Spyro: Legacy of The Owl House
Ch.2: Abomination Impersonation
An unexpected theft unveiled itself…
In Stone Hill, Spyro was telling Hunter and Zoe about his time in The Boiling Isles.
"…and that's how we were able to take down that warden!" Spyro said, finishing his story. "And let me tell you, he never saw it coming!"
"That's one heck of a story, Spyro!" Hunter said.
So, how did that witch find that lost orb? The Professor was looking for it forever!" Zoe said.
"I don't know, but I should head back to Avalar and give this back to him." Spyro said.
Then without warning, a few dragon elders flew near Spyro. Spyro was surprised to see them suddenly.
"Spyro, we have a huge problem that requires your assistance!" Deblin said.
"Problem, what problem?" He asked them.
Argus said to him while pointing to the portal to The Boiling Isles, "It's those new portals that have been showing up recently. They have been appearing rapidly around the dragon realms and started pulling our relics into that demonic world! Those portals are stealing from us!"
Spyro said, "That's something you don't see everyday. So what do you want me to do?"
Nestor then said, "Since you have been to the realm those portals lead to, we need you to go in and find the relics. The weird human you've been telling us about can help you find them. Be sure to find them all and bring them back. You're our only hope!"
"You got it!" Spyro then said to Hunter. "Are you joining in or what?"
"I head in later. I need to talk to Bianca about this." Hunter said to him.
"I'll join you, Spyro. I want to see if this human is weird or not." Zoe said. "Also, don't forget about your guidebook so that you can keep track of the relics you collected.
Spyro looked at Sparx who has the guidebook and said, "Ok, let's get going!" Spyro, Sparx, and Zoe went into the thorny portal and headed to the Boiling Isles.
The Adventure Continues…
On the other side, Spyro, Sparx and Zoe made it to a beach on the Boling Isles. The portal then goes away from behind them.
"So this is the Boiling Isles…" Zoe said.
"Yep, but I wonder why it took us to this beach." Spyro said.
He looks ahead and sees a giant slug beached in the sand. He then heard some familiar voices from the other side of it.
"Not a bad haul. That oviduct was loaded." A voice said.
"Hah, lose an apprentice, get garbage eggs. That's what I call a fair trade." A second voice said.
The first voice said, "Pssh, I didn't lose anything."
"I know those voices!" Spyro said as he flew over the slug with Sparx and Zoe following him. While they are looking above, they see that Eda and King are talking about who can teach Luz the best.
"Well then, since you doubt my teaching abilities, how about we make a little wager on this?" KIng said.
"You really want to prove you're a better teacher than me?" Eda said to King.
"Yes, I want to do this!" He said.
"Okay." Eda then gets a book out of her hair called, "Eda + King One Sided Wagers". "But, I'm obligated to remind you that I use our bets to utterly humiliate you, and…" She then opened it and showed King that he lost each and every one of their bets. "…that you never won."
"I like those odds." King said, still thinking that he can win.
"So how's this?" Eda grabbed a trash slug egg. "Teach this baby trash slug to be your loyal soldier and follower for one day. If you manage to prove to me that you can be a better teacher, Luz is all yours! But if you don't, I change your name to King to… Mr. Wiggles."
"Well, when you lose, you have to…" King thought of the most humiliating thing for Eda if he wins. It didn't take him long to figure it out. "…wear a shame hat, sleep in a shack, and never step foot into The Owl House again! Ha-ha!"
"Deal!" Eda said as she showed the book for King to sign.
He then stamps his paw on one of the pages, signaling that their deal is on. Eda throws the egg on King's head, where it breaks and releases the baby trash slug, who King catches. After this, Spyro flies down toward them.
"Hey, you two!" Spyro said with Eda and King looking up to see him
"Oh, it's you. Didn't expect you to be back already." Eda then looked at Zoe. "And I see you brought company."
"Well, expect more in the near future. Hunter is coming here as well soon." Spyro told her.
"Good to know." Eda said, pretending to care. "So, why are you here?"
"Well, the Dragon Realms have lost ancient relics, so I need to check around these isles to find them." Spyro said. "Do you know where your apprentice is? She could help me out on this."
Eda told him, "Sorry, short stuff. She left earlier saying that she was going to look at pictures of animals that are alive. She even insisted about learning magic the "proper" way, just like in Hexside, but magic isn't proper. It's wild and unpredictable! For example, I told her that a great witch is resourceful."
King interrupted by saying, "Which means she just made her stick her hand in a slug's bile to get a greasy slimeball."
"Ok…" Spyro said, confused at what he said. "We'll just go find her on our own." Spyro said with Sparx and Zoe tagging along. Eda shrugged and then sacks her staff with the remaining eggs then heads off with King following.
In the woods, a monster butterfly was flying, panting due to his head being so big for its small body. Spyro notices some gems along the path.
"Hey, there are some gems over here!" Spyro said, grabbing them. He is now carrying 50 gems. Looks like those portals ended up taking the dragon treasure as well. Sparx buzzes that they need to take the treasure they find on the way back once they're finished. "Yeah, I know Sparx. Shouldn't be a problem with you helping me out picking them up."
"So, is there anything more you can tell me about her?" Zoe said.
