Ch. 13: Watching Thinking of the Future
"Okay, I think that's enough for now." Luz said, checking off all the glyphs she knew. "Even the mist glyph combo is way more powerful with me."
"Mist?" Lilith asked.
"Fire and ice with a connected circle." Hunter answers.
Lilith quickly wrote that down. If there was any glyph or glyph combination she never created or saw before, she'd write it down.
"What about these two?" Amity asked, pointing to two more glyph combinations. "What are they?"
"Petrification and monster summoning, do NOT touch them." Luz said, closing her notebook. "Trust me, they ain't pretty."
"Petrification?!" Everyone but Eda, King, and Luz shouted in shock before looking at Luz.
"Hssssss! Yeah...really want to forget that one. AND monster summoning." Luz said with a wince. "Tested that on Beefy Boy."
"BEEFY BOY?!" Gus shouted in shock of his favorite human world figurine being destroyed. "NOOOOOOOO!"
'Probably shouldn't have said anything.' Luz thought.
"I hate to ask but.....what is the monster hand glyph like?" Cat asked, looking at the screen.
"It's....like abomination magic but dark gray, with white claws, and....and urge to kill." Luz said slowly.
"Believe me, I saw it and squashed it before it could get her." Eda said quickly as Camila looked extremely worried.
"I never want to use it again." Luz said.
And once again, Camila chugged her ice coffee before getting a new cup.
"Then why do you have them in your notebook?" Vee asked.
"I'd prefer it if I never have to use them but it's better to have them and not need them than need them and not have them." Luz said, shaking her head. "Now, why don't we relax and try to figure out how to make a portal?"
"Again, my blood." Luz said.
"NO." Luz's friend group and mother said firmly.
"Already?" Hunter asked her. "We just got finished testing the glyphs. Maybe you need a break before we decide to take your blood."
"Agreed." Camila quickly said, mainly to not let her daughter purposefully bleed herself dry.
Many people grabbed onto Luz to make sure she didn't try anything.
"Why not? I heal fast." Luz said, shrugging. "We have to use my blood to make a portal anyway."
"But you could pass out from blood loss." Camila said to her.
"I could just drink sugar water to help." Luz quickly said, shrugging.
"That doesn't fully help!" Camila quickly argued.
"I'll be fine." Luz said, before holding her hand up. "Now someone get me a knife, let's see if my finger can regenerate."
And with that comment, Luz was put into a straight jacket by Cat.
"What the heck?!" Luz shouted, struggling in the straight jacket.
"At this point Luz, I'm surprised you weren't put in one sooner." Gus said, tapping his fingers. "You have to admit, you DO get into a lot of dangerous situations."
"And you don't?!" Luz asked him
"Well, yes but as of late, you're usually the cause." Willow said.
"Not that we don't "love" it but cutting body parts off on a theory is where we draw the line." Amity said.
"I was probably joking!" Luz said.
"And if not?" King asked.
Luz stopped fighting as she thought about that.
"...I think I might therapy if I'm not joking." Luz said.
And that was when Amity grabbed Luz by the back of her shirt and pulled her back to the house.
"Nonononononono. We are done for the day." Amity said to Luz.
"Agreed." Amity said blankly.
"At least someone has the brains of the relationship." Hunter said, joking.
"At least I'm IN a relationship!" Luz suddenly said to him before quickly apologizing. "Sorry, sorry! Didn't mean that. Just a little.....literally restricted."
mStraight jacket jokes? Really?' Boscha, Skara, Cat, and Amelia thought.
"It's...fine." Hunter said, glancing at Willow a bit before looking back at the screen.
"What? I'm curious." Luz said.
"You are not purposely dismembering yourself!" Amity shouted at her.
"Agreed!" Camila said as she quickly followed after Luz and Amity. "Enhanced regeneration or not, you are not losing a limb!"
"Trust me, Luz. It is more unsettling than you think." Lilith said.
"Yeah, what would Eda say?" Willow said, following them with Hunter, Gus, and Vee.
""Are you nuts?" That's something I'd say." Eda comments.
