(In the early morning the next day at the secret and mystery house known only as the Owl House, Luz had a dream. Well, it wasn't so much of a dream, but more of her remembering the events that led up to her and Adrien getting sent to a magical, yet terrifying world. Suddenly she woke up with a startled gasp. She quickly sat up and looked around her surroundings. Seeing that she wasn't at home or at summer camp, Adrien was sleeping in his own sleeping bag, and King was there sleeping on her bed, Luz realized that it was all real. That they were now in another world filled with magic and they were about to become a witch's apprentice.)

Luz: It wasn't a dream! (Getting up, she crawled on all fours to Adrien as he was sprawled on the floor and sleeping bag with just one of his legs in the covers. She poked his nose a couple of times to watch him up). "Adrien, come on! It's time to get up."

(Adrien groaned groggily before smacking his lips, with his eyes still closed.)

Adrien: Jake? Is that you," he asked in a tired voice.

(Thinking that was one of the boys in the orphanage, Luz decided to have some fun with her best friend. She smiled cheekily and rocked her head from left to right.)

Luz: Maybe~"

(Barely bothering to open his eyes and not registering that it was Luz's voice he was hearing, Adrien responded. )

Adrien: Jake, if you don't have a good reason for trying to wake me up, you better start running."

(Luz looked a little taken aback, as she certainly wasn't expecting that kind of response. Actually, not that she thought about it, wasn't Freddy one of the boys that bullied Adrien? Shaking her head, she placed her hands on his shoulders and shook him.)

Luz: Adrien, it's me, Luz! Come on, it's time to start our training."

(Hearing his crush's name, Adrien sprang up with wide eyes. Wondering just how she was able to get into the orphanage this early in the morning. But when he looked around the room that he was sleeping in and looked down at his solar cell morpher, which was laying on the floor next to him, he started to remember what had happened yesterday. He then noticed King, who was still sleeping on Luz's sleeping bag. He then turned to Luz, who smiled that cute smile he loved.)

Adrien: We're really here, aren't we.

Luz: Yeah! (Luz jumped up with glee as Adrien rubbed the back of his head. "We're actually here!" (Y/N stood up with her, and cheered with her with not as much enthusiasm, but was still as happy to be here. As Adrien reached down and grabbed Solar Cell Morpher, Luz walked over to the window and opened it to look out at the horizon.) Good morning, terrifying fantasy world!"

Sea Monster: Good morning.

Luz: Ugh." (Luz reeled back with a slight shudder.)

Adrien: You say something Luz? (Picks up his clothes.)

Luz: Uh, no, (Luz slowly closes the window.)

Adrien: Well, I'm going to head into the bathroom and get dressed. (Tucks his clothes under his arm and puts his morpher in his pocket.) Give you some privacy in here. (Adrien then turned and walked towards the door, but not before giving King a scratch on his back. King hummed in disappointment as Adrien stopped.)

(Exiting out of the room, Adrien walked all over the house to find a bathroom, before coming across a door that had a 'Ladies' sign on it, with a green sticky note under that said 'and King'. He opened the door and immediately ducked his head when two owls came flying out of it. He stared the way they went, before slowly entering the room and closed the door.)

Adrien: I know she's the Owl Lady, but does she have to have some many owls. (Not knowing that Hooty was right behind him.) 

Hooty: I know, right!

(Adrien turned and screamed when he saw him, before punching him in the face. This made Hooty yell in pain, before moving his head back to the window he came in from.) 

Hooty: I was just wishing you a good morning. (He then squeezed his head back out before returning to his position on the door.) "Jeez! Hoot! Ow!"

Adrien: Sorry, Hooty! (After putting on his clothes, Adrien brushed his teeth, and then exited the bathroom. Luz was standing outside, waiting for him with an excited grin on her face.)

Luz: This is it, old buddy. (She then opened her book to a page that had Azura and placed it in front of her face.) It's our first day on the Boiling Isles as Witch Apprentices!"

(Adrien smiled and pushed the book down from her face. Being greeted with her grinning face and sparkling eyes.)

Adrien: But first, let's get some food before getting started.

Luz: Right! I'll brush my teeth and you go and find us something to eat. (Adrien nodded and the two fist-bumped before walking away from each other.)

(He walked downstairs into the kitchen, and Adrien looked around before seeing the refrigerator off to his left.) 

Adrien: Alright, Eda. What do you have?

(When opening the door, Adrien's face was immediately grabbed by four octopus tentacles. The blonde screamed as he was pulled towards the open fridge, but held onto both sides to stop himself from being further pulled in. The strength of the tentacles was strong. However, Adrien was able to save himself by lifting up his legs and placing them on the edge of the fridge. He then grabbed Solar Cell Morpher and used the dagger cut off one of the tentacles. The creature then lets out an unearthly squeal as it lets go of Adrien.)

Adrien: (Fell on his butt and look at the open fridge again.) Oh, cool, there's eggs!(Then a black witch hat was placed on his head, obscuring his vision.) "Luz, what is this?"

Adrien: She has witchy clothes! (Adrien turned around and lifted up his new hat, and saw Luz dressed in a black witch's robe with her own hat. She even had a name tag that said 'Hello My Name Is: Witch Apprentice LUZ'.)

Adrien: (Smiled and stood up.) You really look the part, Luz. (Placed his hat down on the table.) But where's my name tag?"

Luz: Right here!" (Luz handed him his name tag. Adrien saw that it said 'Halfa Adrien'.) Now, come on! Eda should be waking up! (She grabbed Adrien's hand and dragged him over to the base of the stairs.)

(The two of them waited for Eda to come down the stairs. Adrien with his arms crossed while Luz looked like she was barely holding in her excitement. After hearing the toilet flushing, that excitement only increased. Eventually, Eda finally came down the stairs, wearing a plum sweater with amber cuffs, a stained, long, violet nightgown, and light yellow bunny slippers.)

Luz: Good morning, Eda the Owl Lady. We are ready for our first day of Witch and Wizard Apprenticeship(Fist-bumping the air.)

Adrien: So, what's the first lesson, teach?

Eda: Ugh! (Eda shook her hands, sending off small spiders. She then cleaned out her ear and flicked a spider she got away, before asking.) Who are you two, again?

(Luz's cheerfulness fell apart as her smile was lost.) 

Luz: Huh?" (As Adrien and her nametags fell on the floor, Adrien looked raised his eye brow at the witch.)

Adrien: Really?"

(Eda walked past them to the kitchen.)

Adrien: Um, hello? Remember us? Luz, the girl that wanted to be a witch?" (Adrien gestured to his best friend. Before pointing to himself. But when Eda didn't respond, Adrien became even more irritated.) "Well, what about me? Adrien? The Halfa? The Solaris Knight? We saved your butt from Warden Wrath, and you promised that you'd teach us about magic, right? Yesterday?

(After filling a mug with a red liquid, Eda turned back to the kids.) 

Kiddies, lay off the details. I haven't even had my cup of apple blood yet," she mumbled, rising the mug.

"You mean apple juice?" Luz asked, confused.

"No," Eda said before taking a sip of it.

Adrien knew that it was in fact blood when he could pick up a faint scent of an irony smell coming from the mug. Eda then sat down at the table. King was already sitting with a plate of eggs. But when Adrien saw there were eyeballs in the eggs, he looked at King with a confused expression.

