Grom
Looking around Hexside Luz could imediatly tell something was off. The first thing she noticed were decorations - yellow and blue plagued the school hallways more than they usually did, balloons, banners, and confetti adorned the halls and Luz had to admit that whoever planned for the decoration went a little bit overboard. The second thing that convinced Luz this was no ordinary school day was how strange everyone was behaving. Couples roamed around displaying every sort of public affection that the world would most definitely never want to see. Witches and demons alike dressed nicely today, nicer than usual at least, sporting brand new uniforms and haircuts, all while Luz wore her usual clothes. Just what was happening? Did she miss something? She clearly did, but how come nobody had told her something was happening today? Maybe the calendar said something, but it wasn't like Luz knew how to decipher the mess they had for time in the Boiling isles.
"Uhhh... what's going on?"
Luz asked immediately after seeing Gus and Willow, they too looked very different today, much nicer and, in Luz's opinion, prettier. Willow and Gus smiled when they saw her, then Gus frowned when he heard the question while Willow just smiled patiently.
"Today is Grom! Didn't you hear?" Gus asked.
Luz shook her head. Grom? Like Prom? But with a G? Luz groaned when she remembered her past school dance, she couldn't get a date and became so bored that she fell asleep past the event until she was woken up by a janitor telling her to leave. It was beyond embarrassing, but it was still better than not going, Luz supposed. But maybe Grom wasn't like Prom, the Boiling Isles had weird alternatives for human things, and while some of the alternatives were pretty much the same thing but with different names or just misspelled letters, others were drastically different, and Luz didn't want to come under or over prepared.
"Grom? Like Pro-"
"Out of the way!"
Luz moved to the side when four paramedics ran past her while rolling a stretcher. Did someone get hurt? It's not like Luz precisely cared, she wasn't anyone's mother to be sticking her nose where it didn't belong, yet she was somewhat curious, but she'll learn what happened with time once rumors start spreading - they always did. Luz looked at the paramedics as they sat down a blonde boy she recognized to be Justin on the stretcher, they said something about Grom, but Luz was too far away to hear them, but then again, she could care less. While things happened around her Luz started to wonder more about Grom, was this a romantic thing? It looked like it, since everyone was being very... intimate with each other and - oh god that Justin guy was asking Skara to be his date. Maybe Luz could get a date this year? Seeing how people actually liked her here... or at the very least tolerated her, maybe someone would actually ask her, or maybe she could ask somebody. The first thing she imagined was dancing with Amity, and Luz couldn't help but smile at that. She should ask her to go to Grom with her, not a big promposal like Justin did for Skara, she didn't want to put Amity in the spotlight like that. Maybe something simpler, something like a bouquet of self-made flowers and chocolates, she knew it wasn't something grand, but it was the best she could do, and it wasn't like Amity would say no anyway. Luz knew the green-haired witch had a massive crush on her, it was very obvious, and to be honest Luz was also smitten for the youngest Blight. What better way to become a couple than at a school dance? Luz was shaken out of her dream-like state by somebody walking into her. Her previous thoughts about kissing and dancing with the witch dissolved in the back of Luz's mind when she saw who had run into her.
"I am sorry! Please don't hit me!" Amity cried and moved her hands up to her ears, shutting her eyes, her face showed nothing short of pure fear, and for a moment Luz thought of taking Amity inti a hug and promising her that everything would be okay. She couldn't bear to see Amity look so horrified.
"It's okay! It was an accident, here!"
Luz moved up with the books Amity dropped, none of them seemed to be school books, one of them was an art sketchbook, the next one was the Azura book Luz had gifted her and last was an Otabin story, while Luz had no idea what an 'Otabin' was, looking at the cover she guessed it was a children's story, something a parent would read to a toddler, not something a sixteen-year-old would ever be interested in reading, but who was Luz to judge, if whoever Otabin was was taking good care of her Ami then there was nothing wrong. Amity opened her eyes and let out a sigh once she saw Luz, her pupils dilatated and her cheeks became pink, but Luz was used to that reaction and gave no thought into it.
