Ch. 23. They're Here

CRACK!

The sound of thunder roaring and lightning flashing was heard all over Gravesfield as a giant storm hit the town out of nowhere.

Camila was getting a bit concerned by this as it's not normal to have a storm like this at this time of year.

'Could it be a hurricane?' She thought, glancing out the kitchen window.

She didn't think that a hurricane would happen outside of hurricane season but she also didn't think that she would end up being a magic god either, so who knows?

Something wrong, Ms. Noceda?" Cat asked, walking up behind her.

"Just worrying about the weather. The news said nothing about a storm coming in." Camila said.

"I can understand that. Even in the demon realm, the weather is unpredictable, it's even worse than this." Cat said, gazing at the rain too.

"Luz told me about them. It makes me lucky I don't live there, no offense." Camila said to Cat.

"None taken." Cat said, glancing back to the living room. "Honestly, I'm more worried about Skara, it's clear this weather is affecting her."

Skara was in the living room, her hand or leg occasionally twitching, her body covered in sweat, and she was looking like someone that was just pulled from the trenches.

'Something's wrong... the weather... the elements... something bad is going to happen.' She thought, gritting her teeth.

Skara was taking deep breathes to calm down, or at least to try as she jolted from another thunder crack. Then she went stiff, paying close attention to how this thunder sounded compared to what she heard over the years.

'That... wasn't thunder.' She thought, running to the window and seeing a whole open up in the clouds outside.

"GUYS! SOMETHING IS HAPPENING!" Skara shouted for everyone in the house.

The group ran outside and saw the giant hole, and then the series of giant cloaked figures floating down.

"... The Archivists." Luz said with wide and fearful eyes. "Oh no."

"How did they find us?" King asked.

The first one, looking around at the planet before catching the Noceda Household in their sight.

"There." They said, pointing towards the house.

"FUCK!" Luz said as she closed the shades! "Come on, we have to stop them before they can draw attention to the town. And don't use Titan powers, or else they might do something even worse."

"If we dan use our titan powers, what are we going to do?" Willow asked. "Without them, we don't stand much if a chance."

"...We can lure them to the ocean." Luz said, rubbing her chin. "It's just a few miles away, and no one will get hurt if we start fighting."

The group nodded in agrement as they got their staffs ready. Even the non Titan witches, but Luz quickly stopped them

"Wait, you guys need to stay here with King and mom!" Luz said to Tracey, Skara, Cat, Masha, and Vee.

"Luz... you can fuck right off." Tracey said, pointing at Luz with her staff. "We're helping, whether you like it or not, even if it means certain death."

"You're stuck with us, sis. Titan powers or not, we can still pull our own." Vee said, getting on Masha's staff with them.

'Ugh, why am I surrounded by people that want to help me so much?!' Luz thought in frustration.

The downside of being so loved, it's that people throw themselves into danger to protect you just as much as you do for them.

"Enough chitchat! Let's hurry before they catch us!" Hunter said before rushing into the air in a flash of yellow.

"You heard the hunk!" Willow said, flying off on her staff.

"He's not hunk to me." Masha comments as they and Vee flew off.

"Get over it, cous." Tracey said as she and everyone else flew after them.

Camila watched on, incredibly nervous, as she held hands woth the teenage King. Who was also nervous and worried.

"Stay safe." She said softly.

Even if she was technically a Titan too, Camila wasn't as in tune with her Titan magic as the rest of them. Even King wasn't that intune with his powers yet. So, staying in her house was probably for the best to keep them safe.

Back with the Hexsquad, the group flew up towards the archivists.

This was mainly to get their attention before leading them away from the town, as was their plan.

"Skara, think you can get their attention?" Luz asked her step sister.

"Gladly." Skara said, standing on her staff with her arms out.

She called down the lightning, funneled it through one arm, though her body, and then out the other at the archivists.

"Hmm, interesting." An archivist said as they held their hand out and caught the lightning.

'They caught it?!' Skara thought in shock.

"I've never seen lightning like this before." They said, observing it as they shaped it into an orb.

'Oh great, now I think I'm one of their interests now.' Skara thought with wide eyes.

"Where did it come from?" Another asked.

"I think it was them." The leader said, pointing at the Hexsquad.