"Uh, whatcha eating there, King?" he asked.

"Just some scrambled eggs and eyeballs," King said, scooping some on a folk and then shoving it into his mouth. Adrien and Luz looked grossed out before the little demon scooped some more and held it out to the two teenagers. "Want some?"

Adrien (One of the eyes blinked at him.) Hard Pass.

Luz turned back to Eda and rushed over to her eagerly. "Teach us some spells," she requested/demanded, causing Adrien to turn his attention back to her and the witch. "When do we get a magic staff? Were we supposed to bring my own runes?" She gasped and then grabbed onto Eda's arm. "Do you have a dangerous magical quest for me?"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down, kid. Being a witch and wizard doesn't happen overnight," she said after pushing Lua gently away from her. Eda then pointed at the hat on the young girl's head. "Also, you're wrapped in a bathrobe and wearing the dirtiest traffic cone I've ever seen."

Luz took off what she believed to be a witch hat and blew on it. Blowing off the dust to reveal a traffic cone with a crooked top. King laughed at her, which made Adrien frown, before grabbing his traffic cone hat off the table and blew the dust off it towards him. As King started coughing, Adrien asked Eda, "So, what you're saying is that this is going to take time, right? So what exactly do we have to do to get a staff like yours?"

"Actually, you wouldn't need one, Adrien. You're a Halfa," Eda said, pulling her mug away and having an apple blood mustache. She pointed to the Solar Cell Morpher. "But to get you started on controlling your magic, you'll use your Solar Cell Morpher. Its magic will allow you to use it like a staff and generate your power through it."

Adrien held up his Solar Cell Morpher and stared at it. He remembered how he first summoned his magic when he defeated Warden Wrath, and how the ancient writing on the blade started glowing.

Eda whipped away the apple blood away, before turning to Luz with a quirked eyebrow. "But a magic staff, huh? You really want one?"

"More than anything," Luz said, squishing her cheeks.

Eda held out her left hand towards the doorway to the hall. "Magic staff, come to me!"

Adrien, Luz, and King waited with the witch in the kitchen as they heard distant clashing coming from the halls. While Eda looked proud with her eyes closed and chin up, the teenagers and the little demon stared at the doorway as things continued to break. Noticing the sounds and how long it was taking for her staff to get to her, Eda turned to face the doorway.

A moment later, and the staff comes flying at her. Smacking her in the face, causing the staff to nearly fall over before Eda caught it.

Adrien laughed a little as Eda twirled her staff to her side. "You okay?"

"It's early." She spoke to him with a distant, tired expression. "Now, witches and wizards are awarded their staffs from school. With me as your teacher, you'll both be taking a different approach," Eda said as she crossed her arms before her back.

"What kind of approach?" Adrien asked.

Eda grabbed and dropped a big burlap sack filled with bottles in front of the kids. "You'll have to work for it," she said with a slight smirk.

"Dang it."

Luz grabbed the sack and carried it as she and Adrien followed Eda through the owl house. "I run a few businesses. On weekends, I offer rare human treasures that Owlbert drags over from your side of the realm," said the witch as she stopped in front of a fireplace and grabbed a toy sword from the shelf.

She pressed the button of the battery-powered toy and lit up and said, "I shall smite my enemies! Ages six to eleven."

Eda tossed the sword away before pointing to the sack. "But most days I sell only the finest homemade elixirs and potions."

"So basically, in exchange for teaching us magic, we're going to be your child labor," Adrien said, reaching into the bag and ruffled through it before pulling out a bottle of potion. "Helping you sell..." he paused when he looked at the bottle and grimaced when he read the label. Luz looked at it and had the same reaction as her friend. "Snake oil?"

"No one wants an un‐oiled snake. Follow me." Eda led the two kids upstairs and onto a balcony. From there, Adrien and Luz could look out and see the same town with the large rib bone that they first arrived at when they stepped through the portal into the Demon Realm. "Today you'll deliver packages and sell potions in that town over there, Bonesborough."

Eda pointed with her staff at the town. The winds started picking up and blew through their hairs. "The both of you'll have to be careful. I have rivals everywhere who'd love to take my business down and you along with it. Adrien, you're the one with the weapon, so you'll have to protect Luz and the sack. You wanted a dangerous magical quest? Kids, you've got one."

"We won't let you down, Miss Eda," Luz said, saluting the witch. But, when she turned to face Eda, she accidentally ended up slipping the sack over the balcony's rail and dropped it.

The three of them peered over the balcony and watched as the sack crashed down onto the ground. The bottles inside of it shattering on impact.

"So, yeah, I'll also be sure to keep an eye on her," Adrien said with a nervous smile, along with Luz.

"I'm sure," Eda said bluntly.

After whipping up more potions, Eda pushed the two friends to the door. "Remember, never befriend a man in sandals and always measure twice, cut once," Eda said with a cheery smile and tone. However, her expression turned into a serious one when she turned to Adrien. "And Adrien, don't tell anyone that you're a Halfa. You look like a witch, but you can't trust anyone."

"Uh..." the duo said in unison with blank expressions."

"Good luck!" Eda said, before using her magic to close the door. Eda walked away from the door while dusting her hands, before averting her attention when she noticed King sleeping on a chest next to the window. "I hate to interrupt your power nap, but you have to go with her." She slightly pushed King to his feet.

"What? But I just found the perfect spot. Why do I have to go?" King growled.

"You and I know that Adrien will likely become a target for those that'll want his powers and Luz will either get lost or eaten, probably both."

"No, I won't!" Luz yelled from outside the window, before Adrien's hand grabbed her from behind and pulled away from the window.

Eda used her magic to drop down the curtains before continuing to lecture King. "And because you work for me, too, unless you want to start paying rent," she said. King grunted lowly before huffing and stomped towards the door. Opening the door, he found Adrien and Luz waiting for him outside.

"Welcome to the party, King," Adrien said with a smirk. King grumbled as he climbed up the boy's body to his right shoulder to ride on.

"Be back by nightfall or risk mortal peril," Eda said, before slamming the door on them.

Hooty chirped at the three. "Have a nice trip."

"Ugh! Let's get this over with." King grumbled as Adrien and Luz turned and started walking back into town to begin their delivery/selling of Eda's elixirs and potions.

"I think we're going the wrong way," King said.

"How would you know? You don't know where you're going," Adrien said.

"You the one that's getting lost," King retorted.

"Well, the reason we keep getting lost is because you keep telling us where to go, when you don't even know the directions to town!"

"... Shut up."

"You shut up!"

"Let's all shut up. How about that?" After King's retort, they finally arrived at the town and started their trip into Bonesboroug. The two humans were treated to the sight of creatures and monsters roaming the streets like the normal, bloodthirsty citizens that they were. Everyone and every building were a different shape, size, and color.

Luz gasped when an ugly fairy that was a mismatch of body parts fluttered past her.

"Hey, it's rude to stare," King said, drawing the attention of Adrien and Luz towards him.

"I've only seen places like this in my dreams. It's incredible. And me and Adrien the only human here?" she asked the demon on Adrien's shoulder.

"Haven't seen any others," King said with a shrug.

"Wow! There must be a reason for that, right?" Luz asked, turning to Adrien. "Adrien, you've must be wondering why are we here, right?"

