In the household of the Blight residence, which has gotten a whole lot dustier and covered in a lot of crumbs, Pacifica, dressed in her pyjamas, sat down on the couch so she could begin recording on the tape recorder.
"Pacifica Northwest again, it has been…..I honestly don't know how long it's been since I first arrived in the Demon Realm but what I know is, it's been longer than a few weeks. I know it's probably been a few months or maybe longer. I have ran out a lot of things in this house. I ran out of entertainment to do. I just read all of the books in the house, including The Good Witch Azura and…." She turned red in the face. "….I think I'm now a fan. Water supply is very low so I haven't had a shower or a bath for a few days. I tried an underground lake but that just made me stink worse. I ate all the food supplies I could digest since….This apocalypse has lasted longer than either me or Alador anticipated. I haven't eaten for a while so…" She heard the sound of her stomach growling and sighed. "….Yeah, they're getting louder. And I'm a little worried for my body right now." She lifted up her shirt to look at how skinny she had gotten in the last few weeks. Her abdomen had gotten flat and some of her bones were starting to show. "I don't know what I'm going to do." She pulled her shirt down and sighed. "I can't digest a lot of the food here. Believe me, I tried. The only piece of tech I have right now is my laser, sonic tool and the invisibility watch." She groaned in annoyance. "Of all the tech that could have been destroyed, why wasn't this one blown to smithereens? I really don't know what to do. The town outside is in shambles so I don't know if there are any fresh food supplies left. So, I guess my only option would be to starve to death….Or, go the easy way out." Tears began to fall out of her eyes. "This is Pacifica Northwest, signing off." She stopped the recording and began to sob, fearing that this was how she would die.
For the last few months, she had been fearing that she'd run out of food but she had no idea how bad her health would get. She had her last food supply last week and she was feeling fatigued and stressed out.
When she went upstairs in Amity's bedroom, the room she was currently occupying, and began to stare at herself in the mirror and noted how skinny she had gotten.
But she didn't know how much worse she had gotten so she took off her shirt to look at her body. She patted her abdomen and cringed as she felt her bones. She noted that her ribs were starting to show. Then, she turned around to look at her back and noticed that bones were beginning to show.
She poked her bones and patted her belly again and began to cry. She had no idea what death was like but she knew she was dying and didn't like it. And the worst part was, her friends and loved ones weren't around to be by her side.
She walked towards her bed and collapsed on her back before screaming in sadness and anger. She cried as she curled up into a fetel position. She cried and cried for the last few minutes before she laid on her back and began to stare at the ceiling.
"What do I do?" Pacific asked herself. Then, she heard her stomach growl and looked at it. "Come on, you're not helping." Then it growled again and she saw it vibrating. "Wow. I can't believe how bad it looks." It growled once again. "Look, I want to eat as much as the next person. But I'm tired, I'm stressed, I stink and I'm now realising that I am talking to my stomach! Uh! I'm pathetic! What would Dipper do if he was stuck in a situation like this?" Then she thought of an idea. She thought of what Dipper would do if he was stuck in this situation. But without talking to abdomen.
She sat up on the bed and smiled. "No, I'm not giving up. I'm going to go out there to find some food." Then, her stomach growled again. "Yeah, bet you're happy about that." She patted it again and then turned red with embarrassment. "I'm going mad."
Then, after popping one some clothes, getting her only gear together and taking a wrench as a weapon, she exited the secret hatch and walked towards the abandoned Bonesborough to see if there was some food that were for sale.
She walked to one of the fruit stands and noticed how rotten a lot of the food looked. She gagged and noticed a stand that it had some bread that looked rotten. "Eww! Don't know why I thought it'd have anything."
She walked into one of the buildings to find some kind of food but noted that it looked ransacked as if there were other survivors.
Then, she saw what looked like an unopened bar of chocolate on the stand. She smiled and began to drool. "I know it's not healthy, but….Oh, I miss you chocolate." She snatched the chocolate and began to unwrap it. But once it fully opened, some springs covered in cloth jumped out. "What?! What kind of store is this?!" She walked outside and saw the sign that read 'Mr Poke's Joke Sanctuary.'
"Oh." She said. "Right."
Then she entered Morton's old stand and noticed that the shelf had a few supplies. But not the useful ones like food.
Then, she saw what appeared to look like Eda's elixir and picked it up. "Huh, I wonder what would happen if you drank it?" She took a small swig before instantly spitting it out. "Uh! That tastes disgusting!"
She also noticed a bottle on the stand that was marked, Easy Get Away Flash Bang. She picked the bottle from the stand and examined it. "Hmmm. Well, my stomach is telling me that I need this and not because I'm hungry." She then put the bottle in her shirt and stuck it on the top of her pants. When she pulled her shirt down she noted the outline. "Huh, I hope this will make people think I'm fat."