"Alright, we've got their attention, let's go!" Luz shouted at her group.

They all quickly turned and flew towards the ocean.

"They attack and now they flee? This planet is so strange." One said before the leader pointed at the hexsquad.

"The Titan. It's her." They said, focusing on Luz.

"They must be trying to distract us so she can get away." Another said, "We must follow her."

The six archivists began to glow with power, shrinking to human size before flying after the Hexsquad!

"Well, we have their attention." Luz said, looking back to see the Archivists following them.

"Yeah, so what's the next step?!" Cat asked, glancing back to the archivists!

"We do the impossible, we try to kill them before or after reach the ocean." Luz said.

"You mean YOU and your squad kill them, right? Cuz I don't think my plants can do much against literal gods." Tracey said.

"Oh please, you're underestimating yourself." Luz said, rolling her eyes. "You've got a few deadly tricks, I know it."

"She does still have a point, these guys might not go down so easy!" Masha shouted.

"And they're gaining on us!" Gus shouted as he looked back.

"Never stopped us before." Luz said, smiling.

"And they won't stop us now!" Hunter shouted to everyone, pulling ahead. "We need to scatter, we can still lead them to the ocean but don't let them catch you!"

"We'll break into teams too! Nobody faces them alone!" Amity added.

They all nodded before they all split up, moving into quick team ups to try and combat rhe archvists.

Luz and Amity stayed together.

Hunter and Willow, the same.

Gus went with Masha and Vee.

Tracey had decided to go with Cat and Skara.

"They seem to be splitinf apart." One archivst said.

"Then do the same, but leave the Titan to me." The leader archvist said before they all spit up as well.

Team 1: Luz and Amity

"Alright, how are we going to do this?" Amity asked.

"We attack a bit, make sure they keep chasing us and when we get to the ocean, we hit them as hard as we can!" Luz said, looking back to see two Archivists chasing them. "You ready, honey?"

"Always." Amity said with a grin.

"Then let's light them up!" Luz said, turning around and flying backwards as she drew a large blackish-purple spell circle!

"Hmm?" An archivist let out.

Amity quickly drew her own magenta spell circle and blasted magenta fire, passing it through Luz's circle as it turned into a plasma beam!

"Oh my- GAH!" One of the Archivist was hit by it and knocked back.

'What kind of spell was that?!' The other looked shocked beneath their hood as Luz and Amity prepared another plasma attack.

"This time, double firepower!" Luz said to Amity, making another spell circle.

"Gladly." Amity said, drawing an even bigger spell circle and fired it into Luz's light magic circle to create a giant plasma beam!

'Not this time!' The archivist thought as they caught the beam, struggling with the size of it before then redirecting the beam at them.

Amity and Luz quickly dodged, flying lower to the trees as the two Archivists regrouped.

"You take the pink one. I shall handle the other." The leader said, flying ahead after Luz.

Thankfully, Luz was smarter than they knew. With the help of an illusion spell, she made a copy of her and Stringbean, while the real ones turned invisible.

'Let's see how long it takes him to figure it out.' Luz thought as she watched the Archivist chase the fake Luz.

Luz stood up on Stringbean and held her hands out, right as her illusion disappeared. She reappeared and a massive glyph combo formed in her hand. She wasted no time blasting this interstellar bastard.

"Huh?" The lead archivist let out before turning and being blasted into the ground!

Stumbling and crashing through the woods before they landed in a random, large reservoir lake for a dam before Luz cheered.

"HA! Take that!" She screamed.

Only a second later did the lead Archivsts shoot out of the water towards her!

"Oh shit!" Luz shouted, ducking a grab!

"You are who I sensed! You are a Titan, how?!" They demanded with glowing eyes.

"Oh, wouldn't you like to know." Luz said, not planning on giving that info away anytime soon.

As Luz kept dodging and blasting her opponent, Amity was taking a more hands on approach thanks to inspiration from an anime Luz showed her.

"ORA!" Amity shouted, creating multiple arms from abomination magic around her body and doing a barrage of punches.

"UGH!" The second Archivist grunts, crossing their arms to block the punches.

Amity didn't let up though, not for one second. By partially turning herself into a full abomination, mainly her shoulders, she could rotate her arms at high speeds for a nonstop barrage of attack. And she was far from some yet.