"Of course I have," Adrien said, nodding his head. "I feel as though I've.....................been here before."

"Yeah, why are we here? I'm more than certain that you're here because you're a Hal-" Adrien quickly slapped his hand over her mouth before she finished that sentence and looked around. Luckily, there was no one around to listen in on them.

"Remember what Eda said about me? Don't go saying about me being a you-know-what," he whispered to her, before stepping back.

"But that just proves my point. You're here because you're special." Luz then placed a hand on her chest. "What if I, Luz Noceda, average teen, actually had..." she then gasped and spread her arms out as she exclaimed, "...a predetermined path of greatness?! Just. Like. Azura!"

Adrien sighed in annoyance and pinched the bridge of his nose. Here we go again. Luz was fangirling again. "Luz, that's just a book. It's meant to be read by teenagers like you and me that are looking for an escape from their mediocre and terrible lives."

"Yeah. And did Azura's path to greatness involved her delivering boil cream?" King asked sarcastically as he pulled out a bottle of the boil cream.

"Today I'm delivering packages, but tomorrow I'll be earning the respect of everyone on the Boiling Isles with my magical prowess," Luz exclaimed with confidence.

"Ha! Good luck," King said, looking at their surroundings. "The Boiling Isles is nothing but a cesspool of despair."

"It can't be that bad," Adrien scoffed, brushing off the little demon.

Oh, it was bad. It was really bad.

As they were delivering the potions, Adrien and Luz quickly found out that her idea of the Boiling Isles was a magical place filled with delight were shattered. Instead of wanting the buy the potions, all they wanted to do was eat them or they were simply told to back off. All the while, Adrien was trying to not let his anger get the better of him and beat any of them that tried to eat them. However, he didn't want to bring attention to himself and make Eda angry by scaring away her customers.

"I know I've had enough delight for one day," King said, eating a "notdog", a hotdog made of bug and other strange things.

"Well, this is not good," Adrien commented, grabbing one of the elixirs. "We haven't sold a single one of these things. And everyone here is just trying to eat us or are just plain rude." He dropped the sack, just as Luz was fishing out her book from the sack. Adrien looked at her and noticed the sad expression she had. "What's the matter, Luz?"

"I thought being the only humans in a magical world would make me special," Luz said

Adrien wrapped an arm around her shoulder. "Yeah, I know what you mean. But it's also important to remember that life isn't like the books that we read. We came to this world by accident."

"But your dad was from here, and you're capable of being a powerful wizard or knight or magic knight, like Arthur" opening the book to a page that showed Arther seeing his potential in becoming a King. She then flipped to a page that showed Azura receiving a quest. "But what about me? At this point, Azura had already been sent on an enchanted quest. Where's my quest‐granting wizard?"

"Sorry to break it to you, Luz, but no one here is that well‐dressed," King said, pointing to the notdog vendor, who was a green blob with eyes and a brain wearing a ball cap.

Adrien gave him a glare that said stop being a jerk to his crush. "Look, it's been a rough day. Let's just deliver this last package and go home," he said, standing up and holding out his hand to her. Luz looked up at him as he smiled down at her reassuringly. Smiling back, the girl put her book back into the sack and grabbed his hand.

Adrien pulled her up and Luz picked up the sack of potions and elixirs. King then hopped back on Adrien's shoulder, and the two teenagers proceeded to go down a dark ally way. They continued walking until they came up to a tarp at the end of it."

"Maybe this world isn't what I thought it wa‐‐," Luz said, before Adrien pulled the tarp back, and the two friends froze and gasped.

"...Oh, boy!" Adrien muttered under his breath.

In front of them was a large and beautiful castle that looked like it was ripped straight out a fantasy book. Beams of sunlight shined down on the castle through the clouds above, giving the fantastic build a shining presentation, one that could have only been replicated in movies and TV shows.

Adrien and Luz walked towards the large doors of the castle and looked at a golden doorbell. Luz, beaming happily and her spirits lifting, rang the bell. Suddenly, the large doors started opening. Adrien pulled out Solar Cell Morpher as the doors swung slowly open completely. He could feel an eerie coldness emanating from inside.

He lowered his morpher as King said, "Big houses always belong to big whackjobs. Let's kick the package inside and get outta here."

However, Luz ignored him and started walking into the castle. "Hello?" Adrien followed after her, but didn't put away his morpher.

"Hey, what are you doing?" King protested, before the doors closed behind them. Making the little demon yelp. Adrien looked behind them at the closed doors. Luz continued on ahead.

"No turning back now," he said, before running to catch up with Luz. Together, the two walked into a large room. "Hello! Anyone?!"

But no one answered, making the two friends look at one another. "W-We're delivering a package from Miss Eda, the Owl Lady," Luz said.

Just then, candles/torches began to light up around the room. Bringing light to the darkened interior and allowing Adrien, Luz, and King to see what was going on around them. To their amazement, they were standing inside of a large library with hundreds of books filled with magical text and history and stories. On the other side of the room was a look set of stairs that led up to a third floor. On that third floor was a large portrait of who was likely the owner of the castle displayed on the wall above a large doorway.

Showing what had to be the most stereotypical wizard Adrien had ever seen. The man looked exactly like Yen Sid from Fantasia, only instead of a blue robe with a hat that had stars on it, it was purple with stairs on the robe. The man had a large bread and mustache, tanned skin, glasses, red eyes, and pointed eyes.

But then the real-life wizard made his presence known to the two apprentices when he walked from the doorway.

Luz gasped and became giddy. "Today just got good," she squealed in amazement as the wizard began walking down the steps. "Magical wizard!"

"Weird old man in jim‐jams."

"Yeah, I smell a trap." Adrien agreed with the little demon. Even though this wizard looked friendly, his cynical nature couldn't help but feel like there was something else going on. "Are you the owner of this place?"

"Indeed I am, wandering travelers. I was in my oscillarium, reading the stars," the wizard said as he reached the bottom of the stairs. Stroking his bread. "And who might you be, with eyes full of curiosity?"

"We're here to deliver these to you," Adrien said, grabbing the sack from Luz and throwing it down towards the wizard's feet. "Now, we'll be going." He grabbed Luz's hand and was about to pull her along to the exit.

Suddenly the wizard walked up to them. "Young lady, dareth I say, I sense something unique about you," he said. Adrien definitely didn't trust this guy and the feeling that he was setting off caused alarms to go off in his head. The wizard stepped back and drew a magic circle summoning three chairs and a small table that had tea and snacks on it. "Please, won't you join me for tea?"

Luz gasped. "Okay." she said in her happy tone. She was about to pull away from Adrien when yanked her hand back. Stopping her.

"Luz, we need to leave. We've dropped off the package, now let's get back to Eda," Adrien said, gazing at the wizard with suspicion.

"Yeah, now let's scram! These kinds of wizards are just old people with glitter in their pockets," King said.

Just to prove his point, the wizard reached into his pocket and pulled out some glitter, before dropping it to the floor.

"I don't trust him."

"But the stars on his robe are sparkling. And look, there's a baby fox in his beard." Luz gushed. And just as she said, there was indeed a baby fox resting in the locks of the old man's beard. "Plus, I see scones on the table."

"Where!?" King jumped off Adrien's shoulder and rushed towards the table. Jumping up on it and started digging into the snacks.

