A.n this is like eda's requiem raine will appear but nari from wizards tales of arcadia will be the main target.
Two weeks after luz healed from the fight with speed breaker.Eda and Camila were going over a checklist in the former's room. It read, "New coat for Luz", "Check itchy boy", "Pay water bill", "Clean Hooty (?)" and "Burn old dress".
"Luz needs a new coat. King needs to be checked for fleas. Am I missing anything?", Eda pondered before she then looked at her reflection.
"Oh, it's astonishing to see how much you've changed, Owl Lady. Frankly, I hadn't noticed until now.", Camila said, cradling Della as Eda took a photo of her with her apprentice and friends at Grom, looking at it.
"And you were already a mother before, so that's saying something.", raine added, cradling Della.
"Yeah. It's worth it.", Eda agreed before Camila looked over to see Luz,vee,kim,King,kratos,maria,Emily,Apollo and Chris outside.
"And three, and four, and five, and six, and seven, and eight, and nine, and ten!", Luz said as she finished doing sit-ups.
"And weh, and weh, and weh, and weh, and weh, and weh, and weh, and weh!", King said simultaneously as Eda and Camila opened the window and smiled as they looked down to see Luz and King doing pull-ups on the former's staff in midair.
"So, King. What's the first thing you're going to do when you meet your dad?", Chris asked.
"And ten thousand! Well, once we're done training, I'm gonna move out of that closet, that's for sure. Then, I'm going to ugly cry. Hard!", King responded.
"Have you told Mom and Eda about your decision to le-?", kim began before King shushed her with everyone hearing a noise before looking up to see the window closed, not knowing that Eda and Camila were crouching under the window frame.
"I- I'm not ready yet. I'm not sure how she'll react.", King responded before Eda sighed.
"Everyone's leaving, huh? Even King. I guess I'm no substitute for the real thing.", Eda sighed.
"I can understand how your feeling. Heck, I'm even in the same boat as you.", Camila responded.
"Even so, Edalyn, you were able to help them whenever you could. And not just in times of danger, either.", raine assured as Eda opened her trunk to place the photo in and spotted a lute with a raincloud and bolt carved into it as well as a guitar.
She put the photo in her hair and picked the lute up.
"My guitar... It's been ages since I played this...", Camila said.
"Welp, nothing like a good distraction.", Eda said before she and Camila both started playing a song as everything around them started to float.
"Has my magic returned?", Eda asked, not knowing that the gem on her chest glowed dark gray.
"I wouldn't count on it.", raine responded as Della cooed in amazement.
Just then, a shoe started to get covered in gray while Camila played guitar with Eda before the gray moved away just as Eda and Camila stopped playing and everything fell down.
"Oh, guess not. Stupid curse.", Eda groaned as she put the lute back in the trunk and returned to her list.
Unbeknownst to her, a plant started to turn black and corrode before it was quickly healed, much to Camila's puzzlement.
"That was weird.", Camila said to herself.
Meanwhile.
Luz,maria,kim,Emily,Apollo,maria and King were standing on the edge of a cliff, her staff in Luz's hand and Apollo's in his, they both fell and flew over the water, maneuvering past several rocks as Belos watched impressively, and then flew past the sun, which obscured them.
Meanwhile with Eda and Camila
They were dressed for the day and moved to the living room with the former's scroll showing the news as Della watched, especially Selena,Vee, while Chris was playing around with lucia.
"Children, come look at this!", Selena called.
"Huh? What is it, Mommy?", Della asked.
"See for yourself.", vee responded, pointing to the crystal ball.
Good thing Chris created drones to hack into nechros systems with him noticing eda said.
And we're back live at emperor's nechros castle! In light of Scooter Crane's retirement, today's ceremony will confirm Raine Whispers as the next head of the Bard Coven.", the announcer spoke as the banner of the 12 covens were moved away to show 12 coven heads, one of which included the new one for the Bard Coven, Raine Whispers, being inducted as Bard Coven Head as ramsey rosso the Healing Coven Head, Kikimora, Terra Snapdragon the Plant Coven Head, Mason the Construction Coven Head, Adrian Graye Vernworth the Illusion Coven Head,Odalia the Oracle Coven Head, Vitimir the Potion Coven Head, Darius the Abomination Coven Head, high evolutionary head of the alchemy,zetsu chakra coven head,frost head of the Kai coven and Eberwolf the Beast Keeping Coven Head arrived.
"Do I have to be on camera?", Raine asked.
"For Titan's sake, just say something.", Darius sighed before Rained pulled their hood down and faced the camera.
"Uh, I am honored to work with Emperor nechros in preparation for the day of uni-bee. Uh, I mean, uni-ly! I mean, uh- oh no, this is going all wrong. Get me outta here!", Raine exclaimed as they ran off.
"Just cut the feed.", Daruis sighed before Selena, Camila,eda and Chris was shocked seeing raine work while Vee,Chris,lucia and Della was shocked as well.
"How is my partner supposed to be Head Bard of shadow coven,they're supposed to the good coven even with stage fright?", Eda said mockingly.
"You took the words right out of my mouth, mom.", Chris grinned.
Just then, the door opened with Kim,maria,Luz,Emily, Apollo, King,kratos, and Apollo returning but Maria holding her backpack at arm's length while the latter was holding her stomach.
How was your camila said.
"Not great. King barfed into Maria's bag.", kim explained.
"I'm sorry big sis.", King apologized.
"Yeah? Well, sorry doesn't clean this backpack.", maria scolded, annoyed.
"Hey, Mom, got another backpack we can borrow? This one got a little thrown-up in.", kim requested.
"Closet.", Camila said before maria hurried off.
"So why are you all suddenly so interested in flying? Did you give up on returning to the human realm? I mean, I suppose you can stay here a little longer.", Eda puzzled.
"Oh, no, I'm still going home, but I keep running into some setbacks.", Luz responded before it then flashed back to Luz looking under a bed.