"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!" Amity shouted as she was pushing the second archivist to the ground.

'Grrrr! Enough of this madness!' The Second Archivist thought before blasting Amity with the moon symbol on the... face (?), sending her flying into the reservoir lake.

"You are a powerful witch. I will enjoy studying you once this over!" They said, looking at their damaged arms.

Suddenly, the water began to bubble before turning mauve as Amity slowly rose up. Fully in abomination form, and spread over the water to mix with her muddy body.

"You can try but you'll just fail." Abomination Amity said, now using a good chunk of water to become bigger and stronger.

"Incredible. Hmm... this will be good practice for when we face the titan." The 2nd Archivist said with a smile under their hood.

"You won't get the chance!" Amity shouted as she created giant tendrils from her back.

'Though you already are facing one, I'm not using that power just yet.' She thought.

If they didn't realize that the others were also Titans, then she didn't want to make them turn even more violent.

Team 2: Willow and Hunter

"Catch me if you can!" Hunter shouted, using teleportation rush to circle around one of the Archivists.

"You aggravating pest!" The 3rd Archivist said.

"Takes one to know one!" Hunter shouted at them.

From a distance and in the forest, Willow created a bow from wood and vines before firing multiple arrows at the Archivist.

Sensing the attack, the 3rd Archivist turned and opened its cloak. Taking the arrows in before firing them back at the witch.

"Whoa Nelly!" Willow let out, dodging the arrows.

Hunter teleported and used prepred glyphs to attack him along with his lightning magic.

'Those glyphs!' The 3rd archivist thought as they were hit by fire and lightning, burning them greatly. 'That's Titan magic!'

Hunter didn't stop as firing multiple ice shards, making the enemy open their cloak to catch them and send them back before vines wrapped around their body?!

"Not this time!" Willow shouted.

The ice spikes hit the third archivst, breaking against their skin and tearing their clothes before Hunter teleported above them and ax kicking them to the forest!

"Not so tough, are you!?" Hunter yelled.

Willow was waiting below and created a giant planet gauntlet on her arm, punching the third archivist into several trees!

"Nice job, babe!" Hunter said from above.

"You got it, baby!" Willow said with a wink.

"Raaah!" The 3rd archivist screamed, rushing out of the forest and at Willow as their arms stretched and grew.

"Look out!" Hunter shouted, teleporting to grab Willow and get her out of the way!

"Thanks! That was a little too close!" Willow said, holding her staff as Hunter was carrhing her.

"You're welcome. Remember, we can't underestimate these guys!" Hunter said as the hands kept chasing them!

"I hope the others are okay." Willow said, using a wooden bow again and firing at the hands.

"I'm sure they're fine. They're our friends after all!" Hunter said with faith.

Team 3: Gus, Masha, and Vee

"Gus, give us a bit of cover here." Vee said, standing on Masha's staff, "I'm going to try and see if I can drain them."

"Got it!" Gus shouted, flying/surfing with a flip before drawing a large spell circle.

Soon, the sky was layered in a massive illusion cloud.

The two archivists paused in their pursuit, looking around the cloud as it began to surround them.

"Hmm, what is this?" The fourth archivist asked, looking around.

From their hiding spot, Vee started to inhale the magic from the duo.

"What's that sound?" The fifth archivist asked, looking around.

"I don't know but do you feel strange?" The foruth one asked, feeling their magic being drained from them.

'I really need to learn more about my species.' Vee thought.

Vee didn't think this would actually work but it is! She's actually draining the magic of a god-like being. Yet they don't even look affected by it!?

'I'm going to be full by the time I make a dent!' Vee thought in worry.

Masha, sending their girlfriend's distress, decides to help with a glyph in her pocket.

"Here, try it with this power glyph." They said.

"Where did you get that? You're an oracle witch, not a construction witch." Vee said, stopping her eating for a second.

"I got it and a few others from Eda." Masha said but that was a little white lie.

They STOLE them together one time in the market. Eda liked Masha and decided to teach her a trick or two. It was a fun time.

"Just hurry up and use it." Masha said before slapping the power glyph on Vee's behind.

"YAH?!" Vee let out with a blush.

'Now is NOT the time for that!' Vee thought before inhaling the archivist's magic again.

