Chapter 4
Gus: “So, Amity, we’ve talked about your relationship with Luz… but, at the time, the Emperor’s Coven was still with us. Belos was still the emperor and we still needed to get coven sigils.
Like you said before, your future used to be dedicated to the Emperor’s Coven. You were studying and training very hard to become a member of the coven.
But, as we all know now, the Emperor’s Coven… no… the whole coven system, turned out to be part of a plan to wipe all of us out. Emperor Belos turned out to be a human witch hunter, that had been living in our realm for around 400 years.
all of you… know the story of how he was defeated. Well, I hope, at least. We will talk about that later…
But Amity, I would like to know… how did that… whole period… of eventually finding out that the Emperor’s Coven system was bad… make you feel? I mean, your whole life was dedicated to that man… how did it feel to find out that everything was a lie?”
Amity: “Well…. being totally honest… I wasn’t… that shocked or surprised or something.
I remember that… after meeting Luz, the idea of becoming a member of the Emperor’s Coven, faded away day by day.
You know, since Luz was always getting in these crazy situations with Eda, and King, and Lilith, involving Belos and stuff… I just… started to feel like something was off. I started to feel like… like the people at the Emperor weren’t my people.”
Gus: “You started to realise that the Emperor was not so great after all. But did you realise it was that extreme?”
Amity: “Well, even Luz and Eda didn’t know it was that extreme. No one knew. Luz and Eda just thought that Belos was someone who lied his way up to the throne, which was true… but a human? No way.
Remember how he always used to say that ‘wild magic’ killed his family? I always wondered what that really meant. I mean, wild magic was basically performing all the types of magic, so how was that… wild?
I didn’t really get it… but my mom always used to say that wild magic was dangerous and stuff. And like I said before, performing multiple types of magic was so ‘not done’.
I would get petrified. I would become Amity Blight the wild witch. I was terrified by it! But when I first met Eda, the first wild witch I had ever met, I just… started to feel like it wasn’t so bad after all. It was the same with Luz.
Luz was performing wild magic, right? The glyphs, they weren’t wild! They were incredible!”
Gus: “I remember that as well. Eda used to be a wanted criminal who had wanted posters of her that were all over town. I kind of… feared her when I was a kid.
But when I met her, I remember not feeling scared at all! I was excited to meet Eda and she was awesome! When I got home and laid in bed, I started thinking about it and I realised that as well.
Like, why was Eda a wanted criminal again? Just because she performed multiple types of magic? I didn’t get it.”
Amity: “Yeah… I started to have doubts about the coven system. I used to look at my dad’s wrist and then at mine… and I thought to myself… is that something that I want?
Do I want to be someone with a mark on my wrist? Even though it’s an Emperor’s Coven mark?”
Gus: “Yeah, same.
There was a time where I used to feel… twisted about illusion magic. I didn’t really know whether or not I wanted to pursue that type of magic.
Because remember younger listeners, you were only allowed to be in one track. No multiple! That was allowed after Luz joined Hexside.
So I didn’t really know which track I wanted to be in. I was pretty good at illusions, but… I didn’t want it to be just… illusions, you know?
Did you feel the same about abominations?”
Amity: “Well, that was never really an issue for me. Abominations was my track, and that was it. I never really considered trying out another track.
I enjoyed it and I was pretty good at it… I used to look down on the other tracks… I’d walk past the bard classroom and I’d think to myself, that’s not going to help you in the future.
I thought abominations was the strongest type of magic. And plus, I was aiming for the Emperor’s Coven, so then I would be able to perform every type of magic anyway.
So… yeah. Luz kind of opened my eyes on the perspective, too. Wait, no, technically it was Eda. *Laughs*
When I started to visit the Owl House more often after, and even before Luz and I got together, I sometimes listened to Eda’s stories from her past. Like the story of how she got her curse and why she got in so much trouble…
Not only did I feel bad for Eda, but I also realised that she was misunderstood and that she was right… about a lot of things.
Gus: “Yeah… Eda opened my eye, too. Like, why would you limit your magical powers? If you have this… power… which not everyone has… why would you want to take most of it away?
But at the time, that was normal! If you saw someone performing multiple forms of magic, they would get the nickname ‘wild witch’ very soon and probably thrown in jail for being that kind of weirdo.”
Amity: “Weirdo…
You know, Luz has told me the story of her first day in the Demon Realm a couple of times. I think she told it on the Podcast as well…, but anyway, Luz witnessed the wrongs of our past system straight right away.
She went to a prison on her first day here, and met the people behind the bars… and it turned out, they got thrown in there for not good reason. They got thrown in there for being who they were.
And listeners, they weren’t criminals, they were normal people like you and me. But someone decided that they didn’t fit in society, so they just threw them out of it and into jail. Unbelievable, right?
I remember this one girl who was in there just because she wrote some fanfiction. fanfiction. I write fanfiction!”
Gus: “I know…
Being a weirdo in Bonesborough meant that you weren’t the safest… But the thing is… everyone has their own habits and things they personally like. And sometimes, it can be habits that are unusual… But if you don’t harm anyone with… what’s wrong with it? And if someone else doesn’t like that, it’s their problem, not yours.”
Amity: “Yeah. All that time… before Luz came into my life… I pretended to be the perfect example of a ‘normal witch’. I didn’t want to show any… of my personal interests… like the Azura books, I was ashamed to show it to others.
