While Luz, Hooty, Maxwell and Tarak went to see Bill. King and Maxwell's shadow copy were with some of the Titan Trappers who were showing King how to be a Titan Trapper or how to become one and show him the life of one.
The first thing they had King do was use a baseball bat to slug a piñata that looked like a Titan and once King ran towards the piñata, he swung the bat at it.
"Mama said knock you out!" cried King.
After taking a swing at the piñata was when it ripped open and it sent candy flying everywhere and all over the place almost in a literal sense. One of the adults patted King on his head, making him feel touched emotionally.
"Mr. Logan?" said one of them offering him some candy.
"I'd rather avoid the sweets, thanks." said Maxwell's shadow copy. "If I have any candy or sweets. I'll pretty much go through a sugar rush and later on a sugar crash and a headache."
"You've been through that before haven't you?" asked a tall Titan Trapper.
"That I did a few times. Everytime I went through that. I regretted having way too much. So I'm trying to avoid sweets. But thanks for the offer." said Maxwell's shadow copy kindly declining.
The next thing they did was take King and Maxwell's shadow copy to a hot spring that had a flowing waterfall that was no taller than twelve feet.
"You sure about this?" said Maxwell's shadow copy looking worried.
"Not to worry, honey. We got everything prepared in case of any accidents. The worst that'll happen is he falls into the water and gets a warm plunge. It is a hot spring after all." reassured an effeminate male Titan Trapper.
They watched King proceed to climb up on a big rock and King stood under a waterfall on one leg as they all cheered King on when he succeeded in standing on one leg. As they cheered and applauded King. One of them was about to fall into the hot spring but Maxwell's shadow copy ran at supersonic speed to catch him and prevent his fall, pulling him a few feet away from the water.
"You're pretty fast on your feet." said the male demon adult.
"Doing what I can with what I've got." Maxwell's shadow copy hugging the male demon adult with one arm to show compassion.
"I'm grateful for what you did." said the male demon adult.
The next activity they were doing was when a huge horn was held up on a couple of pedestal stands. While Maxwell's shadow copy kept an eye on King. One of the Titan Trappers picked up King and placed him on his shoulders for King to ride on. Many of the Titan Trappers cheered King on while King placed his mouth on the horn which King used his sonic scream to shout into the horn and gold sound waves flowed right through the horn and into the sky which the sound waves hit a passing griffin in the sky, making it screech and fall down but then Maxwell's shadow copy was about to go help the griffin but it flew back up into the sky but that's when the griffin had to go back down to the ground and Maxwell's shadow copy went over to it which as one of them placed King in the palm of another Titan Trapper, King was like a basketball compared to this Titan Trapper which he placed a headband on King's head which the headband had spikes around it and a beard with it.
That's when they also saw Maxwell's shadow copy was healing the griffin as he muttered something in a foreign language and his hands were glowing gold as he placed his glowing hands on the griffin. The griffin's body were glowing a gold light all around its body for a few seconds as it only lasted seconds and that's when Maxwell's shadow copy's hands and the griffin's body stopped glowing as the griffin bowed its head over Maxwell's shadow copy's left shoulder as a way to hug him. That's when the griffin flapped its wings and flew away into the sky. Maxwell's shadow copy turned to face them and he approached them with a stern face.
"We did something bad, did we?" said the Titan Trappers in unison.
"Next time you decide to do target practice. Choose a non-living target like a plank of wood with a carving or drawing on it. The good lord doesn't like animal abuse. Even the animal rights activists would be angry over it." warned Maxwell's shadow copy. "Having children engage in that isn't a good idea. So next time if you guys engage in target practice. Do what I do. Make a makeshift target out of some random objects or use a plank of wood, a two by four."
"Actually guys, Maxie is right. If we do engage in target practice. Let's use a non-living target like a plank of wood." King advised.
"Sir yes sir!" said the Titan Trappers in unison while some gave a salute and others bowed.
Meanwhile, back with Luz, Hooty, Maxwell and Tarak
Tarak led Luz, Hooty and the real Maxwell to a door in the building they're in as they were somewhere in a hallway or one of the hallways of the building they were in. Luz, Hooty and Maxwell stood in front of the door that led to where Bill was in but Tarak stood six feet away from them to the left.
"I shall take my leave. Tell Bill I said hi." said Tarak at first dramatically then eagerly.
"You're not accompanying us?" said Maxwell with a raised eyebrow.
"I'll only see him when he needs to see me. Right now, he doesn't need to see me. But I'll keep an eye on King for ya while I'm with him." Tarak answered with some reassurance. "And I am aware that if anything happens to King. I'll be hearing from one of you which is probably fair."
"Keep a look out for King's safety as well as his emotional and mental state. He's a kid, our hermanito, familia." Maxwell instructed.
"Yes sir." said Tarak as he gave a salute and walked off till he was out of sight.
Luz, Hooty and Maxwell opened the door and entered the room while Maxwell was the one to be in front of them as he would scope the room out in case there was any hidden dangers or surprises waiting for them.
"Hello?" called Luz.
They saw that on the walls was weapons hanging on the walls such as all sorts of daggers, swords, machetes, large knives, spears, and other sorts of weapons similar to them. Even bows and arrows.
"Whoa. Look at all this stuff, Hooty! This will help us defeat Belos for sure." said Luz pulling a sword out from a wooden bucket.
They suddenly saw the entire blade of the sword disintegrate, turning into dust before their eyes.
"All these weapons won't help us in defeating Belos or Daston. Better to use the weapons we've got back at the Boiling Isles, that or our magic, and if I have to. The gun-blade." Maxwell advised.