"We'd love to join you for tea." Luz was then the one pulling Adrien as she walked over to the chairs. But when Adrien pulled back, she turned to see him scowling at her. "Come on, Adrien, it's fine. We'll just have some tea, and then be gone."

Adrien gazed at her for a while, until her eyes began to waver into a puppy-eyed expression. Adrien looked away and stared at the wizard. He didn't trust him, and even instinct in his body was telling him to not stay in the same room any longer. However, he sighed. "Fine," he said.

Luz gasped happily before pulling him into a hug. Adrien blushed and nervously laughed as she nuzzled his neck. "Thank you so much!"

When she lets go, she leads him over to a chair. Adrien sat down, but didn't put away his morpher. He placed it on his lap and picked up a cup of tea. But he didn't take a sip and instead started talking to the wizard. Adrien then looked to his left and saw various kinds of potions on the table behind him.

"So, you sell potions too, Mr. Wizard?" He asked the wizard with a raised eyebrow.

"Please, call me Adegast. And, yes, I run a small business," Adegast replied. Adrien looked around with a raised eyebrow. Noting how huge the place was.

"Yeah, small."

King piped up after finishing off one of the plates of food. All the food was gone, having been eaten by the little demon. "You should run a small business of more scones into my mouth. Hiyoooo!"

"I'm surprised to see you here. It was my understanding that Eda delivered the packages herself," Adegast said to Luz and Adrien.

"It's kind of a long story," Adrien said, placing down the tea. "We came to this world by accident and Eda's been kind enough to let us live with her."

"Now we're kinda, sorta, her apprentices," Luz finished with a smile.

"Oh! And how are you finding the experience so far?" The wizard asked, stroking his bread.

"Enlightening," Adrien retorted.

However, when Luz didn't answer right away with her usual excitement to learn about magic, he turned his head. Watching as her smile slowly drained away into a somber expression as she sighed. "Well, actually, when I decided to stay in this magical world, I thought I was meant for something special. But Eda thinks I'm meant for chores and I'm afraid I came to the wrong place."

She then felt a hand on her shoulder and saw it was Adrien's. But when she looked at him smiling at her comfortingly, trying to cheer her up, Luz looked away.

Adrien's attention was then brought back to Adegast when he stood with a smile. Adrien knew that kind of smile all too well. It was a fake smile. "Well, I have a quest‐‐"

"A quest?!" Luz exclaimed happily when she cut him off, quickly standing up from her chair and dropping her teacup. It shattered on the floor.

Adegast chuckled. "You didn't let me finish. I have a question," he said, making Luz slightly slump a little when she realized she jumped the gun. "Would you like to go on a quest?"

"Yes!" Luz yelled.

"Wait, what?!" Adrien asked as he stood up. Completely bewildered. "Just like that? You're just giving us a quest to go on?"

"Indeed I am," said the wizard as he pulled out a scroll from his beard. It was perfectly rolled up that was tied up and had a red insignia on it. "And I might have just the thing for you two." He unrolled it in front of the two teenagers. "The prophecy speaks of a young human girl who will claim the Celestial Staff and free this world from an ancient evil. "Perhaps, thou, has come here for a reason."

Adrien's eyes narrowed in suspicion at the quest. "Yeah," he said with half caution, half sarcasm. "And that so-called 'evil' will turn out to be related to her. Come on, you really think we're going to buy this?"

"Perhaps I have," Luz said as she touched the map.

Adrien's eyes widened. "Are you kidding me, Luz? "This isn't destiny, it's a scam" He yelled, but she didn't pay him any attention. Too sucked in by the thought of going on this quest and living out her fantasy.

"Should you believe yourself worthy to attempt this quest..." Adegast said as he started walking away, and the girl followed him.

"So worthy." She said, eyeing the map.

"Luz!" Adrien yelled again as King climbed upon his shoulder.

"...you need to know the road is dark and perilous," Adegast continued as he put his hands behind his back. But he and Luz ignored Adrien, who ran over and caught up with them.

"Love peril. Big fan of peril," Luz said.

"This is crazy, Luz. We just came to deliver the potions," Adrien said loudly, trying to get her attention.

"And only the Chosen One can pull the staff from its post," Adegast finished. Seeing that they weren't going to be listening to him, Adrien looked around something to get their attention.

That made Luz stop with wide eyes. "Chosen one..."

Suddenly there was a loud metallic bang that echoed throughout the room. Adrien had used Solar Cell Morpher dagger and hit its flat side against a suit of armor. A moment later, the armor fell apart onto the floor. Finally getting Luz and Adegast to turn and look at him. "Okay, wait, stop. Just stop, beardy!" He growled, pointing the magical morpher dagger at the wizard.

Adegast looked a little surprised. "Um, what is it, young man?"

"What is it? What is it! First of all, we were just supposed to deliver the potions to you. Then you suddenly invite us in and just randomly give us a dangerous quest. And now after all of that, you're asking me what is it?!"

"Adrien, don't be rude," Luz whispered to him with a disappointing frown.

"Look, we appreciate the tea and snacks and the random quest that you've given us, but just take the potions, because we have to go." He said to Adegast, grabbing Luz's hand.

"Yes, we have to go," Luz said, rolling up the scroll. Before throwing up her fists. "And pack for this enchanted quest! I'm in."

"WHAT?!"

"Wonderful!" Adegast said happily.

After returning to the owl house, Luz immediately darted past Adrien when he tried to stop her and rushed up to their closet/room. When he entered the room, Adrien found that she had already begun to pack her things. Preparing to go on her quest. "So, King, Adrien, what kind of Chosen One should I be?" she asked, after sheathing the toy sword in a scabbard that was able to fit.

King yawned as he was preparing to take a nap on Luz's rolled up sleeping bag. "Huh? What?"

Luz then grabbed her Azura and the Dark One book and held it up to the right side of her head. "Should I be full of optimism and goodness, like the Good Witch Azura?" She asked, before moving the book to the left side of her head. "Or should I be like a bad girl Chosen One, with black nail polish and a mysteriously withdrawn attitude?" She then returned to her fangirl self when she made the book talk with a weird voice. "'I act like I don't care, but I secretly do.'"

"You're really serious about this, aren't you?" Adrien asked, concerned.

"Of course I am. I just feel it in my gut that I'm destined to be here for a reason," Luz said with determination and a clenched fist. "Also, Adrien, can I borrow your Solar Cell Morpher?"

"No, you may not borrow my Solar Cell Morpher, because you're not going on that quest!" Adrien said with a stern glare.

"What?! Why?" Luz asked, looking at Adrien with a shocked expression.

"Think about it. A complete stranger you've never met before wants you to go on a quest to retrieve a staff. Aren't you the least bit suspicious?" Adrien asked.

"But this is my chance to finally get a magic staff," Luz said, flipping through the pages of her book to the image of Azura retrieving her staff. "Just how Azura got her staff-"

"But she didn't go on a quest to retrieve her staff. She had to earn it," Adrien said, before taking the book from Luz and then flipping it to a page that showed Azura battling the wizard. "And haven't you forgotten that the wizard only sent her on that quest to get to the witch?"

"But maybe things will be different!" Luz adamantly said, grabbing her book from her friend. She then glared at her friend with a hint of jealousy. "Why can't you just be happy for me?! You're a Halfa and solaris knight, you're destined to be a great wizard, but what about me?"

