General Yunan's war journal, it has been 38 days since the Collector has taken over the Boiling Isles and started to turn it into his own image. Me and Lilith have been cooped up in what I could only describe as some sort of zoo enclosure only there are no newts to gawk over us. We've been here taking care of Eda who was in her Owl beast form. Thankfully, the enclosure we are trapped in has the ingredients for Eda's elixir thanks to King who has been requesting to the Collector to give us a few things which also includes the right amount of plants to make our food and a cauldron to make our food and to have my private baths. But don't tell Lilith, she's been wondering why our food tasted of soap. And how about Eda? Well, Eda's somehow taking the fact that she has no arm with stride. It's like she doesn't care that she's now left handed. Plus, King is now the Collector's favourite plaything. They have been playing a ton of games which included The Owl House which King described as a typical Owl House adventure, whatever that means. Plus, they have played Spooks and Ladders which is like Shoots and Ladders except with spooks, whatever they are. Currently, King is having a tea party with that little cosmic brat who I hope will be de-powered someday so I can gut him!
The short haired Yunan froze as she got a good look at what she had just wrote down in her journal. "Huh, a little too violent." She then began to rewrite the last part.
And then, shove them off a cliff!
"There we go. That's more like it."
Meanwhile in the main entrance to the Collector's throne room, the uncomfortable baby Titan was sipping his tea while floating in the air with a bunch of the puppet Coven Heads and The Collector.
Whereas the Collector was happily humming to themselves while King was holding his cup and saucer while his hand shook in terror and fear since he had no idea what The Collector would do with him. Plus, the fact that his would-be step parent, Raine, was now a puppet so that didn't help calm his nerves.
"More tea, Whispers?" The cosmic kid god asked before the puppet Raine nodded their head.
"More tea would fill me with glee." The puppet said before the teapot poured a fresh cup of tea into their cup. But instead of drinking the tea, they poured it on themselves.
"Hey Mama Odalia, do we have any more cookies?!" Collector asked.
On the ground floor, Odalia had arrived with a tray of cookies in her hand. "Collector, are you sure you want to waste your powers on….Tea parties? Maybe we could reshape the Boiling Isles into a more welcoming vision."
The Collector then used their power to make the tray of cookies float up towards them. "Sorry Mama Odalia, I wasn't listening to what you were saying. I was sniffing the cookies which look sooooo yummy! Hey King, don't these cookies look yummy?"
"They sure do." King said before taking a bite out of them. "Hey, Odalia didn't poison these by any chance?"
"No." The Collector replied. "Even if she did, I already casted a spell that would remove the poison."
"Thanks buddy." King said. Even though he was technically his prisoner, King was grateful that the Collector somewhat really cared about him. Even though he was technically his plaything than a genuine friend.
"Oh boy, this is so fun!" The Collector exclaimed happily. "I can't believe it's been….How long has it been?"
"A month." King replied.
"A month?! Oh….This is just so fun!" Collector exclaimed happily. "I'm having fun! Are you having fun, King?!"
King gave a nervous smile. "Uh…..Yes."
"I really love The Owl House game!" Collector exclaimed happily. "I love all the roles! Though, I don't have a Hooty to play with. Do you think one of the Coven Heads might be willing?" They turned to puppet Darius and turned him back to witch form.
"Ah!" Darius screamed.
"Do you want to play Hooty for the Owl House game?" Collector asked.
"Do you know what I want?" Darius asked. "I WANT TO TAKE YOU FROM YOUR THRONE ROOM AND GIVE YOU A HUNDRED YEAR SENTENCE IN THE DETENTION-"
The Collector quickly turned Darius back into a puppet and cringed. "Eesh! Definitely not turning anymore Coven Heads back to normal if they turn on me." He then turned to the floor where he glared at Terra Snapdragon dressed as Eda. "You hear me Terra?!"
"Oh I heard you." Terra replied as she walked and scratch her ever showing gut.
"Good!" The Collector's threatening glare vanished and it went back to a gleeful smile. "I think we'll find our Hooty at some point."
"Yeah." King said.
"Oh and about our Amity…." The Collector said. "….I do not want a girlfriend or a boyfriend or any kind of lover."
"Why?" King asked.
The Collector gagged. "Because kissing is gross! Ewwwwwww!"
King then looked sideways. "Actually yeah, kissing is gross. You would not believe how gross it was seeing Luz and Amity kiss and Eda and Raine kiss." He then looked down and noticed some kind of invisible force carrying a handful of cookies from a tray that was ready to serve the Collector and King.
The Collector gave King a curious look. "Hey, do you see something…" They were about to look down which caused King to panic because he saw them, then they wouldn't get away with it.
"Hey look, a Titan trapper!" King exclaimed while pointing behind the Collector.
"Where?" They asked as they turned around. "What are they doing up here? Can they fly now?"