Luz put the handle of the sword away and saw a red spear and was excited as she grabbed it from the wall and she had the spears blade spin rapidly in circles but then it stopped as the blades turned limp like a lanyard.
"Luz, let's not touch any of these weapons. One, I don't want us to get hurt, two, they're of no use to us. Something is wrong with them and something isn't right about this island and the people on it." Maxwell told her in hushed tone.
Luz and Hooty were now wondering what Maxwell meant but they heard a male's voice from nearby call out to someone before they had a chance to say anything.
"Tarak? Is that you? I told you to stop rummaging through my stuff!" came the male's voice sounding annoyed.
Maxwell pointed to the right and motioned for them to follow him. They walked out of the room and entered what looked like a throne room that looked more like a study room with a large window on the other side of the room. There on a comfortable yet old looking furniture like chair sat Bill. Bill looked similar in height and appearance to King but slightly taller, having yellow sclera reminiscent of King's, and turquoise iris, but his left eye is without an iris at all. Bill had a tan skull that had long, pointed horns and teeth, atop which is a melting black candle with a blue flame. He wore a dark gray cowl over a cyan robe with yellow trim and a brown belt with a satchel attached to it. He also wore short navy-blue pantaloons. He looked annoyed with his disturbance as he was reading a brown book that the title read "The Last Titan: A Study of the Boiling Isles" with the author's name being Flora D'splora. All of that was in gold lettering but he put the book down as he looked at the three of them.
"Tarak's not here. It's just us." said Luz clearing her throat. "Uh, greetings. My name is-"
Luz and Hooty began to bow but Maxwell did not bow.
"What's that child?" said Bill loudly as he pulled a large horn out and placed it over his ear. "Speak up! You barge in like an angry Titan only to whisper like the wind?"
Luz, Hooty and Maxwell approached Bill but before Luz could say a word. Maxwell held up a hand to stop her while he looked at Bill with a calm expression.
"He's hard of hearing." Maxwell told Luz and he began to get an idea.
Bill was about to say something before Maxwell lightly pushed the horn aside to the other side of the room. Maxwell snapped his fingers and his fingertips were glowing a goldish color as he traced in the air like he was writing on paper. He traced gold letters in the air for Bill to read as he written a message in the air in gold letters that read "Just sit down and relax. I'm going to do a big favor for you" and as Bill read the message. He saw Maxwell dust the gold letters away like he was doing dusting of an object. He muttered something in an unknown language as his hands were glowing gold as he placed his hands on the sides of Bill's head and Bill felt a strange tingling sensation in his ears and eardrums.
"What are you doing to me?" asked a curious Bill.
That's when Bill felt a pressure in his ears build up till he felt a popping sound in his ears happen which was brief. But after the popping in his ears happened. Bill's hearing suddenly was no longer silent but his ears were able to hear things clearly, he could hear everything. His ears were no longer hard of hearing, he could hear everything clearly.
"Bill, if you can hear anything or hear us. Give me a response. Any response." said Maxwell as he snapped his fingers to see if Bill could hear it. "Can you hear me doing this?"
"I can hear you speak and snap your fingers. I can hear everything clearly." said Bill looking surprised.
Bill got up from where he sat and bowed to Maxwell as he realized that Maxwell healed his damaged eardrums and his impaired hearing.
"You've healed my damaged eardrums and restored my hearing." said Bill as he looked up at Maxwell with a twinkle in his eyes. "And so beautiful. Are you a God from above?"
"No I am not. I'm just a kid whose a hybrid of a witch and a human." said Maxwell truthfully. "Stand up, no need to bow to me. The only person you should bow down to is the lord and savior from above."
Bill got up onto his feet and was suddenly feeling annoyed but he somehow held his annoyance in.
"You're that hybrid kid who fell in love with that owl lady. The Southern Gentleman." said Bill.
"That's what some people have dubbed me. I'm Maxwell Logan, these two with me. This young lady is Luz Noceda, my hermana, and with us is Hooty, another member of our familia." Maxwell introduced. "Also, you can sit back down if you want."
Bill walked back to the seat he sat in and once he did, he looked on at the three of them.
"Greetings! Uh, these... lowly travelers beg an audience with the great Bill. Mayhaps we might perchance to venture to uh-" said Luz at first trying to appeal to Bill's better nature.
"Oh, for the love of- Tarak sent you here, didn't he?" said Bill his mood and emotions shifting to annoyance.
"He said you were the wisest of all the Trappers. And also his friend. He says hi." answered Luz waving a hand.
"Of course he does. What do you want?" said Bill not looking the least bit surprised. "Also, don't touch anything in here or I'll-"
"You threaten a sweet little girl and you'll answer to me! Understand!" Maxwell warned in a deep, booming, melodious voice.
"Okay, just take it easy. I was only warning her not to touch anything in here because for one, some things in here are very old, some weapons are dangerous and old, and some things in here are fragile like glass. But I'll refrain from threatening the little girl." said Bill obeying Maxwell as if knowing that upsetting Maxwell would end up with him being tossed out the window. "Anyway, you're here for a reason."
"Back at the Boiling Isles, an evil man by the name of Belos is threatening all life in the demon realm. So this may concern you and your people as well." said Maxwell.
"We're here to ask if you would lend us your mighty warriors. You see, as Maxie has stated, Emperor Belos has threatened to-" Luz began.