"Come on, little buddy. You got portal info that I need. You want a carrot? Does baby like carrots?", Luz asked as she pulled out a carrot, offering it to the echo mouse hiding underneath before it went to her lap to eat the offering.
"There we go. It's okay. See, you're safe here.", Luz assured as Bunsen and stringbean then eagerly played with the echo mouse with squeaks by tossing it up and down with its claws while she, herself, was laying down on the ground.
But out of nowhere, Hooty ate the mouse, catching Bunsen unawares as she squeaked.
"Fear not, maiden! Hooty, the guardian owl of Ga'Hoot, has protected you once more!", Hooty assured as Luz glared at him while Bunsen looked to Hooty's stomach.
"Ga'HOOOOT!", Hooty shouted as he tried to eat the echo mouse again before it went to the present.
"Bunsen was able to keep the mouse safe, but he needs to recover.", Luz stated as stringbean peeped out from Luz's head.
"Then, what were you all practicing your flying for?", Camila asked.
"Well, if you must know, this weekend is the Gland Prix!", King stated, showing Eda said paper.
"Hexside, Glandus, and St. Epiderm students race to win glory, honor, and-", Luz began before Grimedale interrupted.
"Fame! Winners also get an interview with the Boiling Isles news! Do you realize what this means?", Grimedale asked.
"That means we're going to enter the competition and get King, Grimedale, and Crimsondale on camera to send a message to their dad!", Lucia explained.
"Oh, that's... great.", Eda grinned.
"But, uh... there's something I'd like to talk to you about first. You see, I think it's time for me to le-", King began before Eda interrupted, fearing the worst.
"Leave... the talkin' for later.", Eda stated.
"Uh, Edalyn's right. If you want to win, there's no time for talk. You gotta go practice. Now.", Camila advised.
"Wanna head back out while your tummy's empty?", Luz asked.
"Okay!", King grinned.
"I'm warning you now. If you barf one more time when your stomach's full the next time you get on my staff, this will be the last time you ride on any staff.", Apollo warned intensely.
"Uh... Okay.", King said nervously.
"Let's go!", Luz said before laughing joyfully as she and King exited the house with Apollo,kim,Emily and Maria following them.
Then, Eda's smile soon changed into a frown and she unhappily sighed as Camila turned to see her unhappy, much to her worry and chagrin.
Meanwhile
the Coven Heads were gathered together.
"Attention, everyone. It is time to survey the progress of the collection of 13 energems. The energems I hold in my hand is but one of the fabled 13 that safeguards the multiverse, all powered by the energems. Of course, I found this energems i several years ago. Speaking of which, Neri,wanda maximoff, have you made any progress in retrieving the finding the other energems?", Belos said, holding out his own energem.
"No but wanda maximoff and dr.strange are searching the multiverse for them.",neri assured,
wanda maximoff and dr.strange who were both meditating they trying to search the multiverse for the energems,
We found one of the energems dr.strange it's in the city of a place called Insomnia dr.strange said.
much to the others surprise, Belos along with them.
"Excellent work, you two.", Belos grinned under his mask.
"Well, it wasn't exactly easy, my emperor.",Wanda responded.
Meanwhile at Nechros base.Did get every monster in rangers history nechros asked.
Yes now we can use the confinement card to bring back every monster the power rangers have either destroyed or captured king andrias said.
(A.n they the cyber portalfromteenagemutant ninja turtles back to the sewers)
The machine activates and two monster appear one is a humanoid planet creature with a purple face, a pair of red eyes, green hair, a plant-like unicorn's horn with a bit of red at the tip of it, a pair of green hands and she wears a purple suit that has green spots on it. In combat she wields a green plant-like sword.
The other one is (Giganis from power rangers S.p.d)
I am Giganis,"Giganis introduced himself.
And I am hydrax."hydrax introduced herself.
And we are here to survive you all masters hydrax and Giganis said in unison.
Excellent new go find an energem demona said.
Meanwhile At Bonesborough
Camila and eda were at Grimgrub's Pub.
"I just... don't wanna hear him say it, you know? I was finally getting used to having people in the house, then whoosh! Rug's ripped out from underneath me.", Eda complained.
"Sure. I get it. It's like every time you come in here, I think, 'maybe she'll pay her tab this time'.", a barkeeper responded.
"I'm more worried about what's going on. Whatever urged Mithril to go to Amphibia feels like a trap. I'm sure of it.", Camila worried as Eda merely drank the box of apple blood she had before both turned their eyes over to the scene being caused in the pub.
"Hey! Back off!", a wild witch exclaimed.
"Don't fret, citizens! We are helping this wild witch find her place in society!", a shadow coven guard assured.
"No! I don't want to join the shadow coven! Let me go!", a wild witch exclaimed.
"Throw it on my tab, Kevin.", Eda said before groaning.
"I'll pay for her tab.", Camila assured before she did so and left with Eda.
"Let her go!", Eda urged.
"Back off, Owl Lady.", the first Coven Guard exclaimed.
"Yeah, no coven wants a powerless witch.", the 2nd added before Eda clapped her hands and a sword made of light she then grabbed the 2nd gaurd by the head stabbed through his stomach.
"How's that for powerless?", Eda asked, making the crowd "ooh".
The 1st shadow Coven Guard then tried to cast a spell on Eda, who braced herself, before suddenly, music performed by a mysterious violinist witch with a mask and a group behind them started playing and canceled out the spell. Then, said mysterious group with instruments and masks played music around a statue in the town square and an enchantment caused by the music appeared, causing objects (and Tinella Nosa) to start floating around, much to the crowd's amazement. The enchantment disappeared as the music stopped playing and the mysterious violinist spoke.
"Look at Nechros' lackeys! Trying to, uh... Do I really have to say this?", the violinist asked.
"We all agreed on the script.", the Tambourine player reminded.
"Trying to... mute the music of our hearts?", the Violinist spoke a bit nervously before the other members groaned, clearly embarrassed as Eda and Camila began to suspect who the violinist is.