"Yeah! Pretty sure they do!" King lied while looking down at the invisible force carrying the handful of cookies away. "Aww no! They left!"
The Collector turned around and shrugged their shoulders. "Eh! Those guys were weird anyway. I'm happy to have you…All…To….Myself." King shivered in fear since he knew that this was what his life was going to be now. Or worst, the rest of it.
After The Collector went to sleep, King snuck out and arrived at Eda's enclosure where he saw Eda, Lilith and Yunan eating some soup with cookies at their side. Eda didn't have her arm anymore due to the fact Raine tore it off to save her and now had a bandaged stump.
Eda, now with spiky hair, was currently wearing brown pants, a red shirt jacket, with a purple buttoned shirt, light purple pants and dark purple boots. Lilith appeared to not be wearing her glasses and was now wearing a hooded dark blue and green hooded robe. While Yunan's blonde hair was short and was now wearing a white tunic with brown pants and brown boots.
"Lilith, the soup tastes like soap again." Eda complained.
Lilith looked confused. "I don't understand! I followed the recipe, how does it always end up tasting like soap?!"
"Couldn't say." Yunan replied as she looked away awkwardly.
"Hey guys." King said.
"Hey, King!" Yunan exclaimed. "How's The Collector?"
"You should have seen." King retorted. "I saw you sneaking out with the cookies. You're lucky The Collector didn't see you."
"How do you know it wasn't me?" Yunan asked. "It could have been Pacifica."
"Her grave is right behind you!" King retorted before he pointed behind Yunan.
She turned around and saw the gravestone marked Pacifica. Since King told everyone that Pacifica was dead, he had the Collector find her body so they could honour her. But unfortunately, The Collector couldn't find her so they just assumed the body vanished in the chaos.
"Come on!" Yunan argued. "She probably used the book and ketchup method I taught her."
"Yunan, we saw you taking the invisibility glyph." Lilith argued.
"Wait, how did she get past the lines?" King asked. "Don't you know if you walked over them, the alarms go off?"
Yunan laughed. "King, I can climb ceilings. It was easy." She ate a cookie out of the spare calamity box they were using as a bit of a plate. "By the way, we saved you a few."
King groaned. "No thanks. That's enough sugar and fat for me. I mean, every night is usually something fattening. I see why you made me healthy meals when you did, Eda."
"I'd usually fatten up something if I wanted to eat it." Eda said.
Yunan began to look at the back of Lilith's head and began squinting her eyes. "Hey Lilith, you got some orange roots showing."
Lilith looked surprised. "Huh? Oh, that's probably my natural hair showing. Don't worry, it's only small roots."
Eda cringed. "About that Lily." Eda picked up a handheld mirror and positioned it behind her sister's head. "Yunan."
Yunan nodded her head and moved Lilith's hair aside. "What am I staring at?" Lilith asked. "I don't see another mirror to reflect off of that one."
Eda sighed. "Point is Lily, you are in desperate need of a haircut."
"I got it." Yunan put her wrist blades on and activated them, causing Lilith to panic.
"Yunan, no!" Lilith protested. "Not the wrist blades!"
"Why?" Yunan asked. "I used them to cut my hair." Yunan pulled a dumb smile as some blood poured from her scalp. She sighed in annoyance. "I'm bleeding again, aren't I?" The Clawthornes nodded their heads in response. She sighed in annoyance. "I'll get the bandages."
"Edalyn, have you done things one handed before?" Lilith asked.
"Well, one time with Raine…" Eda had a dirty grin on her face.
"No! No!" Lilith interjected. "Forget I asked that."
"What happened?!" King asked.
A while later due to Eda's missing arm, the haircut took longer than expected. During the five hour haircut, Yunan had put a bandage on her scalp, King was on Eda's shoulder giving his mother a judgemental look while Lilith just happily sat down allowing her sister to cut her hair.
"Aaaaand, done!" Eda said as she finished cutting her sister's hair. "What do you think?"
Lilith looked at her new hair in the reflection of the handheld mirror and smiled. "Wow! I forgot how good I looked ginger."
"I don't like it." King said.
"Well, you got used to Amity's hair." Eda retorted. "You'll get used to your cool Aunt Lilith's."
"We'll see." King then began to think back to Amity which made him think back to Luz. It had been a month since he saved the group and sent them into the Human Realm for their own safety. "I can't believe it's been a month since I sent Luz away."
Eda gave King a sympathetic look. "You did the right thing, King. She wouldn't have been able to defeat The Collector and I doubt she would have even with the Calamity powers. She would have been turned into a puppet and I wouldn't have wanted that."
"Will we ever see her again?" King asked.
"I don't know." Eda sighed. "I don't know. But for now, we just need to find a way to live out this until we can defeat them."
King looked at his mother with an uncertain look on his face. He wished Luz could come back but a part of him was grateful that Luz was safe at home. He wished he could see Luz again, preferably in a couple of weeks.