"Ha! That upstart on the carcass Kingdom?" said Bill with a laugh and appearing to not be intimidated. "He's no big deal yet I heard the Southern Gentleman has given him a run for his money and shot him in the leg with a spirit bullet, if that doesn't cripple him, then two broken legs will. I've got battle scars older than his reign as Emperor! Wanna see?" Bill asked as he pulled up his shirt to reveal a scar on the front of his torso.
"Bill, keep your shirt on and don't expose yourself like that. Women aren't impressed by scars. They're impressed by how far a man will go to prove and show their love to them and knowing they'll do anything for them and give the relationship everything they've got." Maxwell warned kindly in his normal voice.
"We're good. But... please understand, Mr... Bill, a lot of people are in danger and- and they don't even realize it." Luz reiterated kindly.
"Yeah, that dude is straight up evil." said Hooty chiming in.
"He's guilty of murdering a lot of people and harming them for centuries, he's lied to them, used them, manipulated them and this Titan he speaks of is already dead and everyone believes he can communicate with a deceased Titan but that's also a lie. He's kept a lot of dark secrets from the public. Despite the fact he's been Emperor for fifty years or more, he's not who he says he is nor does he care about the people in this realm. He's the devil in disguise and my biological father Daston is working with him and he's just as worse." Maxwell reiterated.
"Daston? You mean Daston Logan? That troublesome asshole from that crime family that Belos murdered eighteen years ago when they tried to kill Belos and take the power of the throne and his position for themselves to rule over the Boiling Isles? That violent thug that disappeared from the demon realm without a trace eighteen years ago and is now back with a vengeance? That Daston?" said a slightly wide-eyed Bill. "You're his son?"
There was a silence as Bill guessed the truth and Maxwell shown him a slightly saddened yet hesitant facial expression till he gave a nod only once. Maxwell even lifted up his shirt to show him his scars that covered his torso. Bill was visibly alarmed by this new bit of information as well as the scars that Maxwell shown him which he put his shirt down afterwards.
"But you're nothing like Daston. You're loving to others, you've done good things for others out of love, healed others, saved lives, done so much good. And Daston, he's, well, an asshole with no conscience, no remorse, no heart, no soul." said Bill looking as though this was something that surprised him in his old age. "Everytime someone did something just as horrible as Daston. They'd call it "pulling a Daston" or if Daston did what he did. They'd say "Dirty Daston strikes again"."
"We know Daston has said and done a lot of bad things but people saying that about him is kind of new." said Hooty.
"¿Por qué eso no me sorprende?" Maxwell said.
"I see. For one, I'm sorry your dad was so horrible to you and those you love." Bill said apologetically. "Don't worry, we'll help."
Hearing this left both Luz, Hooty and Maxwell looking hopeful while Bill's facial expression appeared to have changed to vigilant as he got up from where he sat and looked out the window. He looked out the window to see King and the other Titan Trappers interacting with each other while Maxwell's shadow copy was appearing to be teaching the Titan Trappers about why they should respect women, teaching them small lessons in Christianity when they would engage in prayer. Hooty stretched out to look out the window.
"But if you think Belos is evil, you've never seen a live Titan. The children out there haven't either. Don't know a thing about their ravenous appetites, or their terrible cries! Even their babies act like little monarchs. The last living Titan, I saw it once before it disappeared. Its hateful roar blew out my eardrums. How did it go? "Weh!" said Bill turning back to face Luz, Hooty and Maxwell.
Luz's eyes went wide with realization, Hooty looked at Bill with the same expression but Maxwell was looking at Bill with a visibly alarmed expression as he delved into Bill's mind and what he saw in his mind and memories was something that truly scared him and he realized that they shouldn't have come to Titan Trapper Island as his suspicions about these people being dangerous and lying to them were correct.
"So, Titans are always hungry, act like monarchs, and say "Weh"?" Luz questioned.
"The Huntsman wants us to find the last one." said Bill pointing to a poster.
The poster shown a picture of an egg that had an eggshell cracked line, a purple cloud on the top with a message below the egg that read "THE LOST SON OF THE BOILING ISLES" there were gold stars surrounding the egg while at the bottom of the poster read "The grand huntsman cannot return to us until the lost son is found by someone worthy" now both Luz, Hooty and Maxwell were starting to figure things out and what Bill was telling them. King remembered telling them what he remembered when he was born when he heard something that sounded like a roar that had to be his father, that tower he was in when he was found by Eda, the way how King behaved in his earlier years as well as when Luz and Maxwell first met him, King's appetite being big but they often thought that meant to be a normal thing like others they've known with that trait, King's new power that is his sonic shout that breaks the sound barrier with the power of his screams when he would utter the word "Weh" when he does so. Bill turned to look at the poster with his back turned to them.
"Luz, Hooty, we have to get King and leave this place. These people are dangerous. They're not who they say they are nor are they King's family. I've been delving into their minds since we got here and we have to go and get King and get out of here now." Maxwell told them through his mind.
"Only a Titan's power can free him from his prison. But we've had no luck. Nice poster, right? I- I took a printmaking class once. Eh, not sure about the font though, I- I feel like the serifs are a little too..." Bill rambled.
"Luz! Maxie! Follow me!" Hooty whispered to them.
The three of them walked out of the room while Bill rambled without knowing they just left the room. Hooty led them to another room as he lifted up a curtain. The room they were now in shown wall carvings and skulls which resembles King's species, and a shrine at the end of the room. But at the shrine also shown what looked like a moon that had a smiling face on it. One half of it was blue and the other half being gold with gold spikes around its head.
"Necesitamos atrapar a King y salir de aquí." said Maxwell his alarm levels rising.
"Oh, hey! Thought I'd get Lulu some souvenirs." said Hooty with a note of optimism.