Spyro told her, "Like I said earlier, she is weird, especially when it comes to magic. Despite the fact that she was specially told that a human can't learn magic, she still wants to learn it."
"You can do it! You can!" A voice said.
"Huh, was that her voice right now?" Zoe asked him.
"No, That definitely not her voice." He said.
Spyro, Sparx and Zoe looked from the bushes and saw a witch named Willow who was pacing back and forth was the one who said that. She really doesn't like being in the Abomination track, but her parents insisted on putting her there.
Willow continued talking to herself, "You can do it. Even if you get a bad grade, it's not a reflection of you as a witch. Besides, my parents are right about this. There are better opportunities on this track. Now get to school!" Unknowing to her, she accidentally stepped on a flower during her pacing."Oh no! Oh, little friend, I'm sorry!" She then kneels and makes a spell circle around the flower, which is to bloom again.
So, she can revive plants, so what? We don't have time for this. The relics are more important… Spyro stopped talking when he was interrupted by Sparx who buzzed at him to tell that someone was coming. Someone did indeed come, as another girl bringing a wagon that is holding a pot went in front of Willow while reading a book called "Magic 101."
"Willow!" She said while closing the book. She then hopped off her pot. "Wow, you're so unnoticeable, that I almost rolled into ya."
As the flower wilted again, Willow greeted the girl by saying her name, "Hi, Amity."
"Shouldn't you get to class early to prepare your…" Amity stopped speaking and saw Willow's pot. It tipped over and spilled abomination goo on the ground. Amity then resumed speaking, "Oh, Willow. You don't have anything to show do you?" Embarrassed, Willow pulled up her hood. "This is why people called you "Half-a-Witch Willow". Amity's pot started to rattle and shake. "Oh, looks like someone got something to say to you." She then opened the pot's lid and said while snapping her fingers. "Abomination, rise."
The goo inside the pot rises in the form of a humanoid-like being with three eyes. It bends and pokes Willow forehead with its hand and makes a star shape out of its goo. During this, it says to Willow, "You're…a…star."
"Aww, it's like mine…" Amity said while readjusting her Top Student badge. "…but much smaller, meaningless, and insignificant. As top student of Hexside, it's my duty to tell you to keep at it. Even you might even get a passing grade someday." She looked at her abomination and said, "Abomination, cower." The Abomination sank back into the pot. Amity put the lid back on afterwards. "See you in class, superstar!" She walks away with her abomination pot while Willow removes her hood while Amity wasn't looking.
As Amity heads back to Hexside, Spyro said, "Talk about being a huge showoff! What is with her massive ego?" Sparx buzzes as he also didn't like Amity treated Willow.
"Oh, see you in class, superstar!" Willow said, repeating what Amity had just said. She then wiped the abomination star off her forehead. "I hate when she does that." As she continues to rant, leaves start to blow around her. "I hate making abominations, I hate getting bad grades, and I hate everyone calling me a half-a-witch! Ugh, I can't stand this anymore!" She closed eyes while shouted which then she opened her eyes as they started glowing green.
"Uh-oh, This can't be good." Zoe said.
The willed flower was swallowed up by thorns created by Willow's magic, sharing the same rage as her. One thorn saw Spyro, Sparx and Zoe and lunged toward them.
"Look out!" Spyro said with him and his friends jumping out of the way. After that, he heard a certain scream near where Willow was. He then tells Sparx this. "Sparx, that nerdy scream. It sounds familiar. Do you think it's…" Sprax nodded and buzzed quietly as he wanted to know if it was her.
They both looked again and saw that Luz was the one who screamed due to a thorn grabbing her ankle and dragging her near Willow.
"It is her! Come on, she may need our help!" Spyro and Sparx head toward Luz with Zoe looking at Luz and then follows Spyro.
Willow then turned to see Luz and glared at her, but once she snapped out of it and realized what she had done, the thorn roots wilted and she was worried.
"Oh no, no, no, no, no! I'm so sorry!" Willow said while causing the root around Luz's legs to leave.
"It's okay. The thorns only went through a few layers of skin." Luz said.
"It's a good thing that the only thing those thorns did to you." Luz looked back and saw that Spyro was the one who said that.
"Spyro! You're actually back!" Luz said, excited to see him again, but her joy quickly changed to confusion when she said, "Hold on, why are you back?"
"It's a long story." Spyro said.
Luz then looked at Zoe and screamed.
"Don't worry, she's not like the fairies here." He said to her, with Luz just waving at her.
"Nice to finally meet you. My name is Zoe and I'm a friend of Spyro. He told me about your last encounter with a fairy."
"And I'm Luz. As for my fairy problem, that is not the only one. I also had more problems with fairies, because one was just a puppet for a puppeteer." She said.
"Puppeteer? What are you even talking about?" Spyro said.
"I can tell you about it later, right now, did you see that witch girl's plant magic?" Luz said while pointing at Willow while still in awe.
Willow who was watching decided to get very close to Luz and saw her ears, seeing them in a circle rather than pointy. She then said, "So, circly." This caused Luz to squeak and cover her ears. Willow then gasps when she realizes what Luz is. "You're human! This is astounding and amazing! A human on the Boiling Isles! How'd you get here? What are you doing here? Is that dragon your friend and what is his name?"
"It's more like we're acquaintances, Thorny." Spyro said to her. "And the name's Spyro."