Then, she heard the sound of some small little creature making noises. She looked out the stand and saw a small little hooded creature running off what looked to be some fresh bread.
"Hey! Little creature!" Pacifica called out for as she weakly climbed over the stand. The small creature noticed Pacifica and froze in place.
"Look, can we not get into a chase?" But the creature began running causing Pacifica to groan. "Come on! I can't run as well as you." She began to run after the creature but due to how weak her legs were, she was more jogging than running. But thankfully, the little creature wasn't full on sprinting due to how tiny their legs were.
The creature ran down a corner and into a small little hole in the wall of a building. But Pacifica, being a little bit clever, followed the creature and towards the small hole.
She got down on her knees and sighed. "Look, I'm not trying to hurt you so…." The little hooded creature jumped out and bit her on her hand. "Ow! You little twerp! I said I wasn't going to hurt you!"
The creature removed their hood to reveal themselves as the little funny demon, Tinella Nosa. "Oh, you aren't?" She sniffed the air and gagged. "Uh! You stink."
"No, thanks for reminding me and….Wait, weren't you captured by the Collector?" Pacifica asked.
"No, that was my evil twin sister. Bignella." She replied as she ate a crumb. "What are you doing? Don't you know the Collector's Playtime?"
"I don't and I don't want to find out." Pacifica replied. "Look, I just need some food so let me have some…"
Tinella hissed at the human as she ran in front of her hole. "No! My bwead!" She hissed again.
The human groaned. "Come on! I haven't eaten for a week, I stink and earlier today I was talking to my stomach!"
"Weird." Tinella remarked.
"I know." Pacifica said.
"You'll know you've lost it if it starts talking back." Tinella said.
"Look, can't I just have a crumb?" Pacifica asked.
"No!" Tinella protested.
Pacifica cried in anger. "Why?!"
"Pwease don't scream!" Tinella begged. "I don't want the spies to capture me!"
This bit of information made Pacifica smile as she realised what she should do. "Okay, I think you know what I'm going to do."
"What?"
Pacifica took a deep breath. "Son of a gosh darn, darn hooting, dog sucking, thumb eating and bitch-"
"No!" Tinella pleaded. "I can't give you my bwead. But I can tell you where I got it. Hexside."
Pacifica grinned. "The school?"
"Students are thwiving. Though I don't know how since they're leader tweats it like a personal fortwess." Tinella explained. "You can't even wationalise, bargain with her or negotiate with her. She is difficult."
"Very intimidating pronouns." Pacifica remarked.
"Sowy." Tinella said. "Her name is Boscha in case you're wondering."
"Thanks walking, talking breath mint." Pacifica said before a puppet of Gilbert Park landed beside her. She was at first baffled and creeped out by the wooden and lifeless smile.
Tinella knew what this meant and panicked. "Go! Go! Go! Jog for your life!"
Pacifica did what the little demon said and instantly ran before The Collector could show up for their playtime.
A few minutes later, Pacifica was on the path to Hexside which thankfully wasn't very far. Plus, there were still a few signs so that helped her out a lot.
She arrived at the front entrance and smiled. "Great." She then looked down at her stomach which growled again. "Don't worry. We're going to have food in no time." When she patted it again, she groaned. "Uh! Why am I doing this?! This is weird!"
She began to walk through the front gates and walking straight towards the main doors. But what she didn't expect was to hear childlike laughter.
She at first thought this was some kid, but then she looked up and saw one of the Collector's spies coming towards her. Specifically, the blueish black star with black eyes and red irises. She quickly jogged into the bush that were close to the stairs so that creature wouldn't find her.
It landed and began to scan the area for any types of students. Pacifica didn't want to pop her head out in fear of what this would lead to. All she could do was listen to the sinister childlike laugh and the sound of the doors to the main door closing.
She pressed her hands to her head as she feared for the worst. Being puppet to a childlike god. She slowly walked backwards and straight into the wall which opened a secret entrance into the school.
She tumbled into the room and saw that it was some kind of room with multiple doors attached to walls. But before she could stare at it mesmerised, she heard the childlike laugh of the spy coming close to her and quickly slammed it shut.
She panted as she applied whatever strength she had to the door so that way the spy wouldn't get in. But thankfully, these things seemed to have a weakness to doors so it wouldn't get in.
Once she knew that she was safe, she removed herself from the door and looked around this weird room of doors. She analysed the location and saw that it looked familiar. But from a descriptive standpoint.
The doors had multiple colours and shaped and appeared to be placed in a lot of positions all over the place. There were doors on the walls, corners, ceilings and even floor. Heck, some were even on the staircases.
She looked around the area and poked her head out one of the doors which led to a classroom filled with little witch children between the ages of three and five.
