Luz Clawthorne: Two Worlds, One Family

by JP-Ryder

Co-Author with BuckJohnson. After the events of Book One, the Clawthornes have two new guests to take care of. While Luz gets used to some changes and Amity does some soul-searching, new dangers come to the Boiling Isles. Will Luz and her family be able to stop Belos and save their home? Will explore dark topics and themes.

32. Chapter 68: Understanding Odalia

This chapter's going to be quite different…

This is the from now on disclaimer: All characters from Disney and other properties are owned by their respectful owners. The O.C.s made here are written entirely for the story. Enjoy this fic.

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Chapter 68: Understanding Odalia

The alarm clock screamed before getting knocked over by the hand of Odalia Blight. The woman got out of bed, looking like a mess. She turned and noticed that her husband wasn't in bed with her… again. Which wasn't that unusual, since in the past there were plenty of occasions where Odalia decided to stay up in his lab to work on his inventions rather than go to bed with her. It was a behavior she was used to. But at least with those incidents, Alador wasn't intentionally trying to avoid her like he was now, seeking any excuse to stay away from home and his wife.

After getting out of bed, she looked into the empty hallway. It was less noisy than she was used to. Ed and Em weren't fighting over the bathroom while Amity was waiting for her turn. She had it all to herself. The whole house, the bathroom, the Abomi-butler…

Oh wait, the Abomi-butler can't work without Alador or Amity.

After preparing herself up in the bathroom, she didn't bother with her unkempt hair or put on her makeup. She was still suffering from the after effects of a recent apple blood induced hangover. As she went down to the living room of the mansion she saw that the floor was covered with bottles of apple blood that she had gotten from the cellar.

She sat at the table, summoning a spirit from her pendent to go make something to eat. All the ghost could give to Odalia were a tray of heated hag browns.

"Is that all you could find?" she asked the ghost, who just shrugged. So she just settled with eating them while drinking the last ounces of her apple blood. "Crystal."

The crystal ball next to the table glowed. "Yes, how may I help you?" it spoke in a female robotic sounding voice.

"Contact my husband, Alador," Odalia ordered.

"Your call can not be answered at the time. This is the twelth time you have tried to contact ALADOR BLIGHT," Crystal the automated crystal ball stated, making Odalia sigh.

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At Blight Industries, Odalia was heading to her office, being pestered by her employees every step of the way.

"Here's your approved documents, Mrs. Blight."

"I needed those, now leave," Odalia said.

"Mrs. Blight, just got a call from a complaint about one of our products-"

"Tell them we will send in a replacement," Odalia intercepted.

"Ma'am, the Emperor's Coven wants these improved designs for the Abomatons-"

"Hieron Labs stocks are going down, while we're still high up, ma'am!"

"Felicity Fox is still trying to contact us-"

The noise was placing a strain on the woman's head, so Odalia walked faster until she made it to her office, shutting the door behind her and leaving her employees without a response. She sighed. Without Alador around, she has been left with more work than usual.

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Scal-Mart was the only superstore by Merlin Meadows, one of the more urban towns in the Arm, to have the finest apple blood and apple wine Odalia could have. She chose three full crates and waited for the cashier to register the purchase.

"Must be some party you're throwing in, eh?" asked the cashier. Odalia said nothing in response as the cashier asked her for her card.

Odalia set the crates on a cart and was about to leave the building. That is, until someone intercepted her.

"Mrs. Odalia Blight, how good it is to finally make your acquaintance," said a biped warthog demon with a hefty appearance and wearing a business vest and a suit. "Now you may not recognize me, but I am a humble businesswitch just like yourself. Tibbler Grimmhammer the Second." He extended his hand to her.

Odalia cringed at the biped warhog demon. "I'm not interested, so leave my presence at once," she told him while walking past him.

"I have heard about your family troubles, Mrs. Blight," he brought up, causing Odalia to stop and turn to glare at him. "Now, I know how much of a touchy subject that is. But when was the last time they've talked to you?"

"What does it matter to you, Grimhammer, was it?" she questioned.

"Let's just say that I can relate to your situation," Grimhammer explained. "Family can be very… disappointing. But, the thing about family is that you can choose who you see as family. Why stick with blood relatives who bring nothing to the table when you choose someone actually deserving of your time?" He pulled out a card and handed it to her. "If you're interested in finding a new family, perhaps we could be business partners."

Odalia looked at the card and frowned. "Forget it, I'm not interested in whatever you're offering."

"Are you sure you want to do that, Grunhar?" Grimhammer asked, causing her eyes to widen. "Yeah, that's right. I know much about your history, Odalia, and if you don't accept my offer, what will you have instead? Your husband doesn't seem to hold you in high regards these days and your children have practically disowned you, literally in the case of your youngest. I wouldn't be surprised if Alador was smart enough to slam you with a divorce, causing you to lose everything. And without the Blight name, you'd be crawling back to the gutter you came out of." He snorted. "And you wouldn't want to die a gutter dweller like your parents, wouldn't you?" He turned to leave. "Just think about it."

Odalia checked the card, looking Grimhammer's name and number. She was silent as she thought about what the warthog demon had told her.

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After returning home, Odalia cursed herself for not taking an Abomaton with her, which meant she had to use her Oracle magic to lift the heavy crates of apple blood instead, the levitation spells putting a strain on her.

Once she made it to her front porch, she noticed that the front door was already partially open. "What the…?" she asked herself as she opened it and saw people in the house waiting for her. "Oh hex me."

"Odalia," Calypso said. She was in the living room with her husband Slasher, the Regals, the Harwitches, and Athena. "We need to talk."

"How in the actual hell did you get in here? And through my security?" Odalia demanded, only to hear a voice she recognized.

"Um, that would be me," Geist said as he stepped into the living room. He scratched the back of his neck nervously, though his face looked worried. "Hey, sis."

"Should've known since you have the spare key," Odalia sighed.

"Actually, I lost my spare key so I asked the twins for theirs," Geist admitted before getting back on topic. "But Odalia, we all gathered here because we're worried about you."

"What?" Odalia said dryly, glaring at her twin brother. This was the first time they were together in the same room for a while.

"Look Odalia, this is an intervention," Calypso said while walking towards her. "You haven't returned our calls and seeing all of these bottles laying around, it is obvious that you have a drinking problem and that it is tied to your family issues." Odalia didn't respond as she felt Calypso's hand patting her shoulder. "I have been in a similar position before, Odalia. It is why I can recognize that you need help."

But Odalia swatted Calypso's hand away. "And why do you care?" she demanded angrily. "As you said it yourself, we're not 'friend-friends'. None of us are and that hasn't changed!"

"It doesn't mean we don't care about your well being, Odalia," Slasher said.

"And all of this excessive drinking is not good for you, you're not even drinking under moderation," Swan notes at the bottles laying on the floor.

"That's right, and I also wrote a note about my feelings that I wish to read-" Harlan said but Odalia just shouted at them.

"Oh don't act like you all pretend that you care!" Odalia shouted. "You're not really trying to help, you're just trying to take advantage while you think I'm weak and vulnerable!"

Athena tried to reason with her. "Odalia, that's not what we-"

"I don't need any of you to tell me how to live my life!" Odalia declared. "So why don't you all go back to your families and leave me alone! Like I'm going to take drinking advice from a former drunkard!" She pointed to Calypso before glaring at everyone else. "Or listen to Nicole's former lackeys!"

"Odalia, please." Geist walked up to her. "I know that we haven't spoken for a while, but I came here for the sake of your children and because I'm your brother. Despite our differences, you're still family, Odalia. So if you just-"

"Just leave," Odalia hissed at him, "Abomi-butler, get these uninvited guests out of here!" she declared, only to get no response. "Of course… spirit, get them out!" She tapped her pendant as a large ghost sprang out from it, using its power to levitate everyone but Odalia out of the house.

"LEAVE," the ghost said before slamming the door behind them.

"Odalia, please!" Geist begged from outside. "Come on, sis, you're only hurting yourself!" He got no response, which made him sigh sadly.

"I'm sorry this didn't turn out like we thought it would, Geist," Calypso told him.

"No, Caly, it's… I just hope we've gotten through to her at least a little bit," Geist said sadly.

"Maybe we can try again at some other time," Zebra suggested.

"I never got to read my feelings note," Harlan complained while Mary patted his back.

"There, there, maybe next time," Mary told him as everyone walked away from the manor.

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"Good for nothing brother and so-called friends," Odalia muttered as she sat on the couch, pulling out the cork of her bottle of apple blood. She had her hair down as she started to drink excessively. "I mean, there's no harm in drinking this stuff. Eda does it all the time, bet she drank ten jugs of this."

Suddenly, the crystal ball glowed blue. "You have an incoming message from the spirit realm."

Odalia looked at the orb. "What? Who's trying to contact me?"

"Griffin and Gretchen Grunhar."

Her eyes widened. "What? It can't be… reject the message."

"Message coming through now," Crystal said as the orb brought out a cloud of smoke.

"No, reject!" Odalia repeated, but it was too late as the cloud of smoke formed into the two beings that she dreaded seeing the most. She groaned. "Ugh."

"Is that any way to greet your parents, young lady?" asked a ghostly green man with a rectangular face, a goatee, unkempt hair, and a long overcoat with a ghostly tail.

"And is this where you live now?" asked a ghostly woman in a criticizing manner. She had hair that was tied in a bun, green lips, and a fox coat with a ghostly tail. "When we heard that you married a Blight, we didn't expect this house to be trashy."

"Why are you two here?" Odalia questioned them with a glare.

"Look, it's not like we wanted to come here but we were told to do so," Griffin said while looking at the family portrait. "Are these your kids? Titan, they're so skinny."

"What do you mean you were being told to come here?" Odalia demanded to know while Gretchen floated towards her.

"Well, Odie, we were confronted by some deities in the spirit world," Gretchen told her. "They told us that we were going to be summoned to meet you, and we asked them 'why would we be summoned? Odalia doesn't need us.' But they insisted that we pay a visit to you."

"What… why would these deities be interested in me? Am I becoming a god or something?" Odalia asked, only to receive laughter from them.

"A-hoho, oh… that's a good one," Griffin laughed. "No, no, they told us to tell you that because of your current situation and circumstances, you will be visited by three spirits assigned to show you the errors of your ways."

"These kinds of spirits usually show up for the holidays for those like you, but this is a special occasion," Gretchen explained.

"What do you mean? What could these spirits want from me?" Odalia asked them, looking concerned.

"These spirits always come after rich folk that they refer to as a 'Code Scrooge'," Griffin told her. "You will be visited by the spirits of the Past, Present, and Future. So be prepared for their arrival, because we don't think you'll have that much time left."

This really concerned Odalia. "Not much time? What do you mean?" she asked them, only for her parents to be sucked back into the spirit realm. "Wait!"

"Looks like our time is up," Gretchen said as she was being pulled into the floor.

"Remember what we said, Odalia!" Griffin told her while being sucked back as well.

"Wait! What do you mean I won't have that much time left!?" Odalia demanded while lowering herself to her knees and angrily punching the floor. "Crystal, can you bring then back?"

"Your summoning request cannot be fulfilled," Crystal told her, making Odalia frustrated.

"Whatever!" Odalia said as she marched back to the couch and laid on it. "Getting contacted by spirits is no big deal. I've dealt with spirits in my life, I'm from the fucking Oracle Coven!" she said to herself.

She brought out her apple blood bottle and drank from it. "How inadequate… if I'm going to be haunted it'll be my own ghost," she said while her eye twitched, she sounded more drunk from each sip. "I mean, I'm rich, what am I afraid of? I could just… just…"

And then she started to throw up before blacking out completely.

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"Hey, wake up."

Something kept pelting her on the forehead. Odalia groaned and started to wake up to the sight of biped cricket holding an umbrella that he had used to wake her up. "Oh, glad to see that you're finally awake, Odalia. The name's- WAH!" He was almost hit by a swat from Odalia's hand.

"Ugh, bugs. I hate bugs," Odalia said as Jiminy Cricket hopped onto a shelf.

"Now hold on there, you don't have to swat me like that," he told her. "The name's Jiminy Cricket, and I will be your guide as the Spirit of the Past."

Odalia blinked. "You're one of those spirits my parents told me about?" she asked him.

"That's correct!" Jiminy said while showing his certified ribbon to her.

"Oh, I thought you'd be taller." Odalia said crudely, which Jiminy took offense to.

"Well now, if witches were measured by kindness, you'd be no bigger than a speck of dust," Jiminy countered while Odalia rolled her eyes.

"Please, I'm a witch; in this realm kindness is nothing more than a weakness," Odalia said while turning away. "What do you think I had to do to get this high up in society? The sacrifices I had to make?"

"Well, that's exactly what I intend to see," Jiminy told her as he hopped towards a window and opened it. "Now let's go, you could use some fresh air." He opened his umbrella.