"And weaken magic, by forcing witches into the shadow coven against their will.", the Violinist continued.
"Could that be...?", Camila puzzled.
"Blasphemy!", the 3rd shadow Coven Guard shouted.
"Blasphem-you!", the violinist retorted.
"See, you're a natural!", the record player assured.
"That's right, Bonesborough. They take your magic. They restrict your knowledge. They say to do it in the name of unity, but what they really want is control. You know what we say to that, folks? Shove off!", the Violinist proclaimed as he and his comrades forced the guards into kneeling and even made them march in place.
"Stop! No, not the trash! Oh, not the trash!", the guards shouted as they were sent off marching, but not without making them march into trash cans, making them both groan.
"Who are you hewoes?", Tiny Nose asked.
"We are the Bards Against the Throne, aka...", the Violinist began before the guard interrupted.
"Surrounded!", the guard interrupted before putting on earmuffs as guards surrounded the group.
"Psst!", Eda whispered from a manhole cover.
"Come with us if you don't want to get captured!", Camila whispered with the bassoonist creating a smokescreen and the gaurd were wrapped in vines,allowing the c.a.t's to escape, much to the guard's annoyance as he tossed out his earmuffs.
The sewer led to a pipe outside the city as Eda pried one of the bars off.
"End of the line folks, word of advice. Next time you put on a performance like that, make sure you have an exit strategy.", Eda advised.
"Thank you. How can we ever repay you?", the Tambourine player asked.
"Well, you could let us help you.", Camila offered, making the members gasp.
"Hey, I may not have magic, but I am an agent of chaos.", Eda assured.
"Sorry, we're not accepting new members.", the violinist refused.
"Is that any way to treat an old friend, Raine Whispers?", Eda responded as she flicked off the Violinist's mask, indeed revealing Raine, who, at first, was shocked, but then looked back at Eda and Camila with an angry glare.
Later
"So, the Head Witch of the shadow Bard Coven likes pretending to be a rebel and my partner. Too bad they're not very good at it.", Eda commented before Raine blushed.
"Eda! You're embarrassing me in front of my crew.", Raine groaned, puzzling the trio behind them.
Then, Raine sighed.
"Hey it's all right, everyone. The Owl Lady is an old friend.", Raine assured before the remaining members lifted their masks.
"Nice to see you again.", the tambourine player spoke, revealed to be Katya.
"Are they going to join our group?", another musician named Derwin asked.
"She doesn't seem like a good fit to me.", Amber whispered as she looked away, skeptical, annoying Eda.
And then an Eagle wearing a bAts mask then a green glow came from it then it turns into nari.
Nari doesn't have have any bard magic but she's strong with nature she's now a member of the bats Katya said putting her shoulder on nari.
"Uh, okay. Anyway, Eda's the one that inspired me to make the group.", Raine responded.
"Huh?", Eda asked, shocked.
The bats raine said.
"It was a while ago.", Raine explained as Eda's surprised face then faded to her as a young adult, smiling as back then, she and Raine were in a meadow.
"Raine... I know why you're really here.", Young Eda said.
"I have no idea what you're talking about.", Young Raine responded.
"Uh-huh.", Young Eda retorted in disbelief as she burnt a bolt over a cloud on the lute she's holding.
"Who cares about a stupid performance? This is more fun.", Young Raine said before Raine started looking at Eda, love-struck.
"Whatever you say.", Young Eda said.
"See? You'd be a mess without me.", Raine said, adjusting the position of Eda's fingers on the lute.
Raine removed their hand and looked away flustered, missing the small smile Eda's making before Raine cleared their throat.
"All right. 'Raine's Rhapsody.' You know, you can't run from your fears forever, which is why you've gotta get the jump on them. Give 'em a whack right in the face.", Young Eda explained as she began playing the lute, the flowers in the meadow and her hair being enchanted by the magic.
Young Raine looked at Eda confused as their present self narrated.
"I thought you were just joking around. I only learned what it meant when I started teaching for the Bard Coven. And I heard about emperor nechros prioritized recruitment through force. And anyone who refused to fall in line disappeared. Well, I wasn't going to stand for that! So I took matters into my own hands.", Raine explained as they saw said documents, which made them worry before they got angry and clenched their left and right fists while calming down slightly and putting their fingers on their forehead, frustrated.
"I carefully moved up the ranks, and I found people who wanted to change things, like me. And that's when we formed the Bards Against the Throne, aka...", Raine began.
"The BATs!", the BATs spoke before they all hissed, making Camila giggle a bit.
"Good one, Raine.", Camila grinned before they turned to Eda and extended their hand to her.
"Hey. If you've got nothing to lose, we could use the help.", Raine offered.
Blushing, Eda happily took Raine's hand as Camila followed.
I'm so glad I married you eda said:
Meanwhile, back at the Owl House,
Belos, who held lucia, and Chris, who cradled Della,outside Luz,kim,Emily,Apollo,maria,and King did push-ups on Luz's and kim's staffs, although King got Hooty doing the work for him. Luz collapsed and then stood up.
"All right, everyone, the Gland Prix is the day after tomorrow.", rj said.
"Are you ready?", vee asked.
"I, uh, got the jitters.", king replied then squealed while being lifted off luz's staff.
"And we still haven't been able to talk to Eda.", kratos whispered.
"Don't worry. She's just been busy this week.", Emily replied.
"Well, yes. You know how she is.", Chris agreed.
"You've always got Uncle Hooty's shoulder to lean on!", Hooty spoke up as he went toward King.
"You don't have any shoulders!", King exclaimed while running away.
"Lean on me!", Hooty shouted as stringbean giggled to herself from the sight before Luz and her siblings, as well as Belos, sees Eda,raine and Camila heading out and approached them.
"Eda, King's still waiting to talk to you.", Luz responded.
"Uh, maybe later.", Eda responded.
"Okay. Well, maybe at the Gland Prix?", Luz asked.
"We'll be there. I promise!", Eda assured as she left with King running in the background.
"Stay away from me!", King shouted.