They were currently being told a story called Sinderella by a student named Skara. "And then Sinderella after being crowned Queen of the realm with her handsome husband and then she evicted her awful step sisters and step mother for being cruel to them and then stuck their heads on a spike." She closed the book and the children happily cheered.
"I love that story!" Exclaimed a little red demon that looked like a meatball with teeth.
Pacifica cringed as she closed the door. "Sounds like the alternate ending to that story." She said.
Then, she poked her head through another door where she saw Viney and her girlfriend, Emira making out on top of an operating table.
"You sure you want to do this?" Viney asked as she pulled out of the kiss. "I mean, it's been a few months since Amity went missing."
"Look, my worries don't matter right now, what matters is you." Emira replied as she kissed her worried girlfriend.
"As much as I appreciate your love…." The girlfriends looked to their right and acknowledged the heavily bandaged brother of Emira and Amity, Edric. He lied on the operating table as he wiggled his nose. "….But I have an itchy nose!"
"Again?!" Emira exclaimed.
"Babe, I think you should help your brother." Viney suggested. "I'm pretty sure Amity would have done the same."
Pacifica sighed as she remembered who those two twins were, they were Amity's older siblings. She knew that they didn't know that their sister was dead and their Dad was missing and that their mother….Well, she doesn't think they will care for their mom.
She closed the door and moved to another door. When she opened the door she noticed small a red skinned demon with goggles and white fluffy hair staring herself in the bathroom the mirror.
"The plan is working." She said. "That idiotic cyclops and her stupid codependency issues are enough for me to…" But before she could finish explaining her plan out loud, she heard the sound of a growl and quickly turned around to see no one was there.
Instead of investigating, she just shrugged her shoulders and continued talking to herself. "Now where was I?"
Back in the room of doors, Pacifica was panting as she had her back against the door, fearing that the little demon might have caught her.
She then heard the sound of her stomach growl again and groaned. "Really? Right now? I could have…" She stopped talking once she realised that she was speaking to her stomach, yet again. "Forget it. I just need some food. Hmmm, these doors take me to random locations in Hexside. This must have been the exact doors Luz used on her first day as a student here. I wonder if one of them leads to some kind of storage room filled with food?"
She opened one of the doors but it led to her almost falling from the ceiling and on top of some large unmoving hooded student who looked kind of headless. She quickly climbed back up the ceiling and slammed the door shut. "That was close."
Then, she opened another door but when she did, she accidentally slammed it to a passing student. But more specifically, the one that looked like a giant eyeball.
It groaned in pain due to the impact of the locker door slamming into her face/eye. Pacifica cringed and closed the door. "Sorry." She whispered as she did.
Then, she opened another door that functioned as a floor on the other side. But before she could poke her head out to see what was going on, Mattholomue inadvertently stood on it, causing it to slam into Pacifica's head.
The student seemed baffled by the way he stood on the floor. But he then shrugged his shoulders and continued walking.
On the other side, Pacifica rubbed her head. "Ow. Thanks a lot."
"Why won't you listen?!" She heard a student yell from one of the doors. This caused her to peak her curiosity as she approached a maroon door and then opened it. But only slightly as she didn't want to be caught.
On the other side, the door opened outside of a statue of the school principal Bump, whom was riding a skateboard while doing some sick tricks.
What she saw in front of her were Skara, Jerbo and Viney watching Mattholomue arguing with Boscha.
"Matt, my leadership is keeping us alive!" Boscha said. "You just don't see the hard work I'm doing."
"Uh, define hard work." Viney retorted.
"Well, you're alive aren't you?!" Boscha asked. "It takes hard work."
"Hard work?" Mattholomue reiterated. "Hard work?! All you've been doing was sitting on your throne while listening to whatever Miki puts into your ear."
"She is helping me!" Boscha argued. "While I am being a great leader, Miki is being an amazing advisor for me and future generations."
"Boscha, what help is she doing?!" Mattholomue asked. "What help are you doing?! Viney doesn't have enough medical equipment for everyone, Skara can't keep an eye on the witchlets, Jerbo says we're almost out of food because everyone in the school has been fighting for it instead of rationing it and the door was left slightly open which would have given one of the Collector's spies a chance to burst in! How is that good leadership?!"
Boscha rolled her three eyes. "We still have hot water."
"Yeah, but only in the girls locker room!" Mattholomue.
"You don't know that."
"I know it because I have been showering in cold water for three weeks and I see no improvement on the plumbing!"
"You do not know anything about leadership, Matt!" Boscha retorted. "Now you and the other insubordinate students will do best and follow my orders or otherwise I will throw you into the detention pit!"
"Boscha…"
"That is my final order." Boscha interjected. "Pray to Titan I don't make it more severe!" She marched away, leaving Matt, Viney, Skara and Jerbo on their own.
Mattholomue narrowed his eyes angrily at Boscha while Jerbo walked up to him with a terrified look. "Uh….Should we continue planning?"