Hooty used his mouth to grab hold of a snow globe from a rack next to them. Hooty shook his head to make the stars in there float around while the two teenagers saw a bigger moon in the snow globe that had the face of The Collector. That's when they heard The Collector's laugh echo in their heads from what they remembered seeing in Emperor Belos's mind.
"Their god is that Collector kid?" said Luz coming to a realization.
"Ah! You've found the shrine to the Huntsman. It's been my little DIY project for years." said Bill as he entered the room pulling the curtain aside.
They turned to Bill as Maxwell placed a hand on his gun-blade holster. Bill would pull his sleeves up to show his real skin, he pulled off the left glove that they thought was his real clawed hand, proving that he had human like hands and fingers, he wiggled his fingers around a bit before placing the glove back on.
"You like our disguises? You gotta look like a Titan to trap one." said Bill showing some optimism but his optimism quickly shifted to madness. "But if I ever find that missing Titan, I'd hunt it down, tear it limb from limb, and mount its head in pride as we release the Huntsman! Then... we can finally go from being Titan Trappers to Titan Slayers!"
Now that Bill admitted and shown them that all of them are not King's family and how King is actually the last Titan as well as what they plan on doing to "the last titan" to summon The Collector or to have The Collector come to reward them. That was enough for both Luz and Hooty to know that Maxwell's suspicions are correct and they had to leave and go get King. Hooty's jaw dropped open as the snow globe dropped to the floor with the glass shattering to pieces.
"Say, who's your buddy's tailor? His costume looks so real!" said Bill his emotions shifting to being impressed. "I do wonder how the Southern Gentleman gets his hair to look so gorgeous."
Luz. Hooty and Maxwell looked on at Bill in shock. Then they looked at each other, then back at Maxwell and then they knew what Maxwell told them through his mind turned out to be true. Bill was about to say something till he noticed that Maxwell's eyes were suddenly glowing fully white.
"Is he okay? Something is going on with his eyes." said Bill pointing at Maxwell.
Luz and Hooty turned to see Maxwell and he stood still as a statue as his eyes were bright white as he saw an image of an army of Coven Scouts surrounding the Owl House or they were approaching the Owl House for that matter as each one of them had a spell circle in front of their index finger, ready to attack or fire off a spell if anyone was to strike. A heavyset male Guard Captain had a crow phone on him as he spoke into it.
"We have them surrounded." the male Guard Captain spoke into the crow phone.
"Good. Arrest anyone inside. For the Emperor." came Kikimora's voice over the crow phone.
The Scouts then chanted "For the Emperor" upon Kikimora's prompting, as they prepare to go inside. But then what looked like a potion vial had been thrown from one of the windows and once it hit the ground, the glass shattered and they were suddenly surrounded by blue smoke.
Everything faded to black and Maxwell's vision became completely clear and was able to see everything and everyone around him. his eyes were back to their normal color and normal appearance. He knew they had another reason to get out of there now.
"Bill, is there a nearby bathroom? One of us has to use it." lied Maxwell.
"Sure, the nearest bathroom is the first door on the left on the next floor below this one. Each floor has a bathroom for males and females." Bill directed. "I could show you where it is."
"I appreciate that but I'll find it." Maxwell lied. "Luz, salgamos de aquí ahora."
Luz, Hooty and Maxwell were walking out of the shrine room while Luz would help retract Hooty's body into the portable bird house he resided in. All three of them were now shocked beyond belief at what they now know.
"Uh... This has all been super cool, but I gotta go check on, um, things." Luz lied as they were leaving the room and heading for the door.
"But what about the uh... What were you talking about? Th- Th- The- Your quest. With Belos." said Bill looking a bit confused. "Also, I'm curious if you're single. I kind of got a thing for cute young women with a honey bunny appearance to them."
"Oh, ha! I- I'm sure it'll work itself out. Really. Oookay, bye!" said Luz as they made it to the door.
"Luz's is taken." Maxwell informed.
That was when Luz and Maxwell were out the door with Hooty following them but Hooty almost got sandwiched between the double doors but Maxwell made sure the door remained opened wide enough for him to get through. That's when Luz and Maxwell began to run but Maxwell scooped up Luz to carry her on his back while Luz hung onto him.
"Belos has sent his guards to arrest Eda and Lilith but the guards got caught up in some blue smoke to cause some confusion and blind them. We got to get King and get the hell out of dodge." said Maxwell. "I knew something wasn't right about these people and the island they live on."
"You're so right, Maxie! We gotta get King out of here now and get back to Eda and Lilith. Your shadow copies can only do so much!" said Luz.
"Then run faster!" ordered Hooty.
"You got it!" Maxwell told him.
Bill was looking suspicious now as he heard from outside his window the sound of a "Weh" that sounded victorious. He walked over towards the window and saw that his people were throwing King up into the air and catching him as he fell into their arms like they were celebrating him returning to his family but everytime King was tossed up into the air. He uttered a loud and victorious "Weh" which Bill was hit with a sudden realization.
Back with King, Tarak and Maxwell's shadow copy
Tarak led King and Maxwell's shadow copy into a room filled with weapons and mounted skulls which was their armory. Tarak pulled the curtain aside to let them all in with him.
"Now... Behold! Our armory." said Tarak. "Maxwell, have you ever used a weapon before?"
"I've used a gun-blade like Smith & Wessen. Mostly stick with magic at my fingertips." answered Maxwell's shadow copy. "If you ever see me use a weapon you don't recognize. Don't touch it unless I teach you how to use it."
"Fair enough." said Tarak taking notice.