"Let me be your emotional support!", Hooty shouted as he followed King behind the house.
Meanwhile
Camila sighed in worry before turning to Luz.
"Oh. Actually, there is something I need you to do before I go, Luz.", Camila started.
"What is it?", Luz asked.
Then, Camila went back inside and, after a few moments, came back out, holding an eevee .
"While I'm gone with Eda and raine, I need you to keep an eye on eevee. She's been a very dear friend. And it'd hurt bad if anything happened to her.", Camila requested.
Luz held eevee fondly and grinned sweetly to the frog before turning back to Camila.
"Don't worry, Mamma. I'll keep an eye on her.", Luz assured.
"Pinky swear?", Camila asked, holding out her pinky.
"Pinky swear.", Luz assured, holding out her own.
Then, the two Nocedas clasped pinkies with each other for a moment.
"Good. See you soon, Luz.", Camila waved before following Eda.
Later, at the BATs' base.
which appeared to be an ancient theater of sorts, Eda rolled out a map.
"Well, there you have it. Homemade maps of every nook and cranny in the city.", Eda stated.
"So, what's the problem here?", Camila asked.
"Okay. Here's the situation. Emperor Belos wants every wild witch in a coven before the Day of Unity.", Raine explained.
"He's trying to steal as much magic as possible. We don't know why.", Derwin added.
"Right now, we're just focused on helping those he's captured. And the next raids take place here, here and here.", Raine explained as they pointed at 3 different locations on the map that have a circle with an X inside them.
"At the same time? What do we do?", Katya asked.
"Don't worry, kids. Mama's got a plan.", Eda assured.
"You're not our mom!", Amber retorted.
"It was a figure of speech. Anywho, moving on?", Camila asked.
Then, it showed Hexan Road as 2 shadow Coven Scouts and 1 shadow Guard Captain are arresting and escorting cloaked witches into a gold and white vehicle with the sigil of the shadow Coven on it, not knowing that Amber was hiding in a corner with her flute in one hand as one of the Coven Scouts closed the vehicle's back door.
"As the first team is rounding up witches on Hexan Road, Amber will sneak in and take 'em out.", Eda strategized.
"Ugh. Fine.", Amber sighed before playing enchanting music with her flute in the corner and putting all 3 shadow Coven members to sleep.
Then, it showed Derwin and Katya in Skinford Avenue as they jumped onto a pillar and played their respective instruments, a bassoon and a tambourine, to distract the second team of scouts. As they both jumped off of the pillar, two scouts began chasing them.
"Before anyone calls for help, Derwin and Katya will distract the second team by Skinford Avenue.", Eda added.
"That we can do.", Derwin responded.
"And... the captain?", Amber pondered as it showed the Guard Captain of the second team of scouts looking around before Raine played one of the strings on their violin and neri used her magic to summon veins, which trapped the shadow captain in veins and cowl.
"That's where Raine comes in.", Camila explained.
"As long as I don't have to make any more speeches.", Raine responded before then stepping forward and taking off their mask, smiling.
"Luckily, you won't need to.", Camila assured before she snuck up behind the two scouts and bonked them in the heads, knocking them unconscious while hooded before she untied the rope on the wild witch.
"It's okay. You're safe now. Come with us if you want to live.", Camila whispered, even giving a wink and patting the witch on the head before taking off with Eda.
"Bless you, my Empress.", the Wild Witch whispered in gratitude before leaving with some others.
Raine, surprised as they were, proceeded to look in Eda's direction and then give her a thumbs up as a signal.
"And if everything goes well, Camila and I'll be guiding the escapees outside Bonesborough. Belos has less reach outside the cities.", Eda explained as she opened the back of the van to let the cloaked witches out as they thanked their empress for the pardon gratefully.
Then, at the sewer pipe outside of the city, Derwin and Katya were leading the witches out of the city through the large sewer pipe before it then showed Camila, Raine, and Eda on a balcony, the latter two sitting next to each other before they both looked at each other and looked away with Eda blushing.
While the group was walking back to their base, Amber stepped in a puddle of water. By the time the BATs returned, it was already morning. Derwin has fallen asleep, so Katya was carrying him.
"I can't believe you're actually the Empress, Ms. Noceda.", Katya said in surprise.
'Surprising, isn't it?", Camila responded.
"I can't believe it's already morning.", Eda groaned.
"I'm not tired yet.", Amber responded.
"Amber, you've gotta calm down.", Katya responded before everyone chuckled.
Then, the group walked back into their base.
"We did it! Eda, you're amazing!", Amber grinned.
"We actually helped people this time.", Katya added before Raine laid down on their pillow on the floor sighed.
Just then, a figure entered the base as well.
"Rainestorm.", the figure spoke, surprising Raine.
"Master crane...!", Raine gasped.
"Haven't heard that in a day.", Scooter chuckled.
"Scooter Crane? But you retired.", Camila said, surprised.
"Oh, I did retire. All so I could make sure this is safe. It's extremely important that it's kept away from the wrong hands.", Scooter said, revealing the graphite energem, surprising Camila and Raine alike.
"Okay, I'll bite. What is that?", Eda asked.
"That's the legendary graphite energem, Eda. And it's the graphite Gem.", Raine responded.
"Where did you get that?", Camila asked.
"I brought it with me on my way out. And you must be their friends.", Scooter responded, looking to Eda,raine and Camila.
"Uh..., hello.", Eda waved.
"And is that Empress Camila?", Scooter asked.
"In the flesh.", Camila responded.
"So, that's why it was gone. You brought it with you.", Raine responded.
"And for good reason. There's a lot more to the history of the Coven Gems than you know now, Rainestorm.", Scooter explained before it showed dark clouds full of lightning and thunder.