I was a top student, who hung out with other top students, who studied and trained hard and didn’t approve of… other behaviour.
And pretending to be that person… it… saddens me that I had to be like that. But like I said… I didn’t know any better… and I feared that… if I… for example, showed my love for Azura… I’d got made fun of.”
Gus: “You’d get made fun of by your friends, and they would tell the whole school, and eventually your parents would find out, and they would punish you.”
Amity: “Yes, but it wasn’t just my parents.
I…. didn’t want to… stand out. I didn’t want to be known as a weirdo… I was afraid that I’d get a nickname like Willow had. Because I thought that once you have that, you would never get rid of it.
I was the same for Luz, right? In the beginning, she was known for being the weird human girl. But after a month or so, everyone started to… like Luz for who she was. She was just… different.”
Gus: “Luz’s presence at Hexside was… for everyone refreshing. Someone who didn’t always follow the rules, someone who performed other sorts of magic, and someone who was just… so… nice?
Yes, Luz was made fun of in the beginning, mainly by the mean girl gang… but after some time, they befriended Luz as well. I think that… Luz was quite popular the last week before the Day of Unity.”
Amity: “She wasn’t popular I would say… but she was like… everyone’s friend? She got along with everyone…
Things really started to change at Hexside, you know? Students were brave to study multiple tracks and show their personal interests.”
Gus: “Yeah, I mean, look at Willow. If it wasn’t for Luz’s presence, she would have never gotten the courage to start the flyer derby team.”
Amity: “That’s a great example, yeah.
I remember that Luz showed me that it’s okay to express yourself. She loved the Azura collection as much as I did, but she actually showed her love for it.
I always thought it was something I should hide… But sharing my love for Azura with Luz felt so good! I loved every single time we talked about it!”
Gus: “I remember seeing you always so happy with Luz, besides being all awkward and stuff. *chuckles*
Amity: “Awkward? Me?”
Gus: “Are you serious?”
Amity: “Nope. *Chuckles*
Gus: “I feel like we’re drifting off the topic I wanted to talk about.
Let’s talk about the very first time you witnessed how messed up the Emperor’s Coven really was. I’m thinking about… your first mission to impress your awesome girlfriend?”
Amity: “Hehe… yeah.
At that time, I was already very sceptical about the Emperor’s Coven. I knew that… they weren’t exactly righteous… you know, after they wanted to petrify Eda.
But, I never really had an experience with some people of the Emperor’s Coven on my own, like Luz, Eda and King had.
Plus, my mentor Lilith, who always praised the Emperor’s Coven, was no longer in it. We all know that story…”
Gus: “Oh yeah… I forgot about Lilith…
When did she stop being your mentor, actually? Was that after the Covention?”
Amity: “Yes. I felt so betrayed by her that I didn’t want her to train me anymore. But yeah, after I heard what really happened at the petrification, I started to… think differently about the Emperor’s Coven…
And, again, since I was hanging out at the Owl House more and more, I started to hear stories… that may or may not have been true from Eda. And I talked to Lilith when she lived at the Owl House once, and she also told me some things that weren’t so great.”
Gus: “So you knew about the stories… but you didn’t know whether or not you believed them?”
Amity: “I did… but not entirely. Some things were just too awful to really believe, you know?”
Gus: “I know. I didn’t really believe all of Eda’s stories, too, haha.”
Amity: “So… you want to hear about my trip to Eclipse Lake?”
Gus: “Let’s hear it!”
Amity: “Okay…
So, there was this… diary that Luz had of a human that lived here in Bonesborough 400 years ago. His name was Philip Wittebane and he turned out to be Emperor Belos that tried to wipe out all witches and we know that story but anyways…
That diary… that was really important to Luz, because it showed her clips of his adventures in the Isles. Remember that Luz was only the third human to end up here.
Luz wanted to learn how Philip Wittebane made his portal back to human realm, and with every clip he showed her, she learned a tiny bit more.
And then there was this clip… a clip of his trip to Eclipse Lake, hey that rhymes.”*chuckles*
Gus: “Focus.”
Amity: “Sorry.
Anyways, in this clip, he explained that he found Titan blood in the lake. And we all know that Titan blood is the most powerful source of magic out there. So, Luz wanted to go the Eclipse Lake to find the blood.
But, Luz was sick. She had the common mold and I was really afraid of what it might do to her, since she’s human.
She wasn’t able to go, so I offered to go with Eda and King.”
Gus: “You didn’t offer to go, you just went straight after Eda and King.”
Amity: “That isn’t important.”
Gus: “Not really. Just need to point out that… you just started dating, right?”
Amity: “Yeah, yeah. I wanted to prove myself to Luz.
I was determined to get that Titan blood. I felt like that if I didn’t get it, I would let her down.
But anyway… When Eda, King and I got to the knee where Eclipse Lake was near, it was crawling with Coven scouts, and out of nowhere, a scout fell down and landed right beneath us.
We immediately captured him and it turned out to be Hunter! When he was still working for Belos! So we took him as some sort of hostage, so he couldn’t get to the Titan Blood.”
Gus: “I find that so funny. That you just randomly encounter a scout and it turns out to be Hunter that was undercover as a scout.”
Amity: “It was a coincidence. At the time, I didn’t trust him at all. What I heard from Luz, at least. I never met him in person.