Just then, Hexside's bells ring from afar.
"Um, I'm sorry. I can't stay. I have to go and disappoint my teacher…again." Willow put down Luz's arm. "It's nice to meet you, human." She then walks away while half-waving to Luz.
While half-waving back, Luz said, "Wait! I'm Luz and you're Willow, right? What you did to that flower and those plants, it was… wow."
"Wow is not the word I'm looking for. Those thorns nearly turn you into plant food!" Spyro said to her.
"Thanks, but… I'm not even supposed to be doing plant magic. My parents put me in the abomination track at school." Willow said, sadly.
Luz squeals happily and grabs Willow. "Like magic school?" Luz said with Willow nodding her head yes. "That's so cool! I'm so jealous! I do have a teacher of my own, but her lessons are a bit…untraditional."
"If you call digging into a slug's bile for some slime ball that yes." Spyro said with Luz glaring at him with an angry expression.
"I just wish I could spend one day at that school, because I know for a fact my teacher won't let me enroll there." Luz said to her.
"I wish I could get a passing grade for once, then people would stop calling me "Half-a-Witch Willow". She said with her kicking the abomination goo on the ground. This caused its eye to move and moan.
"Hey, wait! I know how we can both get what we want." Luz said as she grabbed some of the goop and started smearing all over herself. "Make me your abomination! I'll get you a good grade and you can get me into magic school. It's fiendishly clever."
"What?" Willow said, shocked at her Luz had just said to her.
"More like fiendishly stupid. How could anyone be fooled by that?" Spyro said.
Luz said with confidence,"Come on, this will work, Spyro. I saw that girl's thing. It's just chucks of stuff that talks weird. I'm chunks of stuff and I talk weird!"
"That's true." Willow said, blushing. She then giggles. "Ok, it's a deal… Luz." the two then handshake.
"This is a great plan." Luz said.
When they tried to let go of their handshake both appeared to be stuck.
"Oops, abomination goo." Willow said.
Luz then pulled to break free, but when she did, she fell into more goo.
"Still a great plan." Luz said in pain.
"Well, you weren't wrong about her, Spyro. She is a weird one." Zoe said.
"I know, right?" Spyro said.
When Luz got up, Willow said to her, "In order for this to work you need to stay hidden in there." Willow then points to her abomination pot.
"Sure, I'll make sure know one sees me until you need me." Luz said as she jumped in the pot. She then got up and was full with goo from head to toe. "Spyro, you and your friends better not head inside when we make it to the school. Who knows how they'll react to any of you."
"I can tell why they won't be fond of me, especially Miss Greenie herself." Spyro said, talking about Amity. Willow heads to Hexside while taking her pot that had Luz inside it. Spyro and Zoe followed them. "Since it will take a while to get there, how about I tell you both on how I kick Gnasty Gnorc's butt?"
"Sure, If you let me tell you about that puppeteer." Luz said to him.
As they talked, They eventually ended up near Hexside.
Willow introduced the school to them, "Welcome to Hexside School of Magic and Demonics where young witches learn the nine main coven tracks. Remember to stay hidden, okay?"
Luz just giggled in excitement instead of giving an answer.
As they walked, Spyro saw some gnorcs around the school and said, "Would you look at that! We got some surprise visitors around."
"I thought you said that you toasted this "Gnasty Gnorc" of yours." Luz said to him.
Spyro said to her, "Yeah, but his minions are still causing trouble in the dragon realms. Looks like they came from the portal just like those sheep did. They even have some of the lost treasure that I just found not too long ago. I'm gonna get it back from them!" Spyro charged towards the gnorcs with Sparx tagging along.
Wait, Spyro! Luz said, but it was too late. He was long gone when she spoke.
"Sorry about that. Spyro usually doesn't listen when he is doing something important." Zoe said
Luz looked at Zoe and said, "A little bit late to tell me that. Since he is busy, do you think you can be a lookout and tell him if anything goes wrong inside?"
"Sure, I can do that." Zoe said to her.
Zoe flies near the school as she follows Willow from outside who is taking Luz inside the school. Once they are in, Willow stops at her locker and tickles it. Its tongue came out holding a few books. She got one of them and the locker put its tongue back. A friend of Willow's bumped into her which got her attention.
"Willow, you will not believe humans!" He said.
"Humans, What humans, Augustus? I've never seen any! Wha?" Willow said, trying not to be suspicious.
"Did you know that humans nail barbed wire to their kids' teeth?" He then showed his magazine to her. "But, why? Maybe to make them magnetic."
Luz, who is hearing their conversion said, "Actually it's for storing treats."
Augustus raised an eyebrow after hearing Willow's Abomination pot talk.
Willow told him, "Ok, Augustus. I'm gonna tell you something. But you gotta be cool."
"I can be spool, I mean cool." Augustus said, mispronouncing cool.
"Ok." Willow looked at her pot and said, "Abomination, rise."
Luz rises up from the pot with flair, completely forgetting how an abomination talks, "Ta-da! I'm an abomination!"
"Luz, that's not how abominations act!" Willow told her.
Augustus saw Luz's round ears and said, "No, No, it couldn't be."
Willow then introduces her friend to Luz, "This is Augustus. He's the president of the Human Appreciation Society. Most witches won't be able to recognize a human right away, but he's an expert on them."