"It's the only thing we can do." Mattholomue replied. "Viney, Skara, do your best to keep everyone together while me and Jerbo continue to plan a more successful utopia with no distractions."
"Matt, your drawn-on stubble is vanishing." Skara said.
Mattholomue sighed. "Then, I will draw my manly stubble before going back on track to having a plan." He marched away with Jerbo following behind.
"It's not manly!" Viney retorted.
"Yes it is!" Mattholomue argued with a whine. "And what's that smell?!"
Pacifica closed the door and walked around the room of doors with a perplexed look. "So, this is what that breath mint was talking about? Uh, I don't know what parents raised her but she either needs some help or a lesson to stop being a bitch. And what smell was that facial haired kid talking about?" She then sniffed her armpit and gagged. "Man, I need a shower." She then heard her stomach growl, again. "Well I can't just eat and stink up the place, can I?" She then groaned. "Okay, guess I can use a shower. Hope nobody uses it."
Later, Pacifica found the door that led to the locker room where that strange red demon was talking to herself in her reflection. She opened the door slightly and poked her head out to see any signs of any witch or demon inhabiting the bathroom.
"Hello?" Pacifica whispered. "Anyone here?" The bathroom itself looked like any locker room you'd see in someone's high school.
Once Pacifica was sure the coast was clear, she walked through and closed the door. She snuck around the room where she walked past a bunch of lockers with teeth that she swore were growling at her.
Then, she saw on the benches that there was shampoo and conditioner lying about. She smiled at the convenience of Boscha being an incompetent leader.
"Wow, you'd think they'd actually do something about this." Pacifica remarked. "Like, do we really need a leader to arrange where the shampoo and conditioner go."
She began to read the label of the shampoo bottle and the conditioner bottle. The shampoo bottle read Snappy. The Snapdragon smelling brand approved by Terra Snapdragon.
While the conditioner bottle read Illusion. Hide the unsilky and unsmooth hair. Approved by Adrien Graye.
She laughed. "These Coven Heads were sellouts." She then stopped when she saw that the towels were very scattered and dirty.
She gagged in disgust. But like a needle in a haystack, she found a towel that was hooked on a hook and appeared to be clean. She removed the towel from its hook and smiled with glee.
"Great." Pacifica said. "And don't you worry stomach, we're going to find food as fast as we can. Trust me, this will be in & out." She screamed in annoyance again. "Why am I talking to it?!"
About thirteen minutes later, an annoyed Boscha entered the locker room with Skara and Viney following behind her.
"Come on Boscha, at least consider a consistent nap time for the witchlets." Skara pleaded. "Three in the morning is too late for a nap time."
"And let Matt fix the plumbing!" Viney pleaded. "Jerbo almost got hypothermia!"
"Girls! Girls! This is not the best way to go!" Boscha interjected. "And if you question my authority again, I will throw you in the detention pit! Now leave me alone while I have my private shower without anyone else watching my back except my Palisman!"
"Wait." Viney said.
"And do not take that out of context!" Boscha demanded.
"No, not that." Viney said. "Listen, you hear that?"
The group began to hear the sound of water pitter pattering down. "Your bellbottoms on. Your hair unfurls. You are the disco girl."
"Yeah! Someone's in the shower." Boscha said. "I'll just kick them out."
"No, it's that voice." Viney said. "I don't know whose voice that is."
"You sure you don't know that student?" Skara asked her.
"I've lived in a school for three months." Viney retorted. "So I essentially remember what everyone sounds like."
The girls all gave each other knowing looks before they ran towards where the singing was coming from.
When they traced the singing, they saw something that made Viney turn around as fast as she could, Skara shocked and Boscha, disgusted.
Though they couldn't see it through the steam, they knew from the silhouette that it was a naked human woman in the shower singing what appeared to be some Human Realm song.
"Disco girl! Coming through! That girl is you! Ooh-oooh, ooh-oooh! It's the year 1972!" While she sang, Boscha's top eye twitched. She was about to use her magic to clear the steam, but Skara and Viney began to fight her in order to prevent that. "And that girl is you! Ooh-oooh, ooh-oooh! You can sing! You can shimmer! Love's on the menu and disco's for dinner!" Boscha eventually agreed to not removing all the steam but she did use her magic to remove half the steam to reveal her head and face. "Disco girl! Coming through! That girl is you! Ooh-oooh, ooh-oooh! She's got sass! For miles and miles! Disco will outlast all musical styles!"
Pacifica was about to sing the next verse but then froze when she heard some applause. "Woo! What Human Realm song is that?"
"And what's disco?" Viney asked. "Is it delicious?"
Boscha summoned her Palisman and aimed it at the human woman. "Put your hands up!" Pacifica did as the three eyed witch told and did just that. "Be thankful the steam is covering your shame. How dare you trespass into New Hexside using my shower!"
