It was a month after the defeat of Emperor Belos at the hands of Luz Noceda, the human that did the things that no one would have thought a human would do. Create her own brand of magic, befriending almost everyone, falling in love with a witch and fighting Belos and living to tell the tale.
But due to a childlike god named The Collector, the Isles were still in complete disarray and needed some rebuilding because of it. The Collector went up to the stars to find out who they were after Belos was defeated and gave Luz a door to the Human Realm and the Demon Realm to make up for the one that was destroyed so she could travel in-between realms.
Luz for the most part had to go back to human realm school and got to see her friends during the weekends or school vacation.
These friends were Amity Blight, Luz's former enemy, former best friend and now girlfriend. She used to be a bully until Luz came into her life and treated her with so much kindness that she ended up falling in love with her and vice versa and they have been together ever since.
Hunter, the nephew of Emperor Belos and now Luz's brother-like friend. Like with Amity, he used to be Lou's enemy, but like with Amity, it all changed. They weren't officially friends until they were stranded in the Human Realm together. He is still getting used to this new life after the death of his uncle.
Willow Park was Luz's forest friend she made on the Isles. Heck, she was everyone's first friend. After Luz came into her life she grew from the quiet timed girl whom failed at everything to a strong and confident witch.
Augustus Porter, Gus for short, a young witch who had a fascination with Human Realm culture and strives to learn so much that he becomes the ambassador for Human and Demon Realm relations. But he still had so much to learn about the Human Realm from Luz. Including what is going to happen in the next couple of weeks.
It was December 5th, and it was snowing in the town of Bonesborough, which was still under construction from . Amity, Willow, Gus and Hunter were walking through the town dressed in their perfect winter gear passing witches whom were enjoying the snow.
Witchlets were throwing snowballs at each other, people were making snow demons in the snow and witches were buying some hot cocoa.
"So, how goes the apprenticeship?" Gus asked Hunter, regarding his Palisman carving apprenticeship with Dell and Gwendolyn Clawthorne. "Carved any new Palisman?"
"I'm still learning to carve." Hunter replied. "It's hard work, but I think I'm getting the hang of it." He showed his hands revealing to be covered in a ton of bandaged cuts and unbandaged cuts causing everyone to cringe.
"Well, regardless of your injuries, I think Flapjack will be proud of you." Willow said.
Hunter smiled remembering his late best friend. "He will be."
"Hey look, they repaired the bar." Amity remarked.
"Oh yeah, they did." Gus said as he and his friends stared at the recently repaired establishment.
"Great, Papa says that it should take a few more years till the Isles are repaired." Willow said. "I mean, I didn't think Belos and The Collector caused this much damage but dang."
"I'm still finding new animals in my wall." Gus shuddered. "Those rats did not look happy to be forced out." Suddenly, a can hit Gus on the back of his head. He looked behind him and saw a family of rats narrowing their eyes at him.
One of the rats, supposedly the family matriarch or patriarch gave Gus a slitting throat gesture before running away with their family.
"Ooooh, that doesn't look good." Willow remarked.
"How's Luz doing?" Hunter asked Amity. "You're not around her today."
"She's trying to help Lilith with unlocking her Harpy form." Amity replied. "She's been struggling with it."
"And how is she doing?" Gus' question was answered when they heard the sound of a monstrous roar. And flying overhead was none other than Lilith in her Raven beast form and with a screaming Hooty on her back.
"HOOOOOOOOOOT!" Hooty cried.
The teens watched with shocked expressions just as Eda, in her Harpy form flew over them. "Out of the way, kids!"
Then after Eda, came King trying to catch up. He stopped in-between Amity and Willow, catching his breath. "Eda! Wait up! My little legs can't keep up with your long ones!"
King continued running after Lilith before Luz flew past flying on Stringbean, while holding an elixir in her hand. "Lilith! Calm down!"
The kids gave each other some looks wondering what their next course of action should be. "What do you think?" Willow asked.
"We should help." Amity, Willow and Gus summoned their Palismen and jumped on.
"Hunter, hop on!" Willow said.
Hunter's cheeks turned red at Willow's request and jumped on behind her. He held on to her waist so he wouldn't fall off. This act made his face turn tomato red just as she launched off with everyone else.
Somewhere downtown, Lilith was running down the street crashing into carts and streetlights, crashing into them.
Eda and Luz weren't far from her. "We gotta stop her before she eats someone." Eda said.
Tinella Nosa was just walking minding her own business until Lilith came out of nowhere and devoured her. "AAAAHHHH! My owacle said this would happen!"
Eda and Luz gave each other stunned expressions. "Okay, before she eats someone else."
They saw Lilith jump on to a building and then another and then another, causing stuff like stones and roof tiles to fall off.
Somewhere, Gilbert Park had just finished rebuilding an inn's roof and wiped some sweat from his brow. "Woo, good as new. Harvey owes me a cooked dinner."
Suddenly, the Lilith most flew past not destroying the building. "Phew, that was close."
Then, Luz flew past. "Hey Mr Park."
"Oh hi, Luz, how's Eda?"