So, we went into the mountains and we made out way to the lake. But, since there were scouts everywhere, it was difficult to get to it… and plus, it was hard to navigate. We had a map, but since there were so many routes to take, we weren’t sure if we were going the right way.”
Gus: “That map Luz drew, right?”
Amity: “Yes, the map was pretty accurate… but still.
When we got to what looked like was the blood, some bad stuff happened. It turned out to be fools blood, and Eda and King fell down into a gap!
The scouts heard it and Hunter was panicking, because he wasn’t allowed to be there. If he got caught, he’d got punished by Belos So, being the nice person I wanted to become, I freed him.
But he betrayed me, and I got caught by all of the scouts. And what did they do? They threw me into that gap.
They. Threw. Me. Into. That. Gap.
I knew that what I was doing wasn’t right…, but they were okay with straight up killing a teenager! I couldn’t believe it!”
Gus: “Unbelievable… shows that they didn’t have any boundaries.”
Amity: “Nope. I was lucky that Eda caught me, because I didn’t have my Palisman on me. Eda did have Owlbert, but it was complicated because he was in a very uncomfortable position, while we were holding on to him.
He almost broke, but Eda managed to transform into her harpy form to fly us out of the gap, which was amazing by the way.
We still needed to get the Titan blood, but the scouts were blocking the entrance of the cave we were meant to go, so Eda distracted them so I could get in, but when I got in… I saw an empty lake and a devastated Hunter.”
Gus: “He got to the lake before you, but there was no Titan blood.”
Amity: “Yes, and I remember feeling really bad for him, because he feared for the worst. He was probably going to face serious consequences for what he did, so I offered to help him.
But… then he attacked me. He saw that I was wearing the portal key around my neck, and in a split second, he got up and attacked me.
I… tried to give him a second chance, after what he did to me… But it showed that he only cared for Belos’ approval. He needed the key so badly, and he was doing everything to make that possible.”
Gus: “So he went from… being at his lowest with no hope left, to someone with some… hope? I mean, when the lake was empty, he feared that Belos was going to punish him badly, so when he saw the key he must have thought that he had a chance.”
Amity: “Exactly.
But it was my fault. I wanted to help Luz, but by doing so, I made a bad mistake. Luz was really sick and she was hallucinating. She was trying to eat the key, so I made sure to keep it away from her.
But I put it around my neck… really dumb… There was no way Hunter wasn’t going to notice eventually, even if he agreed to go with me.”
Gus: “Why did you give him a second chance?”
Amity: “Because of Luz.
She was the one who gave people second chances. She was the one who saw that there was good in me, so I tried to be like her.
But unfortunately for me, it was too soon for Hunter to betray Belos…”
Gus: “Did you see yourself in Hunter? You know, trying to prove yourself to the wrong people?”
Amity: “Yes, I saw a lot of myself in him.
He even said it while we were keeping him hostage. He said that we both wanted the blood to prove ourself to the people who think we’re special.
He was right about me… but not about himself, because Belos didn’t care for him at all, but that’s not the point.
The point is that he said that we weren’t trying to get the blood for ourselves. We wanted to get it prove ourselves.
And that was the story of my childhood. Trying to prove myself. And even though I was with Eda and King at the time, I was still holding on to the thought of… the thought of…
The thought of… feeling worthless if I don’t succeed.”
Gus: “You tried to prove yourself to your parents and the Emperor’s Coven your whole life, and now, you were trying to prove yourself to Luz, someone you genuinely cared about.”
Amity: “I cared so much for Luz. I loved her at that point, I think…
I was really scared that, if I didn’t get back with Titan blood, I let her down and she might break up with me.
And even though it sounded crazy in my head, you know… Luz breaking up with me because I didn’t get her Titan blood. But I was so, so happy that I finally got together with her, that I didn’t want to lose her.”
Gus: “I totally get that. I remember that you said that you saw everything situation as an opportunity, and that you saw this one as an opportunity to prove that you’re an awesome girlfriend. *chuckles*
Amity: “I did… *sighs*
That whole mission ended up being a great lesson. I learned that… there are people out there that don’t make you feel worthless if you fail at something. Luz… and all of you guys liked me for who I was, while my mom only cared for me if I got an A or something.
All that time, I was surrounded by the wrong people, so when I was finally surrounded by the right people, I feared that they might bail on me for being a failure. But they didn’t… They didn’t…”
Gus: “Well said, Amity. You should be near the people who love you no matter what happens.
How did that mission end by the way? You said that Hunter attacked you?”
Amity: “He did, and I luckily managed to hold my own. But then he threatened Luz’s safety… so I had no choice but to give him the key… But I managed to break some of the glass of the key, so that some blood would get on my glove.”
Gus: “Genius. Absolutely genius. I love how you came up to do that! I mean, I wouldn’t have come up with that!”
Amity: “Yes, well… Hunter somehow explained that there was blood in the portal key at some point and when he threatened Luz’s safety… I knew I had to give the key… so I just… broke it. It just came to me.”
Gus: “Again, brilliant! Luz must have been so happy with the blood, too!”
Amity: “Yes… but she told me she was a thousand times happier about the fact I made it out alive… and when she told me that I loved her even more.”
Gus: “Awwwwwww.”
Amity: *Chuckles*
Gus: “So, after that mission you had absolutely zero desire left to join the Emperor’s Coven. You were now against it, weren’t you?”
Amity: “Well, yes. I mean… they were after Luz and Eda!
