A Heart Beet For You [Lumity] (The Owl House x Slime Rancher Crossover)

"This was a bad idea" Luz muttered under her breath, her eyes glued to the ground in defeat. The two teens had said goodbye to their Puddle Slime Squiggles when the sun had started to set.  "I told you abomination goop doesn't come out of clothes easily" Amity glanced over to Luz who was shivering hard, walking in nothing but the white tank-top and black boxer briefs she'd worn under her uniform. The human had thrown herself into the pond and scrubbed the abomination goop out of her hair with ease but came to find it would not come out of the fabric easily. Eventually she had admitted defeat and now carried her soaking uniform in her arms.

Amity on the other hand had skillfully dipped her hair into the pond without undressing and had rinsed it out just fine. She had tried to warn Luz it would be hard - almost impossible to get the goop out without magic but the human was determined to prove the witchling wrong. Prove that she could still do things without her Glyphs or help from Amity's magic. Prove she was still worthy.

"I really can't do anything without my glyphs, huh?" Luz voice was dangerously quiet and shaky, it sounded like she might cry any minute. Amity drew a deep breath and came to a halt, turning to face Luz . She wasn't fond of comforting others, it had always been awkward and unnatural to her "Luz, you're a human. Maybe your kind of magic doesn't work here but when you came to the Boiling Isles you couldn't do magic either"

"I-I know!" Luz cut in "But I feel so defeated not being able to do any magic" Luz made a gesture towards Amity with her free hand "One second I learned a powerful spell to create portals and now I have nothing! You've always been able to do magic so you don't know what that feels like to be so powerless!" Luz loudly exclaimed, throwing her arm out. The human quickly realised what she had said and covered her mouth.

Amity's eyes narrowed, giving Luz a cold glare. Memories of her childhood came flooding back - her mom snapping at her for flapping her hands, saying it was shameful and no Blight should ever do that. Her parents locking her up in her room when she had misbehaved and not eaten what they'd offered her  - when she'd refused to wear what they'd picked for her because the texture felt bad. The first time her mom had dyed her hair, she'd needed to pin Amity down as she'd cried and screamed it hurt only for it to fall on deaf ears. Or that time -

Amity drew a deep breath, the chilly air seeping into her lungs. She just about managed to slam the breaks and reel in her thoughts before she'd be too far gone "I've never struggled like you Luz, no" The witchling looked Luz up and down. The human looked truly regretful of what she'd said, she could tell that much. Amity turned and began heading back to the Ranch again. "But don't assume my life has been anywhere near easy"

Luz was quick to catch up to Amity, falling into step beside her "Amity, look... I'm sorry" There was a slight pause "I'm just frustrated I can't use my magic and-" "Maybe you should keep your eyes open, then. This place isn't exactly bustling with magic but do whatever you did before" The two of them had reached the short brick stairs leading back into the canyon now. She dismissively waved a hand in the air "Connect with the land or whatever like the owl lady taught you"

"That's... Not a bad idea!" Luz perked up by Amity's side, bouncing ahead in front of the witchling "I almost forgot I did that on the knee!" Luz turned to walk backwards to face Amity, a gleeful smile on her face "You're the best, Mittens!" Luz clapped her hands happily "Oh man I could hug you!"

"Do not" Amity sternly said, giving Luz a serious look "Ooohkay... How about a high five instead?" Luz rose her hand and Amity rolled her eyes. She clapped their hands together in a high five

"Awesome!"

It didn't take the two teens long to reach the Ranch. The sun had almost fully set in the distance, only a few embers were left in the horizon. Without the sun The Ranch had gotten really dark - and cold. Amity who was still clothes thought it was chilly - but poor Luz was shivering hard.

"It st-still looks like no one is home" Luz commented, nodding towards the house perched in the far back of the ranch. She was right, there were no lights coming from it and it almost seemed haunted. In fact the whole Ranch seemed ghostly at night, all bright colors dulled and shadows being cast by the moon that had crept onto the sky.

