We begin in Amity's escape room nightmare where we find out that Odalia is going to ghost prison for killing her son. We also find out that Emira's taking the evil twin joke way too seriously and is now training to be a secondary antagonist. Worried by this Amity goes downstairs and talks with Eda about her evil sister.
"She sucks," says Eda, "But whatcha gonna do? By the way did you know my curse is gonna get me killed someday. Just thought I'd let you know".
We cut to Luz who is auditioning to be a student at a school she literally watched someone die in. She hands the principal a written threat from good old Aladad and she is accepted in immediately. Amity made it in too even though every second in the school is a reminder of her horrifying death. Even as a ghost, Amity will never escape the hell that is standardized testing.
Amity requests to be in two different tracks but principal Bump says no. Then Emira bursts in and gives us a cool fact: Principal Bump is mainly responsible for Amity's death. Wow! Oh and she also beat the shit out of some edgy toh oc in the hallway. Both her and Katif are punished by having to be in Mr. Bolinger's presence for longer than two seconds. Luz is thrown in two seconds later not instantly conforming to the rules of the dictator trying to kill her mentor.
Emira is really sad cause her brother keeps ghosting her, and Luz tries to cheer her up by telling her about how her dad abandoned her this one time. Mr. Bolinger yells at her for having daddy issues, which reminds Edric of his daddy issues and pisses him off. He assaults the teacher with his wind powers, because assault is only cool when Edric does it, and Katiff leaves before yet another Blight kicks his ass.
Emira follows him. She's about to beat him up for what would be a third time, but they are attacked by what's basically Tirek but as a giant snake. Emira nearly dies, but Katif saves her life telling an adult she was dead. He then appears on live tv and tells everybody what happens. This makes Emira go see a psychic.
The psychic tells her the same thing we've known since chapter three, so Emira decides to put her evil mother inside a ring instead.
"This will in no way shape or form bring your brother back. You're just doing this cause you want someone to bitch at" says the psychic. In response Emira flips him off and slams the door behind her.
Meanwhile, King is angry at Willow and Gus for taking up too much of Luz's time. Luz decides to cheer him up by going to a carnival and hanging out with Willow and Gus some more. Amity can't go though, she's too busy being traumatized to be in this chapter— Whoops. Never mind. Now she has to save Willow from dying. Also, Tibbles is there but nobody gives a shit because it's Tibbles.
A few days later, Luz feels bad about lying to her mom, so Amity walks in her dreams. You know, since that went so well the last time. She tells Camila about her death and abusive mother.
"And then you came to the human realm, right?" Camila asked. Amity, the witch who died because Willow lied about her abomination golem then lies to the human straight to her face. It works until Camila sees Owlbert and follows him through the portal. Camila forces the truth out of her daughter and Eda challenges her to a fight. But it's a fake fight, like when a little kid hits you with something and you pretend to be stabbed and die.
Emira decides to ruin a man's life by burning down a family business that's been handed down for generations, but it was just Tibbles and nobody gives a shit about Tibbles. She then goes to visit her brother's grave and finds a hobo snake person. He admits he's been watching her sleep and then demands to walk her home. Emira thinks this is super romantic.
It turns out Puff daddy is in fact homeless and also has mommy issues. In response, Emira offers to let him live at Blight manor without consulting her dad who actually owns it. She also invites him to the school dance despite him having nothing to wear and the fact that she just met him 2 seconds ago.
Amity is chosen by the man who got her killed to fight a nightmare monster, but Luz chooses to take her place because that's a horrible idea. Her mom stops her, saying that her daughter who has managed to learn magic and fight monsters in a foreign realm can't beat up a blob of nightmare goo.
"It's okay, Luz" says Amity. "Shitty things have been happening to me since fic started. I'm used to it now". Angered by her response, Luz runs into the woods. She runs into puff the magic dragon who tells Luz about how he had no clothes. Luz agrees to bring him to the owl house while telling him all of these problems he has absolutely nothing to do with.
"Why doesn't everyone just rush the nightmare monster at once?" he asks.
"Because our principal's an idiot," replies Luz.
Amity goes to fight grom but Luz jumps out in front of her. Grom turns into her worst fear, the small angry Blight child and she runs away. Shes about to fall off a cliff, but Amity saves her by asking her out. They then have a sweet first dance despite there being no music playing since they are outside.
Since they never posted that Boscha call out post, Willow is still getting bullied. Luz decides the perfect way to get back at her is actually a talent show. Amity and Luz end up reciting an Azura scene that is totally real and not a slow burn fanfic scene one of them wrote in the middle of the night. Willow makes rose bowl parade floats. Then she dies, but it's okay Boscha and her clique takes her to a doctor so she undies.
Meanwhile, Camila gets a letter from someone who's not her daughter. She instantly guesses it's a demon from the demon place her daughter now lives in and decides she needs to drive to summer camp to go bitch her out. But it turns out the demon is really adorable, so she invites it to live with her forever instead. She goes home where Amity, King, and Luz are waiting for her.
"We're going to break into the palace of the most powerful witch on the isles and stop the execution of my criminal bird mom" says Luz. "You wanna come". Camila says yes despite this being a horrible idea. So, they find Eda, who is a bird monster now and is in a cage. Eda tells them to just let her die already. Amity angrily throws a rock at her and possesses her with her ghost powers. The emperor then finds Luz and demands she hand over the portal to the human realm.
"I would be scared of you" she says, "but my plot armor is stronger than you". Just as she says this Amity bursts through the door and tries to burn everybody alive. Everybody except for a super salty Belos, then goes home, including Eda's evil sister Lilith. Lilith turns Eda back into a witch while Luz has an anxiety attack in the corner because she just nearly lost everyone she cares about.
Then act 2 ends. Seriously, that's where it ends. With Luz having a panic attack…See you in act three!
