Luz wakes up to a familiar voice, nagging her until she wakes up. "Luz~" Luz jerks her head up and realizes that she is currently asleep, due to the fact that the Titan is in front of her, currently in his cage. "Ah good! You're finally here."
Luz's eyes continue their red glow as she quickly stands and brushes herself off "What happened? Did they send her back?" Luz is frantically looking around, trying to make herself wake up. She pinches her arm, attempting to wake.
The Titan observes Luz's behavior, noting her eyes aren't dimming, raising an eyebrow at this detail "Calm down human. I saw the whole thing."
"Obviously. You kept constantly nagging me when I was confronting them." Luz scoffs and rolls her eyes, still trying to wake herself up.
"It's no use." He sits still in his cage, still observing the human's distressed attitude "We're both prisoners for now. Might as well get comfortable."
Luz sighs in defeat and takes a seat in front of the cage "Now what? They're obviously going to do something about you. Guess it's over. Right when I started to trust you again." Luz mumbled the last sentence.
The Titan heard the last part but acted as if he didn't. "It's not over yet. I have a plan." The Titan takes his gaze off Luz, waiting for her interest to peak.
"What plan?" Luz asks though she's now calm, however her eyes hold their glow.
The Titan holds back an evil grin and looks at Luz out of the corner of his eyes "You could set me free?" Luz doesn't move, just ponders his proposition "Come on Luz. You and I both know you don't have the skill to take on Lilith and Eda on your own. Let me deal with them and you can enchant your mind again and I will stay in this cage until your last dying breath."
Luz stands up and turns from the Titan, bringing her hand to her chin, seriously considering the Titan's plan "You're just going to take control of me again and hurt everyone I care about. Why would I let you do that again?"
The Titan stands and grips his cage "Luz. I've learned my lesson last time. I won't hurt the Clawthorne's, I'll only arrest them and make an example out of them. You need to show that you won't be pushed around by anyone!"
"I- I don't know." Luz paces back and forth, really considering the Titan's offer. "I can't risk their safety like that. I'm angry but they would never actually hurt me. Right?"
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Eda is carrying Luz's unconscious body while following her sister and the Blight through the castle halls. Some guards have stopped them, but Odalia quickly waved them off, saying Luz passed out due to the workload. The three witches walked deep into the castle, to the basement where no guards were stationed and where they would be alone.
"So remind me again, why are we here?" Eda get's an uneasy feeling "This place is creepy!"
Lilith walks next to Odalia and answers her sister "It's the only place where no one would dare to go. This place is where emperor Belos would go to communicate with the Titan. He said it was a sacred place only reserved for him. The only one authorized to be down here is Luz herself."
As Lilith finishes explaining, the green-haired witch added "It's also secluded. No one can hear anything if things take a turn for the worst."
Eda shivers at the end of the Blight's sentence. Her eyes dart to the statues and the throne made out of a skull at the end of the room. The wild witch grips onto the human's unconscious body tighter, feeling protective over her. "Ok let's just get this over with. Where's- you know- the body?"
Lilith and Odalia come to a halt and look at each other before turning to the witch holding Luz. Lilith sighs and draws a spell circle, creating an area for Eda to place Luz into. "Edalyn, please place Luz there." Lilith points to the highlighted area and her sister complies. As Luz lays on the floor, Lilith draws another circle, creating chains to restrain the human, for when she wakes up "Edalyn, Odalia, please join hands with me so we can enchant the chains. Let's just hope they're strong enough to hold her." The three witches join hands and chant an incantation in hopes the chains temporarily disable Luz's magic.
After the enchantment is finished, Odalia steps back and creates a circle, casting a spell to cause a coffin to appear next to Luz. "I say we do the same incantation on Steve's body for when we put the Titan in his body." Lilith nods, producing a tear seeing Steve again. Eda places a hand on her sister's shoulder, trying to comfort her. Lilith lets out a weak smile and wipes her cheek clean, joining hands with the two witches beside her. They all repeat the same incantation as before.
Eda then detaches from the other two's grip and kneels down next to Luz. She sighs and looks up at Lilith and Odalia, waiting for confirmation to wake her up. They both nod and Eda draws a spell circle, causing Luz to open her eyes, which did not falter in their menacing red glow.
Luz tries to stand but is instantly brought back down. She notices the chains and looks back up at Eda, Lilith, and Odalia "You- you chained me down like an animal?"
Eda looked into Luz's eyes, seeing the hurt behind the glow "Listen kid. This isn't you. The Titan obviously has some kind of influence on you. We need to separate you two."
Luz tries to cast a spell but to her surprise can't "What did you do to me?" Luz looks at her hands, and suddenly catches sight of a familiar coffin next to her. The human snapped her head back to the witches standing over her "Is-" She didn't dare finish her sentence.
Lilith steps forward with slumped shoulders "We needed a dead body. Steve was the closest one that didn't have any noticeable damage, unlike your father."