"Where are your gills?" Augustus said.
Luz said to him, "I know Augustus back in the Human realm. We'd call him Gus."
"Gus? name? human nickname? Gus? Call me it. Wow! Gus! This is the best day of my life!" he said, happily given this nickname by a human.
Screaming is heard outside. Gus saw that it was Spyro charging a gnorc outside. It splated on the window then fell down on the ground.
"And that Spyro. He's busy taking down some foes from his home." Luz said.
The bell rings with a scream.
"I have to get to spelling class. See you guys at lunch." Gus said.
"All right, into the darkness you go." Willow said to Luz who hissed before sinking back into the pot.
Back at the Owl House, King is giving his slug treat to command it. He also gave it a name.
"Aw, who's a good Prince Jr.? Who's a good guy?" King said to it.
"Hey, Mr. Wiggles! You're not gonna teach it anything by only feeding him constantly."
"It's called positive reinforcement and it works wonders, Eda." King said. Prince Jr. ate the treat out of King's paw and grew slightly." Ha-ha, see? Now watch this." King got another treat. "Prince Jr., Attack Eda, knock over her drink, mess up your hair." Prince Jr. didn't do anything King told him. He only looked at the treat he's holding.
"Oh no, please stop". Eda said sarcastically.
"Well, I haven't seen your student in forever. For all we know, she's not even loyal to you and decided to abandon you. I bet that dragon encouraged her to go to school to learn magic "the correct way". King said the slug takes the treat for King.
"Ha-ha-ha, you wish." Eda said to him, but her tone changed when she started to get concerned. "But yeah, where is she?"
In the woods the portal to the Dragon Realms materialized from the ground and Hunter came out. The portal then sank back into the ground.
"Looks like this is the place, but where have Spyro gone to?" Hunter said. He then started searching around.
Back at Hexside, The students of the Abomination class are showing their Abominations to Professor Hermonculus. A female witch student shows off hers, but it ends up having more feet than it normally would.
"Hmm, too many toes in unexpected places. Fail." He said as the abomination sinks back in. The student then wheels it out of the front of the room. "This is all you students have to offer? Pathetic, absolutely pathetic! The biggest abominations are all of you! If the next abomination is a failure, everyone gets extra homework for a month!" Two students started to mumble sadly about the chance of getting extra homework. After clearing his throat, Hermonuculus is ready for the next abomination, "And the next one to come up is…"
Amity interrupted as she wanted to go next, "Excuse me, sir, but I'm ready to show my abomination. Rise!" Her Abomination rose up then did a pose.
Prof. Hermonculus laughed and said, "You should know I always save the best for last, Amity. You'll have to wait your turn. How about…Willow?
"Not the Half-a-witch!" The prickly boy witch student said.
"Great, Getting homework for a month is guaranteed now." The horned girl witch said.
Willow then pulled up her hood again.
Luz peeked out of the pot and said, "Don't listen to them, Willow. We can do this." Luz gives a thumbs up to Willow who nodded her hand while smiling that she believes that this ruse of theirs will work.
Zoe sees Willow wheeling her pot to the center of the classroom. "Spyro, look! Your friend is about to appear!"
Spyro who managed to take out most of the gnorcs said, "Let's hope she knows what she's doing. I don't want to have to bail her everytime she gets into trouble."
Willow then said nervously, "Abomination, rise."
When Luz heard that, she punched the lid and jumped out of the pot. "Ta-da!" She said while shrinking her pupils to make her look weird as an abomination.
Everyone gasps at seeing Luz, thinking she was an abomination. Spyro, Sparx and Zoe couldn't believe that Luz managed to fool them so easily.
"Abomination, bow." Willow said, with Luz bowing while saying "Blah!"
"Very Impressive, but can it speak?" Prof. Hermonculus said.
Luz quickly thinks about what to say while still being in character as an abomination. Once she figured something out, she said to Willow, "I may be your abomination, but you're my a-mom-ination."
The students saw what Luz said was cute. Amity was shocked to see this. She can't believe that Willow, the half-a-witch, is able to control her abomination with no problems.
Prof. Hermonculus laughed and said, "A-mom-ination, splendid wordplay! A plus!" He draws and A+ on Luz's forehead.
Amity then looked at them with a menacing glare. She knew that there was no way that Willow would have done this well so quickly. Luz then turned her pupils normal while smiling at Willow who smiled back.
"Well, that was something." Spyro said. "Well, time to find the last of those gnorcs!"
The bell then rings, screams, and then coughs.
As Willow wheels her pot away, Prof. Hermonculus said, "Wonderful work today, Willow. It looks like we have a new top student." When Amity, who was walking out of the classroom, heard this, she stopped dead in her tracks. Hermonculus took her Top Student badge and gave it to Willow.
"Uh, thank you sir." Willow said.
Prof. Hermonculus nods and then his abomination takes him away.
"Hey!" Amity said to Willow with her arms folded. "Last time I saw you, your abomination is mush. It couldn't even rise up. What did you do?"
"I, uh, took your pep talk to heart, Amity." Willow said and then laughed nervously.
"I bet you did." Amity said. I don't know what you did, but I'll find out soon enough. I have my eyes on you, Half-a-Witch. That badge is mine." She walks backwards while not breaking eye contact with Willow. She even bumps into a student and doesn't even care about it.