"Whoa! There's all sorts of things I shouldn't touch." said King looking amazed.
"Aye, for now. But when you grow older." said Tarak with a chuckle. "I will be delighted to show you how to dismember your enemies."
"You would do that?" said King eagerly as he turned to Tarak. "Can you also tell me what this means?"
King had shown Tarak the symbol which he carved onto the metal plate of his collar that hung from his collar.
"Maxie did try figuring out if it means anything and I did try figuring it out with him but we've come up with nothing." said King.
Tarak knelt down and took a look at the metal plate that hung from King's collar and he looked like he too had no clue to what it means or if it means anything at all.
"I- I'm not sure what that is. But... maybe we can find out together. I assume your father was lost in a hunt of yore. But a Titan Trapper is never alone. I'm just happy to see he passed down this." said Tarak as he gently patted his own skull.
King became teary-eyed at the very idea of someone who he feels is another of his kind doing something to help him find out more about himself and his species, causing him to wipe away tears from his eyes that were happy tears.
"Can I ask a favor? It's a little silly, but, uh... Can we play catch?" asked King hopefully as he was getting emotional.
Tarak appeared surprised by King's request as he's never been personally asked about this before but he did remember playing a sport at some point in his youth. As King looked up at him with teary eyes, Tarak felt a sense of guilt in his heart as if he was feeling remorseful about something he did. He felt like he was lying to King about himself. He managed to hold in his reaction.
"I believe you may find some equipment thither." said Tarak pointing towards the equipment.
"Thither?" gasped King in excitement.
King ran off in the direction Tarak pointed in while Maxwell's shadow copy followed him but that's when Maxwell's shadow copy received a telepathic message from the real Maxwell and what he was told was something that shocked him just as much as it shocked Luz, Hooty and the real Maxwell. That's when the shadow copy saw Tarak when he turned to see a crow flew into the room from the window.
Maxwell's shadow copy delved into the mind of Tarak and he listened into his conversation with Bill over the crow phone. As King found a baseball mitt and a baseball.
"They're gonna do what to King?" Maxwell's shadow copy said through his mind to the real Maxwell.
"We're coming your way. Grab King and find some safe place to hide or meet us at the teleporter. We'll follow you there. Don't let them hurt King." came the real Maxwell's voice in the shadow copy's mind.
King was playing around with the ball, he tossed it up, attempting to catch it but the ball missed his hand and rolled over towards Tarak while King ran over to pick it up but bumped into Tarak. Maxwell's shadow copy followed but he slipped over and fell on something which he landed on his back and hit the tattoo on the back of his neck, making him disappear in a puff of gold smoke.
"Tarak, I found them!" said King picking up the ball.
Tarak turned to face King after the crow phone flew out the window. Tarak had a visibly shocked look on his face as he looked at King and remembered what Bill just told him. He was somewhat hesitant about what he was instructed to do. King was looking on with worry as if he knew that Tarak had something bothering him or something was on his mind.
"Is... something wrong?" said a worried King.
"Uh, our little game must wait. The time has come to celebrate your... uh... Induction into the Titan Trappers! Come!" instructed Tarak while struggling to choose his words.
Tarak left the armory while King followed him, dropping the baseball mitt and ball. Somewhere else on the island. Maxwell was able to see and hear what his shadow copy found out which he knew the shadow copy watching King got destroyed judging by the feeling he had within the back of his neck.
Somewhere on the island where the entire population of Titan Trapper Island gathered. They were at a platform where Bill Tarak, King, and two other demons stood. Many of the people around them were stomping their staffs or spears on the ground. Some of them dressed King up with a coat that looked like the fur parts of a parka jacket. There was now a blue symbol on King's forehead that looked like crescent moon with three small arrows around it the pointed up, left and right.
"You don't have to go all out like this. I- I'm fine doing a small thing. Family and friends kinda thing." said a nervous King. "Where's Luz, Hooty and Maxie? Shouldn't they be here too?"
"For one, they had to, uh, use the little witches room." lied Tarak. "Your presence is very special to us, King. Now, we can release the Grand Huntsman from his prison and be granted power and glory!"
As everyone around them cheered. Tarak took what looked like a small horn that was used to hold a flame and he used it to ignite a blue flame from Bill's blue flame lit candle from on top of his head. He turned to King with a slight hesitant yet ominous look in his eyes as he held the blue flamed torch.
"In the ashes of your old life, your destiny awaits. Carry this torch to the tablet and set it aflame." instructed Tarak handing the torch over to King.
King turned to the table which looked like the face of The Collector from it appearing to have a crescent moon on it but the tablet was crack down the middle. King walked over towards the tablet and placed the flame near it. This resulted in the tablet being set ablaze by the blue flames. Immediately afterwards, King heard an evil childlike laughter in his ears and his eyes briefly reflected a glowing light in them. This left King a little confused as he turned to Tarak.
"D- Did you hear that? Sounds like something Luz and Maxie warned me, Eda, Hooty and Lilith about." said King.
"The connection has been made. And now we can summon him." said Tarak about to approach King till Bill got in the way.
"Ah, you're taking too long!" said an impatient Bill.
Bill came over to King and placed a piece of cloth over King's head which had the face of The Collector on the front with a tear leaking out of the left eye. Bill got behind King and pulled out a dagger.
"Don't worry, child. We're almost done." said Bill raising the blade.
"Then we get to play catch, right?" asked King starting to sound nervous.
"Uh, did you pull something, Bill?" asked Tarak.
"I can't move!" said Bill his body trembling as if struggling to regain control over his body.