"Here, you also droppe-"
Luz was once again interrupted, though this time it was by Amity. The usually shy girl snapped the pink note out of Luz's hands faster than light itself.
"Okaaay," Luz mumbled, she looked at Amity's face as her expression passed from upset to decided, then to fearful only to land in her signature resting face, which was by far the most expressionless type of face Luz had ever seen someone using. Once Amity became used to having Luz around she started to smile and be more expressive, which Luz was thankful for seeing how Amity's neutral face was terrifying, but Luz was also glad that Amity trusted her enough to show herself in front of her. Amity sighed again and placed the note on the pocket of her school skirt.
"Silence!" A voice commanded from the speaker.
"Nobody was speaking!"
Luz chuckled and looked at the speakers, everyone had walked up to them and were whispering something about Grom royals. Huh, that was strange. People usually get coronated during the event, but then again, it was the Boiling isles and no amount of weirdness would ever be enough.
"This year, I shall grant the Highest Grom honor to... Amity Blight!"
Luz clapped and smiled at Amity once principal Lilith was done speaking, only to immediately stop once she saw how horrified Amity looked, people around them were whispering between them about Amity being eaten by grom and pointing their fingers at her. Luz knew Amity wasn't precisely loved by the assholes at Hexside, but they couldn't have crowned her as Grom queen just to make fun of her. Amity looked around nervously and ran away before Luz could ask her what was going on.
"You might wanna give her some space, being Grom queen is a tough job, especially for someone like Amity."
Luz shook her head at Willow. Who knew if Boscha decided to be a bitch and would bully Amity, or if the green-haired witch would break down and do Boscha's job herself, Luz couldn't leave Amity alone at this moment, not now. Luz began walking with a hurrird step towards the direction Amity had previously escaped. She had no idea where her friend was going, but Hexside wasn't that big- and nevermind Hexside was enormous and Luz had zero ideas where she should even start looking. The inside Gym seemed like a good place to start, a lot of people were there and maybe someone had seen Amity or knew where she had run to. Turns out that The Gym was even more ridiculously decorated than the hallways, Luz guessed this was where the main event was happening, and it, in Luz's inexpert opinion, could not have looked more ugly. Luz liked simple things, but the gym looked like rainbow vomit, except just blue and yellow, it was so sparkly it was painful to look at, and the cries of the disco ball monkey were making Luz want to throw up. Luz caught sight of Lilith leaving towards the back and looking further around she saw exactly who she was looking for. Amity was sitting in the bleachers, her knees pressed against her face, not allowing Luz to see what she could only guess was a tear-filled fearful expression. Maybe she should wait until Amity calmed down before she made her way towards her, she didn't want to make her feel worse than how she was feeling, although Luz didn't precisely know what had caused Amity to run away. Luz moved to rest her arm atop of a table, only to realize that it was not a table and she had, to her horror, pushed down a giant red button, and one thing Luz knew was that touching red buttons was never a good thing. The sound of something opening began and Luz closed her eyes in fear. Who knew what that thing would do? Maybe the button was to destroy the school or do something dangerous and she had accidentally endangered her peers, yet again. After a minute passed and nothing exploded the dark-skinned teen opened her eyes, only to find dark gold staring at her.
"Amity! You're okay, you really worried me."
Amity blushed and looked down, she was so adorable and Luz felt a sudden need to cup her cheeks and kiss her pretty red lips, but she only smiled and shook that thought away, maybe they would kiss during Grom. A noise coming from the side made Luz take her eyes off Amity and turn around, and only then did she see how the gym had been transformed, the dance floor had been torn apart, a staircase lay before her, and underneath their feet was what seemed to be an arena, black goo, much like abomination goo, was moving around and occasionally taking strange forms and hissing. Luz was about to ask what was going on, but Amity explained it before she could ask.
"Grom is short for Grometheous, the fear bringer. Every year the Grom royal has to fight Grom and face their worst fear. I... I really do not want to do this... people already hate me, I do not want them to make fun of me further."