"Uh-oh. I think Amity is on to us." Willow said, fearing Amity will know their secret.
Back to Hunter, he walks until he sees the Owl House.
"That must be the house Spyro told me about." Hunter said. Then, Eda opened the front door quickly and ended up slamming Hooty. "Oh, you're that shady witch!"
Eda said while being ticked off, "What, who told you that? Was it that dragon? Ugh, why does he keep telling everyone that?"
"If you mean Spyro, then yes. Anyway, do you know where he is?" Hunter asked.
"He went to find Luz so that she could help him with some lost object or whatever. I'm more interested in finding her, provided that a certain house demon knows where she is, Hooty!" Eda moved the door so that she is facing Hooty. "Have you seen her?"
Hooty said to her, "Funny thing you brought that up. I saw her tiny mouse feet roaming close by, but that might have been some mice. Anyway, someone started moving in that direction." Hooty gestured his head slightly while hooting.
"What is he supposed to be doing?" Hunter said.
Eda said, "I think he's trying to point or…"
"Look at the weather vane!" Hooty shouted.
She did as Hooty said and saw the vane was pointing forward.
"But the only thing that way is…" When Eda figures out where the vane is pointing towards, she gasps, knowing full well where it leads. "Oh no." She then dashed off in the direction the vane is pointing. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!"
"Wait up! If this takes you to Spyro, I'm coming too!" Hunter said as he tried to keep up.
Back at the outside of the school. Spyro is still looking for a few gnorcs who are hiding.
"Hmm, They got to be around somewhere, Sparx." Spyro said.
He then hears Eda's voice from near the school. "No, blind obedience and pointless busywork!"
Spyro looks and sees Eda looking at the window, completely flabbergasted at seeing Luz in school.
"No! Why! School!" Eda shouted with an echo.
"Wow, she REALLY hates witch school. Kind of funny when you think about it." Spyro said. Sparx then buzzes at Spyro telling him that Hunter is here. "Hunter, it is about time you joined. What took you so long?"
"I, uh, got a little lost, I was able to get here with the help of that witch." Hunter said, pointing to Eda who is walking back to the Owl House in defeat.
"You better follow her back to her home." Spyro said.
"Why should I?" Hunter asked. You said that she's shady.
Spyro said, "I know, but she made a bet with the self proclaimed King of Demons. He needs to train some trash slug, and I'm a bit concerned about that. I saw a full grown one back on the beach. If that thing he's training gets to full size, he probably won't be able to control it."
"Ok, I'll head back. Just remember to glide at the top of your jump for maximum glide distance and to hover at the end of your glide." Hunter said. He then heads back to the Owl House.
"We can find those gnorcs later, let's check to see how "The Living Abomination" is doing! Spyro said.
Spyro and Sparx went to see Zoe, who was looking out the window of the school's cafeteria.
"Zoe, is anything going wrong in there?" He asked her.
Zoe told them, "Nope, everything is fine, for now. That green-haired witch is so nosy. She been watching over them intensely ever since she lost that badge."
Spyro said, "Greenie needs to lighten up that attitude of hers." He looked at Luz." …and she needs to stay hidden. One slip up and it's all over for you!".
Luz who heard them said, "Aw, there's no need for you three to worry about me. Amity won't know anything for as long as I'm careful."
"Hey!" Gus said to Luz. "Do humans eat PB&J's?"
"Oh my gosh, I haven't had real food in so long, please give me some." Luz said, wanting to eat some human food for once.
Gus splits his PB&J in half and gives one of the halves to Luz who gets it using her mouth. She then sank back into the pot to eat it.
"I don't know, Gus." Willow said.
"I know, eating a sandwich in that? Blech! She has no idea where that goo comes from!" Zoe said.
Willow said, "No, I'm not talking about that. It's about Amity. If she saw that…"
Spyro, who doesn't even think Amity glimpsed Luz eating that PB&J, said, "Oh, you're just worrying too much, Thorny! What are the odds that she…" Spyro was cut off by Amity jumping on the table suddenly.
"I saw that!" Amity looked at Willow with a menacing glare. "Abominations don't eat!" She then notices Spyro out in the window, so he alongside Sparx and Zoe quickly moves out of her sight. Amity then looked inside the pot that Luz was hiding in. "I know you're in there! You can't hide from me!" The students in the cafeteria start to look at Amity, who is making a scene trying to prove that Luz is not an abomination. "What are you? Who are you? Who was that dragon you were talking to just now? I want answers!" She grabs Luz by her shirtfront and starts to shake her violently. While this is happening Luz hides by pretending to be an abomination again.
"Amity Blight!" Prof. Hermonculus said which caused Amity to stop and look at him. "I suspected a twinge of jealousy, but what you're doing right now is just sad."
"But, I-no! Look at it!" Amity said with Luz moaning like an abomination while leaning her head back. Prof. Humculous is not buying it. "But, this thing was talking to a dragon outside!"
Prof. Hermonculus looked outside the window and saw no one as Spyro, Sparx and Zoe hid near a tree. He then looked at Amity and said. "There's no one there." This caused Amity to look even more in a state of disbelief. "Report to Principal Bump's office at once!"