And from a neutral point of view… they really didn’t do anything wrong! Eda was only a wild witch, and Luz was just a harmless human girl!”
Gus: “Well… you’re right… but what we all didn’t know yet, was that Luz was part of a bigger plan.
Belos already knew about Luz 400 years ago when she taught him the light spell, which eventually let to him finding the collector. So when he recognized Luz 400 years later, he needed her to go back in time and make it all happen.
That’s why he planned the diary in the library and didn’t murder Luz during the petrification ceremony… because, he could have easily killed Luz to be fair. But you’re right, Belos wanted to get rid of Luz the moment she got back from her time travel journey.
And I get that, since Luz was trying to make a portal as well.”
Amity: “Yeah…
I remember worrying a lot about Luz and what Belos might do to her. The leader of the Plant track, Terra Snapdragon, even told Luz that Belos was looking forward to meeting her again soon.
Luz was caught up in this… crazy situation, with trying to find a way back home, but also dealing with Belos and the fact she didn’t really wanted to go back…”
Gus: “It was a lot to handle for Luz.
After her failed attempt back to the Human Realm, when she saw her mom while being in the in-between realm, she… began to hide her emotions…”
Amity: “Luz didn’t want us to worry about her. She thought it was all her fault, you know. Helping Belos… Getting us involved… letting her mom down…
It was just so much to handle, and it didn’t help that she kept getting herself into these crazy situations over and over again. At one point, she even stopped coming to Hexside, because it became too dangerous.”
Gus: “Yes, that was when she found out about Belos actually being Philip Wittebane, the human that lived here 400 years ago alongside his brother, Caleb.
She accidently got trapped inside his mind along with Hunter, and Belos tricked them into defeating his inner self. She managed to make it out alive, don’t ask me how, but that’s when she also knew that Belos knew about her being in there, so she knew that he knew… I’m not making sense… am I?” *Chuckles*
Amity: “Total sense!
No, you’re right. Luz was definitely not the safest at that point, with the Day of Unity approaching now as well. She needed to hide, and I remember worrying about her so, so much.
I couldn’t communicate with her much and that killed me. All I wanted to know was that she was safe! We hadn’t even been on a date yet!”
Gus: “I know!
Remember that day? When that jerk almost gave me an abomination sigil?”
Amity: “Yes, of course!”
Gus: “Listeners, a couple days before the Day of Unity, the head of the Illusion Coven came to Hexside to give us ‘fake sigils’, he said.
With the Emperor trying to put as many of us witches in a coven, so that they could kill us during the Day of Unity, he thought it’d be a great idea to trick us by sending the coven leader. But fortunately, I saw through the disguise…
He was trying to give your brother Edric a real coven sigil. But somehow… I kind of saw that it was an illusion and called him out for that.”
Amity: “And then he grabbed you and almost gave you the abomination sigil.”
Gus: “That’s right. He got mad and grabbed me.
He was holding me pretty tightly and the other coven scouts were holding you guys as well, so it was really close… but then I… accidentally created a giant illusion with my eyes, and then, Hunter grabbed me and took me away from him.”
Amity: “I still can’t believe how you did that. I mean, I knew you were a powerful illusionist, but… that giant illusion… it was impressive. Even the head of the illusion coven couldn’t pull that off.”
Gus: “Yeah… creating those giant illusions was something I struggled with in the past. I didn’t know how I did it… but I know I could create them whenever I was feeling anxious.”
Amity: “Well, it definitely didn’t look like you were controlling it.”
Gus: *Chuckles* “Nope… but I’m glad I did it! Otherwise, I would not have been able to help you guys with my illusions while we were trying to stop Belos on the Day of Unity.”
Amity: “Yes, I was happy as well… about the fact you didn’t get the sigil. I was afraid during the whole illusion though. I was with Willow and we… didn’t really help each other in the beginning.
I was still holding on to the fact that she was… a weaker witch then me and that I needed to protect her. I just got her back as a friend and I wasn’t ready to lose her again.
So, whenever we encountered a coven scout, me and Willow got in each other’s way, because we both wanted to show off our magic. For Willow it was to prove herself to me, and for me it was to protect her.”
Gus: “So you guys weren’t combining your magic the right way, like you did with Luz.”
Amity: “Not at all… Willow and I just created spells at the same time. My abominations and her plants just got mixed up together and Willow got pretty mad at me at some point.
She pushed me aside and told me she wanted to show me that she wasn’t half-a-witch Willow anymore and that she could take care of herself…”
Gus: “But I thought you already knew about her powers? I mean, looking at her as a plant witch.”
Amity: “I thought I did… but somehow I forgot…
It probably also had something to do with my… overprotective side… which I have…”
Gus: “Yes, you do. *Chuckles*
But that’s what I love about you! I love how much you care about all of us, and sometimes… well, yeah, you can worry too much about us…”
Amity: “I know… But I don’t know why I have that. It’s not like my parents were protective of me or anything during my childhood… I mean, my dad is now… but… I don’t know.”
Gus: “Maybe you have it because you didn’t genuinely love anyone till you were fourteen years old, and the thought of losing those people just scared you too much.
Amity: “I guess you’re right. The thought of losing anyone close to me is… still very scary to me. I don’t know how if I will be able to handle that well…
I’m just very happy that… you know… besides Flapjack… I’ve never experienced anything like that… but you know, there was that time when we were stuck in the Human Realm where I thought I lost Ed, Em and my dad…”
Gus: “Oh man… that was… so difficult. Not knowing if the people you love are okay or not… while we were in a completely other universe.