Luz looked silently back at her fallen protector. Tears began to fill the human's eyes at the sight of her friend. But Luz had a little voice in her head "This is unacceptable! You just said they would never hurt you, and look what they are doing! They are willing to use anything to separate us! Even if it's your fallen friend. Disenchant your mind Luz and let me teach these witches a lesson!" Luz slowly looked back up at the witches she once considered her friends with only hate. "First, you bring my human mother to the Boiling Isles without my consent. Next, you continue to disrespect me in my own home. But this-" Luz motions her head to the coffin "This is where I cross the line."
"Luz no! The Titan is plaguing your mind! We're only trying to help!" Lilith pleads with Luz, trying to talk reason with her.
Luz cuts the witch off "The Titan has only told me the truth. How can I trust you any more than I trust him? He lied to me in the beginning, and you lied to me in the end."
Eda raises a concerned eyebrow "What do you mean by the end?"
A tear falls from Luz's eyes "It doesn't matter. I was never fit to rule the Isles. I'm not even fit to have a family. What's the point anymore?" Luz squeezes her eyes shut "Maybe the Titan deserves this life. What do I have to offer anyway."
As tears fall down both the Clawthorne sister's faces, Odalia pushes through and kneels in front of Luz, placing a hand on her shoulder "Don't say that empress! You are the most compassionate ruler the Isles has ever seen. Granted you are the second ruler the Isles has ever seen but that's still a win."
"Tell Amity I'm sorry. She deserves someone better than me. I don't know why I thought I could ever make her happy." Odalia's eyes widen, taken back at the human's defeat. But before anyone could say anything Luz starts the chant "I Luz, Empress of the Boiling Isles, disenchant my mind to no longer be a prison for the Titan who inhabits it." Eda screams trying to stop Luz but Luz gives one more look at the Owl Lady "I'm sorry Eda. I just can't anymore." Luz manages to lift her finger and cast a spell on herself, causing her to pass out.
Eda grabs Luz's shoulders and shakes her "Luz! No no no no no no! Lilith, help me transfer the Titan NOW!"
Lilith runs next to her knelt-down sister and grips her staff. Eda stands and does the same. The both of them together draw a large circle over Luz's unconscious body, while Odalia gets up to draw a circle over the coffin next to them. With the spell cast, a blast throws the three witches back and a bright light consumes the basement which impairs the three witches.
Silence fills the whole room. Eda rubs her eyes and groans in discomfort. She slowly regains her eyesight but is dizzy and has trouble getting up. The Owl Lady notices her sister and Odalia were both knocked out by the blast and tries to shake Lilith awake. While she attempts to wake her sister, the coffin swings open, making a loud noise as the cover hits the ground. Up rose Steve's body with pinkish-purple eyes attached. The only thing Eda could make out was his unforgettable eyes and his malicious smirk. Eda did her best to stand, but failed miserably, falling back down, groaning in pain.
The Titan took notice of the witch's attempt and just laughed at her. "Oh, Edalyn." He walked over to the crippled witch and stood over her, leaning his hands on his knees and tilting his head in amusement "You have no idea what you have done, do you?" Eda went to reach for Owlbert, but the Titan notices her attempt and shakes his head. He walks over to her staff and picks it up "Here. You must have dropped this." Eda reaches for her staff when the Titan pulls it back and snaps it in half taking hold of her palisman. Eda still attempts to draw a circle when he takes his foot and steps on the Owl Lady's hand, making her yelp in pain. "There won't be any of that." The Titan takes a deep breath and draws a circle of his own, creating chains around the three witches.
Lilith and Odalia begin to wake up and to their surprise, they are unable to move. Eda scolds the Titan "What's your plan now? Take your magic back from Luz?"
The pinkish-purple eyes meet Eda's golden ones and he kneels down so he's a couple of inches from her face "What my plan is doesn't concern you. But my plan to mentally break Luz worked, with the help of you of course. Now the human is my prisoner, she won't be any of your concern anymore." The Titan stands up and walks toward Luz's limp body and casts a spell so the chains around her disappear.
Eda struggles and yells "Don't hurt her!"
The Titan picks up Luz and throws her over his shoulder. He turns back around to the three witches "This is your one and only warning. I will transport you three back to your homes and you will mind your own business's from now on." His eyes show a tint of red "Do not test my mercy." Before Eda could snapback, the Titan possessing Steve's corpse draws a spell circle, making Eda and Lilith teleport back to the Owl House without their chains and staffs. Then, he cast another spell releasing the Blight from her chains "Mrs. Blight, I assume you are smart enough to side with the winning team?"
Odalia struggles to get up, still dizzy from her fall, but manages to balance on her two feet "Yes." She trembles at the sight of the mighty Titan who stands before her.
The Titan smiles while still holding Luz "Good. Now come along. We've got a lot of work to attend to." He walks off, towards the upper level of the castle where he can begin his big plans for the Boiling Isles. Odalia picks up Lilith's staff, along with Eda's palisman, stashing them away, having a feeling they will need them for later.
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Eda and Lilith fall face-first onto the ground, directly in front of Hooty. Eda instantly manages to stand up and tries to limp back into the forest. But before she could manage two steps, she falls to the ground, taking a fist full of dirt in frustration. Lilith gets on her knees and hands and takes a couple of deep breaths, trying to figure out what just happened.