Bill couldn't move as he felt something was holding onto him with great strength and they heard something that sounded like a deep demonic male's voice that uttered out loud in a sing song voice "ring around the liars, burn them in a pyre. Ashes! Ashes! May God have mercy on all your souls!" and after they heard that scary voice. They saw the dagger in Bill's hands get forcefully pulled out of his hands by some invisible force, the dagger snapping into piece right before everyone's very eyes and a loud, realistic sounding lion like roar was heard which startled everyone.
Bill was than levitated off the platform and tossed across the audience like a baseball. King was questioning what was going on as the cloth was still draped over his face. A gold ball appeared over King and that's when a gold flash of light flashed in front of everyone, blinding them temporarily. Once the gold light dissipated. They looked to see that King was gone from the stage, leaving everyone to gasp in shock. They even heard what sounded like a loud, crazed, excitable laugh that had a bit of a southern twang to it as it faded off.
"Is this the power of a Titan?" said Tarak slightly bewildered.
"No, you bonehead! It's that girl, her ungodly sock monster and that fucking half breed of a stupid country bumpkin!" Bill cried out in annoyed anger.
That's when Bill was levitated off the ground and spun around like a tornado. Then it looked like he was tossed towards Tarak which he crashed into Taraks chest, falling down on the ground.
"Where's the leak ma'am." said Bill dizzily.
That's when somewhere on the island. The one's carrying King off had the invisibility wear off. Luz, Hooty and Maxwell let out a breath and were breathing in and out, catching their breath.
"King, I'm so glad you're okay!" said Luz looking relieved as the cloth on King fell off.
"What're you talking about? We were just about to play catch!" said King angrily.
"They're lying to King. They've been lying to you and all of us from the second we set foot on their God-forsaken Island." Maxwell argued.
"Luz and Maxie just saved your life!" said Hooty looking cross with King.
King was annoyed and wiggled out of Luz's grip as he landed on his feet. He turned to look at them with annoyance as if exasperated by what they just did.
"These guys wouldn't hurt me. They get me! They know what it's like to be left behind." said King defending the Titan Trappers.
"They were going to kill you, King." Maxwell told him. "I've been reading their minds all day long and they were going to kill you as a sacrifice to their false God. The Grand Huntsman is The Collector. They've lied to us all. They're nothing but a cult and Bill is their cult leader."
King's eyes suddenly widened and he looked at Luz, Maxwell and Hooty. He remembered that Luz and Maxwell discussed with him and Eda and Hooty about The Collector and finding out that this "Grand Huntsman" is really "The Collector" that the Titan Trappers worship and want to summon meant that he may have been lied to by the Titan Trappers but he was still in disbelief as if trying to keep his mind and heart free from sadness.
"How do I even know I can believe you guys." said King his belief in the islanders being like him was showing to be slipping.
"King, if this is about your dad-" Luz said about to offer her hand to console him.
"No! I mean, yeah, but it's you too, Luz! Even Maxie a little bit." said King his words showing confusion at first.
As Luz, Hooty and King were taken aback by his words and reaction. King was showing some slight fear and hesitation.
"You'll eventually go back to the Human Realm, I know how it works. I've read your Azura books. You even promised your mom. I just thought I had to... prepare for a world without you in it." said King sadly as he hung his head in sadness. "Even though Maxie will be staying with us and probably be visiting the human realm here and there. I just don't want Luz to leave forever."
"But they won't help. King, you're not one of them. They're only using you for something that they want and Maxie's been right to suspect them of such intentions." said Luz trying to get through to King.
"Then what am I?" asked King deciding to listen.
Both Luz and Maxwell looked at each other and back at King with worried expressions.
"You're... you're a Titan, King." Luz revealed.
King looked on and was shown to be greatly shocked by what he just heard. His eyes wide from shock and slight fear.
"Once they found out you're a titan. They wanted to use you by offering you up as a sacrifice to this so-called Grand Huntsman and they were going to kill you to do that. They're nothing but a cult worshipping a false God." said Maxwell having a stoic yet slightly saddened face but that's when Maxwell sensed the minds and brainwaves of people nearby other than themselves. "We got company."
They wondered what Maxwell meant by that till they heard Tarak cry out to identify all four of them and they turned to face them.
"Hark! Tis the wretched spawn of-" Tarak began.
"Shut up and get that Titan! And once we got him. Let's use that dumb country bumpkin to make us stronger!" cried out Bill.
Maxwell heard that word that Bill called him and in a fit a rage. Maxwell let out a powerful lion like roar and blasted a huge ball of gold energy from his mouth like a cannon ball blasted out of a cannon. It fit Bill and knocked him on the ground.
"Bullseye." said Maxwell under his breath. "Luz! ¡Vamonos! ¡Volvamos al barco!"
Tarak summoned a large white spell circle and it fired off blue energy shots at them like rapid fire semi-automatic machine guns. Maxwell shouted "Antiproiettile!" which made a gold layer of light appear around both Luz, Maxwell, King and even Hooty's body as if it were like wearing armor.
The blue energy blasts bounced off them which Maxwell grabbed hold of King and carried him in his arms while Luz and Maxwell ran off with Hooty watching their backs as he was with them. Maxwell muttered the word "Magnetizzare" which caused Luz to immediately jump up to ride on Maxwell's back and she was staying on him like that like metal to a magnet. Luz held onto Maxwell as she rode on his back.
As the Titan Trappers were blasting balls of blue energy at them. The blasts mostly missed them but if any of them hit them. Thanks for Maxwell's spell to make them bulletproof. Their energy blasts bounced off them like it was nothing and they had no damages done to them.