"What do you intend to do, fly me around with that small umbrella?" Odalia questioned while grabbing onto Jiminy, who winced from the strong grip.

"This isn't a regular umbrella," he said as the umbrella started to glow and he flew up, Odalia being pulled out of the window.

"Wait… wait, what are we-!?" Odalia was levitated with Jiminy, who used the umbrella to fly them out of the manor. "AAAH!" she screamed, realizing they were soaring above the Boiling Isles.

"I thought you capitalists are used to looking down!" Jiminy joked while Odalia was in a panic.

"Put me down, put me down!" she shrieked before she noticed some buildings in Bonesborough starting to disappear while they flew overhead. "What… why are the buildings disappearing?" she asked while passing by Hieron Labs which faded into a smaller building while Blight Industries became nothing more than a spell. "Wait, this is…"

"A time travel spell," Jiminy explained. "Don't worry, we're not physically in the past, we're just in the shadows of what once was. So we're unable to interact with anyone or change anything. However, from seeing what has already happened, there is a lesson to be learned!" he declared as he and Odalia made it to a certain point of time. "And it looks like we've found our destination!"

As they landed, Odalia saw that she and Jiminy were in a past version of Bonesborough. The woman spotted a young, pre-teen girl with mint green hair tied to a bun, wearing a witch's scout uniform and pulling a wagon full of boxes of cookies. "That is…"

"Yes, that's you when you were young," Jiminy confirmed. "Your humble beginnings."

The young Odalia found a house and knocked on the door. When the house owner answered it, she cleared her throat.

"Excuse me, kind witch, I'm from the witch's scouts and I think that it is in your best interest-" The door was slammed in her face.

At the next house, she tried again. "If I could just have your ti-" The door slammed in her face again. And it happened at each house she visited. "These cookies-" SLAM! "You must hear-" SLAM! "If you just-" SLAM!

After the last house, the young Odalia sighed and headed for the rendezvous point. There she met up with her brother, a young Geist who was also wearing the witch's scouts uniform while eating one of the boxes of cookies.

"No luck either?" young Odalia asked him before she noticed him eating the products. "We are supposed to sell those, Geist!"

"I got hungry and I ran out of snails for a not-dog," he said, causing his sister to sigh stressfully.

"Let's just go home," the young Odalia told him while she and her brother made their way outside of Bonesborough, heading down the road to a small cottage in the woods.

Odalia and Jiminy were in front of the cottage, Odalia watching her younger self and her brother heading back. "Never thought I'd see my old childhood home again," she commented.

"Before you became the witch you are today, this is the witch you were before," Jiminy said as he indicated for Odalia to look through the window at her younger self and brother being confronted by their parents.

"Oh, you kids are back. Did you manage to make any snails?" their father asked.

"This is what we've managed to come up with," the young Odalia said while showing how little they had.

"Two snips and a puppy dog tail? Not even a snail?" Griffin scoffed at the silver and copper coins. "Me and your mother found more by just looking in the gutters!"

"It's true, we've found at least five snails dropped into those gutters today," Gretchen said while filing her nails.

"And this isn't even enough to pay back those uniforms!" he scolded them.

"W-Well, we tried our best-" Geist tried to say but Griffin wasn't having any of it.

"Trying your best is never enough! Now go to your room, there won't be any canned goods for you two tonight!" Griffin pointed to their rooms, causing the two children to do as they're told.

"Not the most stable childhood, is it?" Jiminy asked Odalia. "Your family frequently had financial troubles and your parents regularly forced you and your brother to get involved in their get-rich-quick schemes."

In the siblings' bedroom, the young Odalia was crying while Geist tried to comfort her.

"We were just trying our best," Odalia cried as she sniffed. "He didn't have to yell at us."

"Hey, it's fine, sis," Geist told her. "I'm sure that we'll find a way to make more snails to keep dad out of our hair." He then had an idea on how to comfort his sister. "Hey, you wanna see another illusion cartoon I've made?"

The young Odalia nodded and Geist created the illusions of a cartoon mouse chasing a cat with a large hammer. This brought a smile to the young girl as she watched the mouse chasing after the cat.

"Your brother was your rock back then, wasn't he?" Jiminy asked while Odalia nodded.

"He always knew how to cheer me up, even when times were hard," Odalia said before they found themselves in the living room, where she saw her younger self trying to convince her parents to let her attend Hexside.

"Come on, just let me and Geist enroll at Hexside!" the young Odalia pleaded with her parents. "We can learn so much there!"

"I'm not sure, why not attend Glandus?" Griffin suggested. "That school will toughen you kids up and help you learn to be more assertive."

"Of course you wanted to send me to Glandus," the older Odalia said to her father even though he couldn't hear her. She saw that her younger self looked terrified for her life at the thought of going to Glandus.

"But dad, Hexside has a better Oracle Track! And if I end up joining the Oracle Coven, it could bring in a lot of money while Geist could become a great show-witch with his illusions, since there has been a demand for illusionists in the entertainment industry," the younger Odalia explained.

"Glandus also has Oracle and surprisingly Illusions Track as well," Griffin pointed out. "But, if you're so determined in wanting to go to Hexside, I'll cut you a deal. See these?" He pointed to some boxes full of weirdly circular objects with a pink, puffy top and a fleshy looking knob. "These are plumbuses that me and your mother tried to sell off through our telemarketing scam. If you and your brother manage to sell these off by the end of the week, then we'll consider getting you kids into Hexside."

"Don't worry, we won't let you down!" the younger Odalia declared.

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"We're gonna let them down," Geist said while he and the young Odalia were in their rooms with the boxes of plumbuses. "Like, we don't even know what these things do. Like, is it a frisbee or a sponge…?"

"We'll worry about how it works later, we just gotta figure out a way to convince customers to buy these things," the young Odalia said.

"It's going to be impossible," Geist replied. "Why can't we just rob a bank and call it a day?"

"No, that won't work," the young Odalia dismissed. "Maybe what we need is to change our approach." While thinking she took notice of her bored brother making more illusions, one with spinning orbs. This gave the young Odalia an idea. "Wait, that's it!"

"What's it?" Geist asked her.

"Rather than going to the customers, we should bring the customers to us!" Odalia said. "What we need is a hook…"

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Odalia and Jiminy now found themselves in Bonesborough's marketplace. There they see the young Odalia and Geist having set up stacks of crates to form a stand that the two kids were now standing on top of, calling out to the marketplace for their attention.

"Attention, witches, demons alike!" the young Odalia shouted and right on cue Geist showed off his flashy illusions, creating fireworks. This has caused the denizens of the marketplace to turn toward the two Grunhar children. "Do you all feel like your life is missing something?" Geist cast an illusion of question marks. "Do you feel that your life has no meaning? Do you feel unfilled, like no matter what you never have enough to be happy?"

"Yeah, I feel that way all the time." spoke one of the crowd.

"Then we have the answer to your insignificant lives, with this!" The young Odalia waved her hands as Geist cast an illusion of the plumbus. "The Plumbus!"

"Oooh." The crowd were pleased by the show.

"The Plumbus is a must have for every home!" the young Odalia declared while Geist kept up with the illusions of the plumbus, including illusions of cartoon characters holding plumbuses. "Your home won't be complete without one! Your life won't be complete without one! And more importantly, if you buy one you can shove it in the face of your neighbor who doesn't have one, which will make you feel better and yourself and your own life! Discover for yourself everything that the plumbus can do for you! But it is available for a limited time only!"

This got the crowd talking as they brought out their snails. "How much for one?"

"I'll give you five snails for one!"

"I'll give out six, no, ten! I need one!"

The crowd walked past or through Odalia and Jiminy in order to get to the crate of plumbuses, which were now selling like hotcakes. Amongst the crowd was Dusty Bringems. "Boy, I sure am gonna love these plumbuses!" he declared.

"Your first sale, this is where it all began with your brother," Jiminy said.

"And it remains one of my finest sales," Odalia replied, "Me and Geist made enough to impress dad and get him to agree to send us to Hexside. This is how I became a good businesswoman and showwoman. I had to in order to get what I wanted from my parents for myself and Geist. My parents never gave anything to me and my brother for free. Everything came with a price."

"Hmm, and you don't see the irony of this?" Jiminy commented.

"What do you mean?" she asked, only for Jiminy to use his umbrella to fast forward.

The scene shifted to the younger Odalia and Geist waiting for the bus, both wearing their Hexside uniforms. Odalia had Oracle Track sleeves, while Geist was in Illusions. Geist looked excited while Odalia managed to contain her own excitement a lot better. Eventually, the flying large griffin bus came to pick them up and they got on.

"This is going to be great, sis. A new start at Hexside!" Geist said before he spotted a seat with fellow illusionists. "Gonna sit over there and make some friends," he said as he rushed over to the other Hexsidians.

The young Odalia smiled while she looked around for a seat. Older Odalia saw where her younger self was heading over to. "Oh, that…" the older woman said, seeing the younger Odalia sit next to the youngest Clawthorne sister.

Young Eda was just minding her own business until she sensed someone sitting beside her. She noticed Odalia, who was looking into her orb not paying attention to Eda. The Clawthorne looked at the other seats behind them, seeing that they were free. Eda then tapped on Odalia's shoulder.

"What?" young Odalia asked.

"Girl, this is an almost empty bus," Eda told her.

"...Okay…?"

"And you're sitting next to me!"

"So what? I can sit wherever I wa-"

"BITCH, MOVE!" Eda shouted, pushing Odalia out of her seat.

"AHH!" Young Odalia was shoved to the floor. "Ow…"

"Sorry about Edalyn," said another girl who helped young Odalia up. "My sister can be a bit… intense around strangers and about her personal space. I'm still sporting bruises from the last time I got pushed."

"Hopefully your sister knows how to apologize," young Odalia muttered as she ended up sitting next to the young Lilith. "Honestly, I was hoping for a better first impression with one of my new classmates."

"Oh, you're new?" the girl asked while adjusting her glasses. "Well, maybe I can give you a better first impression of Hexside." She extended her hand. "I'm Lilith Clawthorne."

"Odalia Grunhar, nice to meet you, Lilith," the young Odalia replied, shaking her hand.

"Now I remember," the older Odalia said. "This was how I met Lilith,"

"And it looks like you have her sister to thank for that," Jiminy noted as his umbrella fast forwarded to a certain point of time. "Though she wasn't the only friend you made at Hexside."

They were now in the cafeteria at Hexside, where the young Odalia was trying to enjoy her lunch. But then she heard young Eda standing on a table while shouting.

"Alright! Which one of you thieves stole my sister's lunch money!?" she demanded accusingly. "Oh, not gonna talk, huh? Well I hope you'll talk with my Abomination army!"

Eda summoned a bunch of Abominations, causing them to rise up and start creating chaos around the cafeteria with the younger Odalia caught in the crossfire.

"Edalyn, stop this!" Lilith begged her sister.

"Clawthorne!" cried out the young Nicole Hieron as she was body slammed by an Abomination.

"You wanna take on us?!" Samwitch Saltstar cried out as he wrestled with an Abomination, his sister Athena also fighting one.

Jiminy looked flabbergasted by the chaos. "Are things always this exciting in the Demon Realm?" he asked while Odalia just shrugged.

In her attempts to get away from the chaos, young Odalia tripped and fell in the path of an Abomination that was about to attack her. But before it could, she was grabbed by two abomi-hands that brought her away from the violence.

"Are you alright?" asked the young Alador Blight, who was with a young Darius Nightshade.

"Yes, thank you," Odalia responded.

"Get back, we have to save more from Eda's latest reign of terror!" Darius declared while using his own Abomination.

"I don't think Eda's the problem now," Alador pointed out as they watched the Abominations turn on Eda.

"Wait, stop! I command you!" Eda cried out while trying to control them, only to realize that they had gained sentience and turned on her.

The young Odalia made haste and went behind the table, looking back at the two boys who had saved her. She saw Alador and Darius work together to fight off against the rogue Abominations, which impressed the young Grunhar. "Who are they? They're amazing at Abominations."

"Oh that's Alador Blight and Darius Nightshade," spoke a young Zebra, who was in his Healing Track uniform and hiding behind the tables. "They're Hexside's best Abomination students. Hi, I'm Zebra, and I'm starting to regret stealing the Clawthorne's lunch money."

Jiminy fast forwarded to the next day, where Alador was leaving class with Darius. The two found the young Odalia waiting for them.

"Hey," the young Odalia said to them. "My name's Odalia Grunhar, and I just want to say thank you for saving me from yesterday's… Abomination incident."

"It is no problem," Alador said with a yawn.

"We're glad to be of help. In fact, this isn't the first time-" Darius waved it off, while helping Alador from falling asleep. "Whoa, careful, Alador."

"Is he alright?" the young Odalia asked.

"Oh, he'll be fine. It's just that he hasn't gotten any visits from the Sandman lately," Darius explained.