"But-" Amity said who is still trying to convince him.
"Now!" He said with Amity dropping Luz and running there angrily.
Humculous leaves Luz popped out with a concerned look at Willow. Outside, Spyro, Sparx, and Zoe came out of hiding.
"That was a close call!" Spyro said. He then finds the gnorcs hiding by the trees and charges at them.
Meanwhile, King is still giving a bunch of treats to Prince Jr. who is full grown due to all the feeding. Eda finally made it back and saw them.
"So, have you found your missing student?" He said. Eda didn't answer. She just folders her arms while looking away. "By your expression, Luz went and found someplace else to learn, which means I've…have won!" King tosses more teats which Prince Jr. quickly eats.
"Yes, great. You won. I got nothing and you got your giant slug solder. Congrats!" Eda said, looking at him with annoyance,
"Oh Eda, don't say that. At least you have…this"! King showed her The Shame Hat while laughing mockingly.
Eda growled at him while swiping the hat. She then angrily marches to the Owl House's shack, due to her being banned from the Owl House as part of their bet. King was still laughing at her while she went into the shack.
"I am so funny!" King said. "Weh?" He saw that Hunter had finally made it back. "Oh, it's just the dragon's other friend he told me about. Why are you here?"
"I'm here to save you from a big problem. Spyro told me about a slug that you're training." Hunter said, looking at Prince Jr who slithers behind King. "That must be it, right?"
King then said, "Oh, I'm not into any kind of trouble. Prince Jr. follows my every whim. Here I'll show you." He then looked at the slug who was looking back at him. "Prince Jr., your training is now complete. Now go forth and make the world tremble at your feet, er, worm stubs." Prince Jr. didn't budge. "Go forth?" It still didn't move but he growled at him as he wanted more treats. "Oh ha, right." He then grabbed the box he dropped, but it was empty. Prince Jr. moved toward King as he now sees him as a snack. King looked back at him with a worried face. He realized that Prince Jr. now sees him next on the menu.
"So, are you in trouble now?" Hunter said, crossing his arms.
"Yes, I'm in trouble. Big trouble." King said while whimpering.
Cutting back to Hexside, Luz came out of the pot in an empty classroom.
"Whoo! I'm a sweaty abomination, but with Amity in the principal's office, we can finally stop worrying about her." Luz said. "High five!" She then showed her hand with Willow and Guz both looking confused at each other. Gus even shrugged as he had no idea what a high five is, so Luz demonstrated by clapping her hands together. "Slap my hand. It's a human thing."
Gus was still hesitant on doing it, but he slapped Luz's hand. He started to like doing it, so he does it several more times.
Suddenly, the door to the classroom opened showing Amity, but she is not alone as she smirks and steps aside showing Principal Bump has joined her.
"Good afternoon, students." Bump said.
"Principal Bump." Willow said with Luz dropping to the floor and pretending to be an abomination. Zoe gasps and flies off to warn Spyro.
Bump walks towards Luz with Willow and Gus backing off. He then knees down and turns her head.
"Hmmm. Abomination, rise." He said with Luz doing what she was told while looking nervous. "Abomination, lie."
Luz quickly told several lies, not knowing what Bump actually meant, "Uh, viral fame is a worthy pursuit. Your cat would never eat you if you got the chance. Chemtrails are real…"
"Oh no, abomination." Bump said, interrupting Luz. "How odd for it to get the command wrong. What I meant is lie down." He points at a desk which Luz starts to whimper before lying down on it. "So very lifelike." Bump approached the table while bringing Willow with her. "When Miss Blight told me about your abomination, I just had to come by and see what she's made of."
While searching her pockets, Willow said, "Oh, I have a list of ingredients right here!"
"No." Bump said. "We were hoping…" Bump pulled a hidden dagger under his sleeve. "…for a closer look."
Outside, Spyro had finally taken down all the gnorcs and got the gems they took. He got 100 gems from the gnorcs, bringing his total amount to 150 gems..
"I think that's all of them, Sparx." Spyro said to him.
"Spyro, Spyro!" Zoe shouted which got his attention.
"What's the matter, Zoe?" He asked.
Zoe told him, "It's that Amity girl, she's back!"
"So what? No one is gonna believe her after that stunt she pulled earlier." Spyro said.
"Well, it looks like someone did, because she brought the principal with her." Zoe saud
"Ok, that's something to be worried about. Let's head to the school, quick!" Spyro said as all three headed back.
Once they made it back, Zoe showed the window where she saw this. Spyro looked and saw that Luz was about to be cut open.
"Great, looks like we have to save her…again." Spyro said, sarcastically with Sparx buzzing slightly.
"Yes, but how? We just can't be seen!" Zoe said.
"I know. This is gonna be tricky trying to help her while keeping a low profile." Spyro starts thinking of a plan to save Luz.
Bump gave Willow the dagger and said, "Willow, I'll allow you the first cut."
Willow walks closer to Luz so that she can silently talk to her, "Uh, you just can't cut open a human, can you?" Luz nods her head no at her question.
"Willow, go ahead and make the first incision." Bump said.
"Wait, Principal Bump!" Gus said, which caught everyone's attention. "Uh, high five!" He then high five a few pots to knock them down. The goo spills and forms abominations.