"In the beginning, there was darkness and chaos. But out of this, the energem began to glow...,And that's how the Boiling Isles were born. The morphing masters made 12 energem, harnessing the power of multiverse. And it would've been very uncool if they hadn't. For the energem was needed to battle the evil orcs commanded by the overlord, who wanted to return the Boiling Isles to nothingness and conquer the multiverse with darkness,fear and despair. The energems have kept the darkness at bay and the Multiverse in balance.", Scooter explained,then a graphite energem it was pitch black energem in the center, upon which a dark shadow looms over it before showing overlord with a dark red glow on his eyes on his helmet with several orcs down below with said shadows covering the orcs up until the 12 coven gems glowed and spun again, causing the orcs to widen their eyes in shock before the light overcame them, showing the 12 energem,infinity stones and dark energem, which is at the center of the multiverse.
"Dang. So, the energems are extremely important, huh?", Eda asked.
"You have no idea...", Camila sighed in response.
Later.
Eda and Camila spoke with Scooter.
"Well, if it isn't any trouble, maybe I could take that lovely graphite energem off your hands and...", Eda began before Scooter stopped her.
"No. For the untrained, let alone the unworthy, it could blow up your bile sac.", Scooter warned, making everyone inhale sharply with a wince.
"No disrespect, but I'm cursed, remember? It's not like I can do much magic anymore anyway.", Eda responded.
"Perhaps. But we can't take that risk. Yet.", Scooter responded.
"'Yet'?", Camila puzzled.
"To be truly deemed worthy, you must take on the Trial of the Bard Coven and pass it. And don't worry. You won't be branded.", Scooter responded, making Eda beam.
"Well, in that case, bring on the trials. I'm ready for 'em.", Eda smirked.
"Hmm... Such daring spirit. I can respect that. We'll begin one everyone has had a chance to rest up. Until then, take all the time you need.", Scooter said as he left to another room.
"Are you sure you can do this, Eda?", Camila asked.
"Of course I'm sure, Camila. If it means stopping Nechros. Speaking of which, Raine, you've gotten so strong. It's incredible. But how'd you become Head Bard with your stage fright?", Eda asked with a bit of a chuckle.
"I'm just that good. What about you? Do you still know any Bard spells?", Raine asked.
"Well, you remember the curse. It messes with my magic.", Eda responded as she gestured with her hands and looked away.
Then, Raine summoned a lute for Eda. She caught the lute and looked at Raine, shocked.
"But how did you...?", Camila began.
"How'd you become the Owl Lady with your stage fright?", Raine asked playfully to Eda, who looked away with an embarrassing blush.
"All right. You asked for this.", Eda sighed before she started playing enchanting music and as she continued, not knowing that Scooter was returning to the room, every object began to rot, turn black, and corrode, causing Raine to look at her and the objects floating around her, prompting her to stop playing.
Then, Raine looked at their earring, which nearly corroded, as Eda chuckled and snorted.
"Ha! 'Raine's Rhapsody'. More like 'Eda's Requiem', am I right?", Eda asked.
"On second thought, it's probably best that you don't do the trials. No telling what would happen with your curse in the mix.", Scooter stated.
"Yeah.. You're right... I-I'll leave the playing to the professionals. Call if you need me.", Eda said as she left the base with Camila, worried, following her.
"Bye, Mama Eda!", Amber waved before Raine and Scooter looked down at one of the affected maps.
"Her curse's effect on magic is what the Ancient Masters call, 'not good'.", Scooter commented.
"Maybe we could use this to our advantage, and stop Nechros with it.", Raine guessed before Scooter placed his fingers on his chin.
Later at hexside
at the starting line to the Gland Prix, the competing students were getting ready as the crowd chattered. Principal Bump even talked with the fellow principals of Glandus High and St. Epiderm High as Belos,rj,raine and the others joined him for a moment in the background before Eda and Camila (who held Della and lucia) walked in the vicinity, looking for Luz,Apollo,kim,Emily,maria, vee,kratos and King.
"Eda! Mama! I'm so glad you made it!", Luz said, hugging the two.
"Hola, Luz! How's eevee doing?", Camila asked.
"Well, as about as well as can be expected.", Luz grinned, holding eevee out for Camila to see and handing the fox Pokémon to her.
"I, uh, would really like to tell you something before the race starts.", King said.
"Well, if it's so important, we can talk about it after the race... when you win, okay?", Eda asked.
"Uh, yeah, yeah. Okay.", King agreed before Perry Porter stepped up on the podium.
"Welcome, everyone, to the Gland Prix!", Perry announced as Gus conjured the event name on the crystal ball they're surrounding.
"Contestants will fly down the right arm to the Cubital Valley. They use speed, cunning, and magic, to race to the checkpoint and back to the finish line! Winners get their names etched on the Cup of Ephemeral Glory!", Belos announced as it showed the map of the right arm before going to said valley and then returning to the right arm as Perry even held out said trophy.
"All victory is fleeting.", the Cup of Ephemeral Glory groaned.
"And, an on-camera interview, seen by everyone watching across the Isles!", Perry said as Luz happily grinned to Kim,Apollo,maria as Emily shook King.
"On your marks, get set-", Belos began before the Cup screamed and the racers all took off.
"Go, baby, go! Which one is yours? This is so exhilarating!", an audience member said to Eda.
Just then, both Eda and raine got a call from someone.
"Nari?", Eda asked.
"We got a tip about another raid. I know you're busy both, but-", nari began.
"No, it's fine. We're on my way.", Eda and raine assured before leaving as Belos and Camila noticed.
"Where is they going...? Camila. I need you to check on Eda and raine.", Belos said as he turned to her.
"Right.", Camila nodded before she turned to eevee.
"Sorry I have to leave you again so soon, eevee. I know I just got back, but...", Camila apologized.
"No, it's okay, Camila. Luz and kim are both wonderful people to be around.", eevee thought.
"I know.", Camila agreed with a warm grin.
"Honey, could you keep an eye on Leif until I come back?", Camila responded.
"Of course, Camila. For you, anything.", Belos assured, earning her nod.
Then, she turned to rj.
"Rachel, could you keep an eye on lucia for the time being?", Camila asked as she went to rj.
