, that's so cool… and speaking of cool, watch this" Luz then made a spell circle which made a spark before the circle crumbled away

"you can make a spell circle!?" her friends exclaimed while Luz gave a massive face-splitting grin

"yep, I've started to develop my own bilesack, because I've kept this with me at all times," she said while showing her friends the vial of Titan's blood.

"How long will it take to fully develop?" Gus asked

"That I am not sure, maybe a year, maybe 3 who knows, all that matters is that I'll be able to do magic without glyphs in the future"

"so are you going to be returning to Hexside?" Willow asked

"Yeah, but I'll probably have to stay in disguise just in case"

"good idea, who knows what they'll do if they catch you" Amity agreed

"There are just two problems, however," Gus started

"What's that?" Luz asked

"Well, 1. You may change your appearance but your bulk acts like an invisible barrier. And 2. We still have the urge to feed you even when you're disguised"

Luz thought for a moment "Oh I know I can say that I have a barrier around me to protect my personal space and for the other one, I can just say that I'm half human, hence why they have the urge to feed me" Luz said, not being able to think of any better reasons, her friends just went with it.

"So has Boscha been causing more trouble?" Luz asked, this made Amity start to growl and start shift into her abomination form

"well Luz, you see during our trip to the Emperor's castle, Boscha stole and merged with the master abomination clay Belos had in that artifact room and she and Amity get into fights almost daily, with them usually ending up in detention"

"is my awesome girlfriend becoming a bad girl?" Luz asked making Amity revert back to her normal form and start to blush. "so how many times have you kicked her giant butt?"

"it usually ends in a draw, either we're too tired, or most of the time someone breaks it up," Amity said

"I'm sure if you to were to duke it out without any interruptions, you would come out on top"

"you think so?"

"oh I know so" and she gave Amity a quick peck on the nose.


After about another hour of talking Luz decided to scout out the town for Eda. Amity insisted that she would come with Luz to scout out the town, to both keep her safe from anyone from the emperor's coven, as well as to be with her. As they walked around, Luz could see that while there were a fair few guards around, it would be nothing she or Eda couldn't handle "Excuse me young ladies" a man's voice said the two girls turned and saw an old man with hair like Eda's, a large beard, a scar over one eye, and a yellow cardinal on his shoulder

"uh yes, can we help you sir?" Luz asked

"Are you by any chance the human who has been seen with Edalyn Clawthorn?"

"uh no sorry, as you can see I'm a cyclops, not a human," Luz said the old man smiled

"I can see that you're wearing a TX7-model: cyclops disguise ring" Luz looked at the ring on her hand, but stayed silent "Don't worry, I mean you no harm, I was just wondering if you knew where my daughter Edalyn was"

"your Eda's father?!" Luz blurted out, making Amity facepalm

"Yes, Dell Clawthorn," he said and held a shaky hand out to her which she grabbed and shook "So do you know where my daughter is? Or can you tell me that she's at least safe?"

"Don't worry Mr Clawthorn, she's as safe as could be"

"that warms my heart to know"

"do you want me to take you to her"

"I have a feeling that if I did, she would probably run away again"

"again?"

"I take it she didn't tell you about what happened years ago"

"no, she doesn't like to talk about her past, but when she does, I am always totally focused," she said, finishing with a serious tone.

Dell then told the two girls about what happened as well as the consequences that followed "and ever since then she's constantly blamed herself, even though we all know that it wasn't her fault at all. She's also used every excuse and opportunity to avoid me"

Luz's eyes widened "I know how to make this all right" She then stuck her hand out to Dell "Take my hand" he did as he was told before Luz put two fingers to her head and disappeared.

Luz, Dell, and Amity (who had grabbed onto Luz), reappeared in Luz's room. Luz then waddled over to her chest and opened it before retrieving the Golden Healing Hat "Here, put this on, it'll heal your eye…and probably make you feel 20 years younger" Dell was a bit skeptical but he trusted Luz. Placing the hat on his head, there was a bright flash of light. When the light faded, Luz and Amity could see that all of Dell's scars were gone, his left eye was now open, and he had some orange back in his hair

"my word, I feel fantastic!" he even jumped up not feeling any aches or pains when doing so "What is this item?" he said while taking off the hat

"It's essentially an upgraded version of the Healing Hat, we used it to also cure Eda of her curse" At this point, Dell had no reason to doubt Luz. Luz was about to continue when Eda entered the room

"so kid, how di-dad!"

"Edalyn, you look very well, I see that this hat worked its wonders on you too" The gears in Eda's head started to turn as she registered what her dad had just said and what he was holding

"Dad, you're healed"

"yes, I honestly forgot what it was like to see through 2 eyes, not only that this beauty got rid of those kinks in my back, I feel like I could take on a horde of slither beasts with my bare hands," he said as he pulled a few poses making Eda laugh as she remembered how much of a goofball her dad was.