Thanks to the power glyph, Vee's appetite was now 5 times as big as her suction of magic was 3 times as strong.

"Mmm, now I'm feeling a bit woozy. What is this feeling?" The fourth archivist asked, looking around.

"I think I have an idea." The fifth said before they waved their hand, forcing smoke away in a gust of wind.

Gus's spell was undone and he, Masha, and Vee were revealed to the two archivists.

"Oh, it's them." The fourth said.

"Just annoying pests that need to be dealt with." The fifth Archivist said.

"Pest this, asshole!" Masha shouted, pulling out a fire glyph and power glyph before combining them.

They used it, unleashing a giant wave of fire at the Archivsts...but it did nothing.

"Is that all you've got?" The fifth archivist asked, before looking at Vee as she kept eating their magic. "Oh! So you were the one draining us?"

"Fascinating, a living basilisk. We'll have to study her after we dispose of the Titan." The fourth said.

'... Well I'm fucking terrified now.' Vee thought as she almost stopped eating magic.

"Back off, creeps! This basilisk is mine!" Masha shouted, pulling Vee into her lap.

"Study this!" Gus shouted, pulling off his magic amplifier earing and casting another spell!

He made a massive dragon like beast with it. The same beast he saw at the Galderstone Graveyard all those years ago. Gus clukd never forget an illusion as amazing as that one.

'Let's see how they like this.' Gus thought, subtly applying his Titan power to the illusion to make it solid enough to be real.

"Hmm, interesing. Such creatures like this aren't supposed to be on this planet." The fourth archivist said as the beast charged at them. "Could be the last of it's kind."

"Our just another trick." The fifth archivist said before fireing a beam from their star symbol and vaporized the solid illusion beast. "And now it's taken care of."

'Shit, we're really in trouble here.' Gus thought with a gulp before they decided to just run/fly away.

Team 4: Tracey, Cat, and Skara

They had no idea how they would deal with a being this powerful.

'How is this guy/girl so fucking strong?!' They thought as Skara unleashed countless lightning bolts at the 6th Archivist chasing them.

Who just batted them away as it seemed like nothing would stop them.

"Try this!" Cat shouted as she used her good hand to fire a ball of numbing magic, mainly used for surgery.

It didn't do much as it actually hit the archivist, who didn't see it as a threat as it didn't even slow them down.

"Hmm, tingly." The 6th archivist said.

"Let's see if this tickles!" Tracey shouted as she spun in the air, drawing a large spell circle with Goose Willis.

Firing hundreds of sharp poisonous thorns/barbs.

This made the archivist stop in place and wave their hand, sending wind to knock most of them away while some cut their clothes.

'It's like we can't even touch them!' Tracey thought.

"Resistance is futile." The 6th archivist said before flying after them again.

"We need to return to Luz, we aren't going to do much." Cat admitted to Skara and Tracey.

"Not yet. I've still got one last trick up my sleeve!" Tracey said before flying down to the earth.

"What is she doing?" Cat asked.

"Don't ask me!" Skara said before flying after Tracey.

"Hmm, what is this?" The 6th Archivist said before flying down after them.

Tracey nose dived as fast as she could, spinning like a drill as planet magic spiraled around her!

'Oh, I hope this works.' Tracey thought

Before anyone could react, Tracey crashed and burrowed into the earth as an earthquake shook the land!

'... Please tell me that wasn't it.' Skara thought with wide eyes.

'Did she just fucking kill herself?' Cat thought witj a blank face.

'Huh, I did not see that coming.' The Sixth Archivat thought in surprise.

And the surprises kept coming as soon, Tracey emerged from the earth in her plant giant form!

"ROOOOOOOOAH!" She screamed loudly.

"Sweet fucking Titan!" Skara shouted.

"Holy shit balls." Cat muttered with wide eyes.

"A pseudo Titan?" The archivist said in shock and awe.

And it didn't stop there as suddenly, three more plant giants rose from the ground! Each one glaring at the archivist.

"Ready for round two?" All four Traceys asked.

"No human should be able to use power like this." The 6th Archivist said with great interest. "I might dissect you and see what makes you tick."

"Try it, fucker!" They shouted before they all firing poison barbs at the archivist!

They a tuallt hir the archivist as they raised their arms to block.