"Of course, but why?", rj asked.
"Because I have a feeling Eda needs help.", Camila responded before she followed after Eda and raine,
Soon, the group met near a broken bridge in the forest.
"This should be the spot.", Raine said as they summoned their violin but before playing the violin, which let out a wind, which only blew past the trees from all around.
"Something isn't right.", Raine said.
Just then, some laughter was heard from nearby before everyone saw two monsters on the other side of the bridge as they got closer, worrying Camila as she gasped.
"Uh..., can we help you guys?", Eda asked.
"Sure. You can help us... By giving us that energem.", the first monster said, making Eda gasp a bit before bearing an angry look.
hydrax a alien And Giganis
"Yeah? Well, we don't gotta do jack, Amigo.", Eda refused.
"This energem doesn't belong to you.", Raine added.
"We didn't even catch your names.", Katya added.
"They want to know who we are.",hydrax said, turning to Giganis.
"Let's show them. On the downbeat.", the second responded before playing his drum, which caused Abomination goop to rise up with Katya, Amber, and Derwin suddenly waist deep in abomination goop, prompting Eda, Camila,nari and Raine to run off and hide as someone appeared with the two alien.
"That feels better. Looks like we missed a few.", Darius said.
"That's Head Witches Eberwolf and Darius.", Camila said as she, Eda,nari and Raine peeped.
"So that means?", Eda asked.
"We fell for their trap.", Raine replied.
However, Darius heard a ringing from nearby as well as cawing before noticing a crowphone arriving with Darius answering.
"Yes?", Darius asked before then becoming a bit surprised.
"Scooter Crane? How are you?", Darius asked with a bit of a grin before then giving a surprised look.
"I'm sorry, they're after what? Who's after it?", Darius puzzled before turning to the two aliens, who chuckled.
"I see. I'll be sure to watch my back around those two...", Darius assured.
Meanwhile
Back at the race, Luz and kim as well as maria and King, having used an invisibility spell, appeared in front of a St. Epiderm student, scaring him and causing him to fall behind.
"Haha! Saint Epiderm? More like Stank Epiderm!", King said before nearly falling off the staff and securing himself.
He then noticed how fast Luz is approaching the goalpost marking the halfway point.
"Might wanna slow down for that turn,kim. We're gonna crash!", King shouted.
"No, we're not.", kim assured before, instead of slowing down, flying through the goalpost and using a plant spell in order to create vines and use them to sticking a plant glyph on it to slingshot them back around.
The crowd cheered, as does Principal Bump, who shot a smug look to the other principals.
Back at the forest
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the two Orches-trolls were looking around while Darius noticed how close to the ground his cape is.
"They really should hand over that graphite energem.", the first twin said.
"They must want us to burn them to a crisp.", the second added.
"We don't have it.", Katya retorted.
"This place is disgusting. Figure out which one's the turncloak so we can leave.", Darius ordered before Eberwolf sniffed the BATs and shook his head.
"Just my luck.", Darius sighed before he teleported the captured BATs into the conformatorium.
"No. No! Not again!", Katya exclaimed.
"I was scheduled for some me time today, so hand yourself over before things get nasty. I know they can hear me. I know you can hear me! Eber, help me out here.", Darius said before Eberwolf drew a spell circle on his forehead.
When it vanished, he used eye beams and found footprints leading into the forest.
"I'm not going in there.", Darius refused before Eberwolf threw dirt, which he dodged.
"Agh! What do you think you're doing?", Darius asked before Eberwolf climbed all over him and headed into the forest.
"You'll regret that, mutt.", Darius sighed before following Eberwolf into the forest as the two orches-trolls followed them.
Up on a tree branch, Eda and Raine appear, having used an invisibility glyph with Raine carrying Eda bridal style, especially with Eda no longer wearing her boots.
"I am glad I remembered how to do that.", Eda said before the glyph disintegrated.
"How lucky for us.", Camila added before she and the others descended into mud.
"Ooh, gross.", Eda winced.
"Eda, Nechros' plans are a lot more dangerous than I let on. He's preparing some big spell for the day of unity, but he can't do it without every head witch. If we can take out Darius and Eberwolf...", Raine began.
"Say no more, Rainestorm. What's the plan?", Eda asked before Raine summoned the lute.
"You say your curse messes with magic. I think I can make that work in our favor.", Raine grinned.
"Raine, no! It could destroy you!", nari said in worry.
"But what other way is there?", Raine asked.
"Even if we do survive, how can we keep the energem away from them?", Scooter asked.
"I might have an idea.", Camila said as she picked up a rock before crushing it.
Meanwhile,
Darius and Eberwolf are shown to be following Eda's boots, which were enchanted to distract them by leaving shoeprints in the mud.
"Looks like our traitor is a clever little songbird.", Darius said.
"Oh, really? Now that we know where the songbird is...", hydrax l began as she water from her hands
"We don't have any reason to go through with this charade anymore.", the gigantic added while getting out his before the two then used their drums to let loose magical notes to attack, although Darius, who turned and saw what they were doing, barely managed to dodge, at least without dirtying his cloak.
"You know, I suspected you would do something like this.", Darius responded.
"Well, aren't you the clever one.", Giganis said.
"They must realize it's hopeless. The energem will belong to us, Giganis! And with them, we will summon ultimate armor from the forge.", hydrax stated.
"And then, the Dark Lord will return to power. And there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth!", Giganis added before both spoke in unison.
"Hail overlord!", the two shouted before they kicked mud all over him and chuckled.
Angered, he used spikes of abomination goo to hit Giganis.
"All right, no more playing around!", Darius shouted before he turned himself into abomination goo and formed a sword from the goo, as well.
In the meantime, Eberwolf grew claws and talons and then summoned a rat-worm mount.
"Shall we start with them?", hydrax asked.
"Sounds good to me.", Giganis added.
Meanwhile.
Eda, Camila,nari, and Raine were hiding behind a tree. Eda turned around, notices how close she is to Raine and pulled back, blushing. Then, Raine summoned their instruments and they started playing Raine's Rhapsody, which Darius, Eberwolf, and two aliens overheard nearby.