"I'm going to kill him! I'm going to rip that little smug ok clean off and shove it up where the sun don't shine!" Eda yells at herself while she keeps a tight grip on the ground.
The door swings open to reveal a demon. "Whoa! What happened to you two? Guessing Luz was a little more than upset?"
Eda pays King no mind while Lilith sighs and tries to turn her head as much as she could "No. The Titan happened. He-" Lilith swallows the lump in her throat, terrified of her next sentence "He's got Luz, and probably will be ruling the Isles by dawn."
"What?" King's voice shakes as he stands at the doorway in shock. He then walked up to Eda and embraced her into a hug. "Eda, what are we going to do? What about Luz's mom?"
Eda's head perked up at the mention of Camila "Damn it!" She punches the ground. Eda uses all of her strength to finally get up and limp slowly back into her home. She helps Lilith up on her way, with a certain demon holding onto her leg. They both lean on each other for support, both feeling like huge failures. "King, the spell didn't wear off yet, right?"
King, lets go of Eda's leg and closes the door behind him "No. She's out like a torch. How are we going to tell her that she can't see Luz?"
Eda and Lilith both fall onto the couch, wincing at the pain shooting throughout their bodies. "We're not." Eda spats out, gaining confused looks from her sister and King.
"What? We can't exactly tell her what happened!" Lilith furrows her eyebrows "Hey Luz's long lost mother. By the way, Luz is captured with a deranged psychopath so you cant see her now. Sorry!" Lilith says with a sarcastic tone.
Eda has a devastated tone, not even looking at either of her companions "We're going to erase her memory."
Lilith and King both look at the Owl Lady in disbelief. King's eyes travel to Lilith for confirmation that he just heard Eda right, and turns back to the wild witch "We can't! Luz will never get to reunite with her ever! That's not fair!"
Lilith nods her head in agreement "You can't. Luz didn't want her mother's memory erased. It was the Titan talking, not her!"
Eda manages to stand and starts to slowly walk to the stairs "Luz's mom lost her daughter a long time ago. I don't think she's ready to lose her again. It's not fair to her. I'm doing her a favor." Eda makes her way, painfully up the stairs.
Edalyn Clawthorne limps her way through the hallway, feeling like a string is tied around her chest, making it difficult for the witch to breathe. As soon as she reached the door to where Camila was asleep, her breathing hitched, getting caught in her throat. Eda turns the handle slow, hoping Luz runs through the Owl House door, trying to stop her. But life isn't that easy. At least not on the Boiling Isles. The door creeks open revealing a sleeping human with a faint smile across her lips. She pulls out the key to her portal and presses the eye, located at the end of the key, making a magic door appear. Now, the hard part. A tear falls from the Owl Lady's cheek, thrashing on the wooden floor.
"I'm sorry Luz. But it's for her own good." Eda draws a circle and casts a spell that fell over the human's head. It took a moment, but the spell completed, and Eda drew another circle levitating the human in midair, guiding her through the portal where she will return to her life with no memory of ever having a daughter. Eda walks through the portal and places Camila on the floor of the woods carefully. Eda stares down at the human and wakes her up.
But before Camila could catch a glimpse of the witch, she disappears back into the portal. Luz's mother opens her eyes and holds her head. She groans as she gets up and looks around confused as to why she's in the woods alone, in the middle of the night. Camila grabs her phone and calls Jacob "Jacob? I- I must have blacked out or something. I don't know where I am." Jacob tells his wife to stay put while he tracks her phone to come and pick her up. Camila groans again while griping her head "Wh- How did I even end up out here? I was looking for something important. I just don't know what!"
Eda closes the door to the human realm, with a huge weight on her back. More tears fill the Owl Lady's eyes. Holding on tight to the key that just closed the door.
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The Titan lays Luz down on her bed, while Odalia standing off in the distance, scared of the Titan. He straightens out her outfit and places her hands above her chest, crossing them. He then takes a step back and his pinkish-purple eyes begin to glow red as he creates a large spell circle with both hands, chanting some kind of enchantment.
Odalia's interest peaked and she built up the courage to speak up "May I ask what you just did to the empress?" The witch glances down at Luz with concern, but quickly covers up with a straight face.
The Titan keeps his attention on the human "I cursed her. An old acquaintance gave me the idea of a prison made of the prisoner's deepest desire, so they would never want to leave. His only mistake was letting the prison left guarded by a narcissistic child and his gang. But I will make sure that every inch of this side of the castle is tasked with keeping this room sealed."
The Blight starts to sweat, fearing Luz's safety in the Titan's possession. She walks up, now standing next to the Titan, and places a hand on Luz's shoulder "Is she in pain?"
"No." He finally looks the witch directly in the eyes "For now. That all depends on how her friends react. Now go home and enjoy the rest of your night." Odalia bows and starts to head out when the Titan has one more thing to say "Oh, and one more thing." The witch turns and comes to a halt. His eyes glow a menacing red as he threatens the Blight "Keep your children away from here. I don't want anything to happen to them. Especially to Amity."
Odalia's eyes fill with fear. She decides to stay silent as she bows and heads home for the night.