"Coming from the woman that literally used her own head as a Bowling Ball!" Luz said.
"Head bowling? Oh how fun!" Terra said with a smile, clapping her hands.
"Sounds barbaric but challenging." Mason added.
"You have to have a hard head to be able to do that." Darius comments.
"Like you and your rivalry/unattained love towards Alador?" Eda asked.
Darius blushed.
"It is NOT love!" He shouted.
"Yes it is." Eda and Lilith said blankly.
'Please stop talking about this.' Amity thought.
The last thing she needed was to think about her father's love life after possibly to most definitely divorcing her mother in the future.
Eberwulf chuckled at both of their reactions while thinking of a world where the Blight children would have two daddies. A perfect world in their opinion if it made Darius happy.
"She'd probably tell me to walk it off while trying not to cry in fear." Luz said.
"Like a mother would." Gus added.
"Hey, I am not.....Okay, yes I am a mother." Eda said, nodding as her adopted children hugged/leaned on her.
"Yeah..." Luz said, smiling a tiny bit at the mention of her other mother.
'I know you're alright Eda, you're a fighter.' Luz thought. 'You can beat anyone with one arm tied behind your back.'
"Ha, easily!" Eda said, "I am a good ass kicker."
"Too good." Raine muttered with a small grin.
Eventually, the gang reached the back of the house.
"Okay, so anything else for today?" Luz asked.
"Well, we'll need to make a cover story for school tomorrow to explain your new strength." Vee suggested.
"Puberty." Luz said.
"Ahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh child, that is far too simple." Hettie said with a sudden laugh.
'Titan! Where did that come from?!' Raine thought, jumping in their seat.
"And the eyes, and the bottomless pit of a stomach." Amity said while counting with her fingers.
"Maybe I can just pass it off as contacts and carbo loading." Luz said, feeling hungry already. "Speaking of carbo loading, I could use some BIG fruit. Willow?"
"So all I have to do is say the word and you'll make food... Willow, you could literally end world hunger." Luz said.
"What? No!" Willow said but blushed from this "compliment. "I'm not that good."
"Yes you are, deary. I can tell a powerful plant witch when I see one." Terra said, looking at Willow.
Willow felt uncomfortable at that. Even if she was complimented by the Plant Coven head, everyone on the Boiling Isles knew she was a bit....unhinged and sadistic for the most part.
"Thank you?" Willow replied.
"I'm on it." Willow said, drawing a spell circle and quickly growing a giant orange from the ground.
"What kind of fruit is that?" Amelia asked.
"It's an orange, which is both a fruit and a color." Vee answered. "You gotta peak it a bit to eat but it's pretty good."
"Basketball sized orange, alright!" Luz said, taking the orange and ripping off some of the peal. "You know this could actually pass for a basketball if it had the black lines."
"No." Camila said quickly.
"It's too bright in comparison and the outside is too smooth." Vee added.
"Plus one is full of air and the other is full of juice." Jss2141 said.
"That's besides the point." Luz said.
""Still, to all the witches, just taste it and you'll see." Jss2141 said before snapping, summoning oranges for everyone to eat. "Peel, eat, and watch."
Luz was released from the straight jacket so she could eat the orange.
"Yeah and its wedges could count as footballs." Gus joked but he was serious.
The wedge Luz pulled from the orange was the size of a football as she began eating. Despite it's size, it would be a nice snack.
"And while you eat that, we will be having some left over pizza." Vee said as she opened the door and walked into house.
Camila felt her wallet breathing a sigh of relief.
'Thank you god for plant magic.' Camila thought, eating the orange in peace.
"Speaking of pizza, hey Amity. Have you learned to make food bigger yet?" Luz asked her girlfriend.
"Still working in it but it's more difficult to learn without some sort of spell book to help." Amity said.
'They aren't living in my house yet, but I love these children.' Camila thought.
"Makes you wonder how Eda made it look so easy to learn magic in her own after dropping out of Hexside." Hunter said.
"Because she's the most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles, nothing is to hard for her!" Luz said with pride.
