Sorry, this is a late update. I've been really busy!! I'm doing my best!
Also Reminder!!
The Titan is controlling Luz's body like the body swap episode.
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Lilith paces back and forth, outside the throne room, accompanied by a worried father. Odalia stayed back home to be there when the twins wake up, and Aldor is leading the search party with Lilith, for Luz and Amity.
The doors open to reveal Kikimora, with folded hands, and squinted eyes to show she's smiling. "The emperor is ready for you both. I must warn you, he's not pleased with the news he's just received."
Lilith suddenly feels a massive weight on her chest, almost like the bat Queen herself is sitting on her. Kikimora opens the door fully to reveal emperor Belos on his throne, and the heart beating rapidly. Lilith is hesitant at first, but Aldor gives her a push start. Every step is heard throughout the castle. Lilith can see all the guards and read them like they were a book. All she saw in their eyes, was fear.
What took 30 seconds, felt like hours. Lilith finally approached the foot of the throne, with Aldor and Kikimora standing behind the coven leader. She swallows the bowling ball in her throat, and greets the emperor "My liege... you requested to see me."
Emperor Belos wasted no time. He slammed his staff and Lilith was frozen, surrounded by the red of his spell casting "Not only did my daughter get kidnapped, but she was kidnapped by your sister! I will not tolerate failure anymore Lilith. If you do not have my daughter in her room in 24 hours, you will be the one petrified along with your sister, who I will personally capture myself." Belos slams his staff again, encasing Kiki and Aldor as well "And you two. You are also to blame for this insolence. Mr. Blight, you hosted dinner for my daughter tonight and you failed miserably. You and your wife are to blame for this matter, as much as Lilith. If I heard correctly, your daughter has also been kidnapped by the owl lady, so that gives you motivation. As for you Kiki, you were blinded by your ego that you didn't account for Steve's irrational behavior. He is now your responsibility. I want you to bring in the traitorous guard, and punish him accordingly. Do I make myself clear to the three of you?" The three witches nod in terror "Good. Now find my daughter, and arrest the two criminals! I want them petrified by the end of the day!"
Emperor Belos folds his staff away and drops the three ranking members. They all bow and walk out in silence. Kiki was shaking due to the fact that Belos has never threatened her. Aldor was sweating, due to the fact his daughter is missing and his life and his wife's lives are at stake. And Lilith is having a full-on anxiety attack. It's either her or Eda.
"Congratulations Mr. Blight. You finally got the emperor's attention. How does it feel." Kiki says with an eye roll, antagonizing Aldor.
Aldor grits his teeth and shows his fangs "At least I'm not a glorified butler. How's that going Kiki?"
Lilith turns and looks them dead in the eyes "Listen you two. It's obvious we all are not the closest, and we're all in a bit of a situation right now, so let's put our heads together and bring the two girls back!"
Aldor agrees with Lilith, but Kikimora felt the need to interject "Oh Lilith, you've seen to have forgotten about a tiny detail. Your sister and Steve. Not only do we have to rescue two children, but we also have to arrest two of your closest allies. I hope that won't get in the way of anything." Kiki looks at Lilith, out of the corner of her eye, knowing she's hitting a nerve in the coven leader.
"No. It won't. You forget Kikimora, if you don't bring them in, you get petrified as well. So it's your responsibility as much as it is mine." Lilith and Kikimora are both scolding each other while Aldor awkwardly stands in between the two.
"Ladies, as much as I would love to see how this would play out, we're on a bit of a time schedule, so let's finish our orders and then fight each other." The Blight father pushes the two witches away from each other.
"Your right Aldor. Now, let's gather a search party and find our kidnappers." Kiki and Aldor walk off.
Lilith follows behind them, still anxious about what's to come "Edalyn, what have we gotten ourselves into?"
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Meanwhile, at the knee, the Titan is getting comfortable in Luz's body. "Ok ok ok.... now watch this." The Titan face plants into the snow and turns around and makes a snow demon. King squeals and joins in next to the Titan inhabiting the human's body.
While the Titan enjoys 'being alive', Eda, Amity, and Steve converse on what their next move is. "Now what?! You've kidnapped the most important child on the Boiling Isles, and you've managed to become more wanted than you were before! Oh, and you also kidnapped a child of a high-ranking member of the emperors' coven. Anything I'm leaving out!" Steve throws his hands up, realizing what a complete mess this plan was.
Eda rolls her eyes "Hey, you helped plan it too. It's not all my fault. I just didn't account for the actual Titan to possess the human." The three witches glance at the Titan and King playing around in the snow like children.
Amity looks down at her feet "What if the Titan likes living too much? What if he doesn't want to give it up?" Amity looks up at Eda and Steve with worried eyes.
Steve slaps his forehead "The Blight kid is right! Who wouldn't enjoy a second chance at life? What if we never get Luz back at all!"