"There you are.", Darius said before noticing too late that the ground was rotting and getting caught in it. At the same time, Eberwolf and his steed, as well as Giganis and hydrax were also caught in it, much to the First alien chagrin as he exclaimed angrily.
"It's working. Keep playing.", Eda grinned before Camila then used her guitar to make a barrier to shield against the curse, although it, too was starting to rot away; thankfully, it was half as fast as everything else.
"Look. We may not make it out ourselves.", Raine worried.
"But it'll stop Nechros, right?", Eda asked before Raine nodded.
"Then we play on.", Eda said as she turned around, not knowing that her photo of her, King, Camila,vee,raine,Chris,maria,Apollo,kim,Emily and Luz flew out of her hair with nari seeing it.
"Eda,raine do two you have kids?!", nari asked in surprise before Eda and raine stopped playing, letting out an offbeat key on her mandolin and violin in shock.
"Uh, they're two of them are and the others not mine-mine. Well, it doesn't matter. They all have real families to return to.", Eda said, her voice breaking, as she continued playing.
After a moment, nari used a vine to crush Eda's instrument and she collapsed on the ground as the withering started to reverse before Camila lowered the barrier.
"I don't know what you're running from, but a great witch once told me... something about punching fears in the face? What I'm trying to say is don't give up so easily. They probably need you more than you realize. Raine said and We can find another way to stop Nechros together.", nari assured as she handed Eda back the photo and lent her hand to eda and raine taking it.
Also, your curse is limited to this realm plane.", nari responded.
"Oh. Well, you could've just said that.", Eda said,
Suddenly, they were suddenly caught in dark blue electricity and yelled in surprise, meaning only one thing: Giganis and hydrax have found them.
"Found you, songbird.", hydrax said before she started pulling them back with Eda grabbing a tree branch, but saw Camila about to let go of her hands.
"Camila, don't.", Eda said tearfully.
"Go. You know they can't stand an audience.", Camila responded.
"But what about your kids?", nari asked worriedly.
"If they're anything like me and raine..., they'll be all right. They're tough. Tell them I don't know how long I'll be gone... but I will come back.", assured Camila before she let go and freed herself, along with Scooter and landing before their fellow coven heads.
"Hello, Darius. Eber.", Camila said.
"Empress Camila.", Darius said in slight surprise.
"So, you're the songbird that was causing the trouble.", Giganis said.
"Servants of Darkness, the 13 energems will never be yours!", nari discouraged.
"Wrong, old one. We already have 2 .", hydrax discouraged.
"What?", Camila asked in worry.
"The other remaining 11 are all we need.", Giganis added.
"Cotton, go check on the gems. Now!", Camila urged.
"Eevee!", eevee nodded before vanishing in a speed of light.
"Eevee?, eevee spoke as she then vanished
They all had 1 thing in common: the energem were still here. From there, eevee reappeared near Camila.
"Eevee. Are the graphite energems still here?", Camila asked.
"Eevee.", eevee nodded.
"Well, that's a relief.", Camila sighed.
"You'll regret what you did to my cloak!", Darius exclaimed before Eberwolf muttered something.
"And your treachery, whatever.", Darius sighed before he and Eberwolf started fighting the two orgs.
"Cotton, you go back to Luz and the others. They may need you.", Camila urged.
"Eevee?", Cotton squeaked in worry.
"Don't worry. I'll be fine.", Camila assured with a wink.
Eevee then looked around for a moment, hestitantly, especially toward Eberwolf and Darius before turning back to Camila.
"Eevee.", eevee squeaked sadly before disappearing and reappearing near Eda and Raine.
"Mind if I jam with you?", Camila asked with a brave smirk.
"Just do what you do, baby.", Scooter responded before Camila went up with nari playing a flute to help her rise up higher before descending downwards with Camila playing her guitar with a battle cry toward Giganis and hydrax while Eda and Raine watched from behind a tree.
She held in her tears before wiping them.
"I know this isn't easy. But we have to go, Eda. Now.", Raine urged.
"You'd better come back, Camila. I swear to Titan, you'd better!", Eda said a bit sadly before running back to the starting line with nari and Raine just as they then saw Maria and King in the race before pulling herself together.
"Maria clawthorn of Hexside and Ukula of Glandus are barreling towards the finish line!", Perry said as the two riders were neck-and-neck before Maria and King crossed the finish line.
"And there you have it! Maria over Ukula!", Perry announced as Eda clapped.
"For fifth place.", Perry added before Eda stopped clapping, confused.
"And now, let's give a hearty applause to our actual winner!", Perry announced before the top three stepped up to the podium, Luz and kim having won as Belos, with eevee on his shoulder, grinned to them before maria, covered in leaves and branches, walked up to Eda and Raine as rj went to them, holding lucia and Della, who cooed.
"Hey, mom.", maria said.
"You and your sibs were flying like the dang wind. What happened?", Eda asked.
"Well, we were winning for a while, too, but-", maria glared toward King while replying to Eda.
Then, it went to a flashback of Maria and King flying, the latter about to vomit again.
"Maria?", King said in worry.
"Little brother, we are not going through this again! Try to hold it in!", maria urged.
"I can't!", King exclaimed.
"King! Don't you dare...!", maria shouted before it cut to black as King vomited again before it went back to the present with eevee giggling.
"And then we crashed. Which means no more staff rides for you, mister. It's for your own good, come to think of it.", maria added.
"Wait. Where's Mom?", Luz asked.
"Come to think of it, I haven't seen her much since the Gland Prix started.", Chris puzzled before Raine turned to Eda and nodded, who sighed.
"Well...", Eda began, about to explain before remembering what Camila told her and sighing.
"She'll be back.", Eda assured.
"Uh, okay?", Luz puzzled before kim interjected.
"Well, on the bright side, we still get to do our interview. And wherever she is, Mom's bound to see King's message, too.", vee assured, making Eda beam a bit in hope.