"But in all seriousness, I'm glad you're free of your curse, I think your mother would be the happiest to hear this news"

"yeah knowing Mum, she'll be over the moon happy…Luz, do you mind taking King, I need to have a private talk with my dad" Luz nodded and without another word, she teleported her and Amity to King, whom she grabbed and then teleported them both back to the boiling isles.

The three of them reappeared in the center of Bonesborough where they were almost instantly bumped into Amity's now mortal enemy, Boscha. "Like, watch where you're teleporting Blight" Boscha snarked

"put a sock in it tutu" Boscha gave a bit of a growl

"Lucky for you, I'm currently in the best mood I've been in ages, so I'll give you a pass this time" Luz and Amity couldn't help but notice the odd staff and broken mask she was holding as she walked off

"why am I concerned about who that mask and staff belong to" Luz questioned

"I don't know, but let's just be thankful that this didn't end up as a fight"

"well if it did, I would have my awesome girlfriends back all of the way," Luz said while wrapping an arm around Amity and giving her a kiss on the cheek

"ugh, get a room" King stated

"oh trust me, we will soon" Luz replied

"hey Luz, can we go to the playground?"

"for you King, anything"

"then march forth!" Luz giggled and the three of them headed off to the playground.


Meanwhile

Willow was tending to her plants in her room. After watering them all properly and giving them a bit of an oomph with her Golden Thumb Gauntlets she went to water the ones on her windowsill. As she watered them she accidentally knocked one of them off. Gasping, she looked over and saw the pot had shattered on someone's head, who was lying face down on a pile of garbage. Spotting a weed growing, she used the powers of her Golden Thumb Gauntlets to make the weed turn into a giant plant of some kind before making it pick up the person and bring them up to her.

Lying them down on her bed, she saw that it was a boy about her age that looked like he had been used as a punching bag for a day. Seeing that they were still breathing she started making healing goop, using the glyph spell Luz had come up with. She knew that this stuff could heal wounds in seconds, but she didn't know how deep the healing could go. After healing all the wounds she could see, she grabbed one of her plants that looked like a rose and tickled it behind the bud, making it 'sneeze' out a puff of red smoke in the boy's face. The boy's eyes snapped open "Ugh! What is that smell?!"

"the pollen of a corpse rose"

"it smells worse than its namesake. Where am I?"

"you're in my room, I found you unconscious outside, you also looked like someone had used you as a punching bag for a week straight"

"I was beaten up by an obese 3 eyed monster"

"pink hair and wearing a tutu?"

"Yeah, you know that brute"

"yep, that's Boscha she's an untouchable menace at school, speaking of which, I don't believe I've seen you around here before"

"I've never actually been to school, I was brought up and taught in the emperor's coven"

"so that wasn't a fake tattoo I saw"

"you saw?"

"yeah, you were essentially just a giant bruise when I found you, I put some healing goop on most of your body" The boy felt around himself, while he did still have a lot of pain, especially in his right leg and left arm, he was definitely not in as much pain as he should be after the beating he took. "my name's Willow by the way, what's your's?"

"Hunter. So what was this 'healing goop' you used on me?" Willow then drew up the spell and showed him how it worked "amazing" he said before he looked at another one

"I've never seen symbols like these before"

"they're called glyphs, Luz discovered them by accident. Apparently, they draw upon the very magic of the Isle"

"oh, I actually read about these types of things in Bones to Earth, A Study of Wild Magic. I've never seen glyphs before, but, they seem very similar to the elemental magic practiced in the Savage Ages"

"you know, what you've been told about the savage ages is a lie"

"What?"

"my friends and I were accidentally stuck in the past for a month where we learned that everything we've been told about the "savage ages" was a lie"

"How did you get to the past?"

"time pool" She said far more casually than someone that had violated the laws of time and space reasonably should

"wait time pools are real?!"

"yep, word of warning, if you go through one, make sure you come straight back out, otherwise if the tide changes, you're stuck there, forever"

"noted. So if what we've been told is a lie, what was the deadwardian era like?"

"hmm honestly people were a lot friendlier and helpful back then, but honestly even though we went over 350 years back, things looked relatively the same, only towns were a lot smaller and technology was almost nonexistent"

"makes sense"

"so I healed your external wounds, but I don't know about internal, anywhere hurt still"

"yeah, my leg and arm still hurt" Swinging his legs over the edge of the bed, he attempted to stand only to feel an immense pain shoot up his leg and he fell back on the bed "Yep, I think it's broken," he said through clenched teeth

"well looks like you won't be walking out of here"

"yeah, do you have a Crow Phone I can use to call the Emperor's coven"

"how about I just take you on Clover?"

"who's Clover?" and with that Willow summoned her staff with Clover detaching

"this is Clover, she's my Palismen, I got her when I went to the past, now let's get you home".