"Don't you mean our shower?" Viney asked.
"Yes, whatever." Boscha rolled her eyes. "Now, listen here human, grab your towel, put on some clothes so my colleagues can escort you to a holding cell for your trial."
"Could you at least not watch me?" Pacifica asked.
"I won't but my Palisman will." Boscha replied.
"Well, then can it not?" Pacifica retorted.
"You know what, just get changed under the steam!"
Later, after putting her clothes back on along with her watch and sticking the smoke bomb potion back in her shirt, she was escorted into a cell which happened to be the detention room.
She had been here for the last 8 minutes since their leader, Boscha, really liked long private showers for herself.
She noted her cellmate, who happened to be Barcus, whom was just staring at her with a perplexed expression.
The dog barked. "What are you in for?"
"No, I don't have a treat." Pacifica replied. "What are you in for?"
Barcus barked. "I peed on Boscha's unfinished statue."
"Well, I got here because I trespassed into your school all because I needed to shower and to have food. And you would not believe where I got caught."
Barcus barked. "The shower?"
"If you guessed shower, you're correct." Pacifica said. "By the way, your leader is a bitch."
Barcus barked. "Tell me about it."
Then, Viney, Skara and Mattholomue entered the detention room with approachable smiles. "Hey there." Viney greeted.
"Is it my trial?" Pacifica asked.
"Don't worry, your trial won't be for another two hours." Skara replied. "Boscha really likes to waste all the hot water on herself."
"Oh yeah, I heard about the hot water thing." Pacifica said.
"Wait, you know?" Mattholomue asked.
"Oh yeah. Believe me, I was listening, Matt." Pacifica replied. "And, let me tell you something, Boscha is a terrible leader."
"Thank you!" Mattholomue exclaimed. "Least a human gets me!"
"It's been like this since Miki and Roka arrived." Skara explained. "She's sitting there doing nothing while them two put words into her ear."
"By the way, sorry I saw you naked." Viney said to the human woman with a smile.
"And I'm sorry for inadvertently letting you see me that way." Pacifica said.
"Not to worry, I removed that memory." Viney assured her.
"In case you don't know, how it works, she removed her memories with tweezers and set fire to it." Skara said.
"Gave me a nasty headache!" Viney exclaimed while some steam escaped her ears.
Pacifica stared at the girl with surprise and concern. "Uh….."
"She'll be fine." Skara interjected.
"Listen, I wasn't supposed to give you this…." Mattholomue reached into his pocket and pulled out some bread. "….But let's say that your stomach growls were loud enough to alert the Collector's spies."
Pacifica instantly snatched the bread out of his hand and began to devour it like an animal while the other witches watched on with surprised expressions.
"Hey, you should slow down." Mattholomue suggested. "Take your time with the food. I have more…" He pulled out what looked like a burger that Pacifica snatched out of his hand and began to devour instantly.
"Wow, she's eating like a dog." Skara remarked.
"She meant no offence, Barcus." Viney said.
Barcus barked. "None taken."
"Oh, thank you, Matt!" Pacifica exclaimed. "You have no idea how much I was starving. I mean, no food and no warm water at Blight manor."
"You're welcome." Mattholomue said. "You seemed pretty bad."
"Viney said when she saw you in your natural state, she could see the bones showing." Skara explained.
"I did?" Viney reacted in confusion. "I would have remembered something like that."
"Wait, Pacifica, I know who you are, now!" Mattholomue exclaimed. "You were with Luz."
"How did you know?" Pacifica asked.
"Hunter told us." Skara said. "You are exactly how he described you."
"And cuter than I thought." Viney whispered.
"Huh?"
"What?"
"Yeah, I was with Luz." Pacifica said. "As well as Amity, Gus, Willow, Hunter, Sasha, Marcy and Grime."
"Where are they now?" Viney asked with concern. "My girlfriend has been concerned about her sister."
"Is Gus okay?" Mattholomue asked with worry.
"And Willow?" Skara asked with worry.
In that moment, Pacifica knew that these kids had no idea what had happened to them but she knew she couldn't lie to them. "They were in the Titan's Skull." The students pulled horrified looks, knowing what they meant. "I'm sorry, but they didn't make it out."
"How are you alive?" Mattholomue asked while tears fell from his eyes.
"I faked my death to get the jump on Belos, but I stopped my heart for too long." She replied. "And if it makes you kids any better than it's safe to say that Belos is dead as well."
Skara wiped away tears that were falling from her face. "That does."
The sound of the loudspeaker going off was heard. "Attention students! Report to the council chamber! The trial is about to begin."
"It won't be a fair trial." Viney informed her.
"I know." Pacifica replied as she stood up and began to walk out of the classroom.
The kids seemed surprised by her statement. "Wait, you do?" Mattholomue asked. "How?"