Amity looked so sad, Luz gently placed her hand on Amity's back and rubbed circles, it was adorable to watch how red Amity suddenly became, and it was even more adorable when Amity sighed and smiled, beginning to softly purr.
"It's okay, I won't let anybody bully you, we're friends, remember? If you don't want to be Grom queen then why don't you ask Lilith to switch you... but maybe speaking to Lilith is your worst fear."
That seemed to relax Amity a little, and she unwillingly moved away from her position and looked at where Lilith had previously gone. Although her face didn't show it Luz could see that Amity was still very nervous. From the way she slapped her hands against her tights and how her pupils dilated.
"I could go and speak with her too if you want." Luz offered. Amity thought about it for a minute, only to shake her head no.
"I will go alone. But thank you for offering. Also, I am not afraid of Lilith!"
Amity giggled and walked away, tripping and almost falling into the pit with Grometheous, she looked back at Luz and smiled awkwardly. Class didn't start for another ten minutes and she had time to finish writing about the new creature she found in her journal. Luz had taken a liking in all different types of creatures that roamed the isles, and so she had started a journal where she documented all of the new information she found about them. She still had time, it wasn't like the world was ending because of some asshole was trying to gain access to the human world anyways and bring forth tbe apocalipse or anything.
***
Once Luz entered the Owl house she found herself in complete and utter silence, which was weird considering who lived here. King was no longer sitting on the couch watching cat videos like he usually did, and Eda wasn't laying around making potions that were totally not going to kill you or at the very least put you in a vegetative state. Weird. The dark-skinned teen stretched and walked towards her closet turned bedroom, only to stop in front of Eda's room. Her mentor was wearing a suit that was three sizes way too big for her and King was working as a tailor and stylist for the Older Woman.
"What's going on?"
"Ah, Kid! Glad to see you're back from hell. Anyways, didn't you hear about grom?" Eda exclaimed once she saw Luz, the teen nodded and sat down on Eda's nest.
"I did. I was just wondering why are you dressed like that."
"Well you see kiddo, my dearest sister asked me to chaperone this year's Grom, and I gotta look spicy."
"Yeah... no. Wasn't Lilith trying to capture you for the emperor or something? It might be a trap." Luz mumbled while rubbing the back of her neck. Her hair was getting long and she was in dire need of a haircut. "Actually scratch that, it's definitely a trap."
"Relax! It'll be fun, what's more entertaining than seeing a hormone-infested brat get eaten by a monster? Oh! Have they announced the victim yet?"
Luz groaned when Eda talked. Amity wasn't going to get killed by Grom. She wouldn't allow that.
"Amity is Grom queen... She looked so scared, I wish I could take her place."
Luz looked up when she heard Eda and King laugh. Just what was wrong with them? Was the fact that Amity might get hurt funny to them?
"Ha! That's a good one!" King laughed and shook his head.
"Wait, you aren't joking... Luz, its nice you want to help that kid. To be honest, she is definitely going to get killed, but you're a human, humans are weak and sensitive, if she stands no chance you stand even less than her!"
Luz was fuming now, but no matter how angry she was she made sure nobody noticed, if there is one thing she remembered better than her own name was what they taught her at camp, 'Feelings are private, feelings are for you to hide' and so no matter the occasion Luz would never show herself, only parts. The witch apprentice stood up from her sitting position and walked towards the door, she was not going to argue with Eda, not when her head was a disorganized mess.
"You got angry?"
"No, but you're wrong. I might be a Human but that doesn't mean I'm weak or sensitive, I have been learning a lot these past weeks and saved you multiple times, you should be a bit nicer." Luz's eyes stared deep into Eda, it was a weird thing she did to make people nervous and leave her alone, and she wanted Eda to do just that. She had no right to tell Luz she was weak when she had saved her from getting killed before.
"Okay, go. But there is a spider on your hair!"
"Har har, funny," Luz mumbled and walked out the door. She needed to walk around and organize her thoughts before coming back and pretending nothing ever happened.