The front door of Willow's house opened and Willow came out carrying an extremely embarrassed Hunter, bridal style. Placing him on her staff she hopped on as well and they flew off to the Emperor's Castle.

"so how exactly did you get into a fight with Boscha?"

"well…"

Flashback

Hunter, as the Golden Guard, was out on the streets of Bonesborough patrolling while also keeping an eye out for Luz, Eda, or King, in case they came back. As he walked along scanning around he was bumped into by someone. "Watch where your going, runt" that made Hunter turn around to look at an obese, scowling triclops, wearing a tutu

"I'm sorry, what did you call me?"

"runt, what of it"

"do you know who I am?"

Boscha looked him up and down before her eyes widened a bit "Oh you're the Golden Guard"

"That's right, and you would be wise to show me respect"

"pfft yeah right. You know, I honestly thought that you would be some big, tall, intimidating guy who didn't take shit from anyone, not some scrawny kid with such an annoying voice"

the Golden Guards' shoulders dropped "…annoying?..." he said, now sounding slightly hurt. He was snapped out of it when his staff was swiped right out of his hands "Hey! Give that back!"

"Nah, I don't think so, I'm pretty sure I could wield this thing much better than you," she said before acting it "Cool"

The Golden Guard then grabbed his staff and tried to yank it out of Boscha's hands, but it wouldn't budge. He then looked at Boscha and was sent flying back with a punch to the face. Tumbling along the ground, he came to a stop. As he started to get up, he was blasted by a beam of magic from his own staff, sending him flying into a wall. As he tried to get back up again he felt something coil around his leg, looking, he saw that there was a tentacle of abomination goop wrapped around his leg. Following it, he saw that it connected to Boscha's arm "What are you?" he asked

"Only the most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles" she replied and with that she began swinging and slamming him into anything she could see.

After doing this for several minutes, she held the now limp Golden Guard upside down in front of her. She watched as his mask split and fell into two pieces on the ground. "wow you look sickly, and just as much of a dork as you sound" The Golden Guard then punched Boscha in the face, but she didn't even flinch "so you think you can hit ladies, eh?" Boscha then sprouted 10 extra abomination arms "Well I'm not exactly a lady" and she began pummelling him…

End Flashback

"And then I woke up in your room"

"…you're the Golden Guard!" Willow exclaimed having now stopped

"Yes, if you may recall, we met before at the Emperor's castle about a month ago"

"yeah I remember, are you still after Luz?"

"yes, she and Razor Claw are wanted criminals and must be brought to justice"

"but Luz and Eda aren't bad people, the only reason they're wanted is that they don't fit into the society Belos is trying to make, also Luz destroyed the portal to the human realm to prevent Belos from using it"

"I take it she thought that he would do something bad with it?"

"yeah, but we later found out that he was just going to use it to get home, after he…wipes out everyone with a sigil, just like yours" Hunter looked at his wrist

"What are you talking about?" Willow then told Hunter about what the sigils were actually for. She, Gus, and Amity had found out what the sigils were truly for, but they had kept this information to themselves, not wanting to panic their parents. She also informed Hunter about Belos/Philip's history and what they had learned about him. When she was done giving him the abridged version, Hunter couldn't help but scoff at this claim "Belos is not evil, nor is or was he ever a human. He's benevolent and only wants to help people"

"you can choose to believe the lies he's told over the centuries, but I hope you realize the truth before it's too late" A thought then came to Willow "Seeing as how I helped and healed you, could you try and get Luz off the hook so she doesn't have to worry about going to the Conformatorium every time she comes here"

"Sorry, but Belos wants her at all costs"

Willow then flew down into the forest below and then hopped off her staff before grabbing Hunter and placing him on the ground "I can't let you go back unless you do whatever you can to prevent Luz from getting arrested"

"fine, I'll make my own way back"

"Well, you won't fair very well with a broken leg, especially with Titan knows what out there ready to attack at a moment's notice," Willow said with her arms crossed over her chest. Hunter grits his teeth, he knew she was right, plus he didn't have magic nor his staff so he was pretty much defenseless.

He was about to reluctantly agree when a huge creature that looked like a giant head with wings and legs landed behind Willow. Willow turned and found herself face to face with the bat queen taking a few steps back Willow finally spoke "oh uh hi bat queen, have we accidentally stumbled into your territory" She, Gus, and Amity having met her and the other lost palismens during a small adventure they had a while Luz was away.

"yes, I take it that you've been taking care of your Palismen?"

"I sure have," Willow said rather proudly.