It was also such a reminder of how much I loved my dad. I was maybe never going to see him again… and I left him without saying anything!
He didn’t know where I was or whether I was okay. No one knew… and we didn’t know if they were okay as well. We definitely got to know how Luz was feeling while she missed her mom…
But hey, let’s talk about the Day of Unity.
We knew what it really was about now, because Hunter told us, but we didn’t exactly know what to do. We didn’t even know where Luz was, yet. It was pretty scary, right?”
Amity: “It was… and it was also so frustrating! Like, no one believed us! And we couldn’t go yell it out on the street, because we’d probably get arrested!
The Day of Unity was going to kill every witch with a sigil, but how do we tell everyone that without sounding like a crazy person? Who would want to believe a bunch of teenagers and a principal?”
Gus: “Well, it became clear pretty early that no one would.”
Amity: “Yes… and it didn’t help that I got grounded for trying to warn my mom…
I still can’t believe the fact she knew about what the Day of Unity really was… What kind of pers-… I’m sorry, I-I should probably stop myself here…”
Gus: “Yeah, I think that’s a good idea. But for the record, I still can’t believe it either.”
Amity: “Hehe, yeah… Anyways… I remember being grounded with Ed and Em and feeling so helpless. I couldn’t go anywhere, because the Manor was secured very badly.
The world was ending, I couldn’t communicate to anyone and I was locked up…
But then, Luz came and she rescued me… oof, I was so happy to see her and you guys as well. That’s when I knew we had a chance. A chance to stop the Day of Unity from happening…”
Gus: “You’re welcome for shutting of the security by the way.” *Smirks*
Amity: “Heh, yeah, thanks for that… it really meant a lot…”
Gus: “Of course! Always a pleasure to help out my friends... and you’d do the same for us! We needed to defeat Belos together!”
Amity: “We absolutely did.
Our first target was to find a way to stop the abomitons. Those bodyguards were really powerful and they were going to be all over at the head.”
Gus: “Yes… we headed off the factory while we were disguised. You knew the place quite well, so you thought you could figure out a way to shut them off.
But unfortunately, we got caught… by your mom… and she put us in some sort of cage, with abomitons around us everywhere. And by us, I’m talking about you, me, Luz, Willow, Hunter and King was with us as well.”
Amity: “King was there, too, but he didn’t get caught. He was with my dad… and they talked for some time. They didn’t know we got caught, yet.
And being imprisoned by my mom made me finally realise she was a straight up psychopath. I knew she was bad, but… you know… there are still no words.
I raged at her and punched at the barrier a couple of times, and I broke it after ten punches!”
Gus: “You didn’t break it. *Chuckles*
Your dad came through!”
Amity: “Let me have it, come on!”
Gus: *Laughing*
Amity: “Alright…
My dad broke the barrier with some sort of device and he sort of betrayed my mom by doing so. King told him about the Day of Unity and he actually saw the bad of it… finally I guess.
He didn’t know my mom knew about the real meaning about the Day of Unity, yet. We were trying to tell her, but she wouldn’t listen to us because she thought we were being crazy.
So maybe hearing it from her husband would change her mind… but… turned out, she already knew… and I was shocked… I guess she was okay with genocide, I don’t know.
Anyways, my dad was shocked as well, and he attacked my mom! It was pretty awesome if I’m being honest, seeing them fight.
When we broke free, we helped dad fight against my mom, but… in the process, Hunter got taken by Kikimora, who was inside her abomitron, which was super powerful and had a jetpack and everything… ugh, I’m glad we don’t make those things anymore.
So, while we were fighting my mom, we were also fighting Kikimora, while trying to not hurt Hunter. It was pretty intense…”
Gus: “That fight was intense… but for me, it was also really hard, because I was performing and illusion spell on a certain someone, while also performing spells to mess with Kikimora.
I was sweating really badly, it was hard to focus.”
Amity: “That must have been very though, yeah.
I can’t really remember when, but we didn’t manage to free Hunter from Kikimora’s grasp. She flew away in her Abomitron to the head… and you just knew Hunter was going to get murdered there. I mean, I thought it was over for him, being honest.
I felt so terrible, but mom was still there as well, and she had to be dealt with, which was not so hard. It was us against her. She didn’t have any allies anymore, because all of the Abomitons were shut off.
So my mom knew she was beaten and she walked away… and since then, I’ve only seen her a handful of times… and I definitely don’t plan on seeing her more often.”
Gus: “That was the moment your parents got separated. You said you never wanted to see her again, but did your dad feel the same way right there and then?”
Amity: “Yes, he did…
I mean, I think everyone would have… ended things with someone if you found out the other one was okay with genocide… but my dad had been with my mom for a very long time. Since they were fourteen or something, I think.
The same age Luz and I got together. And if you’re with someone for that long… it’s hard to step out of that relationship, even though the other person is treating you badly.
My dad just didn’t have the guts to end things sooner. Standing up to my mom can be pretty terrifying… plus… the contract they had…
It was complicated.
I was happy he finally chose for us. I finally got a real dad. But there was no time to deal with the situation, because we needed to save Hunter. I remember Willow being extremely impulsive.”