Amity grabbed a hold of Luz free hand and began walking towards the house "They must've gone to bed already. Let's go" The pair began making their way up the stairs and soon stood in front of the door leading into the house. Amity lifted her free hand and was about to knock on the door but Luz stopped her "Wait, we shouldn't wake them! I'd hate getting woken up by strangers in the middle of the night" The human exclaimed "You're gonna freeze to death like that"

Amity knocked on the door three times, the two teens taking a step back in case the door would open, however... Only silence was heard. Amity reached out and banged even louder on the door "Hello! Anyone home?" She called out. Nothing sounded from inside the house. She was about to do it again but Luz stopped her before she could, shaking her head. The human reached to the door handle and pressed it down.

To their surprise the door slid open with ease, revealing a dark room behind it. The two teens glanced at once another, Luz seemed a bit taken aback by it, nudging Amity's shoulder "We should... Close the door and find e-elsewhere to rest. Its not that cold, Amity" Just as she was done speaking Luz sneezed, wiping her nose with the wet clothes hanging from her other arm. Amity didn't hesitate though. She didn't know how human sicknesses worked and did not want Luz to die of something stupid they could've prevented. Amity once again rallied her magic, drawing a small spell circle that turned into a glowing purple orb and she stepped inside, dragging Luz with her

"Amity! This is basically breaking and entering!" Luz whisper yelled, stepping closer to Amity. She was still shivering hard and it was enough to make Amity's whole arm shake as well "Hello?" Amity called out again, letting the magic light float up to the ceiling. It didn't give off a lot of light but enough to make out the shapes and colors of furniture filling the little one room house. 

There was a big bed propped against a wall, opposite of it there was a closet. On the right of the closet there was a desk and on the left a kitchen area containing stove, a shelf with spices and a sink. Underneath the sink there appeared to be a cupboard. In the middle of the house a circular table stood together with two chairs.

The house was empty though and seemed to be untouched by time, almost. Some dust had collected atop of most surfaces. While Luz had stood admiring the odd layout of the little house Amity had gone ahead and closed the door to avoid having chilly air leak into the house. While the house was cold it as warmer than standing around outside.

"It seems like no one has been here in forever" Luz commented, swiping her hand across the wooden table. She looked at her palm and it was lined with a thin layer of dust "I guess that's a good thing... It means no one will care if we'd crash here for the night" Luz turned to face Amity who gave a small nod, pushing her unbound still damp hair out of her face. 

Luz hung her wet uniform over the back of a chair, patting it down to make sure it'd dry up with as little wrinkles as possible. If her mom would've seen her do something like this she'd scold Luz for not doing it properly. She smiled at the thought. Amity on the other hand had summoned another glowing orb - but just barely. Her spell circle had been shaky and sloppy. The green haired teen had paced over to the closet, opening it and shining the purple light into it.

To her surprise gear was hung up in there alongside with casual clothes. The gear looked like a tube attached to some kind of chamber with a round muzzle at the front... "Hey, that looks like a vacuum cleaner!" Amity jumped high, Luz had sneaked up behind her without her noticing "A Vacuum... Cleaner?" Amity sounded confused, she'd never heard of such a thing before. Why would anyone need to clean a space entirely devoid of matter?

"Yeah! It usually has wheels though... You use it to clean up dust and dirt from the floor. You plug it into an electrical socket, press the on button and it begins sucking in air and dust" Luz took a step closer and pointed at the big part in the back "All dust and dirt goes into this place and is collected in a bag! The air gets filtered out though"

"...You humans are weird" Amity muttered as she began to shift through the casual clothes hanging next to the gear "What? You don't have vacuums on the Boiling Isles?" Amity shook her head. Come think of it Eda always used magic to do the cleaning for her so it would make sense if they didn't.

Amity pulled out two shirts from the closet. They were clearly intended for adults to use and would be too big for the two of them but anything would be better than to spend a minute in a uniform covered in dried abomination goop. One of the shirts was pink and had the text 'Hopes and Dreams' on it. The other one was purple with white seams. It had white star patterns in the front with the text 'Love' on it.

"Tacky shirts" Amity muttered, glaring down at the two shirts she held "Aww Amity, no! I think they're cute! It looks just like something Eda would wear" Luz grabbed the pink one and quickly pulled it over her head, happy to get something on her body even if it only was a t-shirt "I mean, its better than our school uniforms! They're both wrecked!"