Pacifica stopped and turned her head towards Mattholomue. "Because I know her."
"No you don't." Skara retorted.
The human groaned. "It's metaphorical! I meant, I know people like her because I was her."
"In a previous life?" Viney reacted.
Pacifica sighed. "Metaphor! Okay, in the past, I was similar to her. Status, looks and General unpleasantness all because of some kind of some childhood trauma I was projecting on to others!"
"Oooooooohhhhhhhh!" The witches reacted.
"And, I have an escape plan."
Later, in the council chamber which turned out to be the Sports hall. The residents of New Hexside sat on the bleachers either side of the hall while Pacifica stood front and centre with her hands cuffed behind her. Boscha was sitting on her ginormous throne dressed in her dressing gown and a towel on her head with Miki and Roka on either side of her.
Boscha was on the throne analysing some of the weapons that Pacifica brought in. She was analysing her laser gun. She aimed it at the wall and shot it, causing a burning hole to appear.
"Okay, I'm keeping this." Boscha declared.
"No you're not." Pacifica argued.
"Shut up!" The small little red demon known as Miki demanded. "Let mistress Boscha do the talking!"
"Okay, Kiki." Pacifica said.
"What?!" Miki exclaimed angrily while sweat began to drip down her head.
"Oh sorry, I meant, Mikimora!"
Miki began to sweat nervously before she turned to Boscha. "Uh….Begin the trial, quick!"
"Okay, Miki, I got it." Boscha said. "Now, let's talk about the hellephant in the room. Yes! I am in my dressing gown. I just got out of the shower and I was too impatient to get changed. Because the trial of the century is on today. This human over there, was caught breaking and entering our Utopia with intent on stealing our food and wasting our hot water."
"Says the one, hogging it." Mattholomue grumbled in the audience.
"Now human, you best have some kind of explanation for this." Boscha said. "Because we can stay here all day until I am satisfied and no bathroom breaks."
Edric panicked. "Oh no! Why did she need to say that?!"
"So, human, start from the beginning!" Boscha folded her arms and crossed her legs, implying to the human that she was paying attention.
Pacifica took a deep breath. "Okay, but in order to understand the full context, I'll need to start at the beginning. It began a few months ago. I was driving in my car straight towards my job as a waitress for a diner…."
And so for the next three hours, Pacifica was telling the story of everything that had happened. Such as how she met Hunter, Andrias and his plans, the Calamity trio, the forging of the Fellowship of the Box, Malsacc, her adventure in Amphibia, the Bodywalker incident, the battle of Earth, Anne defeating Andrias and the Core, Anne's death, Anne's resurrection, being disconnected from Amphibia, the forging of the Fellowship of the Isles, meeting Eda and everything that had happened on the Day of Unity.
"….And so for the last few months, Alador still hasn't returned and I've been running out food and water." She looked to bleachers and noticed Viney comforting Edric and Emira, whom were both crying over Amity's death. She then looked back at Boscha. "So, I hope my story has shed some light on things. I'm just desperate for food and warm water."
During the talk, she had tried to break out of her cuffs by doing a trick Stan had taught her, but it wouldn't work. She needed a new plan and fast.
Boscha inhaled. "So, Amity's dead?"
"Yeah. Your old friend is dead." Pacifica noticed the three eyed witch shed some tears that she quickly wiped away.
"Woah, that was a story." Jerbo remarked.
Barcus barked. "Sounds long enough for a four part book series."
"Uh! Your story is heartbreaking I must admit." She said, trying to act tough. "I'm sorry that you're trapped here unable to see your boyfriend. But it isn't enough to save you from the detention pit."
"What?!" Pacifica exclaimed.
"Miki told me that throwing you out there would be worthless." Boscha explained. "You need to stay here to be safe and the safest for you is the detention pit."
"It's true." Miki said. "We can't have our master lose more people. Like her Grudgeby team and now her best friend."
"Shut up!" Boscha demanded as she hid her face in the towel that she pulled down from her head.
Pacifica narrowed her eyes at the three eyed witch. "Safe?! Safe?! You call this, 'Utopia', safe?!"
"Yes." Boscha replied without any kind of argument.
"Wow! Not even an argument." Pacifica said. "You can't even have a reason."
"Boscha's reason is enough to protect us!" Miki argued.
"Is it?!" Pacifica argued. "You have people arguing for food, a lack of warm water and worst of all, the Boiling Isles in control of a childlike god and you're just sitting there trying to look good!"
"What do you even know, human?!" Boscha asked angrily. "You've never been in my situation."
In that moment, Pacifica grinned. "Actually, I have. Though during the apocalypse on my world, I had to wear a potato sack instead of being a ruler. But I wore the hell out of it if you can believe it."
"I don't." Boscha said.
"I do!" Mattholomue exclaimed.
"Shut up, Matt!" Boscha commanded.