***
Luz had previously heard the phrase so angry you couldn't think straight, but up to this day she thought it wasn't really possible for that to actually happen, but just leave it to Eda to prove her wrong. Just why did she have to say that? It didn't matter what type of creature Luz was, if somebody saved her from death on multiple occasions Luz would be glad, but apparently, Eda wasn't, and apparently, nothing Luz did for the elder witch would prove her wrong. Maybe it was because Luz was just an overall decent person at minimum and knew how to treat other people.
"Fuck." Luz sighed and massaged her temples, she seldom swears, at least not verbally, truth to be told she spent most of the time screaming and cursing inside her brain.
"Vieja desagradesida, te hago un favor y nisiquera puedes ser agradable."
Luz suddenly froze when she heard a sound coming from the forest. Was there a monster in here? Luz gulped and picked a branch from the floor, while a branch would be useless in a life or death situation at least it would serve as a distraction to run away.
"W-who's there? I'm a bad boy!" Luz stammered and looked around, trying to desperately find the source of the sound. Upon seeing a silhouette walk around the shadows Luz gulped and smacked the branch atop of the monster's head. Luz was ready to run away, only to feel her heart break when she saw who she had hit.
"Ami! I'm so sorry, I didn't see you and thought you were a monster." Luz said and held Amity's hands, helping the girl up, their faces were centimeters away, if Luz had wanted she could have kissed her right there and then.
"I-it's fine," Amity mumbled and saw down on the floor, she was filled with mud and her uniform ruined yet somehow Luz couldn't help but think she was beautiful. Walking up to the witch Luz lowered her head to kiss Amity's hair, just where she had previously hit her.
"L-luz?" Amity quaked, her face was so red Luz was worried she might pass out.
"It's a get better kiss. It'll help you not be in as much pain." Luz smiled and lowered herself to sit in front of Amity, the witch only looked down and nodded.
"Than-thank you."
Luz smiled and held Amity's hands, only then did she realize just how much smaller Amity's hands were, or maybe Luz just had big hands - perfect for playing piano or pickpocketing.
"What did Lilith say?" Luz asked after a minute, as entertaining as it was to stare at Amity, Luz needed to know what happened. Amity snapped back to reality and moved her hands away from Luz.
"She said no. I will have to be Grom queen unless someone switches with me. But who would want to switch with me?" Amity mumbled and looked down.
"I would."
Amity looked up to see Luz standing up. She cleaned the mud off her school uniform and smiled.
"Really?"
"Really. Amity Blight, you're my best friend, I'll take your place and fight Grom for you, I'll be your fearless champion!" Luz exclaimed her chest puffing with pride, then she felt the back of her head tickle. Opening her eyes she saw a giant spider on her face. With a gulp the teen carefully took the spider away and placed it on the floor, taking a deep breath she moved away from the insect, that was a close one. Looking back she Amity about to faint, her face was red, and she was a stimmy mess, not being able to stay still.
"Thank you, Luz!"
The human shook her head and moved in front of Amity again, she took her left hand and placed a kiss on it, choosing to ignore the expression of disbelief that played over her special friend's face.
"You might not be Grom queen, but you are my queen."
***
Why? Why did Luz ever think it would be a good idea to bring her otter onesie? It was the only other change of clothes she had brought with her, but to her defense, it wasn't like had Luz planned to stay in a different realm and learn magic. Luz gave a little jump, startled when she felt her phone buzz in her pocket, just who was texting her at this hour? Luz opened her phone and found a new message from her mom, she thought about replying, only to shake her head and turn the phone off. It wasn't the first time Luz had gone to the reality check camp, even though she wasn't there this time around, but her mom would buy that they didn't allow phones. She was already worried about Grom, and she could only deal with one annoying thing at a time, and that annoying thing was usually herself, she couldn't deal with Grom and her mom at the same time, that would just drive her mad. She could worry about that later.
"Luuuuuuz, you have a guest!"
"Hooty! No touching!" Luz yelled and moved away from the house demon, the sound of his voice taunted Satan himself. Hooty made a weird sound and left Luz's 'room', Luz had to admit that sometimes she felt bad about the way she treated Hooty, but then she heard him speak and all her guilt would magically disapear - and Eda tried said human's couldn't do magic.
