Luz called Willow and Gus one day, showing them a classic human realm magic trick. "So they said I couldn't remove my thumb but look at that." Luz explains. "You sliced it off! You sliced off your own thumb!" Gus panicked. "You make doing homework actually fun." Willow laughed. "And they say humans can't do magic." I said. "Guys, you've been talking to them all morning." King complained. "Don't forget about our Comedy Hour." "Please, no. Not the comedy hour." Eda begged. "This week, I've been working with props." King explains. "Oh, dear, I've gotten a tube stuck on my nose. Will I ever eat again? Looks like I'm toast." Luz and I chuckled. "It just goes on like this for an hour." Eda complained. "Hey, you doughboy. Quit loafing around." Luz joked. "C'mon, Luz." I said. "Why don't you bake him?" Luz and King laughed at my joke as the alarm went off. "School time, see you guys in class." Luz waved. "Bye." Willow said. "But what about the thumb?" Gus asked. "Hey, don't worry. We'll finish the comedy hour when we get home." I reassured King as we headed to school. "Try not to miss us while we're gone." As we were about to leave, we received a message from an abomination. "What's it say?" I asked. "Attention all students of Hexside, the school has been closed due to an infestation of pixies. Your school journalist, Alexandria Blight." Luz read. "I guess we're out of school for a while. I opened the door to the kitchen and King climbed up on my head. "I didn't miss you at all." King said. "Apparently some pixies invaded Hexside, so school's been canceled." I explained. "That's sounds like a crumby situation." King joked, making us laugh. "Hey, guess what's been in my mouth that I'm about to throw up?" Hooty asked, gagging on the mail. "The mail!" "Junk. Junk. Death-hex." Eda said, going through the mail. "Ooh, a carnival's in town today." "A carnival?" Luz asked. You know, Peter and I have been so busy with school lately, what do you say we take this comedy hour on tour?" "It'll be a Luz, Peter, and King day." I added. "That's my kind of day." King replied. "Let's all four of us go." I suggested. "An adventure with friends. I'll go pack my stuff." Hooty said. "Carnivals bring crowds and crowds bring suckers. This could be the perfect chance to try out my new get-witch-quick scheme." Eda commented. "I'm in. To the carnival!" "To the carnival!" We shouted, running out the door before Hooty could catch up with us.

At the carnival, it was a pretty big crowd. "Well, here we are, kids." Eda said. "Look at all that fresh meat." "And smell all the fresh meat." Luz added, accidentally swallowing a bug. "I don't know if I like the sound of that." I explained. Owlbert tried to escape from Eda, but she stopped him. "No games for you, Owlbert." Eda said. "We've got scams to run." "Friends, welcome!" Tibbles greeted. "I see you've got my postcard. "Tibbles, you sent this?" Eda asked. Tibbles nodded. "Aren't you pissed off at us for destroying your stand?" I asked. "Ooh, and destroying his life!" King added. "That was the best part." "No, no, no. I should thank you." Tibbles replied. "After my stand was destroyed, I reevaluated my life and found my true calling. I'm now ringmaster of Tibbles's Tent of Tiny Terrors." "Aw! It's like a regular circus, but adorably small." Luz complimented. "I don't buy it." Eda said. "What kind of con are you running?" "No cons here, Owl Lady. Only pros." Tibbles explains. "In fact, why don't we toast our newfound friendship with this totally innocent bottle of water." Eda took the bottle away from Tibbles and tossed it. "I know poison when I see it." Eda replied. "You can't scam a scammer. Now speaking of scams, beat it, loser! Step right up to Eda's Human Horror House. Humans shed their skin and I've got proof." "Has she been taking pictures of my dick while I was asleep?" I asked. "You should really put a lock on your closet." King said. "And a lock on your pants." "You know what, Eda can pick through my socks and Peter's underwear all she wants." Luz explains. "Fuck that!" I snapped. "I care!" "Because today is all about having a great time with my partners in crime." Luz continued. "Me! I like crime." King said.