"good," the bat queen said before she gazed at Hunter who was looking around in awe at all of the Palismen in the trees surrounding them

'holy Titan, there's enough Palismens here to help Belos for years' Hunter thought before he was jabbed in the chest and pinned down by Willow's staff

"I know exactly what you're thinking, and if you tell ANYONE about these Palismen, you will regret it for the rest of your. very. short. life" she said with her eyes now glowing green and vines coming out of the ground, Hunter responded by giving a rapid nod. They then heard a chirp as a red cardinal Palismen with one eye flew down from one of the trees and landed on Hunter's chest.

Willow's eyes widened while going back to normal as she recognized the red cardinal "Flapjack!" she exclaimed, Flapjack turned to her and flew up, it nuzzled her face for a bit before going back to Hunter's chest.

"you know little Flapjack?" the bat queen asked

"yeah, I met him and his original owner in the past," Willow said, curious as to why she didn't see him when they first encountered the bat queen. She then perked up and looked back at the still downed Hunter, now being nuzzled by Flapjack "I'm now just realizing that you look a lot like Belos' brother Caleb, only thinner and sickly. Maybe he was actually your ancestor, which would make you a relative of Eda"

"*sigh* look all of this has been a major drain on me, my leg hurts, my arm hurts, if you just take me back to the emperor's castle I won't tell anyone about these Palismen, and I'll do what I can to either get the human off the hook or make it easy for her to escape, okay?"

"deal let's shake on it" Willow then stuck her hand out to Hunter only to raise it "Don't shake, unless you mean it" Hunter just held his hand out and they shook before Willow pulled him back up and placed him back on her staff while Flapjack nestled himself into Hunter's shirt "I'd take good care of him if I were you, Palismen don't choose anyone to be their partner," Willow said, and she took off. Shortly after they had continued, Willow got a familiar urge to come over her with Hunter being the source of it. This greatly confused Willow who then made a small tree in her palm which sprouted what looked like a huge brown apple, which she gave to Hunter

"uh thanks?" he said in slight confusion before he started eating it, much to Willow's relief.


When they finally arrived at the castle Willow helped Hunter off and helped him over to the guards stationed at the front gates. When they reached them, Willow explained what had happened and he was soon taken away to the medical ward on a stretcher before she left the castle, casting it a dirty look as she did.

Hunter was now in his room sporting two casts, much to his displeasure, the story he had given was that a 3 eyed beast had attacked and pummeled him, and he had been found and mostly healed by Willow. He was going over all of the information Willow had told him, he knew that everything she had told him could have just been a lie, but on the other hand, she seemed to be the type of person who wouldn't lie about something like that, it was both confusing and frustrating, to say the least. He turned his head to Flapjack, and while he couldn't explain it, there seemed to be something familiar about him, like a very distant memory. Giving a sigh, he just stared up at the ceiling hoping that everything would become clearer soon. Unknown to anyone however Belos had heard about Hunter's incident and had decided to use his magic to find out what had happened exactly, what he saw shocked and infuriated him, while also causing him to have flashbacks to his time back when he was known as Philip. Cracking open a Palismen, he absorbed its essence before sighing and leaving to find some guards.


Once again Boscha was being escorted to detention by the school's guards after she had gotten into another fight with Amity "So after I'm rejected from the detention pit, where are you going to put me then" she asked cockily, the two guards however remained silent as they continued towards their destination. When they reached the detention pit doors, the two large doors swung open, but Boscha wasn't being forced forward "What, you're too scared to enter?"

"No" one of the guards replied and in two puffs of smoke the school guards turned into emperors coven guards, this caught Boscha completely off guard "We were sent here to bring you back to the emperor's castle for punishment for what you did to the Golden Guard, but we thought of doing something that you'll hate even more" the second guard then made a spell circle and Boscha's body was surrounded by a red aura. Twitching their fingers Boscha's body began moving on its own as her arms were then lifted and moved so that they were now out in front of her. The first guard's cane then turned into a scythe and with one swing, both of Boscha's arms were sliced off, just above the elbow

"oh no my poor arms oh what ever shall I do…oh, how about this?" Her severed arms turned into abomination goop and were absorbed into her body, where she then reformed them, only for them to fall off. "What the?!"

"Anything cut off by my scythe stays off forever" Boscha was about to make new arms with her existing abomination magic to pummel these two when the second guard placed a gloved hand on Boscha's cheek. She winced as there was a searing hot pain in her cheek. When they removed the glove, Boscha could see the symbol for the potion coven on the palm of the glove. She had also been freed from paralysis. She tried to regrow her arms, make new ones with abomination goop, and even tried using abomination magic, but nothing happened.

"Now that you're part of the potions coven and no longer able to express magic without brewing it into a flask, you're just a, what was it?" She gulped "A magicless loser? And without your arms, you can't even do the one type that you're limited to" Boscha's eyes and mouth were wide open in horror as she broke out into a cold sweat. "And if you can't do magic, what use are you?" The second guard hooked Boscha with their cane and threw her through the detention pit doors. A blood-curdling scream erupted from Boscha before the doors slammed shut.