"I only refused to put sand in my eyes while I'm-yawn-busy," Alador said.

"I think I can help you with that," the young Odalia suggested, as she grabbed something from her lunch bag and handed it to him. It was a canister filled with some brew. "This is a special energy brew that I learned a recipe for. I sometimes drink it, but it looks like you need it more than I do right now. Consider this my way of paying you back for yesterday."

"Oh, thank you," Alador said as he accepted the gift.

"It looks like you quite enjoyed your time at Hexside," Jiminy said as he and the older Odalia walked forward, passing by her memories of Hexside. "You excelled in your studies."

They saw the young Odalia studying with young Lilith, then Odalia getting a passing grade after successfully summoning a spirit from her crystal ball.

"You made friends."

Fast forward to young Odalia hanging out with Alador and Darius on the school steps, the two boys were playing some kind of game with purple blobs that resulted in one hitting Alador's face. The three shared a laugh together, enjoying themselves.

"You supported those friends."

Young Odalia was shown sitting on the bleachers, supporting the Banshees during their Grudgeby game. There she watched the Clawthorne sisters along with Athena facing off against their Glandus rivals. Eda was shooting at her opponents with her fire magic and laughing maniacally while Lilith avoided traps as she rushed toward the goal with the ball. Odalia cheered for Lilith as she watched the Clawthorne send the ball through the goal.

"Go, Lilith!" the young Odalia cheered, impressed by Lilith's skills. Once Lilith turned around, pushing her hair back while waving at the crowd, the green-haired girl slightly blushed while turning back to hide it.

"Yeah, go Lilith!" shouted a biped bird demon with an afro, cheering from behind.

"You found your social circle within Hexside," Jiminy states as he and the older Odalia saw memories of young Odalia hanging out with her brother, Alador and Darius, and Lilith in addition to associating with other students in her track.

One memory saw young Odalia surpassing Nicole during their end of semester test, another memory was of a talent show where she and her brother sang together. "You had a lot of good times," Jiminy said. "But admittedly, there were bad times as well.."

They were at the front steps of the school again, where they saw the young Odalia comforting a young Alador.

"I'm sorry about what happened with Darius, Alador," Odalia told him, patting his back.

"Thank you," Alador responded, looking down sadly. "If only I could… talk things out with him."

"Alador," said a male voice.

The two looked up and the young Blight froze. Two shadows loomed over them. It was Arthur and Destiny Blight, the former having spoken. "What are you doing talking to… her?"

"She's my friend, dad," Alador told them.

"Um, hey… you must be Alador's parents. My name's Odalia-" The younger Odalia tried to introduce herself, but they interrupted her.

"We're familiar with what your family is, gutter trash," Arthur told her off. "You're just another bottom dweller trying to leech off the Blight family name in order to pull yourself out from the gutters where you were born, aren't you?"

"What? No, that's not it!" Odalia told him. "I'm just your son's friend, that's all!"

"Well dearie, if you insist on that, then you better not distract Alador from his studies," Destiny told her.

"Or else…" Arthur warned her, making Odalia feel inadequate.

The older Odalia sighed. "I remember this. Thank Titan that those two won't be a problem anymore."

Jiminy fast forwarded to another moment on the same steps. The younger Odalia and Lilith were seen together.

"You know Lilith, since we've been hanging out a lot lately, I've been wondering… if you would like to hold each other's grimoires together?" young Odalia asked.

"Are you… asking me out?" Lilith asked, while holding her hair nervously. "A-Are you sure? I mean, there's other witches that m-might be-"

"Lilith, I'm asking you," young Odalia told her, patting the Clawthorne's hand. "Would you like to perform this ritual to go out with me?"

Lilith smiled and also patted Odalia's hand. "Of course, Odalia. I would perform this ritual with you."

"Wait, this is how you asked her out?" Jiminy asked the older Odalia.

"It was a thing we used to do back then, it was a Generation Hex thing," Odalia commented.

A young Eda came out of Hexside and saw her sister with the younger Odalia. "….What the fu-?!"

Jiminy fast forwarded again to a memory of the young Odalia and Lilith walking home together. "Lilith was your first serious romantic relationship. She meant a lot to you back then, didn't she?"

The older Odalia didn't say anything. Instead she grimaced, having already realized what was coming next.

"Thanks for walking home with me, Lilith," the young Odalia told her girlfriend.

"No problem," Lilith replied while twirling her own hair. "So um, meet you at the bazaar to see the new Skathleen Turner movie this Saturday?"

"Of course," Odalia nodded before leaning forward to give Lilith a kiss, surprising the glasses-wearing Clawthorne girl.

"ODALIA!"

The moment was interrupted by the sound of Odalia's father, who had stepped outside and did not like what he saw. "You come in here this instant, young lady!" he said while levitating Odalia back into the house.

"Odalia!" Lilith tried to reach for her, but Odalia was already gone.

The scene shifted to the younger Odalia being scolded by her father, who marched back and forth while ranting.

"I can't believe you," he snarled. "I expected less from your brother, but you? You decided to go out with the daughter of a worthless Palisman carver?! How are you supposed to move up in the world that way?! Thanks to the Emperor's Coven, Palismen will soon be irrelevant!"

"Yes, which is why we never had Palismen of our own," Gretchen added. "Really, Odalia, you should've gone with the heir to the Blight's fortune! He seems like a nice young man to be with."

"Yeah, nice and rich, plus you already have that snail maker within your grasp!" Griffin agreed.

"Because I don't want to take advantage of Alador like that," Odalia told them. "He's my friend!"

Griffin groaned. "Ugh, sentiment. Odalia, you are never going to get anywhere with that attitude! And neither will marrying into a family of Palismen carvers! Don't you want to help your family get out of the gutters?"

"But mom, dad-"

"Oh for Titan's sake, stop being so selfish, Odalia, and think what's best for the family," Gretchen told her.

It was then Odalia raised her voice. "Lilith makes me happy! And isn't that what you should want? For me to be happy?"

"How much is that happiness worth?" Griffin asked, not liking her tone. "Anything material? How many snails can that happiness get you? More than what that Blight boy gets for his allowance? I doubt it. I know I didn't raise you to be this weak!"

The younger Odalia was in tears, realizing that she wasn't going to get through to her parents. "I hate you!" she shouted at them. "I hate both of you!"

SMACK!

Young Odalia was struck across the face and fell down the floor. Her father glared at her as he grabbed her arm, "Don't you speak to us like that, understand?!"

"Dad, stop!" Geist shouted as he came in, intervening as he pulled his dad away from his sister.

"Oh, you want to go too, son?" Griffin barked angrily.

"No, no this has gone far enough," Geist said as he helped his sister up, escorting her to their bedroom. "Come on, sis."

The older Odalia was feeling her own cheek, staring down at the floor while Jiminy looked at her sympathetically. He sighed and led Odalia to her and her brother's room. She saw her past self crying while her brother tried to comfort her.

"I'm so sorry, sis," Geist told her while casting a healing spell.

"T-Thanks, Geist," the younger Odalia replied while in tears.

"Do you want me to call Lilith so you can talk to her?" Geist asked her.

"No!" Odalia immediately refused. "I don't want her to see me like this."

"But… are you sure?" a concerned Geist asked.

"I don't want her to see me when I'm at my weakest," Odalia told him. "It's… it's better this way."

Jiminy fast forwarded to years later until they were at a funeral where pictures of Griffin and Gretchen Grunhar had been put on display, while their bodies had been placed into caskets. The young adult version of Odalia was dressed in black as she and her brother, along with Alador and a few others, had gathered on the shores of the Boiling Isles.

"Let these two depart from the world as their ashes become part of the Titan," spoke the minister of the Funeral Coven. "Will a family member do the honors?"

As the younger Odalia set aflame to her parent's caskets, her older counterpart watched the scene indifferently.

"How did your parents die?" Jiminy asked her.

The older Odalia scoffed. "You have a time traveling umbrella, why don't you use it to find out?"

After the ceremony, the younger Odalia and Geist stood there in silence as Alador walked up to them.

"Odalia, Geist," he said to the Grunhar siblings. "I just want to give you my condolences. I'm sorry for your loss."

"Thank you, Alador," the younger Odalia responded, shaking Alador's hand and revealing that there was a coven brand on her wrist.

"Yeah, we really appreciate you being here," Geist added as he shook Alador's hand.

"So what are you two going to do now?" Alador asked them.

"Well, our parents left us some money that we've decided to split. I plan on investing mine," the younger Odalia explained.

"I'm spending my half to open my dream lounge," Geist explained. "Say Odie, maybe you can help me pitch in, like we did at the talent show back at Hexside."

"And would've won if not for Eda's… pyromania show," the younger Odalia said, the mention of Eda causing the three to fall silent. Eda Clawthorne was still missing.

"Speaking of Eda, where's Lilith?" Alador asked the younger Odalia. "I'm surprised she's not here."

"Oh, she's too busy with the Emperor's Coven," the younger Odalia explained. "We still see each other from time to time but… right now, we hardly have time at all…"

Jiminy fast forwarded to a café where the young adult Odalia was with the young adult Lilith.

"I think we should break up," the past version of Odalia told Lilith, who looked shocked.

"What?" Lilith asked, her eyes widened.

The younger Odalia patted the Clawthorne woman's hand. "We barely see each other anymore because of how busy we've been with our careers lately. Things between us already aren't like how they used to be and… I don't want you to sacrifice everything that you have worked so hard for because of me. Don't tell me that you haven't been considering it as well."

"I have," Lilith confessed, looking down at Odalia's hand then up at Odalia. "I just didn't want to admit it."

"We're not kids anymore, Lilith, and it would be foolish to pretend otherwise," the younger Odalia said while pulling her hand back. "As adults, our priorities have to be different. We have to start thinking of the future instead of the past. I don't like saying this, but breaking up is in our best interests."

"Yes, our… future is more important than our relationship," Lilith reluctantly agreed.

The younger Odalia got up and patted Lilith's shoulder. "Will you be… okay, dear?"

"I think I'm going to be alright," Lilith waved it off. "Good luck with the Oracle Coven."

Odalia nodded. "And good luck with the Emperor's Coven… I am sorry that it has to end like this, even if it is necessary. I just don't want to be the one holding you back, Lilith. Especially since I really do think that you can be among the best."

"Thank you, Odalia," Lilith said as Odalia walked away from her. Once the younger Odalia was out of the café and Lilith couldn't see her anymore, tears started to steam from her eyes and she hugged her sides. She tried to keep herself together, but the break up still hurt.

"You broke things off with Lilith for your career and hers," Jiminy pointed out while the older Odalia looked away. "Do you… regret it?"

"Couples break up all the time," Odalia excused herself. "Don't get me wrong, I did love her once. But Lilith needed the chance to prove herself and… we're not kids. We couldn't make it work."

"One of the sacrifices you've had to make, then?" Jiminy asked. When Odalia didn't answer, Jiminy fast-forwarded once again. They found themselves in the headquarters of the Oracle Coven, a building known as Oracle Hall at uptown Bonesborough, where witches under the Oracle Coven come. The exterior was made out of see-through glass, while the insides of the buildings were filled with ghosts, crystal balls, and mirrors.

"This kinda reminds me of a modern corporate building," Jiminy commented.

"It's what the Oracle Coven is," Odalia said while a young Felicity Fox passed through them. "We use our abilities of future sight, palm reading, and spirit speaking to predict future trends, manipulate likely outcomes, and insert oracles in positions of power and influence. We don't just see the future here, we make the future. It's one of the most successful covens in the Isles."

"So a coven for capitalists, I see," Jiminy said while spotting the young adult Odalia walking with several other Oracle Coven members.

"Here, give these results to Coven Head Apollus," past Odalia told her co-worker. "Tell him that the Hocus stocks are going through the roof." She spotted one of her co-workers and went over to her. "Delara, are you feeling well?"

"I am, do not worry about me," a younger Delara said while looking more frail. "Even though the witch doctor suggested that I get some rest, I still need to finish these 'Inner Demon' reports." She walked by, trying not to pass out.

"Oh, I have… haven't thought of Delara in years," the current Odalia mentioned, looking down. "This was before she became Coven Head after uncovering Apollus's sexual assault and murder charges after the disappearance of Cass. In hindsight, he was a little creepy."

"Is that him over there?" Jiminy asked, pointing at the purple-skinned witch man dragging a body bag.

"Nothing to see here," Apollus told them. "Just doing some Coven Head business. Hey ladies, you know any Huey Luwitch?" he asked a passing woman.

As the younger Odalia walked around the Hall, passing by Orsan and other Oracle Coven members, she heard someone calling her name. "Odalia!" She turned around and saw Alador there, much to her surprise. He came straight over to her, looking very upset.

"Alador?" the younger Odalia questioned, concerned. "Alador, what's wrong?"

"I… I didn't know who else to turn to," Alador told her. "Do you… have time?"