Gus: “She ran like she’d never ran before… But she didn’t know how to fly an airship, so that didn’t last long.” *Chuckles*
Amity: “Nope. *Chuckles*
So we needed to fly to the head to save Hunter and the Day of Unity from happening. We were on the airship and I remember dad apologizing to Luz for my mom’s behaviour, which made me feel really glad.
I was so happy she was still with me, and seeing my dad being so nice towards her and accepting… it made me wanting to give her a big hug and hold her hand the entire time. I was finally with her again after all this time of not knowing whether she was okay or not!
But… when I touched her, Luz changed into Hunter! I didn’t know what was going on, but then you appeared and I saw the spell circles… which meant only one thing…”
Gus: “Yup. I switched Luz and Hunter’s appearances by performing an illusion spell the entire time. Hunter didn’t know about it, but Luz did. It was her idea…”
Amity: “You know… I’m still… a bit angry at Luz for doing that…”
Gus: “Yeah I know…
Here’s the story listeners. Kikimora absolutely hated Hunter. She wanted nothing more then to deliver him to Belos, and Luz knew that.
And while we where being held by Amity’s mom, Kikimora told Luz that Eda, Lilith and Raine were already captured by Belos at the Head.
And this was the worst news Luz could have gotten. She knew Eda was in big trouble, which meant she was going to do everything… absolutely everything to save her.
She felt like she needed to go to the Head ASAP. So, she quickly made a plan and whispered it into my ear… and somehow, I immediately agreed.
Luz knew that Kikimora was trying to capture Hunter, so what she needed, was her, to take his place. And I made that happening.”
Amity: “So Luz got captured… instead of Hunter.
And we know… that we would have gone to the Head no matter what to save either of them… but it just… felt so much worse knowing it was Luz… and I’m sorry Hunter, but it did…”
Gus: “For me it didn’t really make a difference… who it was that got captured. I mean, I knew Luz was trying to get captured so she could save Eda, King and Rain…
But I understand it must have been really hard for you.
I… kind of had faith in Luz. She and Belos had thought before, and with all the new glyphs she’d learned… I don’t know… I knew she had a fighting chance.
But we needed to help her. She was all by herself after all, and we didn’t know what was going on at the Head. What we did know was that it was bad…”
Amity: “I had faith in Luz, too.
I knew she would come up with a plan to get to Eda. I figured she would use her invisibility glyphs to escape Kikimora. But what did I know? I was freaking out.
And it didn’t help that we were all freaking out. We all feared…”
Gus: “Yeah… but if you ask me, we handled it really well.
We got to Eda and the Coven Leaders pretty quickly… but they were already knocked out by the draining spell. Luz wasn’t there, and the only way to stop the spell, was to go to Belos, which meant we had to go to the head.
And when we got there, we saw Luz fighting him…. But he wasn’t himself… Luz was fighting a monster. A pretty strong monster…”
Amity: “And it looked like the monster was winning, so we got there right in time…
Luz said that it was Belos and that he needed to calm down so he could stop the draining spell from happening, but it that monstrous form, it was almost impossible.”
Gus: “He was really strong. I even tried using the memory spell on him, which got him confused for a couple seconds… but he managed to snap out of it.
The five of us couldn’t take it anymore, he was just too strong. He was about to end all of us, until out of nowhere… this… kid… showed up.”
Amity: “The collector…”
Gus: “The collector showed up, out of nowhere. We didn’t know what was going on. I felt like I was dreaming. It didn’t feel real… it felt like I was dreaming or something. So unreal.
I was watching him… holding Belos’ hand like it was weightless and then, he threw him onto the wall so freaking hard… he just turned into goop.
It was so crazy I can’t even describe it and the regular listeners know about Luz, Willow and Hunter’s perspective, and they all said the same thing. It was absolutely insane.”
Amity: We were almost killed, literally. And then, this random kid appears and throws Belos so hard onto the wall like it was nothing!
And the craziest part of it is, is that the Collector acted like it was the most normal thing… He even laughed at Belos. And I know why he did that now, but back then, I was terrified!”
Gus: “Me too! I mean, Belos was stronger then the five of us, but the Collector’s finger was stronger then Belos!
When he turned around and said something like he wanted to play with us, I could already see myself on that wall, turned into goop. I was getting ready to die.”
Amity: “I was just shocked. Couldn’t process anything in my head. I can’t remember what he said exactly, but I know King saved us.”
Gus: “That’s right. When we were fighting monster Belos, King found Kikimora, and she led him to the Collector, who was trapped in some sort of prison.
We all know who the Collector is now, but back then, no one knew, even King. So when he found the prison which held the Collector, he learned that he was the only one who could stop the draining spell, which was essential.
So, King freed the Collector and promised him he wouldn’t betray him like Belos did. He came up with this… made up game, called the Owl House. He said that he needed a lot of people to play, which made the Collector agree to help King.”
Amity: “Really smart from King, if I say so. I don’t think I would have come up with that. I probably would have been like, what do you mean? And I wouldn’t have come over as believable as him, I think.”
Gus: “Haha, me too.
So, the Collector smashed Belos into goop. He turned around and we feared the same faith. But King managed to stop him. He told the Collector about needing to stop the draining spell, so they could play the Owl House together.
The Collector agreed, and then he just moved the moon with his finger. Still… so crazy… to see that. He just moved the moon with his freaking finger! How?”