"You know what? Let's do this.", Eda grinned before, a moment later, Luz and kim were now on camera with Perry.
"And there we are with the winner. Tell me. What gave you the desire to enter the Gland Prix?", Perry asked.
"Well, we wanted to help King get his message to his father across, wherever he is.", Luz said.
"Hiss?", stringbean spoke, leaning her head to where she can be seen on-camera.
"Speaking of which, King? Whenever you're ready.", Apollo added as she picked him up before King noticed the camera.
"Oh, yeah.", King said before he cleared his throat.
"Hi, Dad. If you're out there watching this, I uh, want to introduce myself. I like cheesy foods and conquering kingdoms. Though I haven't conquered any of my own yet. But maybe you have, and we can compare notes. I'd love to meet you. We could do parent kid stuff, toss a ball, burn some cookies, catch me going on weird websites or something. Also, I found a symbol in the tower I hatched in. Maybe you can teach me to read it. I live with my favorite humans, a little witchlet, and a couple of cranky old witches.", King began as, while he was talking, Willow was shown watching the video in her room, with Clover perched on her head as well as Amity, Emira, Edric, Emilia, and Erebor watching at their manor and even with Selena,Emily,frosta and Ash, back at The Owl House before, somewhere else, an unnamed demon was also shown to be watching and, upon hearing about the symbol, looking off into the distance.
"Hey!", Eda exclaimed.
"Do you mind?", raine added.
"But cranky or not, they're the ones who raised me, which is why I am le... gally changing my name permanently to King Clawthorne! Surprise, Eda and raine! Now we're connected for life, and there's nothing you can do about it!", King laughed, pulling out a stack of papers.
"Surprise!", rj grinned.
"Is that what you wanted to tell me this whole time?", Eda asked shakily before she sniffed and grabbed the papers.
"We wanted to surprise you.", rj grinned before Luz pulled out a pen.
"And, if you sign here, it be official.", Luz assured with Eda whimpering as she started to cry.
"Eda, are you okay?", luz asked.
"Eevee?", eevee added, tilting her head to the right in puzzlement.
Eventually, Eda snorted and burst out sobbing in joy as did Amiyah with tears of joy with Belos and rj both giving a warm smile at the scene.
"Welcome to the family, you two!", Apollo sobbed joyfully to King and kratos.
Just then, the 2 babies saw how happy they were, grinned and cooed as they tried to speak up.
"Famiwy.", the Della and lucia spoke, surprising Luz and the others as they gasped.
"Did you hear that?!", Luz asked in surprise.
"They just said their first word... Aw, THEY SAID THEIR FIRST WORD!", Eda sobbed joyfully with lucia and della crying in joy as well.
Meanwhile, in the forest.
Camila and nari, the former now injured, are trapped in abomination goo and whimpering in joy as Eberwolf watched the stream.
"Eda,everyone..., if you keep doing that..., I'm gonna cry too!", Luz shouted, starting to cry until both she and Eda burst out crying.
"¡Pero mira que preciosos mis bebés! ¡Ven, ven!", Camila spoke in spanish with joyful tears for which the translation is, "Oh, look at all of mama's precious babies. Come here, come here.
"Would you shut that off? We're supposed to be hunting and tormenting Giganis and hydrax, not me.", Darius said before Eberwolf set the volume to maximum as lucia and Della started to cry, too.
"Why are you like this?", Darius asked exasperatedly.
Speaking of Giganis and hydrax, they were speaking with a black mist of sorts in a different part of the forest.
"The Empress is in luck. She's got a front row seat. The 13 energems, representing 13 bright hues, were created to give birth to multiverse and the ultimate armor.", Giganis stated, presenting the supposed graphite energem to the black mist.
"But we will alter their magic and use them to summon the ultimate armor .", hydrax.
"Excellent work... However, do you not require actual energems for this to work?", demona asked.
"Actual... energem? You don't mean that...!", Giganis puzzled.
"The energem is a fake...!", hydrax added before they checked the other energems, there's no energy in it at all.
What's worse for them is, they checked the other 8 and saw no symbol on each gem at all.
"These gems are all fakes!", Giganis realized in horror.
"NO!", hydrax exclaimed in disbelief before turning to see nari escaping, frustrating them.
"Hold. This doesn't matter. We WILL secure all 13 of energems soon enough.", wrath assured.
Meanwhile
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as Camila was making her escape, a black, hand-shaped mist suddenly grabbed her envy and Lex luthcore was standing beside it.
"Leaving so soon? But we've only just arrived." Envy said with Darius and Eberwolf walked up to them.
"Commander Lex luthcore, I can assure you that we have everything under control, so you do not need to worry as we will catch the traitor Raine for their treachery." Darius assured.
"Oh, there is no need to worry about the traitor. Let them believe that their victories mean something. After all, in trying to catch them, you have given us a far more important prize. Now, begone, you two. I'll deal with her accordingly soon enough.", envy said to Darius, who never noticed Zog manifesting the black mist currently holding Camila with a smirk.
"As you wish.", Darius responded before he and Eberwolf left as Lex luthcore turned to Camila.
"I must say I was surprised to learn that you were involved in the recent raids.", Lex luthcore said to Camila who only scoffed at his remark.
"I guess this means you're going to petrify me, right? After all, you can't have my husband find out what you did.", Camila sneered with anger and hatred at the core.
"Oh, you must not have heard me. I said we caught a far better prize.", Lex luthcore said, taking out a case containing the dark Energem before Lex luthcore said using his robot tentacles holding the dark energem making it touch camila head then then dark pitch black lines glowing all over Camila body, making her gasp in pain then she began to fell drowsy with a groan.
"After all, now that we have you, The Day of Unity is that much closer to becoming a reality. But for now, Sweet Dreams.", Lex luthcore said as Camila began to drift off, her vision getting hazy before it faded to black and pitch black glow covered her in a pitch black cocoon then it immediately began to crack open.