"What?" asked Adrien, confused about where this was coming from. "Luz, what are you-"

"Ugh! Why can't you just let me have this?" Luz yelled at her friend. "I thought you were my friend!"

The argument was put on hold when Eda entered the room, holding a severed blue monster hand by the bone. "I was summoned by the sound of friends fighting," she said, before walking over to them with a raised eyebrow. Rubbing her free hand with the monster's hand. "Where is it? Show me the fight! I'm not too late for the beginning, right?"

"Not now, Eda!" Adrien snapped.

"Whoa! What's with you two?" Eda asked, pointing at the two kids with the hand's finger, before resting the monster's hand on her shoulder when noticing the things Luz was packing. "Wait, what's going on?"

"Eda, tell Luz how dumb wizards are," King said as he hopped off Luz's sleeping bag and hopped on Adrien's shoulder.

"Ugh! Wizards are the worst. Never trust a man in casual drapery wearing scandals," Eda said while waving around the hand like it was her own. "Why?"

"Number 1., you're training me to be a wizard and/or knight! And number 2., one of your wizard clients was really weird. Kept yammering on about a quest he wanted Luz to go on," Adrien explained, expressing his concern for what Luz was getting herself into. "He even gave her a map."

"Yeah, and he told Luz... she was a‐‐" King tried to hold it in, but he fell off Adrien's shoulder and started laughing on the ground. "...was a Chosen One!"

"Wait, wait, Luz?" Eda snickered, before joining in on the laughter. Adrien looked at Luz and his crush started to become really embarrassed. Flustering and trying to hide her face behind the book.

Seeing his friend looking down with embarrassment, Adrien glared at Eda and King. "Okay, back off, you two! This is serious!"

Getting back up after falling down on her back from laughing hysterically, Eda walked over to them. "Fine, let me see this map." Luz handed her the map and the witch took a moment to look it over. Seeing if it was genuine with all this nonsense of her female appearance being a chosen one. "Welp, I can honestly say... ... ... Adrien's right, Luz."

"What?" Luz asked, looking more depressed.

"This map is bunk. There's no lake with a Celestial Staff on the Boiling Isles. I would have stolen it ages ago," Eda said. Luz looked down at the ground with a sad expression on her face. Adrien tried to comfort her by placing a hand on her shoulder. With a somewhat sympathetic look, Eda handed her back the map. "Ah, don't worry. Couple more months here and you won't look like such a mark."

Luz pushed Adrien's hand off her shoulder. "Can I have some time alone?"

Eda shrugged her shoulders as King and Adrien followed after her out of the room. But before leaving, Adrien stopped and looked back at Luz. "Luz?"

But she didn't respond, and just rubbed her hand on the map. Adrien sighed and closed the door behind him.

Adrien walked down the stairs to the living room where King and Eda were. The demon had climbed onto the couch and was getting ready to take another one of his naps. "Finally! All that mean‐spirited laughter made me sleepy," he said, resting his head on a pillow. Suddenly he was smacked in the back of the head by Adrien. "OW!"

"Shut it," Adrien said, scolding King for his and Eda's attitude to his best friend. "Even if Luz had taken a fake map and was told a lie, you and Eda shouldn't have laughed at her."

"Speaking of which, you said that the wizard was one of my clients?" Eda asked as she stood in front of them.

"Yes. Now go away," King said, snuggling back into his pillow.

"He seemed like he knew you," Adrien said, setting the Solar Cell Morpher down against the couch's armrest and then sitting on said armrest with his arms crossed. "Kept asking us about our training and then when Luz explained that she was hoping for a quest, he just gave it to her."

That got Eda thinking for a moment, and she sat down on the couch with a hand under her chin. "I don't know him that well. And I don't trust this itch he's scratching in Luz," she told Adrien.

"Me neither. Luz never fit in anywhere back home, just like me. But she was always been so determined to be who she wants to be, even if the world is trying to bring her down," Adrien said, looked down. He couldn't really say the same thing for himself. He was so grounded with the idea that he would never be anything special, unlike her, that he still doesn't really know how to feel about being a Halfa.

"Less talky, more nappy," King said with his eyes closed.

Adrien frowned at King before sighing. He was still troubled by Adegast, but he was also a little confused by Luz's words when they were arguing. It hurt when she questioned their friendship, but he was also confused by her outburst at him about being a Halfa. It was almost like she was jealous of the fact that he was something special and she was.

He got up and walked back up the stairs and approached their door. He knocked on it, and waited for a response. "Luz? Are you in there?"

But there was no response.

"Luz, I just wanna talk."

Again, no answer. Adrien opened the door and gasped. Luz was gone. All of her things were gone. And the window was open.

"Eda! Luz is gone!" He called down the hallway to the witch, before rushing into the room. He climbed through the window, and carefully walked out onto the round roof. "LUZ! LUZ! She's too far to hear me." He then got down on his hands and knees and looked down over the edge. "Hey, Hooty! Have you seen where Luz went!?"

Hooty then stretched his head up to Adrien. "Hoot, hoot. If you want the answer that you seek, solve my riddle within a week‐‐" He stopped when Adrien drew out Solar Cell Morpher dagger.

"Hooty, if you do not tell me right now, you know what I will do" Adrien said in absolute anger. Stabbing his dagger into the roof just to prove his point.

"Ow! Okay, okay. She went into the forest towards Bonesborough. Sheesh!" Hooty said before retreating back to the front door of the house.

"What?! Why would she...oh you stupid fangirl," Adrien groaned in annoyance. He then jumped down from the roof onto the ground and started running towards town. But before he got far, Eda floated down on her magic staff with King.

"Get on!" Eda yelled with her arm gesturing for him to climb aboard. "We're going to have a talk with this 'Adegast'."

When they reached the town, Eda floated the staff down onto the ground near where they found the alleyway. Adrien quickly got off and started running for the path that led to the castle with King on his shoulder and Eda following behind them. Something was definitely wrong, as they couldn't find the shiny castle from the sky.

Entering into the alleyway, Adrien slowed down and drew Solar Cell Morpher from his back and approached the tarp-covered entrance. "Are you sure this is the way?" asked Eda, without her staff.

"This is where we met the scones," King said, perched on Adrien's shoulder.

"King!" Adrien snapped.

"I mean, the wizard." He corrected himself.

Adrien shook his head and found the entrance with the tarp still covering the entrance. He marched towards it with a determined look on his face, before grabbing the tarp and ripping it down. But when he laid his eyes on the castle, the Halfa gasped in shock and horror.

The once bright and shiny castle has what could only be described as aged hundreds of years older than when he and King were there the last time. No longer was the sun's light shining down on it with heavenly effects. Instead, the sky was the normal gloomy bright colors of the Demon Realm. The castle's structure was in complete shambles. Walls were falling apart, some of the roofs had caved in. It looked as though no one has lived in the castle for decades.

"Whoa! It wasn't like this before," King said as Adrien started walking towards the ruined castle. Eda moved to walk beside her male apprentice.

"I feel like I'm in a Dark Souls game," Adrien said to no one in particular.

He and Eda opened the doors together and saw that the library was in complete shambles. Paints were ripping and falling apart. Bookshelves were collapsing, and debris was shattered on the floor and upper floors.

"I don't like this," Eda said as they walked into the library.