Amity: “I don’t know, Gus. I was still in shock. I didn’t know what was going on, until he started to go nuts.”
Gus: “Yeah… he started to destroy the Head.
We needed to get out of there, or else, we would have… been dead I think. We didn’t know what this kid was capable of, but we knew we had to escape.
Willow noticed the portal to the Human Realm was still working, so we didn’t think and ran towards it.”
Amity: “We didn’t hesitate, but Luz did… I begged her to come, which she did at first, but she didn’t want to leave Eda.”
Gus: “Luz wanted nothing more then to know that Eda was okay. That meant everything to her. She didn’t care about her own safety…
But the Collector was destroying everything and… then he started to pull King up into the air.
And then… King shouted us into the portal…”
Amity: “And there we were…”
Gus: “In the Human Realm…
The five of us… You, Luz, Willow, Hunter and me. We were stuck and we’ve just seen a kid destroying the whole Boiling Isles.
We didn’t know whether our families were okay or not. We didn’t know what was going on there. We didn’t know anything and we were stuck. Stuck in another dimension, with no way back, we thought.
It… killed me. I was broken. Broke out in tears, too.”
Amity: “I still needed to process what was happening… I didn’t… really get what it meant for us.
I remember seeing Luz opening the door over and over again… She hoped that the portal would return… She was… also… so traumatized. Everyone was…”
Gus: “How long did we stay there? In the rain.”
Amity: “I don’t know… but I eventually walked up to Luz… and gave her a hug… and we cried… we all did.
After some time… Luz took us to her mom’s house, where we would be safe. I remember feeling pretty nervous about meeting Luz’s mom… and also imagining how Luz must have been feeling.
She was going to see her mom again after all this time… and like this.”
Gus: “I know… I was also a bit nervous. I didn’t know how she was going to react to… us.”
Amity: “Yeah… It’s crazy… After everything I’d been trough the last couple hours, I was mostly feeling nervous. I was nervous about meeting Luz’s mom.
I was imaging all these… scenarios of Luz’s mom rejecting me… and telling me I wasn’t good enough and stuff.
What’s wrong with me?”
Gus: “Hehe… there’s nothing wrong with that. You were finally meeting her after all this time. It’s normal to feel nervous about meeting your girlfriend’s parent. Hunter was, too. Remember?”
Amity: “Yeah… but… why wasn’t I… ugh…”
Gus: *Chuckles*
So… there we were… at the front steps of the Noceda House. You said you were nervous… but if I’m being honest… I was nervous, too.
Even though I knew Luz’s mom was a great parent, I was still nervous about how she was going to deal with all of us. With this… situation.”
Amity: “Yeah… imagine opening your door and you see your daughter, who you haven’t seen for months, with four strangers in the pouring rain…”
Gus: “With scars on their faces… and with pain in their eyes.
I remember that Luz’s mom gasped and she just immediately hugged Luz… which was pretty emotional. She didn’t even really notice us after she broke the hug.”
Amity: “No, she didn’t. When she saw us, she immediately saw that we’ve gone through a lot to end up there. So, she let us in… and she was just so… nice to all of us.
She didn’t ask too many questions… she didn’t judge us or anything… she was really kind and helped us calm down.”
Gus: “I felt like home right away, even though I was in another universe. It felt comforting.”
Amity: “It really did… She just knew exactly what to do… and after five minutes or something... We could all tell that Luz got her kindness from her mom…”
Gus: “We sure did.
How… did you get through the night? I remember that I… just fell asleep right away, because I was too tired to even think about what happened the last 24 hours.
But you… couldn’t really sleep, could you?”
Amity: “Not right away, no.
I was on the ground, on an air mattress, right next to Luz’s bed. It was the first time we were sleeping in the same room together and I just kept looking at Luz. I kept checking if she was still there… because I was afraid she’d leave…
Gus: “After you felt like you lost your dad and siblings… you needed to make sure… Luz didn’t leave you?
Amity: “Yes. I was shaking and everything. Every time I closed my eyes, I was picturing Ed, Em and my Dad. I couldn’t stop picturing them being hurt or dead and that I was the one responsible.
I lost them… and I felt like that Luz was the only one I had left after all this… trauma. If I let didn’t see he, I thought I’d lose her, too.
When she needed to go to the bathroom, I just started crying, because I didn’t want her to leave my sight. I was scared she would just… go back to that shack and she would somehow end up back in the Demon Realm.
And I wasn’t even thinking about how Luz was feeling that night. She just lost Eda, Lilith, King… and everyone she loved in the Demon Realm, and she felt responsible for all of it.”
Gus: “Yes… Luz was… probably feeling the absolutely worst of us all, because listeners…
Luz is someone who usually blames herself when bad things happen. Back before she ended up in the Demon Realm, she used to get bullied, because she was…
different then the others.
And there was a time when Luz blamed herself for getting bullied, because she couldn’t change from who she was. She was herself, and she hated herself for that.”
Amity: “Yes… but in this situation… she thought that she was the reason the Demon Realm was falling into pieces.
She helped Belos find the Collector, and she was unable to stop him… well, she was, but she was unable to stop the Collector at that time…
She thought that she was the reason Eda, Lilith and everyone was now dead… and boy… Luz was in a really bad place the first couple of days in the Human Realm.
She didn’t sleep much.”
Gus: “No…
But Luz wasn’t the bad guy, listeners. If Luz never showed up in the Demon Realm, Belos would have killed all witches and destroyed the Boiling Isles.