Even as Maxwell held onto King in one arm. He pulled out his gun-blade and was ready to fire but then one of the Titan Trappers traced a cyan blue spell circle which made King levitate out of Maxwell's grip and into the air.
They tried to catch King but he got levitated up into the air by about twenty-five feet and Luz got out a slip of paper and activates the light glyph which she tossed at the Titan Trapper that levitated King, hitting him in the face and a bright flash of gold light flashed in his face, blinding him. Maxwell suddenly gotten an idea in mind which King fell from now forty feet and as Luz and Maxwell ran to catch him. King took off his cape to use as a parachute which he grabbed hold of all four ends and the air and wind made it inflate to make him begin to float gently towards the ground.
"I got him!" Maxwell cried.
Maxwell muttered a spell that no one heard him say as Luz slipped off Maxwell's back while he telepathically commanded Hooty to defend Luz which he agreed. Maxwell jumped up into the air and he jumped up high enough to catch King into his arms. The Titan Trappers kept firing more blue energy blasts at them but their fire kept bouncing off them as if they were like bulletproof glass that couldn't be broken. Some of the Titan Trappers tried to fire their blasts and toss bolases at Luz to stop her from getting King but Maxwell landed on the ground with his feet and he fired off his gun-blade, hitting several of the Titan Trappers with his shots which knocked them to the ground. Hooty tried to deflect some of their attacks but than Maxwell's idea was put into action as he used a free hand to hold out as if to catch a ball and once he did, that's when Bill was flown forwards towards Maxwell which as he handed King over to Luz, he grabbed hold of Bill and pointed the gun-blade at Bill's head.
"Stop! Drop your weapons and cease fire or your leader Bill is dead with one shot to his head!" Maxwell threatened sharply.
Bill saw that the gun-glade was pointed at his head and he tried to hold still as he was held hostage. The Titan Trappers and even Tarak stopped and dropped their weapons, cancelling out any of their magic they were going to use to attack them with.
"Do as he says." said Tarak in defeat. "He's a God or a demigod from what little we know."
"I'm not a God nor a demigod. I'm just a human witch hybrid." Maxwell reiterated. "Was it like that with your people? Your God? Was it? Just because some self-proclaims himself a God with all sorts of power at the touch of their fingertips...and says God commands or what he promises you but never delivers up on that unless you give him what he wants but never gives you what you want afterwards? What kind of God tells people to kill children or an innocent child for that matter? Answer me that, buddy."
As Maxwell was ranting to them about how their God is not the God and how they've been lied to, tricked and fooled into what they believe. Something about Maxwell's words was slowly sinking into them as if they were hearing something that made them question themselves and their lives.
"Did you hear that before The Grand Huntsman, before Bill, before the Titan? Did you? I can't believe you're this blind. Maybe you've been listening to this false holy roller so long... that it all starts to sound the same. But it's not!" Maxwell continued as he lectured them. "Any religion without love and compassion is false. It's a lie!"
Maxwell saw some of the Titan Trappers he's wounded and without another word. His muttering something in an unknown language and those he fired his weapon at that got shot, everyone there that lived on the island suddenly felt all of their wounds disappearing within seconds, even the pain in their bodies was healing up. Any damages to their bodies inside and out were suddenly healed within seconds with a gold light shining from their wounds. Eventually, the gold light on their bodies disappeared and all of their wounds and any pain they felt was completely gone, healed up fully. They looked at Maxwell in shock. Maxwell decided to let go of Bill as he tossed him over towards Tarak which Tarak caught Bill and Maxwell held up his gun-blade as if to show them something.
"Is this what you want? Is it what He commands?" Maxwell told them loud and clear which he placed his weapon back in its holster. "I don't think so."
"Stop fighting! I'm one of you guys!" cried King.
Maxwell decided to reveal the truth and he raised his hands in the air which he formed his fingers to bend forwards slightly and the titan skulls they all had on them flew off their heads and faces, revealing their real faces to Luz, King, Hooty and Maxwell. Everyone there had their faces revealed and they were people, they were having the faces like a humanoid witch.
Tarak's face turned out to be dark-skinned like an African American with a long brown mustache, thick eyebrows of the same color, and a long gray beard. He had red eyes with yellow sclera. Tarak's face had the right side painted or tattooed dark blue, with a star of the same color on the left side of his forehead, and a jade crescent moon on the right.
Bill's face was also revealed as he had tan skin, wrinkled lips, and gray, spiky hair. He had yellow sclera reminiscent of King's, and turquoise iris, but his left eye is without an iris at all. Luz, Hooty and King looked on with shock at their faces being revealed but Maxwell shown a stoic, unsurprised expression as if this didn't surprise him at all.
"You were never one of us." said Tarak to King coldly. "My brothers and sisters, a new hunt begins today!"
Maxwell quickly pulled out his gun-blade again, ready to fire at them and defend those he loves. Bill pushed Tarak aside as he looked at King with a crazed expression as if he was finally seeing what he wants to see and it drove him to the brink of insanity.
"With this gift, the Grand Huntsman will return, and I shall ride cloaked in glory above all others!" said Bill with an evil laugh which this suddenly left all the Titan Trappers to look on at Bill with shocked surprise.
"You mean we, right?" said Tarak pulling out a spear now with an angry expression. "You promised the Huntsman will grant all of us glory."
Bill looked on at everyone with bewildered shock as he suddenly realized he blurted out the real truth, exposing himself to everyone of his own plans and how he was going to take all the glory from this so-called God and take it all for himself.
"Are Titans even evil?" Hooty questioned.