"Oh Boscha! Boscha, Boscha, Boscha." Pacifica shook her head as if she was disappointed. "I've been in your very shoes." Boscha quickly snatched her Grudgeby ball from next to her throne and began to squeeze it as the human spoke. "All I cared about was status, ruling and being feared. But all I was doing was allowing people to abuse me, manipulate me and allow my vulnerability to be taken advantage of." In her anger, the ball began to light ablaze. The human noticed this and looked worried for a moment but decided to continue as she thought of something. "Yeah! You're not tough. You're just a scared vulnerable child lashing out and drowning yourself in your codependency issues. I get you and Amity were friends before, but was she your friend? Did she really care for you? Because I can tell you one thing I know about being a former mean girl like her, she never did."
Boscha slammed her fist down on one of the armchairs. "Enough!" She tossed her Grudgeby ball straight towards the human.
Luckily, Pacifica used some quickly reflexes to jump high, move her arms under her feet which caused the ball to hit the chains of her cuffs, causing her to be free of them.
Boscha growled while Pacifica grinned. "Shouldn't let anger get the best of you, kid." Pacifica said before reaching into her shirt and pulling out the Easy Get Away Flash Bang.
She tossed it on the floor, causing a blinding flash that every student hid from while Pacifica ran out of the doors.
The resulting flash bang caused a majority of the students to be blinded, including Edric, Miki, Boscha and Jerbo.
"Everyone who wasn't blinded, go get her or otherwise you all be thrown into the detention pit!" Boscha commanded while covering her eyes.
"You got it!" Skara said before she, Viney, Mattholomue, Barcus and a few other students who weren't blinded began to chase her.
"Guys! What's going on?!" Edric asked. "Emira, what do you see?"
"Darkness!" Emira replied.
"OMT! So do I!" Edric screamed.
Meanwhile, Pacifica was running for her life, being chased by a bunch of tween and teen witches intent on bringing her to Boscha.
While chasing her, a majority of them tried trapping them in vines that she manoeuvred around. And she even slid under an Abomination that tried to grab her in its sticky hands.
Then, Pacifica began to run down a corridor of lockers and began stroking each one while trying to find one of the secret doors.
"Come on! Come on!" As she did, one of the lockers managed to bite her hand, causing a bite mark to appear on her hand. "Ow!"
"Yeah, they do that!" Viney exclaimed while chasing her.
"In my world, our lockers don't have teeth!" Pacifica said.
"What?!" Skara asked angrily.
"So humans get the teeth-less locker while we get the teeth locker?!" Mattholomue asked angrily.
"Yeah, this is not making the situation better!" Pacifica said before a fireball gets thrown at her which she avoided.
"Sorry! I'm jealous!" Skara said.
"That's okay!"
"I really don't want to chase you but I have no choice!"
"That's okay, really!" The human assured her.
She had been chased around the school for the last three minutes and she needed a new plan, stat. "So if lockers don't have teeth, then don't wrist watches in your world not have teeth?!" Viney asked.
"They don't and can we stop talking while you're chasing me?!" Pacifica then thought of a bright idea at the mention of wristwatches. She looked at the invisible watch that was on her wrist and groaned in annoyance. "I can't believe this might save my life again." She took a deep breath and pushed on the watch.
This caused her, except her clothes to turn invisible. This baffled the students while they continued chasing her.
"Uh….Is this an escape plan?" Viney asked. "Uh….You're invisible but you're not fully invisible."
Then, the invisible force began to remove all the clothes that were all over them and tossing them all over the school. First the shirt, then the pants until finally, the socks were the last thing that were off.
The students stopped in their tracks and were baffled. "Hey, where did she go?" One of the students asked.
"Keep your eyes out for anything that moves." Mattholomue requested. "It could be our target that is rude and nude."
"She was never rude to us, Matt." Viney pointed out.
"I know, I just wanted to say that." Mattholomue said. "You have to admit it's a fun rhyme."
Then, the doors flung wide open which meant that the naked invisible woman had just escaped the building.
"Stop her!" Viney commanded.
But before the students could go out to chase her, they were stopped by the Collector's spy that was outside the building. It giggled with a sinister childlike innocence, causing the students to freeze in fear.
"Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!" Mattholomue commanded before he and the other students made a run for it. "This is why we close the doors people! This is why!"
One hour later, after spending about twenty minutes running back to Blight manor, invisible and bare, she returned and managed to fit herself in some clothes.
Well, to the best of her abilities. Emira's small pyjamas did cause a bit of exposure to the legs and boney abdomen. Plus, she bandaged where the locker bit her hand.
She sat on the couch reading the first Good Witch Azura as a way to pass the time and to not be bored.
In that moment, even after that tiny bit of food, Pacifica knew that she was done for. She was going to starve to death. So, she might as well just do something while dying.