"Of course, follow me," Odalia said as she took Alador somewhere private, an empty office space where they would be alone.

"I can't stand them any longer," Alador said while sitting on a chair. "My parents were always lax with the safety measures at Blight Industries. Accidents aren't uncommon, but this time…" His tears hit the floor. "My siblings are dead, Odalia. Alton… Alice… Ardon and Addy… they're all dead!"

Younger Odalia gasped and went to hug him. "Oh my Titan… Alador, I'm so sorry!"

Alador sniffed loudly. "I can't go back… there's no way I'm going back to them. I need to get away from them. But I don't know how, since they control my snail account. If they cut me off, I'll have nothing. Which is why I came to you."

The younger Odalia was silent for a moment before coming up with an idea. "Well, you are the most talented Abomination inventor that I know of. Your parents may own their company, but you own your talents. So if they are threatening to cut you off of their money, I would suggest simply starting up your own business. You don't need your parents to succeed. You never did."

"I don't know if I could do that," he admitted. "For Titan's sake, I don't know the first thing about running a business."

"Maybe I can help you with that," Odalia offered. "I have some expertise in that area and I helped my brother start his lounge, after all."

"I would appreciate your help," Alador said. "But where do we even start?"

"First, we need to generate interest in your potential business, hype it up!" Odalia said while noticing a flyer on a billboard. She went over to grab it, an idea popping in her head. "And I think I know just the way…"

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Ding-Ding-Ding!

A young Eyepatch was knocked out of the ring as the crowd cheered. The younger Odalia was amongst the spectators.

"And the winner of this year's Bonesborough Brawl is Alador Blight!" declared the referee as he gave Alador the Brawler's Belt.

"Booo!" Darius, who was in the crowd, booed at the Blight.

"Yay, go Alador!" cheered the two teenage girl witches, Shelly Snope and Goggles.

"The Bonesborough Brawl… where it started," the older Odalia said, looking around. "Wait… is that?"

In the distance, Eda could be seen laughing with Raine as the two were watching the match.

The younger Odalia got onto the arena, raising Alador's hand as she grabbed the mic. "What you just saw is a sneak peak at what the best Abominations inventor is capable of! Remember the name of Alador Blight, because you will be seeing it a lot more soon enough!" she declared as the crowd cheered. The two smiled at their victories.

"And so, a new Blight Industries got its start," Jiminy said as he fast forwarded to after the Brawl, where Alador asked the younger Odalia something that surprised her.

"You want me to be your business partner?" Odalia asked him.

"Of course," Alador nodded. "I just make things, I'm not good at talking to people or at running a business. But you know how to talk to people amongst other skills. I can't do this alone, Odalia. But if we work together, I think we could even rival Hieron Labs and SkullToys."

"Are you sure this is what you want, Alador?" Odalia asked him.

"Yes, I am," Alador said with a slight smile. "You've been watching out for me ever since Hexside. I know you well enough to realize that I can't do this without you, Odalia. And I do think we could make a good team."

The younger Odalia smiled back. "Then I would say that this is the beginning of a beautiful partnership."

"And so, your business partnership with Alador began," Jiminy said as he fast forwarded through time, he and Odalia watching her younger self and Alador's success as their version of Blight Industries was founded. One memory showed the younger Alador and Odalia showing off an Abomination invention up on stage, Odalia wearing a black top hat, purple suit and long gloves while holding up a crystal ball cane as she demonstrated Alador's inventions to the public. This was followed up by a series of newspaper articles praising them.

B.I. TIMES: "A New Blight Industries Shines!"

ORBS: "Alador and Odalia: The Next Gen of Business!"

"...This is Manylegs reporting to you from the Media Coven for the grand opening of the new and Safety Coven approved Blight Industries factory…!"

"According to reports, Dr. Blight's Factory has been shut down due to competition from-"

"-business at Blight Industries has skyrocketed-!"

"This is high profile celebrity Suzanne Somber showing you the Abomi-Size Treadmill, brought to you by Blight Industries-"

"Of course, as time went on your relationship with Alador became more than just a business partnership," Jiminy said while he and Odalia continued through her memories. "You may have seen him as a friend in school, but because of your company you two spent a lot more time together. And you depended on each other, valued each other and what they brought to the company. Because of that, your feelings began to change…"

They saw the younger Alador and Odalia looking over blueprints when their hands touched, causing the two to look rather embarrassed. Alador's face was especially red. Later, Odalia started to receive gifts from Alador and she decided to return the favor by sending him a coffee brew machine.

They then saw the dates that the younger Alador and Odalia used to go to, back when their romance was still young. Like the dinner dates and the trip to Palm Stings. Of course, they didn't call them dates. But that's what they were. In one memory the two were toasting each other with their blood wine glasses and in the next they were sharing a kiss under the moonlight.

Eventually during a Krampus party Alador proposed to Odalia and she accepted his proposal with a hug. This led up to their wedding, which was held by the newly appointed Coven Head, Delara.

"Do you, Alador, take Odalia as your wicked wife?" asked Delara.

"I do," Alador said.

"And do you, Odalia, take Alador as your wicked husband, through hardships, plagues and all?" Delara asked her.

"Yes, I do," the younger Odalia responded.

"Then by the power of the Titan, let these two tie this knot so they can be wedded as husband and wife," Delara declared as Alador and Odalia literally tied a knot on the ceremonial pillow while their friends, associates, and acquaintances clapped and cheered.

At the wedding dinner, Lilith walked up to the newly wedded couple. "I just want to say, congratulations, you two," she said awkwardly. "I wish you two… good luck."

"Thank you, Lilith, and we wish you well in the Emperor's Coven," the younger Odalia told her. After Lilith walked away, Odalia spotted Geist. "Brother!"

"Hey, sis!" Geist waved at her.

"Geist, thank you so much for coming!" Odalia said, going up and hugging him.

"I wouldn't think of missing it, especially since I noticed that this party is lacking entertainment," he joked. "But seriously, congratulations, you two. I'm very happy for you." However, his face looked somewhat conflicted.

Present Odalia noticed his conflicted look. "I thought my brother would be happy for me…"

"Oh he is, but he's also concerned about what you could become," Jiminy explained. "You had it good, but it wasn't enough for you. Because once you had gotten that taste of power, you couldn't help but want more." He fast forwarded to the younger Odalia's office, where she was looking at a performance chart.

Her crystal ball glowed. "Mrs. Blight, we have someone named Geist asking to see you."

Odalia sighed. "Let him in."

Geist came into her office shortly afterward. "Uh hey, sis. Long time, no see," he greeted.

"Yes, Geistopher, it's good to see you too," Odalia said while not taking her eyes off the performance chart. "Take a seat, how's the lounge business coming?"

"Oh, it's uh, it's going great," Geist replied. "But it's, um, not the same without you around."

"Yes, but I've been busy for a while. I can probably find a day where I can come over for lunch or something," Odalia said while not noticing her brother's worried expression. "Is that all? Because I have profits that need my attention."

"Yeah, um, the real reason I'm here is… well, I'm a bit worried," he admitted, causing his sister to turn to him.

"Worried? About what? Don't tell me our parents came back to haunt us," Odalia joked before her expression became serious. "Are they?"

"No, Odalia- look," Geist said with a sigh. "For a while now I've been watching Blight Industries grow and flourish. But… when will it stop? I mean, you've done well enough for yourself that you can stop while you're ahead, right?"

"Don't tell me you're here to share what you've read about those corporate bubble theories," Odalia dismissed.

"I'm just… I'm not really sure if this is what you really want, sis," Geist told her. "I'm afraid of what this might do to you, not to mention the environmental issues caused by the pollutants that your factory is releasing into the air and the water. Don't think I haven't noticed that the lakes are redder than they should be. Also, you don't call anymore. We used to be so close… what happened?"

"Well I've been busy, dear brother," Odalia said as the background guitar played. "So I don't have time for lounging around in your bar anymore. I've moved up in the world." This made Geist more worried. "At first I didn't realize… I needed all of this stuff." she sang, "We had a little cottage...and that cottage was enough."

"A place where we could sit and pit, and think about all our deeds," she sang as she looked into her crystal ball, showing her past from a simple Hexside girl to a successful witch. "But now I've had a little time to reassess my needs!"

"And I need a bigger office…" she sang as her office expanded. "I need a bigger chair…" Her chair grew bigger. "A bigger desk… a bigger staff… a bigger hat to wear! Because I'm biggering!"

"Yes, biggering!" sang a choir of spirits behind her.

"I'm figuring on biggering!" Odalia sang as she rose up, marching past her brother while grabbing her cane. "And biggering is triggering… more biggering!"

"Hey, listen up, sis!" Geist spoke as he followed her out of the office. "I'm going to say this once, and I'm not gonna repeat it. You know that Greed thing? See, it's like a little pet, all right? And the more and more and more you go and feed it, the more hungry it'll get!"

"He's right," Jiminy agreed. "But you know, you really can't blame greed, no that's stupid."

"Greed isn't to blame, as it has this little worm inside," Geist said as they ended up in an elevator.

"Yup, that's right," Jiminy agreed. "That worm's always got a need to feed, and it's never satisfied."

"But the more you try to find it, the more it likes to hide," Geist stated.

"And that nasty little worm…" Jiminy added.

"Is what I like to call-"

"Pride!" Geist and Jiminy said together.

"And that's why you're biggering," Geist said as Odalia ignored him, leaving him in the elevator once it had come to a stop. "Listen here, Odalia! And figuring is biggering! But that biggering's just triggering for more biggering!"

"You got that?" Jiminy asked the present Odalia, who saw her younger self walking away from a disappointed Geist, not even looking back once at her brother.

Blight Industries continued to grow. More buildings, more jobs, more coven approval. Abomination products come forth and Odalia and Alador set up a private sale for all of their investors.

Odalia was up on stage, singing. "There is a principle of nature that most every creature knows! It's called survival of the fittest, and this is how it goes!" She showed more Abomination products, getting the crowd to throw their snails at her.

"The animal that wins has got to claw and bite and kick and punch!" She outdone her competitors, passing by an envious Nicole and a drunken Calypso. "The animal that doesn't winds up someone else's lunch!" She looked down on Eda, who was now on the run as a wild witch, and Geist, who was struggling to keep his business up. "A company's an animal that's trying to survive! It's struggling and fighting just to keep itself alive!"

"I must be biggering! I'm figuring on biggering!" Odalia saw how business is booming while having a pregnant belly. "Though biggering is triggering more biggering!" Edric and Emira were born and two years later Amity was born, Odalia already starting to plan out how she wanted their futures to go. "I won't stop biggering! I'm figuring on biggering! And biggering is triggering more biggering!"

She stomped on her competitions while the customers came to her and Alador. "With the customers all buying, and the money multiplying!"

"And the PR people lying, and the lawyers all denying!" Odalia shook hands after paying off a news reporter before making deals with certain customers.

"Who cares if some things are dying?" She saw the expansion of Blight Industries across the Isles, the demand for more polluting the air and the water even further.

"I don't want to hear you crying!" Odalia told off her husband and her children as they were sent to their rooms.

"This is all so gratifying!" Odalia stood at the stage again, surrounded by treasures.

"But it didn't last, did it?" Jiminy asked while fast forwarding to the moment where Amity denounced her. "Eventually your actions caught up to you, like when you suggested to Lilith that she curse her own sister."

"Oh, I know all about what being a Blight means!" Amity declared, glaring at her grandparents, and then at Odalia. "And right now you sound just like them! If being a Blight means being selfish and screwing over others for your own benefit then I want nothing to do with this family name and its legacy! I renounce being a Blight!"

The modern Odalia stepped back with a pained expression after relieving that memory while Jiminy continued. "Your family began to fall apart, and whose fault was it?" Jiminy asked as he showed Odalia the memory of being told off by the twins.

"You know, I don't blame Amity for disowning us after everything that you put her through!" Emira seethed her teeth in anger, tears running down her face as she glared at her mother. "You blackmailed her into ending things with Willow on her birthday, you forced us to be friends with people we don't like, and you tried to control her future! If Amity really didn't want to be a Blight anymore, you have nothing to blame but yourself!"

"Do you really care about us or just about advancing your own social status? Shouldn't you be glad that Amity is no longer a Blight, since she wouldn't risk hurting your image anymore?" Edric questioned.

"I think they make it pretty clear who they think is to blame, and so does Eda," Jiminy said as they arrived at the last time Odalia had seen Eda, forcing Odalia to listen to Eda's speech all over again.

"Lilith was the one who cursed me, not you. You may have given the idea, but you didn't perform the act. You want to know what I am mad about though… I'm mad at you for forcing your daughter to end her friendship with Willow on her birthday. I'm mad at you for making your daughter feel like she couldn't come to you after she was mugged. I'm mad at you for trying to manipulate my daughter behind your kid's back. I'm mad at you for trying to force your daughter to stay away from Luz. I'm mad at you for trying to control your daughter's life and future, for not letting her be her own witch. I'm mad at you for being a bad mother. And you know why? Because I love this kid. I really do. So does my sister. So does my Luz. And I know so do you. But if your kids decide that they hate you, then you have only yourself to blame."