"Damn right!" Eda said with pride.
'Even if I can't use magic anymore, I still got it!' Eda thought.
"Lilith was the same." Amity said.
"Even if she was too uptight?" Willow teased.
"Excuse me?" Lilith asked, looking at Willow.
"Oh please, Lily, you did fight them once." Eda said, rolling her eyes.
"I didn't fight them! I simple disarmed them and I'm not proud of myself from that point." Lilith said, looking away. "I was a....desperate and delusional woman then."
"They still have a reason to be angry with you." Eda said.
Lilith sighed as she went back to her notes.
"I know and I accept it." Lilith said.
"Okay, if we're done with that." Jss2141 said.
'Enough with the pity party.' Jss2141 thought.
"Yes, even if she was too uptight. Lilith was still just as powerful as Eda." Amity said, still respecting her old teacher.
"Even when she lost at the Covention?" Gus asked.
Amity turned slowly to Gus at that, her eyes glowing with animosity as he shivered in his seat.
'You idiot! Why did you bring that?!' Gus thought.
"... No comment." Amity said.
'Even though Eda won via a snack attack.' Luz thought with a small chuckle.
'Ah, memories... before everything went to shit.' Luz thought.
Before Luz could become depressed, a bag of snacks suddenly hit her in the face.
"Ouch!" Luz said.
"Snack attack." Eda said with a grin, chuckling from her own "attack" but it was actually to keep Luz from being down.
"Rude....but thank you." Luz said with a smile.
"Anytime kid." Eda said.
Camila smile at their bond, glad that her daughter had a new "parent" to help and understand her.
They went inside and Luz grabbed a gallon of water from the fridge, a nice drink to go with her basketball sized orange.
"You gonna share that or are you going to hog it all?" Hunter asked, half-joking.
"Maybe but I guess I could share if you guys want some." Luz said, shaking the water jug a bit.
"I'd rather not fight a Titan." Willow said, teasingly.
"You think I'd fight you for some water?" Luz asked.
"In ancient times, most witches would if they were desperate enough for fresh water." Orsan comments.
"Well I'm not." Luz said.
"Nah, you probably need it more." Amity said, waving her hand. "I mean, I don't want to get between you and food."
"Yeah, who knew Titan's had to eat so much." Gus said.
"Makes sense though, that power and size they get, they probably need to eat a lot." Hunter said.
"But what could they have eaten that long ago that would've been filling enough?" Raine asked, rubbing their chin.
"Maybe they ate random islands that weren't their fellow titans and random sea beasts." Adrian joked.
"That...actually seems likely." Raine said.
"That does explain why King enjoyed eating a lot." Luz said, sitting on the couch next to Willow. "I still can't believe it, I'm half Titan! Could you imagine me as some giant beast walking in the Boiling Sea!?"
"King?" Everyone said, looking at King.
"Me? W-Why is Luz talking about me?" King asked.
Jss2141 sighed, shaking his head. He knew this moment would come and now he had no choice but to say it.
"That's because you ARE a Titan, King. A baby Titan to be exact." Jss2141 said, making everyone gasp in shock as King froze like a statue. "That's why there are no other demons like you, because you are the last of your kind."
"You're only half Titan, so I doubt you'll get THAT tall." Willow said, waving her hand. "You'll probably get about ten feet at max."
"But could you imagine me at that size, I mean, what would I do then? Do they even make clothes for someone like that!?" Luz questioned, imagining herself as a Titan-sized woman with no clothing.
Amity imagined it as well, and that thought made her turn red. AGAIN!
"Oh no, Gus get the bucket, Amity's melting again!" Willow said, seeing Amity unconsciously becoming abomination muck again.
That normally would've gotten a comment or a snicker, but everyone was too stunned at learning that King was a Titan to say anything.
Gus scrambled to get the bucket, while Luz just laughed. Still, she couldn't help but wonder... what's going to happen at school tomorrow? People will eventually notice the differences between her on Friday and tomorrow... she can't keep it hidden forever.
And that just sent the room into an even more nervous silence.
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