Ch. 6: Watching Showing Off
Luz spent a few minutes trying to get Amity out of her shell, whispering comforting things in Spanish as the next showing already began.
It didn't take long for the rest of the house to hear about Luz's new physique. She may have been able to hide it under her shirt, but Willow blabbed a bit.
"She's as ripped as an ogre! Seriously! Luz went from a stick to a log over night!" Willow said as they all sat at the kitchen table for breakfast.
Amelia and Terra giggled at this, seeing the plant magic wordplay as a joke.
Luz rolled up her sleeve, while not overly muscular, you would definitely think she lifted weights every now and then.
"Think I could beat Hunter in an arm wrestling contest?" Luz asked, looking at Hunter. "He is pretty scrawny."
"I am not scrawny!" Hunter said, standing up and flexing his right bicep. "I am SLIM yet FIRM, there is a difference!"
"You're scrawny." Luz said, looking at Hunter.
"I AM NOT!" Hunter shouted at her.
He suddenly felt his arm being felt and turned to see Mason was examining it while his sleeve was up.
"You need more meat, boy. Your body has potential but it needs substance." Mason said, pinching Hunter's bicep.
"Ouch! Hey! Get off!" Hunter shouted as he pulled his arm away.
/"No there's not." Luz said.
"YES THERE IS!" Hunter shouted.
"Then what do you call Willow? She's buffer than you." Luz said, gesturing to the plant witch.
"She is?" Boscha, Skara, and Cat asked.
"Trust me, she is." Amelia said blankly. "Strongest physically in the plant track."
Amelia thought back to the time Willow lifted four 50 pound bags of fertilizer by herself... with one hand.
'Damn, if I wasn't crushing on Boscha, I would totally hit that.'
"Keep those thoughts to yourself, Amelia." Mr. Hardcor3 said, "Boscha will get jealous."
"Jealous? Jealous of what?" Boscha asked, looking at Amelia. "What were you thinking?"
"Nothing important." Amelia said as she turned away.
It was true, Willow wasn't portly or chubby for her age. It was all just muscle that LOOKED like fat.
"I am aware of that and I feel no shame in agreeing with you. She's a beast that can beat my ass any day of the week!" Hunter said, making Willow blush.
All the teens just laughed.
"Whipped!" Luz yelled.
"SHUT UP!" Hunter shouted as he blushed. "Captain and I aren't that close yet!"
"Aaah, you said YET." Amity said, coming out of the shell with a grin. "So you WANT to be close to Willow?"
"Yes! Wait, no! I-UGH!" Hunter groaned before pulling his shirt over his head.
"Hey, only one person is going to get so flustered they melt, now let's get back to this." Mr. Hardcor3 said.
"Hey, what you two do behind closed doors is not something to talk about at the breakfast table." Luz said, biting into a giant apple that Willow grew for her.
It was a miracle Willow was able to grow large fruit just in one night but with how hungry Luz was yesterday and how much stronger she is today, Willow knew it was needed. Not to mention it was the SIZE of her head!
"My word! Look at that fruit!" Vitimir said in surprise.
"WHOOOOOOOA!" Amelia said with wide eyes.
"I did it. I did it!" Willow said in amazement of her futile self.
"Oh, gracias dio." Camila said in relief.
"So juicy." Luz said, licking her lips.
'And now, the food budget crisis is over.' Camila thought with a grin as she prepared breakfast.
"Greenie, I may need a favor later too." Eda said to Willow.
"Please tell me you aren't planning on using Willow to make money." Mr. Hardcor3 said, "Because I would like to remind you, that the Boiling Isles is currently having Doomsday, the apocalypse, the end of the world, whatever you want to call it, so money really isn't that important right now."
"Hey, not everything is about money to me! Times are tough but I was just going to ask if she could grow some large fruits and vegetables for the house! Feeding a growing human and little demon isn't easy, especially when one of them can barely eat out food!" Eda said as she gestured to Luz. "One of the few things Luz can actually stomach are griffin eggs!"
"Yeah, well, you won't have to worry about that soon enough." Jss2141 muttered.
"So, about that test to see all of what the Titan's Blood did to you, you free after school?" Gus asked Luz, holding a notepad.
"Always but it's still the weekend, Gus. We've got all day." Luz said.
After last night's excitement and horror, it was easy to forget it was the weekend.
It was then that Eda thought of something.
'Am I alive?' She thought.
That was something Eda dreaded, dying before it was her time and leaving her loved ones behind. Even loved ones she hasn't reunited with yet like a certain bard witch.
"To any and all of you who worry you might be dead in the future, you're not. You're all very much alive but you might wish you were dead." Jss2141 said.
This relieved yet worried people at the same time.
"Great! After breakfast we can go to the woods and see what you're capable of!" Gus said with a smile.
"Oh! Speaking of, what is for breakfast?" Luz asked, still eating the large apple but still hungry.
Camila wanted to cry again.
"For everyone, omelets. For you, more large fruits." Camila said, pointing her spatula at Luz. "I'm afraid you'll have to become a vegetarian for a while or I may have to start buying whole cows in order to feed you."
"Oh come on mom, I won't eat that much meat. Maybe a steak or two but no more." Luz said, waving off her mother.
"Luz, you couldn't even eat steak in one go and now you want to eat two?" Camila asked in dread.
"I can't help it. I get a big appetite in the future. Besides, who wouldn't want to eat as much as they like without gaining weight?" Luz asked.
"That a trick question, right? Because EVERYONE would want that. Heck, I myself would want that!" Boscha said, pointing to her myself.
"How about a deal? Let me join the cannibal club and I'll sneak you some Titan's Blood." Luz said.
"NO!" The authors yelled.
Everyone jumped at this from the speakers.
"Why not? We're friends-ish now." Luz asked, looking up.
"We have our reasons!" Mr. Hardcore said.
"And that amount of Titan blood found is the only amount left! So you can't share it!" Jss2141 said, half lying until the right time.
"It's still too risky." Camila said before looking to Amity, Gus, and Willow. "Unless one of you knows a size spell to make other food bigger."
Magic could do lots of things and size altering was a pretty basic one. Very useful and powerful but very basic. If humans had it, they could solve world hunger by just making all crops and food bigger so nobody could go hungry.
"Size magic is actually somewhat difficult magic to learn and handle if you don't use it right." Gus said.
"Like literally giving yourself a big head and falling over." Willow said.
"Hehehehehehe." The authors laughed, remembering a certain witch that did that same thing at the Covention.
"Uh, I might be able to work on that." Amity said, holding her finger up. "May take a day to fully do it without making it dangerous to Luz."
"Makes sense, we don't want her getting hurt." Camila said as Vee nodded.
The authors chuckled, there was very LITTLE that could hurt Luz, food was not one of them.
"At this point, I think Luz is pretty much invincible." Gus said, his elbow on the table.
"Maybe but we can't be sure. Though I still like the sound of that." Luz said with a small smirk.
"Pride cometh before the fall, Luz the human. Pride cometh before the fall." Darius said, shaking his head.
"Trust me, after what she goes through, she deserves to have a little pride." Mr. Hardcor3 said.
"And trust us, Luz DOES deserve it." Jss2141 said.
"Don't got a big head, Luz." Vee said, nudging her sister.
"Don't worry, I won't." Luz said, biting her apple again.
'Hopefully "big head" isn't a side effect.' They all thought as breakfast was served.
Little did anyone know, it was... just not in the way they thought.
Not at ALL.
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