We walked around and saw multiple attractions to choose from. "Now this is my kind of weird." Luz said. "So what do you want to do first?" "We could brave the molar coaster." I suggested. "Or eat a mysterious blob." "Ooh, what's that?" King asked. "Huh, some kind of deadly string weapon." "No, silly. That's a friendship bracelet." I corrected. "Is that a type of deadly weapon?" King asked. "A weapon of love." Luz explains. "It's basically a declaration to the whole world that you're the best of friends." "That's way safer than becoming blood brothers." King said. "We must have those bracelets!" "Sorry, folks, if your bone son wants these bracelets, you'll have to play the games." The ticket merchant said, taking the three bracelets. "You know, carnival rules." "Beat up the man and steal his things for me!" King whined. "Or let's just play the games." I said. "Oh, okay." King agreed. Before we could play our first game, we bumped into Willow and Gus. I froze in fear. These last few days, I might've discovered that I had feelings for Willow. Her green eyes shimmer underneath her glasses, and she has one of the biggest smiles I've ever seen. "Friends!" Luz cheered, hugging them. "Hey, guys." Gus greeted. "Oh my gosh. I didn't think I'd see carniv-y'all here." Luz joked. "Boo." Gus groaned. "I got an invitation from Tibbles. Alexa couldn't make it, though." Willow explains. "We figured it's a trap since we squashed his stand with a walking house." Gus said. "But who cares." Willow added. "This place has a Scarris Wheel." "What the hell is that?" I asked. "It's like a human Ferris wheel, but it gives you long-lasting nightmares." Gus explains. "Yes! This mama is ready for trauma!" Luz shouted. King cleared his throat. "Oh, right. We're on a very important quest to win a special prize for King." "Oh, we can help with that." Willow said. "Aww. Does the little guy wanna win a prize?" Gus asked. "What do you think, King?" Luz asked. "The more the merrier, huh?" "Um, sure. Whatever you want." King sighed.

After a while around the carnival, we found King wandering around. "King, sorry we lost you back there, little dude." I apologized. "Hey, it's okay." King said. "Let's go back to the games and win those bracelets." "But we haven't gone on any rides and there's no line for the bumper carcasses." Gus explains. As King continued arguing with Gus, Luz's stomach growled. "Food! I'm gonna grab some rotten candy while you guys figure this out. Bye!" Luz said. "Wait up, Luz!" I called, following her to grab some food.

"Man, that was the shortest line I've seen for food." I said, meeting up with Luz and King. "Where are Willow and Gus?" "Carcasses." Luz replied. "Actually, there's something I have to tell you guys." King explains. "No, there's something I gotta tell you, King." Luz said. "Peter and I said we'd help you win those friendship bracelets." "So win them, we shall, okay?" I asked.  King took us to play more games.

We had finally earned enough tickets for King to get those bracelets. "Now, King, before you spend your tickets, are you sure you want those friendship bracelets and not this bad boy?" I asked, pointing at a decorative skull. "Yes, I want the bracelets." King replied. "It's kind of important to me, okay?" "Ugh, gross!" Luz groaned, walking away to find a mirror. "I'm gonna need a mirror. I'll be right back, King." "Are you excited, buddy?" I asked. "You'll be the most badass looking demon in Bonesborough." King giggled.

After the ticket merchant reached a million tickets, he gave the bracelets to King. "Yes. Yes!" King shouted. "Now you, Luz, and I will share a bond as mighty as these trinkets." "I think Luz went to the house of mirrors." I said. "Let's show her."