But before they begin investigating, there was a sudden metallic sound coming from a corner of the room. One of the sets of armor that was in the room came to life. It had in its hands a large halberd. It was a weapon that consisted of an axe blade topped with a spike mounted on a long staff.

"I really don't like this," Eda said, summoning her staff.

"Magical Source, Mystic Force!" Adrien said as he transformed into the Solaris Knight.

The knight rushed at Adrien and Eda and swung its weapon in a wide arching sweep. Adrien jumped and rolled out of the way before rushing that the armor. The helmet looked at him and swung down at him. King jumped off Adrien's shoulder as the Knight blocked the attack by raising his sword over his head. But he jumped out of the way when it swept at him again.

Eda joined in the fight by launching fireballs at the living armor, knocking it back, but not defeating it. When it's back was turned to Adrien, he got up and rushed the knight. With a wide swing, he chopped off the helmet. But he was knocked back when it hit him in the chest. Making him slam against a railing.

Adrien groaned in pain as the knight advanced towards him. The knight was about to slash him dead, but Adrien soon got another vision.

"Gasp!" Adrien. Adrien had another vision, saw a sword, and remembered the name of the sword. "Come to me, Rita!"

A sword flies from the sky and lands in Adrien's hand and he uses it to block the sword.

(I made this!)

Both knights clash with their weapons, before Adrien pushes the other knight away. But before it could attack again, Eda's magic brought down a large boulder down on the knight. Crushing the armor completely.

"Is it over," King asked, poking his head out from behind his hiding place.

As the little demon ran over to climb back on Adrien's shoulder, the knight stood back up. 

"What's this weapon?" King looked at the sword in Adrien's hand.

"It's rita, a sword made to let magic flow through it" Adrien explained.

"How do you know that?" King asked.

Adrien blinked a few times before he answered. "I..........have no idea."

Eda walked over to them with several pieces of paper in her hands. "What the heck was that? You ever seen anything like that before?" Adrien asked the witch.

"It's a very basic possession spell. But I've found something very interesting," Ed said, handing Adrien the papers in her right hand.

Sheathing Rita, Adrien grabbed the papers and looked at them. His eyes widened in shock. They were all maps that were very similar to the map that Adegast gave Luz. That's when his hand started to glow again. And just like yesterday, the magic/transmutation circle appeared on both of his hands.

His magic activated something else on the maps he was holding. Displaying blue glowing writing and a line that had a path going through each of the maps.

The Chosen One

The PATH WILL only APPEAR To The WORTHY

"Eda, what is this?" Adrien asked, looking up at his witch master.

"It's an off-brand invisible ink message that only appears in the sunlight," Eda said, looking across the ground. Adrien looked down and saw more of the scrolls. Luz must have been near the window and when it revealed the message, she must have gotten it in her head that she really was a chosen one. That's why she went on the quest.

"How do we find her?!" Adrien asked worriedly, holding up the maps. "They're all so different."

"I can pick up her scent," King said, pointing himself. He then hopped down onto the ground. "Don't worry, there's no mistaking her smell. Like lemons and young, naive confidence."

King got on all fours and started sniffing the ground. Eda and Adrien watch him as he did his work. Adrien was becoming increasingly worried about his secret crush.

After a moment, King lifted his head. "I've got her!"

"Son of a witch," Eda said in annoyance.

They have been traveling through the forest on Eda's staff, and the further they went into the forest, they began to notice the area around them changing. The bright colors of the trees faded away, as the clouds above them began to grow darker.

Now they were standing at the entrance of a ruined village. The state of which was the same as the castle that belonged to 'Adegast,' if not worst. There were veins going through the houses and homes. There were crates and barrels that were smashed or on their sides, spilling out their contents. To Adrien, it looked as if the village was abandoned for years. Something bad had happened.

"Are you sure she came here?" Adrien asked King, as the little demon sniffed the ground.

"Positive," King said, jumping back on Adrien's shoulder.

Adrien looked around, before spotting something. In a water fountain that was covered in large veins, there was a body. It looked like an anthropic car with a scarf and mittens. But its eyes were strange.

He walked over to the fountain and as he got closer. The closer he got, Adrien saw it wasn't a dead body, but a puppet.

Eda walked past him and kneed down in front of the fountain. She then hit the cat by flicking its head with her finger. "Hey! Wake up, you." She demanded, before grabbing the puppet. "What have you done with Luz? What's your endgame?"

"To find your pupil and still your wrath, look ahead and follow the path." The cat said in a disoriented squeaky voice.

Adrien growled in anger, before snatching the puppet from Eda, startling the witch. Adrien pulled out Rita and held the blade to its neck. "I've had enough of this! Tell us where Luz is!" Adrien yelled in anger. All of his worrying about his friend's safety and the thought that someone had tricked her in order to do harm to her made his fury be known.

"To find your friend, follow the path and you shall see," said the cat puppet. It then started cackling as it crumbled and shriveled up in Adrien's hand. Turning into dust that flew away with the wind.

"Aaahh! The cat man melted!" King screamed.

Eda sighed as she stood. "It's a trap. They want me to follow Luz."

"But who?" Adrien asked, wiping the dust off on his pants. He then gasped in shock as a startling realization hit him. "This is just like in the book. The wizard used Aruza and Dominic to get to the witch. Which means Adegast is just like that wizard."

"That's just it, Adrien," Eda said, turning to him with a serious expression. "This isn't the work of a wizard." Adrien looked confused and frightened before she began to explain. "I know this guy. He's no wizard. He's what you'd call a puppeteer, a demon who specializes in scamming and manipulating people. He's trying to use Luz to get to me."

"Then we have to do something! She could be in danger!" Adrien said desperately.

"Yeah, but could that somehow involve us not going in the direction of the trap?" King asked.

"If you can think of a better plan, I'd love to hear it," Eda said, summoning her staff.

Luz was having the time of her life.

When she had first set out on this quest, she was optimistic as the call to adventure cried out to her. And the journey was everything that she had expected it to be. First, she came across a magical town of talking cats, and met Nethrath Bladestrife, teen prince of Angstmore. So she was not only traveling with a hunky teen prince, but one that also had a vengeful backstory. Then they came across more jolly comrades like Chris the old cat that guarded the bridge. That's how she got Nethrath to become shirtless as he gave it to her as a cloak.

Now they walked into a clearing between the trees that loomed over them. Joining them was a tiny little fairy princess. "Thank you for inviting me to your feast, Princess. All your food was so tiny and cute," Luz complimented the prince. On her left finger was a ring that Chris had given her.

The princess then used her magic to summon to gold and green bracelets. "For you, Chosen One," she said, placing the bracelets in Luz's hands, who then slipped them onto her left wrist.

"Thank you," she said to the princess, before turning to all of her companions. "You've all been so kind and thoughtful." She then skipped up into the air with joy. This was truly everything she's ever asked for. "I hope this quest never ends!"

"Your quest will soon come to an end, for the staff you seek is around the bend," Chris pipped up.

Well, that ruined the magic fantasy moment Luz was having and she looked a little annoyed. "Thanks for ruining the mood, Chris," she said, slumping her shoulders.

"Go on, Chosen One. The Celestial Staff is yours. You've earned it," said Nethrath, beckoning for Luz to continue forward.

Luz smiled at everyone, before turning and heading off to get the staff. Behind her, everyone that has helped her waved their goodbyes.