"Ugh!" They grunt as their clothes were being torn and their skin were getting cut/scratched.

Though now of the barbs did more than cut their skin, the poison on them began to take effect. It was a mix of all the potentially poisonous plants in the from the surrounding foliage, concentrated and enhanced with plant with hopes killing the godlike being.

'Either this works or it just slows this bastard down!' Tracey thought as three plant giants rushed to attack with their fists.

The Sitxh Archivist, though poisoned began fighting the giants, But their body was filled, slowed by the poison as they were 1/3th as fast as they were flying in the air.

"Should we regroup with the others or keep watching?" Cat asked.

"We should regroup." Skara said with wide eyes, "But I also know that this won't work against them for long."

"It will if I set a timer." Tracey said, walking up to the duo.

"A timer?" Cat asked.

"I can try to set a time limit on how long this spell can persist. With the forest around it, it can keep regenerating and keep fighting until then." Tracey said to them, even though she's not confident it will fully work.

"Then get to it, Witch bitch." Skara said.

That sounds like an insult it's actually a compliment.' Tracey thought with a smile before focusing her magic and separating human body from her plant giant body.

Afterwards, she summoned her staff to her hand.

"Alright, Goosey. Let's bring it home." Tracey said to her palisman.

"Honk!" Goose Willis said.

With a flashy spin of her staff, Tracey set a magical timer to make the four plant giants fight the 6th Archivist while she, Skara, and Tracey flew to meet with the others at the ocean.

'I swear to the stars, I will get them for this!' The 6th Archivst thought before being punched towards the ground!

A few miles later, the group managed to regroup at the ocean. Which wasn't easy since the rest of them were still being chased by the other 5 Archivists!

'Dang, we got really lucky.' Skara and Cat thought in dread but also relief.

The storm the Archivists had made when they arrived had reformed and was making the water below them become choppy and large. Skara felt her head twitch a bit as the storm was getting to her.

"Skara, are you okay?" Cat asked.

"Yeah, it's just..." Skara said befoe she sniffed the air and realized something, "This is the storm of a century."

"What?" Luz asked as they reached the group.

"With this amount of lightning, I might be able to get us back to the Isles!" Skara said to everyone, "It would be risky, but... I think I can do it!"

"Not as long as they're on our asses!" Amity said, pointing to the 5 archivists.

'They must either be planning their next attack afgwr exchanging information they got from fighting all of us.' Luz thought as one last option came to mind.

"... You guys go, I'll keep them away." Luz said, before retracting Stringbean and falling backwards to the water below.

In the air, she transformed into her full Titan Form and flipped to land in/on the water!

"The Titan!" One of them said as they all looked shocked by this.

"She's fully developed alreadg?! Impossible!" Another one said.

While in their shock, Titan Luz ran towards the Archivists! She didn't hesitate to jump at them, making them scatter as she slammed into the ocean water.

"WEEEEEEEEEH!" Titan Luz unleashed her Bi Blast, making the 5 Archivsts fly back as they felt weakened by it.

'Hurry, everyone! Go!' Titan Luz thouhht as she created multiple glyphs around her to fire magic beams at the Archivsts.

Meanwhile, Skara stood up on her staff as everyone watched her focus. Holding her hands out and drawing in the lightning from the storm.

"Okay, everyone get close." Skara said to them.

"But what about Luz?" Amity asked, turning to see Titan Luz firing beams all around her to hold off the enemy

"She said for us to go and that's what we're gonna do! Now hurry!" Skara said as she focused on the storm, morphing the clouds to funnel above them.

They got close and Skara called down the biggest, reddest lightning bolt the world had ever seen.

BANG!

In a flash of light, the were group was gone and Titam Luz was left to deal the 5 archivists.

"With them gone, now I don't have to worry." Titan Luz said beofre she was hit from behind, making her grunt as she turned to see the 6th Archivist had caught up.

"P-Prepare to die, titan." They said, exhausted from their previous fight while still effected by the concentrated poison.

"Back at you, Archivist bastard!" Titan Luz shouted, charging up the glyphs for more beams. "Bring it on!"

All of the Archivists flew at Luz to attack as she unleashed the blasts all around her, hitting some while others slipped past.

Their final battle long from done.

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