At the house of mirrors, King and I found Luz. "Heya, Luz." King greeted. "Great news. I got the bracelets." "King..." Luz glared at him, showing both of us Willow and Gus, but they were around 8 inches tall. "What the hell happened?" I asked. "King splashed us with something to make us small." Willow explains. "And now I can't go on the big boy rides!" Gus whined. "You monster." "You weren't supposed to shrink." King said. "You were supposed to disappear." "What?" Luz asked. "That's fucked up!" I added. "Guys, I can explain." King confessed. "I wanted to win the bracelets and there was this psychic, see." He grabbed a spray bottle from his bag. "That must've been what did it." Luz said. "Give me the spray bottle, King." "No, wait, I gotta explain." King replied. "There's nothing to explain." Luz argued. "Guys!" I warned. "I was just trying to..." King explains. "Shrink our friends?" Luz asked. "I was just trying to solve my problems." King grunted, spilling the solution on us by accident, shrinking us to the size of Willow and Gus. "Hi." They both greeted. "Wait, I can fix it." King explains. "Obvioso showed me how. Behold. King tapped his cheek twice, but nothing happened. "Why isn't this working?" "I say it's working quite well." Tibbles replied.

Tibbles grabbed us and took us to his tiny exhibit. "Guys, I think King is broken." Gus said. "Tapping my cheeks is supposed to turn us normal." King explains. "The psychic told me." "Oh, did he?" Tibbles asked. "But what if he lied to you from the start?" "You fiend!" King shouted. "When Obvioso finds out you stole his mustache...oh." "The potion was designed by me." Tibbles explains. "Guess who's cheeks control it?" "Why are you doing this?" Luz asked. "Dude, we destroyed his shitty stand." I replied. "When you destroyed my stand, you destroyed generations of Grimm Hammer history." Tibbles explains, putting us in the glass box. "Now it's time to pay. "Welcome to the greatest show on the Boiling Isles!" We all gasped. "Will these witches and demon survive feeding time? Let's find out." Tibbles announced to the audience, summoning some creatures that were about to maul us to the death. "You ruined my livelihood. So now you'll feed my livelihood. Place your bets and enjoy the show!" "Well, if I have to go, at least I'm with my best friends. And King." Gus said as a unicorn almost killed us. Gus used some illusions to scare the animals and Willow took down the water bottle so we could hide. "We gotta find a way out of here!" Luz screamed. "Ah, King, you idiot. This is all your fault." King whined to himself. "But I think I know how to fix it." He ran out of hiding. "King?" I asked. "Willow, Gus, I'm sorry for poofing you." King apologized. "And Luz, Peter, I'm sorry for taking you away from your friends. I know you'll eventually go home and now you're both spending more time at school. I just wanna be around you!" King climbed onto the top of the box, tossing the friendship bracelets at Tibbles, causing him to tap his cheeks and break his spell, returning us to normal size. But we weren't the only ones who had a growth spurt. "You shrunk the animals too?!" I asked. "It's the Tent of Tiny Terrors." Tibbles replied. "Something needed to be tiny." I gave Tibbles my middle finger. "Finish the job! Get them kids!" The crowd shouted. "They foiled my plans! You will pay for this!" Tibbles exclaimed, grabbing another bottle of shrinking potion. "This time, I'm gonna personally squash you." "Oh, no, Tibbles. That's not how entertainment works." Eda said, tossing the bottle aside and pouring the crab apples onto Tibbles. "The bad guy always gets his just desserts." "No! Not desserts!" Tibbles cried. "Hey, girls. This one's on the house." Eda explains as the unicorns chased after him. "Looks like we ruined his life for a second time." Willow said. "We're on a roll." Gus added. "Gus, Willow, you're okay!" King cheered. "All thanks to you, King." Luz said, handing him 5 broken shards of the bracelet charms. "Here, it was all that was left." "It's okay, because now, there's a piece for everybody." King commented, handing each of us a piece. "If you'll accept it, that is." "Thank you, King." Willow smiled. "Yeah, I've always wanted to own a jagged piece of cheap metal." Gus added. "That's very sweet." I complimented. "I'm sorry, guys." King apologized. "Demons do crazy things when they've been missing somebody." "Can I tell you a secret? I've been missing you, too." Luz whispered. "Hey, we still have a few hours of carnival left. Wanna hit those bumper carcasses?" King asked. "You bread my mind." I joked. "Yes. Bread puns forever!" King shouted. "You coming, Eda?" Luz asked. "Nah, I think I got everything I wanted." Eda replied. "Yup, another great year at the carnival."