Odalia gripped her fists. "Enough of this!" she shouted, causing the memories to disappear and leave her in a dark void. "What is the point of showing me everything that I've been through? Of reminding me what I did to make sure this family is ahead of everyone else? By Titan, my husband's a Coven Head, now that's an accomplishment! The last thing I need is to be told how much of a bitch I am from some stupid little bug!" She turned to Jiminy, who was now gone.

The Blight woman realized that was back in her living room. She slowly got up, trying to make sense of what she just experienced.

"Maybe this was a…" She noticed the light in her kitchen was on and she could hear noises coming from it. "What the-?!"

She went into the kitchen and saw something digging through the fridge, eating from it. "Oh no you don't," she seethed, believing someone had broken in to scrounge for food. She grabbed a broom and marched towards the figure. "Not in my house!" she shouted as the fridge door closed and she swung the broom, but she hit nothing but her fridge. She had aimed a bit too high.

"Whoa, whoa, lady, watch where you swung that thing!" spoke a gray, biped, Chinese Shar Pei dog who wore a green robe with a red sash. He had a Brooklyn-accent.

"Who are you and why are you raiding my fridge?" Odalia scolded while looking down.

"Oh, you must be Odalia Blight, looks like you've gone through Jiminy already," he told her. "Look, the name's Fu Dog, alright? Well, not like the actual foo dogs or guardian lions back in the other realm. I'm your Spirit of the Present today."

"First a bug, now a dog? Who's future, a sloth?" Odalia questioned.

"Originally there was going to be this giant fella, but he got into legal trouble with some billionaire duck," Fu Dog said while eating a piece of chicken. "So I'm just filling in, like a very special guest star. My purpose here is to show you what's going on with the people in your life."

Odalia crossed her arms. "Can you stop eating my food from the fridge?"

"Why? It's not like you're eating them. You're too busy getting drunk on apple blood," Fu Dog said as he finished his meal. "Besides, leaving food to go to waste is a no go." He burped. "Well, come on, let's go see what your family is up to." He started to head out.

"What, do you have a broom to take me on-" She walked outside and her jaw dropped when she saw a taxi cab in her yard. "What… what is this?!"

"Oh, this is called a taxi cab. Don't have one of these?" Fu Dog asked while getting into the driver's seat and opening the door for Odalia to sit in the back. "Hop in, I'm gonna drive you around town. And don't worry about being spotted. Like during your trip to the past, nobody will be able to see or interact with us."

"This thing is safe, right?" Odalia asked while hesitantly walking towards the vehicle. She got in and closed the door.

"Of course it's safe, I drive this baby all the time," Fu Dog said as he started the cab. "As long as you wear your seatbelts that is."

"Wait, what's a seatbel-AAH!" Odalia fell from her seat as Fu Dog drove away from the manor and toward Bonesborough. While driving through the streets, Fu Dog had to pump the pedal using stilts.

"Let's see, no, not here… sometimes this map is a little weird," Fu Dog said as he steered in another direction, causing Odalia to hit the window. "Oh wait, we're almost there."

"AAAH!" Odalia screamed while trying to keep herself together, hitting her head on the ceiling.

"And… we're… here!" Fu Dog said as he stopped his cab.

Odalia groaned and picked herself off the floor, seeing where Fu Dog had taken her. "This is…"

"Poul-Ti-Geist, remember that place?" Fu Dog said as he exited the cab, Odalia did the same while rubbing her head. "Wow, you look like hell."

Odalia grimaced and looked at the bar. "I don't think I should be here. My… children live there now."

"Aren't you a bit curious to see what they're up to now?" Fu Dog asked while walking up to the window. "Come look."

Odalia went over to Fu Dog and saw how the place was now busy. It was filled with teenage witchlings, including a nervous looking Edric.

"I don't know about this, guys, what if it is too soon?" Ed asked.

"Relax, Eddie. Speed dating will help you reenter the dating scene. And you can't do any worse than I did with my previous relationships," Geist told him. "Last one tried to take my kidney."

"Just give it a try, talk to them for a little, learn about their interests, and then move to the next date," Emira advised her brother. "You'll do just fine."

Edric nodded. "Alright, time to go out and mingle!" Edric declared as he went over to a table

"Wait, what happened to Edric's boyfriend?" Odalia asked.

"Did you forget already? He was the Golden Guard, bugged your home, there was a lot of heartbreak, yadda-yadda," Fu Dog explained.

Odalia was shocked, she had completely forgotten about the Golden Guard incident. "Perhaps I have been drinking too much…" she said as she watched her son meet a number of dates.

"So what can you tell me about yourself?" Edric asked his dates.

"Well, I really like long walks and really love to chase my tail!" said a dog boy.

"I collect earwax," said an awkward girl. "Sometimes I make them into candles."

"Do you have a favorite coven?" Edric asked his dates.

"I'm in the Potions Track, but now I want to do Abominations," said a witch girl. "Wait, what if I want to be in Healing? No wait, Plants!"

"I have no interest in any of the overrated main covens, but would you be interested in the Crystal Coven? We use crystals as an alternative to 'modern medicine'," said a hippy cloud boy.

"Is there anything you think I should know about you?" Edric asked.

"Well, I'm afraid of the dark…" a shy girl said.

"My real name isn't Bob, it's a cover to prevent the government from tracking me down!" spoke a paranoid boy. "Oh no, is that a Crystal Orb? They'll track me down!" He ran off.

"Oh ah'm from the countryside and thought this speed dating thing would give me an opportunity to mingle with some folks," spoke a red demon teenage girl with short overalls and a heart-shaped tail. "It'd be pretty fine to get to know you…"

"Wait," Emira said as she stepped up from behind Ed. "What kind of demon are you?"

"Oh, ya got me, sug. Ah'm a succubus," the girl admitted while smiling. "But don't worry, ah won't bite… much." She bared her sharp teeth.

"...Don't call him, he'll call you… whenever," Emira said as she pulled her brother away from the succubus.

"Nice that she watches over her brother like that," Fu Dog said as Viney came into the bar.

"Viney, hey!" Emira called as she walked up to her girlfriend after leaving Edric with another witch. Odalia was shocked to see Emira and Viney embrace each other with a hug and a kiss.

"Wait, Emira has a girlfriend?!" Odalia asked in shock.

"Yeah, she does," Fu Dog answered. "They have actually been dating for a while now. I guess you haven't been paying too much attention to your kids, have you?"

"So you got the outfit for the underground band tomorrow?" Emira asked Viney.

"I did, what about you?" Viney asked and Emira nodded. "This is so going to make up for yesterday." She wrapped her arm around Emira's shoulders.

"Yeah, we're gonna have a great date," Emira agreed, though she looked both tired and stressed, which Viney noticed.

"Hey, are you alright?" Viney asked.

"Yeah, it is just that a lot has happened in the past few weeks," Em said.

"Want to talk about it?" Viney asked her.

"How about on the roof?" Emira asked as the two started to head upstairs. "Ed, are you good on your own?"

"I think I am," Edric said while turning to the girl he was with. "So um, hi, my name's Edric. What's your name?"

"You can call me Mel," the pale blue girl said. She had shoulder length purple hair and wore a black jacket with a blue shirt with a fire emblem, black ripped skirt, black and violet striped stockings and knee-high rave boots. "So… what do you do for fun around here?"

Odalia and Fu Dog suddenly found themselves up on the rooftop of the bar. "How… how did we get up here?!"

"Did I mention that I'm familiar with some segue spells?" Fu Dog asked as they saw Viney and Emira coming onto the rooftop. "Now you can see what's eating her Gregory Grapes."

"Alright, Em, what's on your chest?" Viney asked her, while Emira looked into the distance then down at her own hands.

"Like I said, a lot," Emira said in a somber tone. "I've been trying to take care of myself and Ed, then I had to deal with the school war, and I am worried about Amity almost all of the time… not to mention my parents." She sighed. "Dad came here earlier this week to try to make amends, but I wouldn't let him. Ed and Ams may be able to forgive him but I couldn't. My mom is bad, but my dad isn't much better and I am not giving him a pass. Neither of them deserve a pass."

"I… I didn't know Emira felt this way," Odalia said.

"Well, you did put a lot of responsibility on that poor girl because being a parent was too much of a chore for you," Fu Dog pointed out.

"I hate them," Emira admitted, her mascara running as tears fell from her eyes. "I know that dad is trying but I don't know if I could forgive him and I don't think I could ever forgive mom. I hope that they get a divorce. And I… if I hadn't decided to leave with Ed, I think I would have eventually poisoned my own mother just to be free of her." This distressed Odalia, who was shocked by how familiar this sounded. Emira scoffed. "I-Isn't this pathetic of me? I wanted my mother dead so I could be free of her." She cried while Viney held onto her.

"Hey, hey it's alright," Viney consoled her girlfriend. "I don't think you're pathetic."

"I… I still think of doing it!" Emira wailed, starting to break down. "I just… can't get the thought out of my head. I hated her that much..."

Odalia looks more distressed, shaken by her daughter's emotional breakdown. "I… I can't believe…" She covered her mouth, thinking about all of the times she had left the Abomi-butlers or Emira to watch over Amity and Ed while she and Alador worked.

"That your daughter resents you so much?" Fu Dog asked.

Odalia didn't say anything. "Is this all you want to show me?"

"Nah, this is only the first stop," Fu Dog said. "Come on, let's head back to the cab."

---

The cab then headed straight to where the Owl House is, Odalia's shriek being heard once the cab came to a stop.

"I told you to wear a seatbelt!" Fu Dog told her as he helped Odalia out of the cab. "Now come on, let's go spy on your former daughter through the window like weirdos."

"Why do you have to word it out like that?" Odalia questioned as she followed him.

They looked into the living room, where Amity is seen taking care of Kay. Amity was using light orbs to play around with her, Kay trying to catch one as it bounced. She tried to eat a block, but Amity pulled it away.

"No, you can't eat that," Amity said, only for Kay to pout.

"What… what is that with Amity?" Odalia asked, surprised to see the baby sea creature with her.

"Oh that would be Kay," Fu Dog said. "Yeah, long story short, she's living with them for the time being as eh, that kid's dad and brother got arrested. Amity worked with them by the harbor, and now she's this kid's godsister."

"What… why would Amity be involved with those that were arrested?" Odalia questioned.

"Don't you know? She's a bit of a freedom fighter," Fu Dog explained. "Now that she has realized how corrupt the coven system is, she has decided to become a wild witch."

Amity gave Kay a hug while petting the baby lagoon girl. "I may not be your actual parent and I may be filling in as your substitute guardian, but… I promise you that I will never hurt you, nor will I ever make you worthless." She hugged Kay, who smiled at her. "I'll do my best to teach you good morals and tend to your needs. And most importantly, I'll let you make important decisions on your own." Kay purred at the gentleness from Amity. "I'll always be there for you when you need me, and make sure that you won't be afraid of who to come to."

This stung Odalia, remembering how Amity was afraid to come to her after she was mugged. "Woof, now that's gotta hurt," Fu Dog said.

Amity heard sniffing sounds and she turned to see Luz and King all teary eyed. "Luz, King! Are you two crying?" she asked them.

"No, no, just something in my eyes." King wiped his eyes.

"But we think that you'd make a great mother someday." Luz tried to hold it in while she and King went over to join Amity.

"Oh there, there," Amity said as she patted Luz's head, then King's.

"So is there anything you need help with? I've been reading some Beast-Keeping books about taking care of aquatic creatures," Luz offered while petting Kay.

"I can be of help as well, Amity," said Lilith who showed up on the other side of the room. "I mean, if that's okay with you."

"Of course, you all can help. We're Kay's guardians, after all," Amity replied with a smile.

"I… thought Amity wouldn't like being around Lilith," Odalia mentioned.

"Yeah well, Lilith gave her some space but over time Amity decided to reopen herself to Lilith and let her godmother help her from time to time," Fu Dog said as Eda and Camila showed up.

"Ah, isn't it just sweet? Our kids are now taking care of another," Eda commented as they watched Amity, King, and Luz with Kay. "I remember when King was little, he used to stack books up as his wittle minions."

Camila smiled, but then she looked down in regret. She wished that she could have stories to tell about Luz… but she didn't really get much time with Luz before she died. And by the time she reunited with her daughter, she had already missed out on watching Luz grow up. Even after being brought back, there was really no way to make up for all the time they lost, especially since Luz had her own life and Camila… had nothing except for Luz.

"Hey, you alright, Cami?" Eda asked her.

"Oh, I-I'm fine, Eda," Camila replied, though Eda still looked concerned..