He got an answer to the question when Eda flew through the window that Gilbert had just spent the last few hours repairing, causing it to shatter and for glass to fly everywhere.
"My bad!" Eda cried.
Gilbert sighed in annoyance before seeing the Hexsquad fly past. "Hi Dad!" Willow said.
"Hi, sweetie." Gilbert sighed as he sat on the platform.
Lilith eventually made it to the front of the library and roared, causing every witch and demon to run away with fear.
Luz and Eda arrived to try and stop Lilith from destroying anymore. "Lily, Luz is going to administer the elixir, I just you need you to calm down."
"How are you doing, Hooty?!" Luz asked. "Are you okay?!"
"Nah, I'm pretty far from hooting okay." Hooty replied before being swung about.
"Lilith's too far gone." Eda said. "We need to keep her distracted while you administer the elixir."
"Need a hand?" Luz and Eda looked to the left and saw the Hexsquad. Amity, Gus and Willow were giving determined smiles while Hunter was still blushing over having his hands around Willow. He eventually let go and quickly gotten into a determined grin.
"Guys?!" Luz reacted.
"What are you kids doing?!" Eda exclaimed.
"You look like you need help." Gus said. "How can we assist?"
Luz was at first surprised by the help but then gave a grin. "Okay, here's what we do."
The Lilith beast continued to pounce about while playing with a random bench. Before moving on to a trash can by tipping the trash and devouring everything that was in it.
"Lulu, I may be scared to move, but at least save some for me." Hooty requested.
Lilith continued to eat the trash until she was distracted by a whistle. "Hey Lilith!" She looked up to see Hunter in front of her. "Remember me?"
Lilith snarled angrily. Hunter just cringed at the beast coming towards her. "Okay, she does." He teleported just as the claw was about to hit him.
He appeared beside a streetlight and gave a grin. "Come on Lily, I thought we put our past behind us!" Lilith pounced towards him and then he teleported by the front door of the library.
"Hey Lily….Can you guess which Grimwalker is which?" Then, all of a sudden multiple Hunters began to appeared all around Lilith, causing a lot of confusion for the beast.
Unknown to it, Gus was sitting behind a trash can projecting the multiple Hunters keeping the beast distracted. "Okay everyone, now!" Gus yelled out.
Eda swooped in and yanked Hooty off of her back. "How are you doing Hooty?" Eda asked.
"You owe me a ton of trash when I get back." Hooty said while narrowing his eyes at Eda.
Eda sighed. "Okay, fine."
When Lilith was confused, Willow took the opportunity to latch some vines around the hind ankles while Amity jumped on her back with two giant Abomination gloves on her hands.
Lilith tried to free herself from her predicament but unfortunately for Lilith, she couldn't escape. Luz jumped off of Stringbean and began to approach her cool aunt carefully.
"Cool Aunt Lilith…." Lilith just roared in her face. "…Okay, I can see that you're upset, but I'm just going to administer the elixir." Just as Luz got close to her cool aunt, the front paw back handed Luz in the face.
A good while later, Lilith was sitting on a bench looking like she was pleading. "Luz! Luz! Please forgive me! I had no control of myself."
Luz stood over Lilith using Stringbean as an ice pack for her right eye. "It's fine Lilith." She removed Stringbean to reveal her black eye. "It's just a black eye." Then some blood began to drip from her left nostril. "And a nosebleed." She smiled and her front tooth fell out. "And a missing tooth." She picked it up while giving Lilith a toothless smile.
"Anyway, thanks for the help Luz." Eda said as she and King approached Lilith to comfort her. "You didn't need to do it."
"Well, you know me, I'm obligated to help." Luz said while giving a toothless smile. "Now if you excuse me, I'm gonna see if Viney can fit this back in." She began to walk away to Viney's while King and Eda comforted her.
While walking to Viney's, the Hexsquad approached Luz and cringed when they saw her injuries. Amity instantly got to her girlfriend to tend to her.
"Luz, your face!" Amity summoned a napkin to wipe the blood coming from her girlfriend's nose.
"I'm fine." Luz said.
"You okay?" Willow asked.
"Yeah, that backhand slap did not look pleasant." Gus remarked.
"It wasn't." Luz smiled. "I just like helping you guys. Sure, I might end up with a few scratches, bruises or some traumatic nightmares for the next few days, I'm really grateful to be around you." The Hexsquad looked at Luz with guilt on their faces. Luz has helped them so much with all of their problems, including rebuilding the Isles, they wish they could do something for her. "Anyway, Amity, there's an annual Christmas dance coming in a couple of weeks at my school. Think you wanna be my date?"
Amity smiled. "Any dance, anywhere." Luz kissed Amity on her nose before departing toward Viney.
The Hexsquad looked on with some guilt at Luz. "I wish we could do something for her." Gus sighed.
"Likewise." Hunter said.
"Yeah. I mean, how many incidents like this does she expect to keep stopping?" Willow asked. "I mean, stopping an angry rampaging beast is probably enough for her."
Amity then realised something Luz said. "Guys, what is Christmas?"