Spyro looked at the chaos in the classroom and said, "Ok, we're not gonna stand here and do nothing anymore. Time to intervene!" He charged the window, smashing the glass to bits. This caused him to been seen by Amity and Bump
"I knew it! There was a dragon on school grounds!" Amity shouted.
"Yeah, Yeah, you were right all along. You're really just a huge pain in the horns, Greenie." Spyro said, making a joking remark about her hair. This caused Amity to clench her hand while growling at him and blushing.
"Run!" Gus said to Luz and Willow who ran out of the classroom.
Spyro said to both Bump and Amity, "Love to stay in chat, but it's time for us to fly." Spyro, Sparx and Zoe fly low and out the classroom to follow Luz and Willow.
"They're getting away!" Amity said pointing at the exit to where they escaped.
"No, the intruder and her associates won't get far." Bump said. He created a spell circle from a wall and slammed the center of it. This caused the spell circle to create red light that formed into patterns on the walls and the floors. In the halls, Luz and Willow stop at a corner to catch their breath with Spyro and friends catching up.
"Well, I told you you're gonna get in trouble again." Spyro said to Luz.
Luz then said, "He's right, Willow. This is all my fault. I just wanted to see what a real magic school is like."
"Well, how do you like it?" Willow asked her.
"It's lovely, despite what we've been through today." Luz said. They then both giggles with Spyro rolling his eyes.
"We can't stop now! We gotta keep moving! Those two will find us any minute!" Zoe said to them both,
"Right, let's get out of here before…" as Willow spoke, the red light had converged the walls into a red barricade to prevent escape. The patterns quickly made more barricades as it took over the entire school. "…Bump seals us in."
"Escaping is going to be a lot tougher that I thought!" Spyro said.
In the Owl House's shack, Eda is wearing the shame hat while sulking in the end of the room, but King's voice outside got her attention.
"Help me, help me, help me!" King said quickly as he opened and closed the door to get inside. He jumps in Eda's arms, whimpering. Prince Jr. charged the door as shown by the multiple bangs.
"Trouble with your student?" Eda said to him.
King who was still terrified, said, "Yes, yes! The dragon's friend is trying to hold him back, but he can't do it forever!"
"Are you sure you need my help? Maybe he wants more of your brilliant lessons." Eda said, being smug.
Prince Jr. finally smashed the door down and tossed Hunter off his back. He then looks at King, roars and bites his tail and starts to drag him outside.
"Please help me! You can call me Mr. Wiggles!" King said, crying.
With King saying the words Eda wanted to her, she got up, removed the shame hat, and poke Prince Jr. with the butt of her staff to get him to release King. He clings to Eda's and continues to whimper.
"Ok, Mr. Wiggles. Here's what we're gonna do." Eda said to tell him the plan to stop Prince Jr.
At Hexside, Luz and the others made it to the center of the school, but many escape routes were cut off due to the red patterns creating more barricades. From behind them, Bump was controlling several abominations to capture them. This forces them to hide behind a pillar.
"This is awful!" Willow said while falling to the ground. "I don't know how we're gonna escape! Amity's right. I'm nothing but Half-a-Witch Willow."
"No, your Full-Witch Willow. And you're great, and someone once told me great witches are resourceful." Luz then pulls out the contents of her pocket, which include the slimeball she picked from the slug's bile.
"Hey, let me see that." Spyro said, looking at it. "That supposed to be a slime ball? It doesn't even look slimy at all."
Willow gasps and says, "That's because it isn't." She takes it from Luz. "It's a seed. Thank goodness you had it on you, Luz."
"Yeah, that goodness someone told me to hold on to it." Luz said, surprised that Eda's teaching actually helped her.
Willow put the seed on her lap and placed a spell circle on it. "Please grow!"
The seed grew thorn vines quickly. The vines reached the ceiling and pinned the abominations to keep them from moving. Bump was surprised as the vine targeted him and pinned him on the ceiling. He saw the vines Willow created and was astonished at how it covered the entire atrium. Pink petals fall down from the vines due to the flower that bloomed on them.
"Remarkable." He said, impressed with Willow's plant magic.
With Bump pinned, his spell which created the patterns fade and the barricade to the front entrance is gone.
"There's the exit! We can escape now!" Luz said.
Luz heads toward the exit with Spyro, Sparx and Zoe joined in. Willow puts down the seed and follows them. Their getaway was dashed when Amity blocked their path. She was barely stopped by the vines created by Willow.
"Not so fast!" Amity said to Luz angrily. She then removes the vine that hung on her. "You're not getting away from me so easily, and that annoying little purple pain of yours is not going to get in my way! I! Want! My! Badge! Abominations, seize!"
An Abomination tries to get Luz from behind, but Spyro charges it and splatters to the floor. Sprax then buzzed at Spyro about what he just did.
"Yeah, Sparx. Despite their size, I was able to charge these blobs no problem." He said. "As for you…" Spyro looks at Amity who is growling at him furiously. "What's up with you doing all of this over a stupid badge?"
"Shut up!" Amity shouted. "Abomination, fight!"
Another abomination tried to attack Spyro, but Luz punched it in the chest which caused it to fall with the other abomination. She then grabs Willow and tries to make it out the door, with Spyro, Sparx, and Zoe running as well. Amity reforms one of the abominations and orders it to get Luz and the others. As they ran towards the exit, the other abomination from in front of them, blocking the way out. The abomination limped to them but was halted when Willow made a big magic circle to have the vines trap it in place.