"Wait a second, who's the other woman? Is she a… human?" Odalia asked Fu Dog.

"That's just Luz's human mother who was brought back from the dead," Fu Dog said, which confused Odalia more. "It is a long but sad story."

"I… see," Odalia said before looking at how happy Amity seemed. "She looks so… happy."

"Well why wouldn't she be?" Fu Dog asked her. "She is surrounded by people who accept her for who she is, people who love her and care about her needs. She isn't living in luxury, but that doesn't matter to her. Having a roof over your head is important and all, but so are the people that live underneath it."

Odalia thought back to her own childhood in that cottage, how she hated living that life. But the cottage wasn't the problem… it was her parents.

Later, Luz and Amity were left alone with Kay, Amity feeding her with mashed kelp food. "Hey um, you feeling alright right now, Ams?" Luz asked her.

"Yeah, I think I'm good," Amity replied.

"I guess, though maybe I was just thinking about what you were saying to Kay earlier," Luz mentioned while patting Amity's shoulder. "It's… probably about your parents, right? Or, former parents. Do you want to talk about them?"

Amity sighed. "Yeah, we can talk about them. Honestly, right now I think… I think I see Eda as more of a mother than Odalia was," she said, which hurt Odalia as she heard it. "She has done so much for me and ever since she let me live here I have been looking up to her more and more."

Luz nodded, understanding where Amity was coming from. "So, um, what happened to Lilith being like a motherly figure to you?"

Amity was silent for a moment before sighing. "Well… Lilith is still my godmother and I still care about her, but to tell the truth I don't think that I look up to her as a role model and a surrogate mother anymore. Maybe she still hopes that I can see her that way, but she did use me and hurt me, so I don't think our relationship will ever be like it was… though I still want to have a relationship with her and figure out what that relationship is even if Lilith's no longer who I want to be. My priorities have changed and I know that Lilith's priorities have changed too, so the least I can do is try to support Lilith while she supports me."

Amity wiped the mess around Kay's mouth as she continued. "However, I do think Eda is a better surrogate mother than Lilith or Odalia were because Eda has never used me or placed her own needs before mine. Even before she took me in, Eda put my needs before herself. Lilith didn't do that and even though I don't think Lilith's a bad person, I no longer want the life with Lilith that I once thought I did."

"Yeah, I can relate," Luz agreed. "Lilith has hurt me too, but I still want a relationship with my aunt… even if it's not going to be easy, and I haven't forgotten how she hurt each of us. Lilith has apologized for it and I have forgiven her, but…" She was silent for a moment, thinking about what Lilith had confessed to her. "It's still hard to not think about the mistakes."

"I agree, it's hard but… I think we just need to give it time," Amity said as Kay burped, causing the two girls to laugh.

Odalia stayed silent, looking down while thinking about what Amity had said about seeing Eda as more of a mother figure. She never thought Eda was a good mother, especially with how she raised Luz. And yet it seemed like Eda was better to Amity than either she or Lilith was.

"As for my family," Amity mentioned. "I think I still want Alador to be a part of my life even if he wasn't the perfect father. I understand Em's anger towards him, but I honestly still love him even if I consider the Blight name to be toxic. So I do hope that I can work things out with him and that one day he could even help give me away, since he's really the only figure that I see as a father. Odalia on the other hand…" Amity paused, closing her eyes while looking somber. "I don't think I'm optimistic about her."

This made Odalia's eyes widen as Amity continued. "Don't get me wrong, I know that there were moments where she did care for me, but that didn't make up for everything else and Odalia embodies the Blight name far more than Alador does despite her being the one who married into it. I don't think she can change, Luz. I honestly thought for a while that she was getting better, but then she tried to manipulate you behind my back, and tried to force me to never see you again. Not to mention the bombshell that she suggested the curse to Lilith. Odalia can't help but fall back to her old behavior. So for now I consider Ed, Em, Geist, you, Eda, Lilith, King, Camila, Hooty, and Kay my family."

Odalia looked drained when Amity said this. "Gee, now that is some cold cuts she threw in. I don't blame her for thinking that way about you. When will you ever change? Lilith did by giving up the high life in the Emperor's Coven for her family's sake. You think you'd do the same for yours?"

"She gave everything up for them," Odalia said.

"Yeah, and she's better off that way," Fu Dog told her. "Those two Clawthorne sisters have sacrificed their magic and they are in no means as wealthy as you. Yet, they're happier than you in spite of not possessing the power and wealth you have. Because the Emperor's Coven couldn't give Lilith what she really needed… family, and I mean true family."

Luz hugged Amity. "You are the best girlfriend a witch could ever ask for."

"Same," Amity replied as the two kissed. Odalia turned away from the window and Fu Dog followed her.

"Is there anymore you want to show me, spirit?" Odalia asked him.

"Of course, just a-"

"Hey!" Hooty cried out, causing the two to notice him. "What are you two creepy peepers doing around here? Stranger danger! Stranger danger!"

"I thought he couldn't see us!?" Odalia shouted at Fu Dog.

"I don't know how he can see us!" Fu Dog replied as the two ran to the cab and made their exit.

---

The next stop that Fu Dog took Odalia to was the Brookes residence where he and Odalia saw the Brooke parents having dinner with the Parks.

"Even though they're wealthy, they still have no problem being friends with commoners like the Parks. Because they understand their daughter's needs and put her happiness first," Fu Dog explained. "Though considering that you are a commoner who married into wealth, it is a bit hypocritical of you for you to look down at the Park girl for not meeting your elitist standards."

Slasher had a reggae song playing as Sully commented. "I gotta say, you really knew how to find musical talent. Gob Marley must've been a genius."

"I know," Slasher agreed. "You don't just find bards like him at the Toe Archipelagos. Since his passing, I've made sure the earnings from his music goes to his family."

"They must appreciate you for doing so," Sully said while raising his cup. "To Gob Marley."

"To Gob," Slasher said, raising his cup as well.

"So how are things in the Emperor's Coven doing for you, Calypso?" Gilbert asked while Calypso drank pop water.

"Fine for the most part," Calypso said. "Really it mostly means that I have to do a lot of paperwork and spend more time away from home. Fortunately it is just a temporary position. I do hope that Eberwolf makes a full recovery though."

Willow and Skara were at the counter, watching their parents talk. "It's nice, seeing our folks getting along well," Skara said.

"Yeah," Willow agreed. "So Nina is still in her room, right?"

"Yeah, Nina decided to not mingle since she's, well… I don't think she's comfortable around here yet," Skara mentioned. "So she has been in her room all day."

---

Nina was bobbing her head up and down while wearing her headphones, listening to heavy metal while sitting on her dresser.

---

"Even if Gus knew that, I think he would have still chosen to stay back home," Willow mentioned. "He didn't really want to be in the same house as Nina…"

"Right," Skara nodded, looking awkward. "I just hope things aren't going to be tense with her attending Hexside."

"Do you think that Nina being here would add to our census?" Scabrina asked after popping up.

"Hey girls, Slasher is setting up the karaoke mirror if you girls want to participate," Calypso mentioned.

"Of course/Yeah!" Willow and Skara replied as they ran over, Scabrina following them.

"I know you looked down at Calypso, but even if she isn't a perfect mother all of the time, she still tries," Fu Dog said while turning to Odalia. "Even though she's a former 'drunkard' as you put it, she knows that she has a problem and she is putting in the effort to overcome it. And despite her issues, her daughter still loves and respects her. Does she really deserve the cruel label you slapped onto her?"

"I…" Odalia didn't say anything, looking down at the floor in shame.

---

Next stop was the Regals, where Odalia saw Mary and Harlan listening to their daughter's suggestions about how to improve the Boiling Isles.

"As you can see, it would benefit witchkind if we used these methods and had a proper justice system that wasn't just throwing in people in jail and sentencing them without a fair trial," Amelia suggested, showing them some books she had gotten from Gus. "We need due process."

"And with due process, it would open up more opportunities for lawyers besides civil disputes!" Mary Regal realized. "I like what you're thinking, Amelia."

"Yeah! You have some good ideas!" Harlan clapped for his daughter.

"Now ain't that wonderful, two parents who actually listen and get involved with their daughter's interests," Fu Dog commented. "Do you even know what your own kids are interested in?"

---

Next stop was the Hartwitches, where Cat was seen playing orb games with her brothers when their mother showed up.

"Cat, can you come over for a sec? Your father and I wish to speak with you," Swan said to her.

"Alright, mom," Cat replied as she paused the game. "Don't continue without me, alright?" she told her two brothers.

"Yeah what'eves/You can't tell me what to do!" Dog and Moose responded as Cat left the room to talk to her parents.

"Your mother and I have been talking, and we have decided that if you wish to get into hairstyling, then we can help you get into that career," Zebra told her in another room.

"Really?" Cat asked her in surprise. "You really mean it?"

"You know that we were hoping you would go into the healing business like we wanted, but we don't want to force you to do something you would be unhappy with, so we are open to helping you explore your options and find the opportunity that is best for you," Swan explained.

"Well… I have been thinking about multi-tracking for a while now," Cat admitted. "I think that could help me explore my options. I still want to do hair-styling, but I think I still want to keep Healing as a possibility for now until I decide on something."

"Whatever you choose, we'll support you," Swan said as Cat went up to hug them.

"Thank you," Cat replied as Swan and Zebra hugged her back.

"It is interesting that despite their own wealth and status, they are still willing to listen to their children and adapt in order to be a better parent," Fu Dog told Odalia. "Not bad for former cronies of Nicole, huh?"

"Nicole… I'm pretty sure she and her family have it just as bad as me," Odalia commented. "I have heard the rumors about them."

"Well, you might be half-right," Fu Dog told her.

---

Outside of the Hieron household, Odalia and Fu Dog spotted Boscha walking back home with Gavin, Angmar, Ukla and Hunter.

"See you guys tomorrow?" Boscha asked as she waved goodbye to them.

"See you tomorrow, Boscha!" Angmar waved back along with Gavin and Ukla.

"Yeah, catch you later!" Hunter said as Odalia recognized him.

"Wait… isn't that…?!" Odalia pointed to him.

"Yeah, your son's ex, but he's not important right now," Fu Dog said as they found themselves instead the Hieron home.

"I'm back," Boscha announced.

"Hey, Pink-eyes," Athena greeted her daughter. "Me and Tom were just finishing up setting the table for dinner."

"We're having spaghetti and eyeballs," Tom said while setting up the plates and wearing an apron with a potions sigil.

"Don't tell me you're cooking?" Boscha asked jokingly.

Tom stifled a laugh. "Nah, I was just wondering what it'd be like to wear an apron. I imagine you guys have one of those 'kiss the cook' ones."

"Wait, who the hell is that?" Odalia asked, pointing at Tom.

"Oh, he's a homeless kid that's been living with Athena and Boscha," Fu Dog explained and Odalia looked shocked. "Yeah, Boscha here took the boy in and kept him hidden in the attic, but Athena learned about him and decided to let him stay."

"Don't tell me Nicole actually approved of this?" Odalia asked in disbelief.

"Nah, she has no idea. Especially since she got kicked out," Fu Dog responded. "That Nicole, she got so obsessed with vengeance upon her enemies, that it put a strain on her family's relationship with her."

"Alright, Tom, since you haven't had many meals with us, I just want to warn you that we're going to say our prayers to the Titan for this meal," Athena said once they all sit down.

"Come on, mom, I'm sure Tom doesn't want to see something that lame," Boscha replied, rolling her eyes.

"Oh I don't mind, we never say our prayers at dinner before where I'm from so this will be a new experience for me," Tom replied.

"Alright, hold each other's hands," Athena said as she, Boscha and Tom held their hands together and closed their eyes. Suddenly Athena and Boscha opened theirs, showing a white glow in them as they chanted in Latin while the lights flickered.

"O magne Titan, hanc cenam benedic nobis ad epulandum in gloria tua, et ut in te vivamus in terra tuo servitio digni non sumus. Si haec cena tibi non placet, nos ad infernum damnas!"

As they prayed, their heads tilted sideways, forward and backwards, until they gasped for air. Their eyes stopped glowing as the lights returned to normal. Tom could only watch the whole thing awkwardly.

"Sorry you have to see that," Boscha replied with a sigh of relief. "Least we don't turn our heads around this time."

Fu Dog was more shocked as he turned to Odalia. "Wa… is that how you witches pray?"

"Yes, some families do that," Odalia responded with a shrug. "But Athena… she looks so happy, and so does her daughter."

"Yeah, Athena took your words to heart and decided to stop being a lapdog to her wife," Fu Dog pointed out. "She realized that shouldn't enable her wife's actions any longer and what happened to their daughter at Glandus was the final straw that got her to decide to kick Nicole out. And now both Athena and Boscha are trying to be better people with a better relationship."

"Where is… Nicole?" Odalia asked him.

"At the one place where all the kicked out spouses end up," Fu Dog told her.