"If that thing ever speaks to me again i am going to comit a hate crime." Luz giggled when she heard Amity, the witch was pouting and taking feather's from her hair.
"Hey, what outfit should I wear for Grom, my normal clothes or- pause for dramatic effect... This!" Luz joked, she was obviously not going to wear an otter onesie to a life or death event, but she did enjoy seeing how upset Amity got.
"Luz! You can not wear that for Grom! You need to take this seriously otherwise everyone in the isles will have to face their worst nightmare!"
Luz gulped and looked around nerveously, she knew Amity didn't understand jokes and sarcasm, but she was hoping she would catch this one.
"You wanna know my worst nightmare?!" Hooty asked.
Luz stared nervously at what was happening in front of her, her eyes moving from Hooty's soulless expression, then to Amity's - she didn't even know what was going on with her. All she knew is that if Hooty didn't move she was going to burn down the house.
"Uhh? Hooty? You might wanna le- Amity!"
Great, just what she fucking needed, Amity going feral on Hooty and threatening to burn him alive. Just her luck.
"Amity stop! H-hooty!? Amit- Stop!"
***
"Now, in order for you to defeat Grom, we must train," Amity stated making a fist with her hands.
"Is that why Gus is here?" Luz asked.
"Yep! I'm here to make sure you're ready for Grom!" The dark-skinned boy smiled. "Anything you scared of this guy will make it reality!" Gus added and signaled a finger to himself.
"Yeah, about that, I made a list, here," Luz stated and took out a paper from her pocket. That paper contained her worst fears, yet Luz wasn't nervous at all. She knew that they weren't real and wouldn't hurt her, physically that is, emotionally and mentally maybe, but that didn't worry Luz in the slightest.
Suddenly Luz felt a hissing sound next to her, turning around she confirmed her suspicion, a group of snakes were coming closer and closer to her, but Luz saw the blue outline and knew they weren't real, no matter how terrified she was, the Latina didn't move a muscle. She wasn't afraid of a snake's bite or getting hurt by them, she was only afraid of holding them.
"Anything else?" The Latina asked, her voice beyond calm, even though the snaked brought too many bad memories to her.
"Hmmm... fireworks?" Gus wondered and did a circle with his finger, then a loud noise and lights patterns from all different colors exploded in the near sky, the noise making Luz want to lay down and cry her eyes out, but she stood calm and collected, she couldn't allow herself to break, not now, it had been two years and yet it seemed that Luz's mind never moved on from that incident.
"Are you really afraid of any of these things?" Amity wondered and looked at the list Gus was holding.
"Grom is not going to take the form of things that you think are creepy, you need to look deep into yourself and think what is your biggest fear. You can do it!" Amity explained and took Luz's hands. The human sighed and thought about it, but only two things came to mind, Eda not thinking she is enough, and her mom knowing what's happening.
"I'm afraid of Eda thinking I'm too weak to do this," Luz whispered and looked up at the owl house.
Gus looked around awkwardly before doing another circle. This time a giant Eda appeared before her, she smirked at Luz and snapped her fingers, and suddenly Luz wasn't standing in front of the Owl house anymore, instead, she was sitting down on a baby chair. Luz closed her eyes and started to move to her sides, making the chair moved with her until it fell and Luz was able to escape.
"Is that supposed to be me?" Luz opened her eyes and saw Eda in front of her. "Dang, I look great!"
"Wait a second... you're training to become Grom queen!" Eda accused and pointed a finger at Luz. The human stood up from the ground and cleaned off the dirt from her clothes.
"Yes, I am. What about it?"
"Luz, you always go overboard and I end up bailing you out," Eda started and moved closer to Luz. "Now, what's the fun of seeing a kid get eaten by a monster if it's my kid!?"
"Well, I'm sure you'll have fun watching me defeat Grom. I have to go get ready."
"Uhh... we still have three hours," Gus said and gave Luz the paper and she passed by him.