As birded twitted over her head after walking for a while, Luz would gasp as she reached her destination, and with it, her prize. She has reached the legendary lake, and in the middle of it stood the Celestial staff on a pedestal, in the middle of a platform on the lake.

She marveled at the sight of the staff, as it looked exactly like Azura's. Luz walked towards the staff, before stopping in front of the lake. Just when she was about to swim, the water started glowing brightly and bubbles started to rise up. Then the ground started rumbling, before a stone pathway to the staff rose up from the depths. Connecting the path to the staff.

Luz smiled brightly. "I knew this world wasn't all gloom and doom like Eda and King said. There is wonder here! Adrien may be a halfa and the Solaris Knight, but I... I think I came here for a reason," Luz said, twirling around.

She walked down the pathway to the staff, entranced by its glowing. Stopping in front of it, she basked in the staff's light, as it tempted her to come closer. "Okay, this is it. Moment of truth," Luz said, reaching out to grab the staff.

When she wrapped her fingers around it, and intense magic burst from staff. Swirling around her and making ripples in the water. She then pulled the staff free from its platform, and held it up high.

"Yes! I am the Chosen One! I knew it! I always suspected there was a reason nobody understood my wacky antics back at home. Well, maybe except Adrien, but now, I have concrete proof!" Luz laughed in triumph. She knew that they didn't come here by accident. She knew there had to be something to her that made her special. Sure, she felt bad about being jealous about Adrien being the Solaris Knight, but now she could be equal to him. Now they were both destined for greatness!

Or, so it seemed. The joy she felt disappeared, just as the staff when it suddenly turned into dust in her hands. "No!" She gasped, trying to grab it in vein.

And then it got worst. First, the flowers and plants around her withered and decayed. The water of the lake drained from the area. Everything around her just seemed to die. The trees lost their colors, as their leaves blew away and crumbled in the wind. Leaving the trees bare and lifeless as the abandoned ruins she now stood in.

The magic was gone, and Luz was felt in despair filling her heart as a big fog surrounded the young girl. Making it hard to see the exit. "What's going on?" She whimpered and pulled out her toy sword.

"Luz, the human." Said a familiar voice behind her. She turned around to see Adegast walking out of the fog with a smile.

"Magical wizard?" She asked, greatly confused.

"Your hubris has failed you, Witch Apprentice," Adegast yelled out, as his voice changed drastically. All while his body went limp and a dark dark figure started to appear behind the puppet of the wizard.

The wizard's body was moved out of the way, and Adegast's true form was revealed as a large, light mauve octopus-like monster who had both tentacles and arms. He had yellow teeth with revealing gums, and black scleras with yellow iris and black pupils. The body of the wizard being held up by one of his tentacles.

As the monster cackled maniacally, Luz backed away with a look of horror. Then spots on the floor around her started crumbling and cracking, before the people that Luz thought were her friends came up. All of them revealing to be puppets with blank stares while being manipulated by the large tentacles.

"Okay, Luz. Don't panic. This is classic Chosen One biz," Luz said, trying to be brave. But the reality was, she was scared. This wasn't what she wanted her quest to be like. However, she still hung onto the fantasy that she was still destined for greatness. "You just have to rescue everybody and defeat the final boss. Just like you do with Adrien-"

"I AM EVERYBODY!" Adegast yelled in a dark and harsh tone, scaring Luz as his wizard puppet got right up in her face. "You foolish girl, don't you see? I'm no wizard. And you're no Chosen One. I've tricked you."

Luz's eyes widened as he laughed evilly. "What?" She then noticed her cape was starting to rise up into the air, before it suddenly wrapped around her body like a rope. The bracelets turned into handcuffs, and the ring turned into a restraint for her fingers. "No! Betrayed by my own cool accessories." Luz said, fully realizing the mess that she's gotten herself into. All because this jerk had to play with her desires. Luz glared at the demon. "Why are you doing this?!"

"Your mentor has been stealing customers from my potions business for years. She must be destroyed."

"Does everybody have a beef with Eda here?" Luz questioned the other puppets. All of them nodding their heads and voicing their agreement.

"And you lured her right into my trap, all because you wanted to think you were special." "Just like your Halfa friend, who's going to be a double bonus for me!"

Luz's eyes widened in terror. "Adrien..." She should have kept her mouth shut. Why did she have to say Adrien was a Halfa  ? She glared back at Adegast and demanded, "Why would you want Adrien?"

"Do you have any idea how valuable a single Halfa is?! And one that happens to have the power of the Solaris Knight!  After I kill him and take that power for myself, I'll be unstoppable!" Adegast proclaimed, raising his arms into the air with an evil cackle.

"Don't you dare touch him!" Luz screamed in fury, trying to get up to her feet attack Adegast. But she was pulled back down to the ground when the bounds around her arms and finger suddenly became too heavy for the young girl.

"And it'll all because of you!"

Luz looked down at the ground as her whole body went numb. The reality of this fake quest had hit her. This was all just a trap to get Eda. She's only here because she had a false hope of being a chosen one. Adegast was right, she wasn't special. And now Adrien was going to be in danger all because she got jealous of him. She didn't know why she became jealous. She's never one to get jealous about someone being something she's not. But Luz was so desperate to have a purpose in this world that she let her ambitions get the better of her.

"No. Joke's on you, 'cause Eda isn't stupid enough to fall for your trap," Luz yelled at him.

"Adegast!" a familiar voice yelled out from behind the trees.

"Oh, hijo de puta!" Luz cursed in Spanish.

Eda, Adrien (In Solaris Knight form), and King swooped down onto the path, before getting off of the magic staff. Adrien pulled out Rita and glared at Adegast. "Let go of Luz right now, you ugly squid!" He yelled, fuming with anger.

"Eda, I have you now!" Adegast said, as more puppets popped out of the ground and Eda and King. Adrien jumped back in time to dodge the tentacle and puppet grabbing at him, and cuts the limb off. Adegast screamed in pain, before growling in anger.

"Last chance! Release Luz, Adegast!" Adrien yelled, pointing Rita at the monster.

"I didn't have to be a part of this!" King yelled as he struggled to free himself.

"Oh, she can leave if she wants to, Solaris Knight. But I sense she wants a real fantasy," Said with an evil smile, before of his puppets let out a purple fog around Luz.

"NO!" Adrien yelled and rushed over to her. However, he stopped when the same suit of knight armor that had attacked him and Eda in the castle appeared from the ground. Kicking him in the chest hard and sending the teenage boy on his back.

When he got back up, he glared at Adegast in anger. "What are you doing to her!?" He barked in with a dark tone in his voice.

"Right now, what she wants."

When Luz opened her eyes, she wasn't in her bounds. She didn't know where she was. Everything was so black. There was nothing. But then everyone that she had met on her journey appeared around her. "Stay with us, Luz. Stay with Adegast. We need you here. You could be our Chosen One," said Nevareth with a hand placed on her shoulder.

"Yeah, you can eat our tiny foods forever," said the fairy princess.

"Luz, why would you want to live in a world where people laugh at you?" Nevareth said, as a shadow covered the top part of his face.

Adrien grunted as he blocked another swing at his head by the knight. He had cuts on his armour but it protected him from injuries.. "LUZ! DON'T LISTEN TO THEM!"