She heard her stomach do an angry growl. But not as angry as this morning. She sighed in frustration and relief as she patted her abdomen which strangely sounded more hollow than before.
"We had a bit of food, don't worry. I wish I could have consumed more but this is what we got." Pacifica sighed. "Bread and whatever was in that burger. I'd go back, but that three eyed bitch is in charge and is striking fear on to all of the students there. Especially the ones that want to help me."
"Who says that we don't?" Pacifica screamed and fell off the couch. She stood up and turned around to see none other than Mattholomue, Barcus, Viney and Emira in the living room. "Did you really think we'd allow Boscha to tell us not to help you?"
"By the way, are those my clothes?" Emira asked.
"And were you talking to your stomach just now?" Viney asked.
Barcus barked. "Girl, you have lost it."
"What are you kids doing here?" She asked. "How did you get in?"
"Well, your clothes that you left behind were able to help us track you down." Mattholomue replied. "Thanks to Barcus and his nose we found your secret entrance."
Barcus barked. "Snapdragons, nice."
"I mean, what you did today was amazing!" Viney exclaimed. "I mean, turning yourself invisible except for your clothes before you took them off therefore becoming officially invisible. I mean, if that were visible, I doubt that would have left my mind."
"What are you doing here?" Pacifica asked. "Doesn't Boscha want me dead?"
"Boscha does want you dead." Emira replied. "So, we're gonna lie to her and say that you starved to death while we're actually here helping you."
Mattholomue reached into his backpack and pulled out some bread, seeds, uncooked meat, nuts and herbs. "This is what I could salvage. Try and salvage them and try not to eat them all at once."
Emira then placed some clothes on the table. "These are some clothes belonging to the teachers. Plus, we found some uniforms that are your size. I doubt you'd want to wear more clothing that doesn't come in your size."
"Hey, your clothes might cause a little midriff to show, but they still fit." Pacifica argued before she heard a tear sound. She looked behind her and noticed that there was a small tear on the shoulder of her pyjama shirt. She looked at Emira, who looked pretty annoyed. "That wasn't your favourite shirt by any chance, right?"
"It was top three." Emira replied with her arms folded.
Viney began to remove the bandage from the human's hand which she tried to resists at first, but the student raised her hand. "It's okay. I'm just looking at your bite mark. Could be infected." She re,over the bandage and cringed. "Ooooooh! That's not good.l
"Why?" The human asked with worry. "Is it infected?"
"Well, when a bite from a locker or filing cabinet is this deep, it means you're probably going to turning into one." Viney replied before looking down. "Ah, it appears it's already started."
Pacifica looked to where Viney was looking at and noticed that there was now a handle right next to her belly button. This surreal sight made Pacifica stare at it with confusion and fear.
"Okay, that handle wasn't there before." Pacifica said before she pulled the handle on her stomach which then caused it to open like a door.
But it didn't open to human organs, it instead, opened to a dark black void that was making some sinister growling noises.
Then, Pacifica slammed it shut and began to sweat nervously. "Do you have a remedy that works?"
Viney reached into her pocket and pulled out an elixir. "Just one gulp and you'll be fine."
The human woman did as what the witch was told and took a large gulp of the elixir. She gagged after she had finished. "Uh! Tastes like bugs!"
"Well, you're right." Viney said. "Anyway, look."
Pacifica looked down at her stomach and saw that the handle that was on her stomach, was gone. "Thanks, kid."
"You're welcome."
"Me and Barcus are going to do the plumbing." Mattholomue declared. "You'll have hot water in no time."
"Thanks." Pacifica said before turning to Emira. She exhaled a sad sigh. "Listen, Em, I'm sorry for you sister."
"It wasn't your fault." Emira assured her. "Just glad Belos is dead and Amity at least died fighting him."
"Wait, why are you kids helping me?" She asked. "Am I a risk?"
Viney blew a raspberry. "Don't worry. You may be a risk, but any person who's a friend of Gus, Hunter, Willow, Amity and Luz, is a friend of ours we need to help."
The human seemed surprised by this and gave a relieved smile. "Thank you guys."
"But, I do suggest you stay well away from New Hexside for a while." Viney said. "Boscha has an obsession with you."
Back at Hexside, Boscha was marching around her private quarters. "Oooooohhhh! That human better be dead! She could get in the way of my plan for a perfect Utopia! But if her or anyone gets in my way, I will show them what happens when you mess with a leader!"
Miki then walked in the room. "Boscha we need to…." She stopped talking when she saw what Boscha was wearing. She was currently wearing Pacifica's clothes though they were a little too big for her. "Uh….."
"What?!" Boscha sniffed the shirt. "It smells of snapdragons!" Miki was about to leave the room. "Miki, get someone to cut these clothes to my size. I might not like a lot of humans but I can't deny their amazing fashion sense."