And it’s not just that, Luz lighted up some much lives. She made so many people’s lives so much better. She made us happier then ever…
Luz was the reason we still had a chance to save the Demon Realm. She isneeded to go back… we needed Luz to get better… and thanks to us and her mom… she got better.
Remember the speech Luz gave after four or five days?”
Amity: “I do. I cried, remember?”
Gus: “I do…”
Amity: “Yeah, that was really touching… Seeing her so vulnerable…
She told us that she was done with being down all the time. She told us that she would do anything to get back to the Demon Realm to save everyone… and most importantly… reconnect us with our families… and when she said that, I cried.”
Gus: “It was really sweet… and also really… I don’t know how to say it… but I didn’t expect Luz to… get positive again so soon.”
Amity: “Well, I wouldn’t say positive… but she stopped acting depressed. She hates being a bummer… she rather just… keeps her feelings to herself, so that other people don’t worry about her.
She’s great at doing that. She did it a couple of times when we just got together. She doesn’t want to see the people she cares about, worry for her. She puts on this mask of being the happy Luz she is, but she’s pretty bad at hiding it, I wont lie.
I think we can all tell when something’s bothering Luz.”
Gus: “Yes, we can. You’re way better at it, aren’t you.”
Amity: “I wore a mask for years, Gus. I’m pretty good at it, yeah.
But it’s very unhealthy to do that. I’ve learned that it’s so much better then to just let your feeling out. So Luz did… and from that point… we started to… explore the Human Realm more.”
Gus: “We did and let’s just say that I absolutely love the Human Realm! They have cars, normal rain, amazing food, giraffes, I could go on and on!
Amity: “I love the Human Realm as well, but I agree with Luz that our realm is cooler.”
Gus: “Our realm is way cooler for sure! But I just love how… different it is, right? I mean, the amount of modes of transport they have? Mindblowing!
I can probably ramble on about the Human Realm for an entire podcast. I wont do that, because I just know that will bore you listeners.*Laughs*
Amity: *Chuckles* “I mean, you do teach a Human Realm program at the University of Wild Magic, so if people are interested, they could sign up, right?
Gus: “Oh, yes, they definitely can!
But going back to our time when we were stuck in the Human Realm, how did you experience that summer?”
Amity: “You know, besides missing our friends and family and wondering if they were okay or not… it was actually pretty nice.
We did a lot of fun activities together and we grew really close in that period. Sure, we had our ups and downs… failed attempts to make a working portal… but overall, I had a good time.
It was a new realm for us, and we made the most out of it, I believe. We got to see much of the Realm and we discovered new and cool things, tried new and cool things and we became close. I’m really glad Willow still has that photo album of us…”
Gus: “Yeah… it was a nice time… And I think you said it well. We had our ups and downs for sure. There were times where I felt alone and sad… but there were also times were I really enjoyed myself. I really have to thank you guys for that, Luz’s mom, Camila especially.
She tried to make us feel at home and she did a wonderful job. It’s not easy to… unexpectedly take care of four teenagers from another realm… besides Luz and Vee”
Amity: “Yeah… Camila was like the mother I never got. The amount of love she gave us was indescribable. For that I’m forever thankful for her.”
Gus: “She has such a strong personality, such as Luz.
Amity: “Yeah, they are very alike… I noticed it the first day. She’s just such a caring person and she will do anything to support and protect Luz… like Luz will do anything for the people she cares for.
Shout out to you Camila, love you!”
Gus: “Shout out!
We eventually stayed in the Human Realm for like three or four months, before we finally found our way back to the Demon Realm. The frequent listeners have heard the story for sure, so we will not go into detail too much, but…
How did you feel when you found that clue? The clue about the Titan’s Blood?”
Amity: “Very happy of course. After all those failed attempts… it looked like it was it. I reallie believed that the clue was real, you know, since Flapjack was looking for it…
I was really excited to tell Luz, because she was getting more sad around that time, since we… didn’t really have any leads about returning to our Realm… so, yeah.
But, as you know, Belos stole the clue while possessing Hunter’s body, so I didn’t really get the chance.”
Gus: “Yeah… stupid Belos was somehow still with us and he was possessing Hunter with his stupid goo. He made it out alive, thankfully, but that was scary man.
Thanks to Hunter’s Palisman, Flapjack, he managed to survive. Flapjack sacrificed himself, so that Hunter could live.
Me, Amity, Hunter, Luz and Willow all have a matching tattoo of Flapjack to honour him and so we never forget what he did for Hunter. After he sacrificed himself, I was determined to take out Belos once and for all.”
Amity: “Me too. I was ready to get back to our Realm and save it. I was determined.”
Gus: “We all were… and we did… well… especially Luz, who turned into some sort of Titan. Still a bit sad that I didn’t get to see how she did that, but at least we got the memory picture, am I right?”
Amity: “Ugh… why did we have to be stupid puppets during her final fight with Belos? I wish I was there with her. But it really doesn’t matter. She saved the Boiling Isles and stopped Belos once and for all…
Man… and to think it has already been ten years? Time flies…”
Gus: “It really does… but we’re still young, hey?” *Chuckles*
Amity: “Well, twenty five isn’t particularly young, haha. But you’re right of course.”
Gus: “A lot of things changed during those things and we’ll talk about that after the break!”