"It's trapped! Let's keep going!" Zoe said as she flew past the abomination. Spyro and Sparx went by the abomination and headed towards the exit, but stopped and looked back to see that Luz was still with Willow.
"Come on, it's time to leave this place!" He said to her.
Luz said to Spyro, "No! I'm not leaving her!"
"Do what he says, Luz! Get out of here!" Willow said while struggling to hold the abomination.
"But, Willow…" Luz said while being a little sad.
Willow said to her, "I may get detention, but you'll get dissected and your friends will be hunted down." The other abomination freed themselves by melting and started stagger towards Luz and Willow. "So go!"
Willow waves her hand calling two vines to pick up Luz to carry her above the abomination's grasp and out the door. Spyro, Sparx and Zoe came out next after the vines head back inside the school. The door then shut from behind.
"Willow!" Luz sighs. "I can't save you right now, but I know someone who can!" She then ran to the Owl House.
"Are we really going back there? We just barely made it out!" Zoe said, shocked to hear that Luz wanted to head back in.
"Yeah, you have to deal with it when you're with her." Spyro said as he went to where Luz was going.
At the Owl House, Hunter recovers and sees Eda is fighting Prince Jr who is spitting acid at her, but misses. During this, King is pushing a salt barrel on the roof.
"Pour the salt, now!" Eda said to King.
"Baby boy…" King said, with Prince Jr. whimpering at him, but its mood quickly changed as it roared at him as he still sees him as food. "I have no son. Eat Salt!" He pushed the barrel with the salt inside landing in the Prince Jr.'s mouth. This caused him to shrink back to its original size. It then slithers off whimpering. "Yes, I did it! I'm amazing!" He tripped and fell off the roof but Eda caught him. "Haha, you helped too. You are a good teacher."
"I wish Luz thought that too." Eda said.
Just then, Luz appears running towards them.
"Eda!" Luz said while running. She then hugged Eda and King.
Eda, who is annoyed by Luz's hugging, said, "Hey, hey, hey, hey! What is this? Ugh, I can never understand when you do this…parallel arm thing all the time."
"Your lesson worked! Keeping junk in my pocket saved my life." Luz said.
"She's right about that." Spyro said finally caught up. "That "smile ball" of hers was the thing that saved her."
"Slime ball?" Hunter asked him.
Spyro answered with, "Yep, but it was actually a seed the whole time."
Luz, realizing that her new friends are still in trouble, said,"Oh wait! My new friends, they're in danger!"
"Luz!" Willow said from behind. "She and Gus ran and started to hug Luz."
"Seriously, wha, what is that?" Eda said to King.
"What's up with her not knowing what a hug is?" Hunter said to Spyro.
Spyro told him. "Yep, and I say don't bother with telling her. I tried to tell, but it didn't work."
Once they're done hugging, Willow said to Luz, "You won't believe it Luz. Everything is perfect now!"
"It's true. I don't believe it." Luz said, excited.
"Principal Bump was so impressed with my plant work that he switched me to the plant magic track! Look!" Willow snapped her fingers and her sleeves and legging of her witch uniform changed from magenta to green, showing that she is in the plant track now. Luz cheered happily and hugged Willow again. "Also he gave me this as part of switching tracks". Willow got out of her pocket a quill that was glowing white.
Spyro looked at and said, "Why, that one of the dragon relics!"
"It is?" Willow said with Spyro nodding his head yes. "In that case, why don't you take it?" The quill then jumps out of Willow's hand and into Spyro's guidebook.
Spyro said to her, "Thanks for giving it back."
"That's one down and many more to go, right, Spyro?" Hunter said with Spyro nodding yes to what he just said.
Luz asked her friends, "Guys, what about Amity?"
"Last we saw, she was asking Bump if today was extra credit." Gus said.
"Well, I can't wait to see what action the next time I sneak in." Luz said.
"Don't count on it. I doubt you'll be able to get in there twice after the damage you've done." Spyro said to her with Sparx buzzing around Luz telling her that he thinks so too.
"Um, Luz? He's right about that, because you're sorta… banned from the school." Gus said while getting something from his pocket. He pulled out a poster and uncurled it showing BANNED with a picture of Luz covered in abomination goo under it.
"That's my girl!" Eda said, happy that Luz got her own poster.
"But, we could come here and teach you what we learned!" Willow said to her.
"Aw, that would be nice. But…" Luz turned to see Eda. "…I have a pretty great teacher already."
Eda was surprised at what Luz had just said. "Yeah, that's right. Luz is my student." She quickly took the poster from Gus. "Back off, academy twerps!" This causes them all to laugh with the exception of King, Spyro, Sparx, Zoe, and Hunter. "Aw, baby's first wanted poster." She then looked at Luz and pats her head. "Good job, kid. Looks like I taught you something after all."
Gus appeared from between them and said, "Uh, you high five with your hands, not your head." This ends up confusing Eda.
"Ok, this is starting to get awkward." Spyro looked at Luz, "Let's head back home before we end up on her hugging list." He then headed in the portal back to Artisans with Sparx, Zoe, and Hunter following from behind.