---

"They're blind I tell you!" Nicole ranted as she paced back and forth. "The people of the Isles are blinded, those Clawthornes have influenced the Emperor's Coven somehow, along with my family, and my friends! They've all turned against me, and now I've lost my company because of them! But this isn't over, I will have my vengeance!"

The clerk at the front desk just looked at Nicole strangely. "So… would you like to extend your stay at the Doghouse Inn?"

"Dear Titan, she's been living here?" Odalia asked while watching Nicole.

"Yup," Fu Dog replied while looking up at the name of the inn. "Making that idiom has to be one of my biggest regrets since the sinking of the Titanic…" he muttered before looking at Nicole, then back to Odalia. "You two aren't that much different, you know?"

Odalia scoffed. "Oh come on, Nicole is obsessed with whatever she's on, I'm not obsessed. I don't care what Eda and her family does."

"True, but obsession is not what I'm talking about," Fu Dog told her. "Both of you have a problem with your own selfishness and pride. Especially when you end up putting your own interest and desires above your own daughter's."

Odalia looked at Nicole, who grabbed her key and headed for her room. For everything that this woman had done to her daughter, Odalia hated her. She hated Nicole for what she did… but she also realized that she could've been Nicole. That she could still be Nicole. "Is this… all you want to show me?"

Fu Dog was silent for a moment as he looked up to Odalia. "One more stop."

---

As the cab came to a stop, Odalia saw their final destination. The Abomination Coven, which was similar to the Emperor's Castle with its architecture, but with a lot more banners and purple slime and goop around. The moat around the building was purple and filled with glowing eyes.

"The Abomination Coven," Odalia whispered, having figured out who she was seeing next.

"Come on, we ain't got all night," Fu Dog said as he and Odalia got out.

They went into the building, where they found Alador Blight, looking tired as he used his cylinder full of Abomination arms for extra help in the lab. With him was Sheldon Snope, whom Odalia recognized as the older version of the teenage girl that was at the Bonesborough Brawl.

"Alador," Snope said to his old mentor. "I know you haven't been home for a while. Is everything alright?"

"Everything's just fine, Sheldon," Alador said while looking through a microscope. "The work is good, it keeps me occupied. I would rather be here than back at the Manor."

Snope nodded and sat down on an abomi-chair. "So… any updates about your siblings?"

Alador sighed as he stepped away from his work. "No. I was hoping that studying Darius and his ability to turn into an Abomination would help… but he's gone now and I don't know what to do now." He pinched his temple, looking more tired.

"I'm sure you'll think of something, Alador," Snope encouraged.

"I have to," Alador insisted. "If I don't fix this… how can I fix my family? I know Amity's already her own witch, while Ed and Em are doing good on their own, but Odalia…" He paused, looking down in guilt.

"What Odalia did isn't your fault, Al," Snope assured him.

"But I'm just as responsible!" Alador declared. "I… I don't know where she stands in my life right now, Sheldon. However, I am to blame for enabling her behavior for far too long, for following her lead until it drove our children away from us. I know that I could have put a stop to it earlier, that I could have seen it was a problem earlier… but instead I was off living in my own world, tinkering with machines and chasing bugs instead of realizing what was happening right in front of me." He let out a groan. "I haven't sat down and talked it out with Odalia yet. I don't know if I'm ready to. Or if I'm ready for where that discussion could lead to…"

"Are you… considering divorce?" Snope asked him, which concerned Odalia.

"I'm… I don't know," Alador said, looking unsure.

"Look, these things happen all of the time. Look at Darius, rest his soul. His marriage didn't work out as a result of his duties as Head Witch. If you don't think that you can work things out with Odalia, then you may want to explore other options," Snope advised while Alador turned to him with a saddened expression.

"I just don't know…" Alador said. "I want to be better for my kids but Em has already decided that she won't forgive me and… I know things have to change at least, but I honestly don't think Odalia is capable of change."

This hurt Odalia, hearing that from her own husband. She didn't even want to fathom the possibility of divorce.

"Well if you want my opinion," said a voice that made Odalia freeze up. Terra Snapdragon came into the office. "Marriage is overrated. Divorce can work wonders." She turned to look in Odalia's direction, which creeped the woman out. "You are dismissed, this chat's between Coven Heads," she told Snope.

"I'm not so sure-" Snope spoke, not feeling comfortable with leaving the Plant Head alone with his mentor.

"It's alright, Snope, you can head home," Alador assured him with a nod.

Snope hesitated before he gave a respectful bow to the Coven Heads. "Goodnight, Coven Head Blight, and Coven Head Snapdragon," he said before reluctantly walking out of the room.

"No, don't leave him alone with her," Odalia begged but Snope couldn't hear her.

"Now Alador," Terra said as she gave him her tea. "I wanted to let you know that I am going to be bringing some people over to see you a bit later."

"W-Wait, what does she mean by that?" Odalia asked while Fu Dog started to leave.

"Let's go," he told her but Odalia couldn't leave.

"No, I can't leave until I-" Before Odalia could finish her sentence, she found herself outside of the Abomination Coven, in front of the cab.

"Come on, get in front," Fu Dog told her.

"But I can't just leave Alador alone with Terra, that woman is unstable!" Odalia protested as the front door was opened for her.

"Well perhaps you should have done something about that sooner," Fu Dog told her.

"I tried but he wouldn't listen to reason!" Odalia claimed.

"After everything you've heard and seen tonight, can you blame him?" Fu Dog asked. "Now get in the cab!"

Odalia knew she couldn't argue with the dog, so she angrily went in and put on the seatbelt this time. "Just take me home," she said as Fu Dog revved off the cab, driving away from the Abomination Coven.

She looked out the window, watching as they drove by Bonesborough. She then saw them driving past the road that took them to Blight Manor. "What the… hey, we just passed the way to home," she told Fu Dog.

"I know that," Fu Dog said. "Just taking a little detour."

"What else is there to show me?" Odalia questioned while looking down. "I've seen that everyone around me hates me and is glad that I'm out of their lives. They don't even think that I can change. I mean, maybe I can. They can't know that, could they?" She sniffed.

"Hey," he said to her. "Look at the rear view mirror up there, would ya?"

Odalia looked at the rear view mirror and two pale faced children appeared behind her. "What the hell!?" she screamed, turning around to see the pale skinned children in rags. "Dear Titan!" she cried, noticing how eerily similar they were to Edric and Emira. "Who… who are these children?!"

"They are your true children," Fu Dog answered hauntingly. "Look at them, Odalia. Look at these children before you!" He laughed. "They walk among you, unseen by their parents. That boy is Ignorance! And the boy is Want! Beware them both, but most of all beware the boy!" He then gave her a grin while his eyes glowed, flames bursting around his eyes, neck, and paws. "See ya around! A-gaba-zoo!" He then disappeared, sending Odalia into a panic.

"AAAAH!" Odalia screamed as the cab was without its driver, causing it to crash.

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A ringing sound could be heard and Odalia's vision was blurry. She groaned, crawling out from where she crashed. She seemed unharmed, outside of some cuts and bruises. She looked around to see that the cab was gone. She was now surrounded by mist as she found herself in a gray field… full of tombstones.

"Spirit?" Odalia called out but got no answer. "Where… where am I now? Why am I here?" She then saw someone in front of her, standing next to a dead tree. A dark cloaked figure who had smoke coming from the base of their cloak. Underneath the hood of his cloak Odalia saw two piercing yellow eyes with black pupils. The figure puffed a cigar. "Are… are you another spirit? What spirit are you?" she asked, feeling intimidated by this spirit's presence.

They didn't say anything, but nodded at Odalia to follow them. "Where… where are we going?" she asked, the feeling of dread starting to seep into her. "If I had to guess, you must be… the Spirit of the Future?" This caused the spirit to roll their eyes, as if she just pointed out the obvious.

The spirit stopped, raising a gray-blue skinned finger at what they wanted her to see. She looked and recognized Geist and the twins in front of a statue. Then she realized that it wasn't a statue at all. "No…"

A petrified Amity Goodfellow stood with a horrified expression on her face. Underneath her was a plaque that reads: "Let Amity Goodfellow be a reminder to all who think about betraying Emperor Belos."

Geist, Edric and Emira were in tears, but Emira ended up falling on her knees as she experienced an emotional breakdown.

"Why?!" she cried, punching the ground. "Why couldn't I…!? If only I were stronger, I'd have-!" she cried as she was comforted by Edric, who gave her a cool down hug. Geist patted her shoulder, while joining in on the hug.

"It's… let it all out, Emmy," Geist said while in tears. Edric tried to keep it together but he couldn't.

"No, no Emira, it's not your fault!" Odalia told her, even though the twins and Geist couldn't hear her. "You… you can't blame yourself for what happened!"

"Come on, you two. Let's… let's go home," Geist told them sorrowfully. Edric helped Emira pick herself up as they walked away from the statue. Geist turned to Amity, looking down. "I'm… I'm sorry I wasn't there for you, kid. I should've been there and… you did not deserve this." He then turned back to the twins and together the trio disappeared into the mists…

"This… this can't be right." Odalia was shivering, her worst fears having been realized. "I thought Eda and Lilith would protect her! What happened to them-" She then saw the mist revealing other petrified statues nearby. Two of them were the petrified forms of the Clawthorne sisters. "No… wait, what about Eda's daughter, Luz?" she asked the cloaked figure, but they said nothing. "Did… she didn't make it, did she?"

Odalia shook her head. "I didn't want this to happen!" She turned to the figure. "There has to be a way to change this! As an Oracle, I should be able to find a way to change this, so Amity won't end up this way!"

It was then that she heard laughter. She turned and saw two biped weasel demons laughing.

"Hihihihi, what a pathetic display, ain't it?" one weasel with a cockney accent asked while holding a shovel. "Crying over a traitor who was stupid enough to stand against our Emperor! She didn't stand a chance!"

"Yeah, but not as pathetic as, well, this sap's funeral!" replied the second weasel biped, who smoked a stick before he flicked it. "No friends, no acquaintances, hell even that old Owl Lady had a bigger funeral than this!" He pointed to the grave that he and his partner were digging.

"I don't blame 'em. Nobody will miss that buffalo!" the first weasel said. "Welp, it's time to do our second job here. Grave robbin'!"

As the weasels walked away from the grave, the spirit brought Odalia over.

"How dare they," she hissed at the weasels, but the spirit got her attention by pointing at the tombstone. "What… what am I looking at? Who… whose grave is this?"

The spirit flicked a match on his finger, shedding some light on the tombstone. Odalia looked and was shocked by the name she saw.

"Odalia Grunhar: She Won't Be Missed."

"No…" Odalia gasped.

"You're not exactly the most well liked witch in the Isles, are ya?" the cloaked figure asked as he used the match to light another cigar. "Despite how short of a lifetime you mortals get, you somehow still think that you are immune to the consequences of your actions." He chuckled and unhooded himself, showing his blue-gray skinned face while blue flames sprouted from the top of his head. "Now isn't that funny?"

Odalia backed away from Hades, Ruler of the Underworld.

"Now come now, Odalia, don't you want to have a nice little rest in paradise? Sleeping with the worms that'll crawl into your eye sockets? Isn't this what you rich folks want? To die after having everything you could get your greedy hands on?"

Odalia tripped and fell on her back as Hades continued. "You know what's also funny? I'm the god of wealth! But even I know that power and wealth is ultimately meaningless when your life is empty!" He towered over Odalia, causing her to hide herself behind her own tombstone. "Life is like a grave, Odalia… it needs to be filled with people!"

Odalia was terrified of this demonic god. "Please." She was on her knees, begging him. "Please, I… I promise I'll change." This caused Hades to pause, seeing Odalia in tears as she clasped her hands together. "I need to be given a chance to change, not just for myself, but for my children! I need a chance to save my daughter from this future! Just give me another chance!"

Hades hummed at the thought. "Hmm, well you do drive a hard bargain, lady. So my decision is…" He leaned over with a grin. "...Nah." He then knocked her down into her grave "Enjoy your eternal rest, Odalia!"

"AAAHHH!" Odalia cried as she fell, trying to grab Hades's arm but it only burned her hands. She managed to grab a root, stopping her fall, and she hung on for dear life. She looked down and saw a coffin beneath her. Said coffin started to open up, showing a flaming portal to the Underworld. "No, no, no, no-NO!" She tried to climb up, spotting Hades watching her from above. "Please, please help me!"

"Help? You want help? You hear that, boys? Help her down!" Hades ordered as two imps, Pain and Panic emerged from the portal to grab Odalia by her feet.

"Come on, it's fun down here!" Pain declared.

"Yeah! You'll love being a soul wandering for all of eternity!" Panic added as they flew down, pulling her further into the portal.

"No, stay away!" Odalia cried as she couldn't hang on much longer. "No, I'll change! I'll change! I'LL LISTEN AND I'LL CHANGE!"