"I need to do things before it starts, I'm sure I'll manage," Luz responded and went into the house, not at all surprised that Hooty didn't stop her, but Luz doubted he was able to speak after the beating he received from Amity. She needed to figure out what to wear for Grom and think of how to even defeat the monster. It couldn't be that hard. Luz knew how to fake calmness, she'll be fine if she pretended she was.
***
Amity was sure she was going to pass out, the noise coming from seemingly everywhere and the overwhelming amount of people in the gym were making the youngest Blight want to run away and hide. This was a mistake. She shouldn't have endangered Luz like this, she should have just accepted her fate and hoped for the best, but no, she had to be selfish and now Luz was going to get hurt. And she didn't even get to give her the note. She was too much of a coward to face Grom, and she was an even bigger coward for not being able to ask Luz out. Why couldn't she have asked her? It wasn't like Luz was suddenly going to stop being her friend, she was way too kind to do that, the worst-case scenario was getting rejected, but she really didn't wanna get rejected and have to watch the love of her life get together with some asshole get married, have children, then she would have to join a secret evil organization that would kill Luz's children and husband but then the evil organization would accidentally kill Luz too, and then the child would grow up and- and this getting out of hand. Amity took out the pink note from her skirt and stared at it. Why couldn't she be brave like Luz and give the human the note? Amity was shaken out of her misery by someone passing through her and making her drop the note, she quickly picked it up and placed it back in her pocket. She couldn't afford people to know she was in love with Luz. Looking up she saw people pointing at her and giggling, normally the green-haired witch wouldn't pay attention to people mocking her, but today was different. She didn't know why it was affecting her so much, she felt her throat close and she suddenly became dizzy. She wanted to leave, she didn't want people to make fun of how weak she was and how she wasn't able to face Grom, not today. Amity looked around and spotted the exit. Nobody would even notice she had left. Amity quickly made her way towards the door that led to the hallways, keeping her head low all the time, she was ready to run away the second she got out of the gym, but the second she broke into a run someone took her arm, not allowing her to leave.
"Where are you going princesa?"
Amity gulped when she saw Luz in front of her, the teen was wearing a black and dark blue tux with shorts that reached just above her knees... she looked stunning. Amity felt herself be stuck in time, the noise in the background wasn't as loud and the lights from the inside of the gym were making Luz look like some type of goddess. Amity could stare at Luz for hours, and while it wasn't hours she had spaced out for long enough to make Luz worry.
"Earth to Amity, are you there?" Luz said snapping her fingers in front of Amity's face.
"Yes! I am here... you look really nice." Amity mumbled, she could feel her face beginning to heat up and a weird tingly feeling inside her stomach. "I also wanted to thank you, for taking my place and all."
"Thanks... You look really nice too Miss Blight. While I am sure that many boys and girls out there would fall for your beauty I truly hope that you would leave this fearless champion a place in your heart." Luz smiled and winked at Amity.
"I-"
"Now introducing our Grom queen." Amity heard Gus begin, and she would be lying if she said she wasn't disappointed.
"Anyways, gotta go be your fearless champion," Luz said and did something Amity would have never guessed. Luz pushed forward pecked Amity's lips. It was over the moment it began, but Amity felt the kiss play over and over again, leaving her weak in all the wrong places. "Wish me luck!" Luz exclaimed and walked into the gym, where people began cheering for her.
"L-luck."
***
Luz smiled as she walked towards the arena, she heard Gus speak in the background, and looking around she saw Eda sitting in one of the bleachers. Luz smirked and picked up a morning star, placing an ice glyph over it Luz made her way towards the stars. She couldn't wait to prove Eda wrong.
"Come at me Grometheous!" Luz yelled and turned around when she heard a hissing sound. Snakes were coming her way and Luz smirked. She smacked the weapon against the ground, a pillar of ice shot up from underneath the snakes, making them fly, then they exploded in mid-air and fireworks exploded from the once snakes.
"Is that all?" Luz teases and turned around to see black goo becoming Eda's shape.
"Oh, that's not good is it?" Luz mumbled once she saw it. She was about to get her morning star when Grom extended one of its arms towards Luz, preventing her from escaping no matter how hard she tried.