Eda puts her hands up trying to calm the ex-soldier down "Hey hey hey. Quiet your voice. Now there are a lot of what if's right now. We don't know his intentions, but right now they seem to be good. If he decides he doesn't want to leave the humans body, that's a problem for future us. Until then, we wing it like witches. Cool?"
Steve looks at Eda blankly "No. not cool. Not cool at all actually."
"Cool." Eda winks at Steve and just stares at the possessed human.
Amity decides to ask the million-dollar question "Until then. What do we do now?"
Eda is about to speak, but the Titan comes up behind the green-haired witch and speaks "Excellent question Amity Blight. And I shall answer for you." Everyone looks at the Titan with a confused look but continues to listen "So Luz's adoptive father is a bit dramatic, so he will probably have everyone and thing looking for Luz. So, I say we just got to the castle and deal with him now." The Titan's eyes glow brightly for a second and go back to their normal glow.
Steve faints and Amity goes to try and help him. Eda then stares at possessed Luz with a blank expression "What makes you think... that out of everything... ever... that, that's a good plan..."
The Titan then laughs "Ha! Edalyn! I'm glad you brought that up." The Titan holds up Luz's new staff and twirls it up "This is Luz's staff. And I am in Luz's body. So I will pose as Luz, pretend to get the best of you and Steve and bring you to the castle. There you will be put in the dungeon and wait to be petrified. But while you wait, I will confront the emperor and have a long-awaited meeting."
While Amity fans Steve's unconscious body Eda facepalms "And what makes you think I can just trust you. For all I know, you're working with the emperor BirdBreath."
The Titan suddenly loses his good optimistic attitude and frowns in pure rage "I DO NOT WORK FOR OR WITH THAT FAILURE!!!" The Titan catches his temper and takes a deep breath, and smiles, putting on a manipulative facade "Excuse me. I forget my temper. Trust me, I want that... thick-skulled maniac off the throne as much as you do." What the Titan didn't account for, is that his eyes turned from the pinkish-purple glow to bright red.
This frightening sight gave Eda and Amity chills down their spine. Eda was for the first time scared of something. Amity propped Steve's head up on a makeshift pillow out of snow and stood up to face Luz's controlled body. "What about Luz. Can she see any of this, or are you just trapping her in her own mind?"
The red eyes glowed as the question was asked. Eda observed in fear but took note of the change "As I told you. I'm healing her mind. She will be fine when I am done. She doesn't have what it takes to stop the Emperor. I do. We've already spoken on what has to be done."
"And what has to be done. What do you plan on doing to the emperor." Eda says with curiosity, but no confidence.
"What has to be done is between me and the emperor. Luz understands. She will bond with my bile sac and become the new empress." The Titan fidgets with the staff in his hands "What other choice do you have. It's either my plan or pain and suffering. It's your call Clawthorne."
Amity takes notice of the change of the Titans tone. She understands that she can't trust him, but also understands that they are all good as dead without him. "Ok. We'll do it." Eda tries to step forward to intervene but Amity cuts her off "We help you, you help us. But no one is left behind. That includes you leaving Luz's body."
"I like you, Blight. I can see why Luz likes you too." Amity blushes at the Titan's comment. The Titans red eyes fade away and go back to their original glow. "Now... Let's go take down this tyrant."
The Titan raises the staff and electrifies Steve awake. Then he casts a spell to put ropes around Eda, King, and Steve to set the plan in motion. He holds out Luz's hand and reaches out for Amity to grab on. Amity goes against all instinct and grabs hold of Luz's possessed body. The Titan smiles and slams the staff into the snowy surface of the knee. The next thing the witches knew, they were at the front castle gates in the blink of an eye. The Titan cast a spell to transport the group in front of Lilith, Aldor, and Kikimora.
"Empress?" Kikimora looks at Luz questioning the sight before her eyes.
Aldor pushes through Lilith and the search party and runs to his daughter who is hand in hand with Luz's body. "Darling." The two-run to each other and hug.
Lilith steps aside for the reunification of the father and daughter and turns to her sister "Edalyn? Wha- how?"
Before Eda can speak the Titan speaks "Lilith! It is I, Luz the human, heir to the throne of the Boiling Isles. I have come bearing gifts. I have outsmarted the wanted criminals and brought them to my own doorstep. Now take them to the dungeon where their sentences will be carried out." The Titan walks through the crowd of guards and into the castle posing as Luz.
Lilith gives Eda and Steve a puzzling glance while Kikimora orders the guards to take the prisoners to the conformatorium. Aldor leads his daughter into the castle.
Lilith is the only one left standing on the bridge. Extremely confused and anxious. Does she follow Luz who seemed a little off, but more normal than the dinner? Or does she follow the prison wagon, and find out what Eda has planned. Lilith Clawthorne is at a crossroads with her duty and her family.
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