Amity sighed, nodding "You're right" Luz looked at her expectantly, a warm small smile on her face. Amity looked at her, then the purple shirt, then Luz "Could you maybe not stare?" It almost seemed like Luz snapped back to reality and quickly turned around "Oops! Sorry!" She began bouncing over to the bed. How she had so much energy left after todays events confused Amity. The witchling could barely do magic ot stand upright while Luz was a ball of energy.

"This place is kind of cozy" Luz commented as she studied some photos that hung on the wall. Most of them seemed to be taken in a different place - featuring green and lush nature. Almost like back on earth but something didn't really add up. Luz couldn't pinpoint it. "Kind of is" Amity mindlessly replied as she began to unbutton her uniform's collar after checking Luz wasn't looking. Just to be sure though she made sure her back faced Luz.

The collar fell to the floor with ease and the rest of the uniform soon followed, leaving the witchling in just underwear. She hesitated for a moment, smelling the shirt. It smelled dusty but clean and it was good enough "Hey, Amity?" The witchling hummed in response. "No one's been here in forever, I wonder what happened to the owner" Luz eyes instinctively shifted over to Amity but she was quick to look away upon seeing her bare back, though something caught her eye and curiosity was stronger than her will.

The moonlight spilling through the window over the bed illuminated the room with help from the two purple glowing magic orbs floating by the ceiling. Amity's pale back was filled with heavy scars, most of them were pale and a bit faded but still shiny under the moonlight. A few scars still had a pinkish red hue to them. The smaller ones looked normal but the bigger, more gory looking ones had sunken in upon healing and others budging outwards a bit.

Luz was taken aback, clearly shocked "Amity..? What happened to..." Amity visibly tensed up, shoving the purple shirt over her head and down over her body. This shirt was long enough to reach Amity's knees. The witchling spun around to face Luz "I told you to not look!" Amity snapped, Luz held her hands up in front of her as defence "I-I'm sorry! I didn't mean to!" Amity crossed her arms, tapping her foot against the floor "Look, I'm... Really sorry Amity" Luz sat down on the bed, tapping the space next to her. Amity slowly began making her way over as Luz spoke "I'm concerned, what happened to your... Back?"

"O-Of course you don't have to tell me! I will respect your privacy" Luz quickly added, she barely had time to finish before Amity spoke "Remember when we were learning magic on The Knee?" Luz nodded silently, waiting for the witchling to continue. Amity slowly sat down on the bed next to Luz "When you and Eda left after we rescued everybody the Slitherbeast came back for more and... That happened" An obvious lie. The scars were older than that.

Luz only nodded quietly. "Don't beat yourself up over it, the Slitherbeast learned a lesson it won't forget. Em and Ed made sure of it" Amity elaborated, hoping Luz would buy the lie. Amity clearly felt uncomfortable talking about this, Luz could tell as much and nodded again. She decided to not press the issue further now and let Amity believe she didn't see through it "Yeesh, I'm sorry we just bailed"

The witchling offered Luz a little smile "Thankfully my siblings proved to be useful for once and we all made it home in one piece" Luz returned the smile, though it wasn't an entirely genuine smile "Yeah! I'm real glad you're okay, Mittens!" With that Luz tackle hugged Amity, the two of them falling back on the bed and soft laughter sounded from Amity "You're a dork, Luz" "Yeah but you still chose to hug this dork"

Luz hugged Amity tighter, nuzzling her face into Amity's neck. Despite all this Luz was... Happy. Concerned for her friend but happy they were finally able to rest after today. It had been a lot to take in. She was happy she was stuck here with Amity. Amity Blight of all witches. Fuzzy warmth spread through Luz body, slowly creeping onto her face, making her cheeks feel hot like fire. She'd never felt this feeling before -  but she liked it.

"Goodnight, Luz" Amity's voice was a quiet whisper, Luz wanted to respond but was only able to hum quietly as she drifted off to sleep.

She felt at safe and at peace with Amity in her arms.