"Let me g-"
Luz stopped mid-sentence when she felt Grom's goo arm on her forehead, and suddenly she wasn't at school anymore, suddenly she saw her whole life pass right before her eyes, and at that moment Luz felt true raw fear. She didn't know what was going to happen, but she had a suspicion of what it might be. But just thinking about it made Luz feel sick.
Grom's goo formed into the form of the owl door, the knob twitched and opened, revealing a woman walking from the light.
"Mija?"
"Mama? What are you doing here?!"
"Luz, what is this terrible place? Is that a weapon? Esto no es camp, have you been here all these weeks? Have you been lying to your mama?" Camila asked and moved closer to Luz, one hand cupping her cheek while the other one gripped her shoulder, it was so tight Luz was sure it was going to leave a bruise.
"I- You're not my mom!" Luz stammered and moved back, she wanted to sound confident and pretend she wasn't scared, but she just couldn't do it.
"Como Puedes decir eso, cariño?" Grom pleaded and shapeshifted Camila's lower body into a monster looking creature. Luz gulped and looked around. She couldn't do this. Luz turned around and ran away, to where she didn't know, all she knew is that she had to leave. Luz ran out of the gym and pass the lockers where she saw Gus talking to King, but if they said anything Luz didn't hear them.
"Goddamn it kid!" Eda yelled and ran towards the hallways, meeting Amity next to her. The kid looked like she was going to faint, but Eda was more worried about her own kid. Amity looked at Eda and the two made a silent agreement to protect Luz.
"Not so fast, sister." Eda groaned so loud when she felt Lilith put her arm on her shoulder.
"Look. I gotta save my kid! We can fight and do whatever the fuck you want later!" Eda yelled and turned around, only to be pushed back the lockers by one of Lilith's attack
"Oof felt that one." Eda stood up, Blight nowhere to be seen and the only other person on the hallway was the bitch she had for a sister. Eda got her staff and moved towards Lilith, ready to cast a spell and get this over as soon as possible. Shy was probably running after dumb and was going to save her, or get them both killed.
***
Luz felt tears travel freely down her cheeks, she couldn't remember the last time she had cried, but she didn't remember that crying felt so... refreshing. Luz tried her hardest to block all sounds around her, but her 'mother's' screams and pleads only became louder and louder.
"Go away!" Luz yelled once she reached the end of the cliff, it was either face her fears or throw herself on a sea of acid, and Luz felt tempted to jump and just get it over with.
The monster roared and Luz closed her eyes, expecting it to attack her any minute, but it never came. Luz heard someone yelling in front of her, and opening one eye she saw Amity in front of her, the moon reflected her flawless pale skin and golden eyes.
"Luz!" Amity yelped when Grom elevated her off the ground.
"Let Amity go!" Luz yelled and ran towards the monster, but one of its tentacles pushed her away, and all she could do was hopelessly watch as Grom placed one of its tentacles on Amity's forehead and both their eyes light up in blue.
Grom dropped Amity and shapeshifted into a person. Grom moved one of its hands into Amity's dress pocket and took a pink note out, breaking in half and throwing it away. Luz saw Amity become pale and tears form in her eyes, the witch looked down, refusing to make contact with the monster in front of her.
Luz giggled and stood up, no matter how much time together they spend Amity still managed to surprise her.
"Here," Luz said and gave Amity the torn note, she didn't open the paper, not yet, she wanted Amity to give it to her, she knew who the monster was, it was supposed to be her, it saddened her a bit that Amity would be so terrified of her, but she couldn't really hold it against her considering everything Amity had gone through. Amity looked up at Luz in disbelief, she opened her mouth, but no words came out.
"Amity Blight, will you please go to Grom with me?" Luz asked and took Amity's smaller hands in hers.
"R-really?"
"We just kissed like ten minutes ago, of course I want to go Grom with you," Luz reassured her. "If you want to go to Grom with me that is."
"Of course I do!" Amity exclaimed.
"Well, if that's settled, may I have this dance?" Luz requested, extending her hand for Amity to take. "Yes." The witch replied and took her hand.