"How much have you been making up?" Luz questioned.
"Just like a cult leader. He's lied to everyone, misled them and used them for their own selfish, personal, evil gain." said Maxwell shaking his head in disgust. "Your God is nothing but the devil."
"Uh... uh, don't let the kids fool you! I- I- I'm totally not lying. Hand me my spear!" said Bill as he held out his hand to grab a spear.
The Titan Trappers looked at Bill with expressions of distrust which Bill got impatient and grabbed Tarak's spear. He was about to attack but the ground shook from beneath them and Hooty extended his body to give Bill a massive hit, sending him flying into the air by about fifty feet. As Bill fell and landed on top of Tarak. Hooty retracted his body back to his birdhouse that he resided in and was with Luz, King and Maxwell by their sides.
"Mama said knock you out! Hoot!" cried Hooty powerfully with pride.
"¡Corrida!" Maxwell instructed.
Maxwell put his weapon back in its holster, scooped up King in his arms and had Luz get on his back to ride on his back as Maxwell ran as fast as he could at superhuman speed while the Titan Trappers helped Bill get back on his feet which he commanded his people to get King.
With the Titan Trappers running towards them. Maxwell made it to the platform that they arrived at and as Luz got off Maxwell's back. She pulled the rock out from the letter that King had been given to him by Tarak.
"Time to go home!" said Luz as she slammed the rock into the platform that had a small hole in it.
The portal to the teleportation platform activated once again as a cyan blue beam came from the clouds and shined down on them to lift them up into the air. Maxwell yet again muttered "Magnetizzare" which both Luz and King magnetized their bodies to Maxwell's with Luz riding on Maxwell's back like before and King's back on Maxwell's front torso around his chest. As they were being beamed up. Maxwell thought about opening fire at the Titan Trappers but he decided against it.
They went through the portal and fell out towards the other side of teleporter they came from. It was morning once they were on the other end of the portal which as they fell, Maxwell had them all hold onto him as he landed on his feet to the ground, feeling no pain and had no damages done to him. They saw that the portal entry way was still open.
"We can't let them get through. We have to destroy this thing!" said Luz.
"Then step back." said King.
Maxwell snapped his fingers and both Luz and King were now de-magnetized from Maxwell's body as King and Maxwell stepped forwards.
"Just like the wolf in The Three Little Pigs." said Maxwell.
"Three huffs and puffs should do it." King replied.
Both King and Maxwell breathed in and out three times and as King let out his sonic scream and Maxwell roared like a lion at his loudest he's ever roared. Both of them let out sonic roars as their combined roars were enough to make cracks rapidly form into the huge finger structure and as the cracks formed rapidly, it was all coming down like a building that got destroyed by a bomb. As it was making the finger structure come down and the portal was instantly closing. Luz grabbed King and all four of them huddled in one spot while Hooty extended his body and wrapped it around their bodies to shield them while Maxwell was praying under his breath.
As the structure came tumbling down. The portal then exploded loudly, creating a powerful blast which brings up a massive amount of dust and rocks the water in the ocean. The trio is then covered by a thick layer of dust brought upon by the blast. After the wind stopped and the blast was over as everything cleared. Hooty poked his head out from the pile of dust.
Hooty shook off the dust and unwraps himself from Luz. King and Maxwell. As the kids got up on their feet. They all look up in shock as they saw that where the finger was at, there is now only a pile of rocks left, which is still smoking like a chimney. King looks up at the rocks sadly as any of them who just been through a rollercoaster of emotions the most was King. Luz, Hooty and Maxwell turned their heads to look at King, who then walked up to Luz and hugs her leg with tears slowly welling up in his eyes.
"I wanna go home." said King his voice slightly breaking.
"I'll carry ya." said Luz.
Later on, back at on Salty's boat
As the four of them were back on Salty's boat. It was still morning and the sun was shining. King looked at the symbol on the metal plate that hung around his collar. He sat up at the crow's nest. That's when he looked up to see the Boiling Isles ahead and not far away from their course. King gave a hesitant greeting to the Titan's corpse as if he knew that the Boiling Isles, being a place on a dead Titan, was once his father.
"King!" came Luz's voice.
King looked down from the crow's nest and saw that Salty and Maxwell made breakfast which was bacon and eggs.
"You want breakfast?" called Luz kindly.
"I'll be right down." called King.
As King stood up, he took one more look at the Boiling Isles and turns around to walk away sadly as he went down the ladder to go eat breakfast.
"You've cooked before, have ye laddie?" said Salty looking impressed.
"I've dabbled in the culinary arts here and there. I didn't do too much with it but from what I've learned. I'm able to cook up whatever we've got." Maxwell replied.
Back at the Owl House
Just as Maxwell's vision revealed to him. Multiple Coven Scouts ran up and surrounded the Owl House, each with a spell circle ready at their fingertips. A male Guard Captain got out his crow phone and spoke into it.
"We have them surrounded." the Guard Captain over the crow phone.
"Good. Arrest anyone inside. For the Emperor." came Kikimora's voice over the crow phone.
The Scouts then chanted "For the Emperor" upon Kikimora's prompting, as they prepare to go inside. But then what looked like a potion vial had been thrown from one of the windows and once it hit the ground, the glass shattered and they were suddenly surrounded by blue smoke.
"Sleepers smoke mist potion brew." said the Guard Captain as he began to lose consciousness.
Everyone who surrounded the Owl House was falling to the ground as they fell asleep. That's when six hooded figures who wore what looked like masks in order to prevent them from falling under the effects of the blue smoke ran from the Owl House and ran off into the distance to an unknown location.