"It is beautiful here," said Luz, as the puppet of the princess floated behind her.

"Luz!" Eda yelled as she tried to break free.

"And you guys think I'm special," Luz said with a sad small.

See that he had to break Luz out of Adegast's spell, Adrien dodged the knight's attack, when it thrusted its weapon at him. Jumping to the right and then running behind the suit of armor. He then swung down at cuts the tentacle controlling the armor off. Adegast screamed in pain as the armor fell apart on the stone path.

As the puppets started to surround and drew closer to her, Luz suddenly yelled. "But it's not real!"

Adrien suddenly appeared out of the darkness and landed behind her, swinging his sword in a wide arch that made all the puppets move back. The fog around them disappearing. Luz stood up and grabbed her toy sword. "Are you okay?" Adrien asked worriedly over his shoulder.

"I'm good," Luz said while glaring at Adegast. Adrien turned and stood next to his best friend. Both of them ready for battle. "I am a Witch's Apprentice. And I'm gonna earn my magic staff the hard way. I believed you, Magic Man. Now feel my wrath!"

Luz yelled a battle cry as she rushed at the wizard puppet, before stabbing into his chest. Adegast screamed in pain as his puppet and the top of his tentacle fell off. Luckily it was enough to free Eda and King from their bindings. King crawled onto Adrien's shoulder as Eda picked up her staff.

"Let's give this guy a taste of reality," Adrien said with a grin.

Adegast growled in anger and sent every last puppet he had to attack Adrien and Luz. Eda quickly took out most of the cat puppets by shooting a large column of fire at them. Incinerating the tentacles and making the puppetmaster scream in even more pain.

Adrien dodged Chris as Luz killed the fairy princess. He then cut off the head of the raggedy cat, making it fall down onto the floor, with the tentacle that controlled it.

Adrien then heard the sound of Nevareth screaming as he charged at Adrien. He swung down at the Solaris Knight, but Adrien dodged the attack and then parried the next one. The two then locked blades. "Don't know why, pretty boy, but you tick me off a lot!" He yelled, not knowing that the puppet was flirting with Luz.

He then stabbed the teen prince in the chest. "AH! my flawless pecs!" The puppet screamed, before Adrien pulled out the sword and cut him in half. Squid Blood squirting out of the severed tentacle.

Suddenly and without warning, a tentacle arm flung out and grabbed King from behind. Adrien gasped as King was yanked off his shoulder by the demon. "King!" He yelled in shock.

"Back off! Or the dog gets it!" Adegast said, as his last cat puppet held King as a hostage.

"I am not a‐‐!" King's protest was silenced when Adegast wrapped his tentacle around his mouth.

Eda and Luz dropped their sword and staff, raising their hands up. Adrien, however, kept Rita in his hands. He grabbed the sword's handle with both hands as he raised it over his head. He smiled confidently.

Adrien then threw the sword with all his might at Adegast. Rita spun around like a windmill as Adegast stared at it in shock, before the blade impaled the giant squid monster in the head. Adegast started screaming in agony as blood shot out of his head. King was released from the tentacle. Luz caught him and the group watched as stumbled back and forward, before he started to fall off the side of the path.

"Oh no!" Adrien yelled, trying to reach out for his sword.

Suddenly, the sword magically dislocated its blade from the monster's head and zoomed back to Adrien. Startling the teenager as it returned to his hand.

Adegast's corpse fell over the stone path of the ruins and falls down onto the empty lake. His body landing with a loud thud as blood leaked out onto the ground.

Adrien, Luz, Eda, and King stared down at the dead puppeteer demon for a moment before Eda said with her hands on her hips. "Well, that's the last time I take an outside referral."

The Solaris Knight then turned to his best friend as she turned away to look at where the staff used to be. "Luz, are you okay?"

"Yes...No, not really. I'm so confused," she said as she held King in her arms. "This place- this world- is nothing like I imagined." Luz then worked up the courage to face her best friend. "Adrien, I'm so sorry. I should have listened to you and never trusted that wizard. You were right. He isn't mystical or magical. He's just a big, slimy jerk. You were only looking out for me. I was just...jealous of you."

"Jealous?" Adrien asked a little taken aback, making Luz frown. "Luz, why would you be..." When he paused, he realized why she felt that way. "Oh..."

"You're a Halfa and you have the power of the Solaris Knight. You're, like, destined to be here. Learn magic and become a powerful knight." Luz then looked away with an ashamed expression. "I guess I felt like you were living your own fantasy without me."

Adrien looked sadly at her, before putting on a sad smile. "Power down!" Adrien's armour disappears. "Luz, I never asked to be a Halfa, and...if things were different, I would have wanted you to be Halfa," he admitted, and Luz looked at him with wide eyes filled with shock. But then he looked down sadly. "But...that would have meant that you would have gone through the same things I went through and never met your family."

"Adrien..." Luz muttered, placing a hand on his shoulder. But he smiled and grabbed her hand with his.

"But you are special in your own unique way, Luz. You just have to find your own path to being a witch," Adrien said sincerely. Luz smiled with tears coming out of her eyes before hugging her best friend.

"Well, if you two love birds are down, come with me. I got something to show you," Eda said as she beckoned the two humans onto her staff.

After they climbed onto her staff, Eda flew all four of them away from the empty lake of the fake quest. Both Adrien and Luz had blindfolds over their eyes as they felt themselves going higher and higher into the air. When she reached the destination, Eda stopped the staff and looked back at her human apprentices with a smile. "Okay, you can look," she said.

Adrien and Luz untied their blind and opened their eyes. Laying their sights on some so beautiful it made them gasp in unison. "Whoa!"

There before them, as the sun was beginning to set in the horizon, was the massive skeletal remains of a dead titan. The skeleton was lying on its back with its right leg bent to have its knee up high in the air. Both arms were spread out, and all over the bones were islands that formed on and around the massive remains.

"Is that...?" Adrien tried asking, but couldn't finish his sentence.

"The bones of the isles," Eda said as the two kids took in the awe-inspiring sight of the skeleton. "Up close, the isles can be slimy‐‐"

"And very stinky," King added, interrupting Eda.

"And gross. But if you look at it from a different perspective..." Eda looked up at the sky, prompting Adrien and Luz to do the same. The stars were beginning to appear, with a blue shooting star streaking across the sky over the horned skull of the titan.

"It's beautiful," Luz said.

"Yeah," Adrien added as King climbed onto his lap and started to sleep.

"Eda, how did you know that wizard was lying?" Luz asked the Owl Lady.

Eda looked away a bit while looking at Luz and Adrien from the corner of her eyes. "Look, kid, everyone wants to believe they're 'chosen'. But if we all waited around for a prophecy to make us special, we'd die waiting. You may not be like Adrien, but he's right about one thing: you need to choose yourself your own path." Eda said, smiling at Luz.

Luz smiled before looking up at Eda. "Does that mean you'll give me a magic staff of my own?"

"Not yet. But... someday." Eda said as she continued watching the sunset.

Luz looked away for a moment to look up at the sky with her, before something caught her attention. It was Adrien's  hair as it flowed in the wind, as he continued to stare up at the sky. Her smile then returned as she stared at him, while her cheeks slightly blushed when remembering all he's done for her. Looking back up at the sky, she scooted closer to him and leaned her head on his shoulder.

Hope you enjoyed the chapter!!

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