Luz didn't really know what was happening, she was feeling far too much serotonin to know, her vision was clouded and she couldn't tell what was going on. But what she could tell was that she and Amity were centimeters apart and the two were having an epic fairy tale dance sequence. She didn't know how this was happening, it was like their minds were magically connected and the two just knew what to do even if they had never even talked about dancing before, much less practiced it. Yet they still managed to make every move correctly and somehow Amity created an Abomination and with the help of a plant glyph, they defeated Grom and created a giant tree. Luz quickly caught Amity when she fell from the abomination and stared deep into her eyes, then she looked up when a crown appeared over Amity's head, she looked absolutely gorgeous.
"You can let me down now," Amity whispered after a minute.
"Right!" Luz stammered and helped down the shorter girl. "Sorry 'bout that."
"So, miss Blight, I never caught who you wanted to ask out." Luz teased, she obviously knew Amity wanted to ask her, but teasing Amity was also really fun.
"I... here," Amity whispered and passed Luz the note. The dark-skinned teen took it, only to throw it away.
"Wh-"
"I already know you wanted to ask me, but I was kinda hoping you would say it, verbally," Luz explained, she didn't know where she was getting all her confidence from, but she was enjoying seeing how nervous Amity became.
"I like you romantically, and I want to be your girlfriend!" Amity yelled and closed her eyes.
Luz moved forward and cupped Amity's red cheeks, the human pushed forward and kissed Amity's lips again, it was slightly longer than the first one they had shared, but it still wasn't long enough, not for Luz at least. Amity pulled away when people started cheering behind them, Luz heard King say something into his microphone and the students picked up Luz and Amity over their shoulders, leading them back to the gym. Luz took Amity's hand and interlaced their fingers, Amity blushed and smiled but didn't look at Luz. It had been a very overwhelming day for both of them, and so the human gave no further thought into it and allowed Amity some space. They could talk about feelings and whatnot later, and figure out their relationship, but for now, Luz was in for the snack table and maybe take a small nap.
***
Whoever said that history does not repeat was wrong, Luz's small nap turned into a three-hour sleep and Eda had to carry her out because the event was over, even Lilith had gone home.
"Hey, King. Can you do me a favor and keep this safe for me?" Luz asked and placed the crown over his head. She knew King had a weird thing for crowns, and seeing him as happy as he was right now made Luz also feel happy, a lot had happened today, and she was feeling a little overwhelmed.
"Good night buddy, no pressure or anything but please don't lose that." Luz kissed the top of King's head and walked towards the stairs.
"Hey, kid. Sorry about saying you were weak and stuff." Eda apologized and looked around.
"And?" Luz questioned.
"And nothing. Go to sleep before I curse you."
Luz giggled and hurried towards her room, she sat down on the window and stared at the night sky. She felt her phone buzz and with a sigh the human opened it, finding a new text from her mother. Much like some hours ago Luz doubted if she should text her, she typed up a few things but none of them felt right, they felt so disingenuous, so alien.
'I'm seeing someone'
While it wasn't a lie, it technically wasn't true either seeing how neither Amity nor her had discussed their status, but they had kissed a few times and Amity somehow managed to confess.
'Really?'
'What's his name?'
'Does he treat you nice?'
'Is he handsome?'
Luz laughed when her mom bombarded her with texts asking about a boy.
'She's amazing'
It wasn't like her mom didn't know Luz was also into girls, she was very supportive of her, but she some times forgot about that fact and always assumed all her crushed were boys, which didn't bother her since she hadn't had a crush in someone other than Amity since she was fourteen.
'I cant wait to hear more about her in one of your letters'
'Mama te Ama, besos.'
"Letters? Weird way to say text." Luz wondered aloud before turning off her phone. The teen moved from the window and into the bathroom to try and rub some dirt out of her skin. She had time to worry about her mom later, she could worry about how to explain to her that she had been learning magic and explain that magic existed without being thrown into a mental asylum. She could worry about that another day, but for now, she was only going to worry about getting a good night's sleep, something she hadn't done in a whole month, and hope that a certain shy green-haired girl appeared in her dreams and the two would replay their dance.