Once the root snapped, Odalia fell toward the Underworld while Hades laughed…

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Odalia gasped as she opened her eyes, rising up from her bed. "AAH!" she cried out, before realizing that she was in a white room. She noticed the beeping heart monitor with eyes and saw the gown she was wearing, which made her realized that she was in the Healing Coven. "What… why am I here?" she asked herself as someone came in.

"Oh, Odalia, thank Titan you woke up," Swan said. "I was afraid that you wouldn't after all that apple blood you drank."

"Wha… why am I here, Swan?" Odalia asked in a panic. "I thought I was-"

"Calm down, calm down," Swan told her. "Your Crystal called us on speed dial and said that you had passed out outside of your home. When me and Zebra came to check on you, you were in a pool of apple blood. Well, luckily it wasn't your blood but if we hadn't come to you sooner, you'd be at risk of apple blood poisoning. We had one of our best operators clean out your liver."

"But… but that can't be!" Odalia said, looking confused. "I was just visited by the ghosts of my parents, who told me that there'd be three spirits. There as a cricket, a dog and the God of the Underworld. They showed me my childhood and the future - it was so real!" she claimed hysterically.

"Hey, calm down before your blood pressure rises," Swan said calmly to Odalia. "Look, it's obvious that you've drank too much apple blood and as a result you went through some kind of lucid dream. It is pretty common."

"But it felt so real, I was even in this thing called a cab! It had no ratworm to pull it!" Odalia claimed.

"Right… okay, I'm going to go and have the nurses check up on you later," Swan said as she started to walk out. "But Odalia, I'm glad to see that you're okay." She then closes the door.

Odalia was left with her own thoughts. "Could it… really have been a dream?" she asked while rubbing her head, only to notice a burn mark on her hand. She looked at both of her hands and saw the burn marks from when she tried to grab Hades's arm. Her eyes widened as she realized that it hadn't been just a dream…

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"I must say thank you for your service, you two," Jiminy told Fu Dog and Hades as they hung out in a celestial lounge. "You played your parts excellently."

"So, uh, did we really scare her straight?" Fu Dog asked skeptically.

"I'm sure after what she experienced, she has realized the errors of her ways." Jiminy replied optimistically.

"Honestly, I don't care if she learned her lesson or not," Hades waved it off, sitting in a lounge chair. "I only agreed to this because I was bored. It's summer, and that means my wife's living with the mother-in-law while I have to watch my ex's kid. So I saw this as an excuse to leave the Underworld."

"Then who's watching your kid?" Fu Dog questioned.

"Eh, she can take care of herself. She's got Spot for company," Hades answered.

"Well, once again I thank you for filling in for Pete. He usually does this every December, but since this was the middle of the summer he wasn't available," Jiminy told him.

Hades answered with a shrug as a giant man with short red hair, small blue eyes, big red nose. a bucktooth smile, a brownish vest with a green shirt, black pants, and gray shoes came into the longue.

"Hey Willie, how did it go?" Fu Dog asked him.

"Hiya guys! You wouldn't believe how my legal case went!" Willie the Giant said as he began to tell them how his day went.

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Meanwhile, in another realm…

In McDuck Manor, the home of Scrooge McDuck, the famous adventurer sat in his chair in front of the fireplace, looking defeated. He had just lost a court case against Willie the Giant. During one adventure Scrooge had stolen some of his treasure, which Willie had won back after Scrooge had been found guilty of breaking and entering, as well as theft of property.

"Hey, Uncle Scrooge," said a female adult duck with long white hair, a blue headband, yellow jacket with a green shirt, and teal pants. "So how did your court case with that dumb old giant go?"

Scrooge went steaming red as he jumped up from his chair and started to rant. "Let me tell you something, Della! Never, ever, EVER steal from a giant! They may be dumb, but their lawyers are a different story!" As Scrooge continued to rant and jumped around in anger, Della Duck just slowly backed away.

"I'm uh… gonna check on the kids…" Della awkwardly said before leaving.

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After she was dropped off back home, Odalia looked up at the manor. She sighed and went inside.

She found a mirror and looked at herself in it. Her hair was completely down and unkempt. She had no makeup on and it looked like she had actually lost her weight from stress. She then held up Grimhammer's card, staring at it with a narrow look… before tearing it up to pieces.

"Not interested," she said, while going to her desk and pulling out a piece of paper that she started to write on.

"To Amity, Edric, Emira, and Alador… I've come to understand that if any of you want nothing to do with me after everything I've done, I can't blame you. I was not a good mother or a good wife. And after a lot of self-reflection, I want to say that I am sorry for all or it."

After she wrote her letters, she had them sent out by the crows.

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Amity was playing with Kay as she heard a tap on the window. She went up to find the letter that had been sent to her. She opened it and started to read it.

"I was controlling, manipulative… and selfish. My priorities were wrong. When I should have been around, I wasn't and it made some of you take on responsibilities that you shouldn't have had to. I tried to justify what I did by telling myself it was for your own good, but I should have known better. I should have seen what I was doing to this family and how unhappy I was making everyone. Perhaps if I had played the role of mother instead of manager, I would have been more conscious of your own needs."

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Emira was wiping a counter as Edric came to her with the letter, the two reading it together.

"I have realized that I still want to be a part of your lives. I know that things need to be different. That I need to be different. But at the same time, I've realized that it may be too late. That you may think I am incapable of change. I am not asking you to forgive me, but I would like to be given the chance to atone for what I did and prove that I mean everything that I am saying. However, if you truly want nothing more to do with me, I understand and I wish you well. But know that I do love you all and I am sorry for not saying that enough times. Even if you never want to see or hear from me again, you are still my family and I will do everything I can to try to protect this family, because I don't want to imagine anything happening to any of you. And perhaps one day I will be able to earn back your trust."

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"Lastly, please tell my brother Geist that I am sorry as well. He was right all along and I should have listened to him.

-Sincerely, Odalia."

The crow flew away while Alador held the letter he had received. As he was about to open the letter, it was snatched away by Terra.

"What's this?" Terra asked as she opened the letter and looked at it. "Oh, it's from Odalia." She grimaced.

"Head Witch Snapdragon, that's my letter-" Alador tried to protest, but Terra handed him his tea.

"Never mind that nasty woman, Alador," she said as she threw the letter into the fireplace, incinerating it. "Come now, drink your tea…"

She watched as Alador drank his tea, smiling as Alador finished, his eyes showing a tint of green. "Now it is time for you to meet those guests I mentioned earlier…"

"It's so good to see you again… son," Arthur Blight said as he walked in with his wife Destiny. "That retirement home your wife sent us was crap, but at least we gained a good cardio out of it!"

"Yes, and now we look forward to working with our son again," Destiny said as she and her husband smiled. "And make sure that the Blight legacy is in good hands…"

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And the problems keep coming…

Well, okay, so many of you are probably confused by this chapter and well, this was planned for a long time. Like, during season 2's hiatus before the second half of the season. Before "Clouds on the Horizon" was a thing.

To new readers, this story's version of Odalia is far different from canon Odalia. We are aware of the hate she gets, and this story made her a little nuance, like how we've written Belos. For one, we gave her a brother, and have her dated Lilith. But we still have her about having her canon tendencies, such as manipulation and setting up Amity's future, and made her how bad of a mother she is like in canon. But, you know how James Gunn made Peacemaker and Yondu being assholes until giving them some character development to show that they are flawed but deep down they're not all bad. Our interpretation of Odalia is that take. Most of our recurring readers are used to this version of Odalia, we just made her more a little complex.

Also if you comment on how we enable a horrible woman from canon, remember this… I've seen the R34, all of y'all are into her.

And one of the reasons why we've decided to go through with this is, well, characters like Nicole and Felicity pretty much fills in Odalia's role in canon.

Another fact to share is about the homage to A Christmas Carol in this story. Given that Odalia's whole character revolves around how she's come to greed. And that it fits that since she's an Oracle and that the Christmas Carol involves seeing the past, present and future, as well as how the Oracle coven is more like a Wall Street-type of Coven. Also made a lot of references around it, such as Scrooged with Fu Dog driving a taxi cab, which is what David Johansen's character did as he plays the Ghost of Christmas Past as a manic taxi driver. And the obvious, Mickey's Christmas Carol with the use of Jiminy, and the Future scene but using the very special guest stars, Fu Dog and Hades, fitting for October. Also added in Ignorant and Want, which

Now you've all seen the fanart, of Odalia wearing her Onceler outfit on my DA page. You all think we'll use "How Bad Can I Be?" from the Lorax, but in reality, we used "The Biggering" instead, a deleted song that is ten times better than that song made for the Tik Tok followers. My way of saying, this song was bad, so we used something better fitting for the story. Cause The Biggering feels like it fits Odalia's character more.

Writing this chapter is like writing an episode of Family Guy and American Dad, or any Seth MacFarlane's work. Maybe because since Odalia's VA is Rachel MacFarlane is where the influence came from. Hell, writing Odalia's father brings out to make him sound like Carter Pewterschmit with his dialogue. Hell, maybe it's from watching The Orville recently that got me to write how the dialogue is similar.

Appolus is a previous Oracle Head who is basically a parody of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, and his name is a combination of Apollo and his Roman name, Phoebus, since he's the Greek God of Prophecy. The mention of Cass is a reference to Cassandra, who Apollo cursed in the Trojan War where she will never be believed.

A fun fact about this chapter having Willie the Giant suing Scrooge McDuck. It's actually based off of Buck's ideas for DuckTales 2017's season 4, where what if that adventure from the Beanstalk that Scrooge went that one time in the "Jaw$!" episode. It would've had Willie the Giant suing Scrooge for the crimes of breaking and entering, along with theft. Maybe property damage. As you can see, it did not go well.

So yeah, Fu Dog has taken Willie's place cause, well, he's a gluttonous dog and thought it'd be interesting to have him appear as the Spirit of the Present. Which is a good opportunity to have a character from American Dragon: Jake Long to make a special guest appearance. Which could peak your interest…

Also, we should talk about Sheldon here. Most of those who have read the Somhiem special one-shot, he used to go by Shelly. Back when he was a teenage girl… that's right, Sheldon is revealed to be transman who prefers he/him. Why didn't we ever pointed it out? Wasn't our place to say.

Though we can add that the flashback to the special is after he had transitioned, but he was still letting his close friends use "Shelley" as a nickname since they had still supported him.

And I hope anyone got the Moring Mark comic reference from Amity's speech towards Kay.

Okay, so to check up on some reviews to answer:

ReviewerDWJ: Yeah, a Keyblade.

Gamelover41592: Well, we've thought about using it and it would be a reason for it to be there soon.

Matteso585: 1) He has no association with the Tarot Guild. 2) Of course she would, she's already gave them a head's up. 3) Well, Seth holds prejudice against Mewmans to the extreme. In fact, he's more Hitler than Toffee…

Crosshot: Really appreciate their re-colors. As for the part with King and Viney, well we have thought about it and we concluded to have this moment between the two that they can relate about.

Well, if the Void was inspired by Gravity Falls or influence each other. Though, Mewni is there for a different reason, and don't worry, you'll see more of Seth but not so soon. More like, what's to come…

Honestly, me and Buck did not realized the "Blight in Bonesborough" reference when we made that Junior Bad Girl Coven. And don't worry about Emily, she won't be much of a threat much.

Darraq: Don't expect much of that. Felicity would most likely deny and make Nicole as if she's crazy.

Shuffollower: We can't spoil anything. And you have Nefcy to thank for introducing an interesting character, but does nothing nor reference about. So it's up to me and Buck to give him the James Gunn treatment.

61394: Well, you'd be surprised as to why Adrian needs an apprentice. And you probably gonna figure out soon on who's idea was it.

Ultimate-drax: Yeah, we'd all watch it for the Lumity moment. And don't worry, Belos will recover soon.

GuestMcCarry: Thank you, we have been thinking of how to make a spin-off of both Amphibia and Reunion Falls.

Teloch: Yeah, he's a morally gray villain… but he's still evil. Like, he legit blackmails those like Alador and Calypso into becoming Coven Heads, not to mention he'll put down were-witches through execution. He's still follow savagery laws and still promotes survival to the fittest. Even though Belos is more nuance but he's still more like Peacemaker; he'll do anything for the peace of the Boiling Isles, even if he had to kill women, and children for it. Plus, it's no indication that he would put the Clawthornes to death even if they're used as bait, which he would have indoctrinate Luz into the Emperor's Coven anyway. Also the fact that he's been after Puck way before the incident with Boscha, as he sent that Greater Basilisk after him. Also the fact that he ordered the revival and torture of the Basilisks, and using the BATs to keep Luz in line, and that includes the life of a fourteen year old Levi.

Alright, so the next couple of chapters will truly move forward to the story. So better prepare for what the next chapter will hold. And no, it's not going to be about Ecplise's Lake… but it will build up to it.