Pokémon: Witches and Demons edition

by ARC_981

Summary:

Most children start their Pokemon journey at age 10, Luz Noceda-Ketchum, daughter of world champion Ash Ketchum, started hers at age 14, but it was worth the wait as she finds herself in world of magic, populated by witches and demons, but where Pokemon are feared as dangerous wild beast, determined to not only become the first human witch but also make the Boiling isles fear of Pokemon a thing of the past.

 

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Notes:

CW:innapropate implications

Chapter 1: Prelude to the journey: part 1

Satoshi Asher Ketchum, or as everyone knows him as Ash Ketchum, one of the famous people in the world, becoming the world champion at only age 10, 7 years later you may think he would be living like he was on top of the world.

But instead he was drinking his pain away, he didn’t care that he was only 17 he was just trying to get his mind off everything that has happened over the years.

He was in a bar in some town in the northeastern part of Unova called Gravesfield, he didn’t know much about the town what he heard about the place he got from his friend Cilan, since he was also, apparently, a history connoisseur, from what he remembered the town was some Galarian colony for people who wanted to be free from religious persecution, even though from what he heard they weren’t that tolerant themselves. The town also had one of the biggest graveyards in Unova.

He had just finished stopping Team Plasma from freezing the Unova region over, so they can take it over, he thinks, he had left his Pokemon at a pokecenter to get healed so he decided to stop by the local bar for a drink, or two, or three, or four, or how ever many he had at this point, he lost had lost count. The bartender had basically insisted on serving him since he was the World Champion.

He heard a group of girls arguing, mostly at one girl in the group, he thought he heard one of them say , “But he’s the world champion!” They most likely wanting his autograph Ash thought.

He finally heard one girl say timidly “o-okay”.

He began to hear someone walk up to him as the argument stopped, most likely the ‘okay’ girl.

She tapped him on the shoulder, he turned around to a Latino girl with curvy brown hair who was turning red in the face, she was roughly 16, making it clear that this bar couldn’t care less about someone’s age.

The girl shyly stuttered out, “He-Hello M-Mr. Champion…”

Everything after that for him was nothing more than a blur.

He woke up the next day in his hotel room without his clothes. After he got dressed he went to go get his Pokemon from the pokecenter, and left the town. Not knowing of what resulted from his actions, for years to come.

———7 years later———

Ash just came back to his home in Pallet town, things were nice, he was still close to his mother to visit, he was helping Gary get used to taking over as professor for his grandfather, even Dawn began to smile again after what had happened to her, Ash had been getting help for his drinking problem.

But soon later that night he got a call. He picks it up.

“Hello I’m looking for Satoshi Ketchum?” He heard a man ask on the phone.

“Yes that’s me.” He confirmed.

“Good, this is the Gravesfield hospital in Unova.”

Ash began to worry that one of his unovan friends were in trouble. “What is it?!”

“Well there is a woman here who’s claiming you’re the father of her daughter, um, can you please come by sir.” The man on the phone said with worry in his voice.

Despite what common sense would say, that the woman was lying, something within him, something he has tried to avoid, told him otherwise, so “Okay I’ll come by in two days.” Ash told the man.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Chapter 2: Prelude to the Journey: part 2

Summary:

Camila’s side of the story.

Notes:

CW: blatant references to s3x, references to child abuse, and cancer

I could never forget that night, the night that would change my life for better or worse.

I remembered it like it was yesterday, I was one of those kids that would go to a high school instead of going on a Pokémon journey, I still had a Pokemon being my Beheeyem.

As I was walking to health class, I encountered them the popular girls, aka the girls that I’m pretty sure that the interest they share is making my life a living distortion. But before I could run away from them.

“Ohh, Nerdceda!”

They noticed me.

“Hola Eleanor.” I said back to her, she was the leader of the popular girls and the worse of them.

“For one Nerdceda, need I remind you again, you speak Galarian here not that Paldean crap,” she said to me purposefully stepping her high heels on my feet trying to make them bleed, “and two, why are you avoiding us, I thought we were friends” ‘never in a million years’ “you aren’t trying to bully us right.” She said in a condescending tone, “You wouldn’t want us telling the teacher do you.”

No, not again I don’t even want to think about what my Mami would do if I got in trouble again, the scars haven’t fully recovered from last time.

“No, Ofcourse not Eleanor.” I said panicked.

“Good, cause later tonight you’re joining us later as we go out, ‘Kay.” She asked, more like told, her.

Before I could say anything else they all left. Today was not going to be a good day, saying when did I ever have a good day.

———later that very night———

I don’t know how but Mami found out about the invite and was forcing me to go with them. So instead of reading Cosmic Frontier with my Beheeyem like I wanted to, I have to hang out with some of the biggest jerks in Gravesfield.

As I was leaving the house my Mami had to insult me one more time saying, “Remember don’t eat, well anything you could use to lose almost all that weight.”
I admit I’m not the most fit person, but I’m not fat.

It was snowing that night, due to Team Plasma’s plan to freeze over Unova to take it over.

They dragged me into a bar, as they drank more alcohol (also forcing me to have some drinks), for some reason the bartender didn’t care about our age, they continued to mock me, they soon noticed something, or someone.

“Oi, look over Nerdceda.” As I look to where she’s pointing at I see the Ash Ketchum the World Champion, the issue is I’ve had a celebrity crush on him ever since I was nine, and they recently found out.

“Look at all those glasses, who knew the world champion was such a drinker, he’s so drunk that even you Nerdceda could stand a chance to get into bed with him.” Eleanor said, with a mischievous grin on her face.

“Wai-Wait what!?” I stuttered out.

“I mean it, if you can get into bed with the Ash Ketchum, we’ll get off your back for a good month, right girls?” Eleanor said, as her group shakes their heads yes.

The offer was tempting but.

“It’s not okay to take advantage of someone while they’re intoxicated.” I told Eleanor, not sure what she would do back.

“But he’s the world champion!” Eleanor snapped back.

“Doesn’t change anything!”

Eleanor looked like she had enough as she went up to me and said in my ear, “ether you sleep with him, or we’ll tell your Mom that you brought us to a bar and forced us to drink alcohol.”

No, no, no, if Mami is told that she’ll probably end up beating me to death.

Not wanting to die I timidly said, “o-okay”

I went up to him tapping his shoulder as he turned I stuttered out, “He-Hello M-Mr. Champion…”

———that morning———

I did it I sleep with the world champion, Ash Ketchum.

He was the man that took my virginity.

It should be good right, but I just felt disgusted with myself.

So I got my clothes back on and left before he woke up.

———the proceeding weeks———
After Mami beat me for being home so late, I begun to feel sick, puking often.

I tried to make myself believe I just had the stomach bug, but internally I knew what it
was.

I took a test and it was positive.

Camila Noceda pregnant at age 16 what a tragedy.

As soon as Mami found out she didn’t even beat me, honestly that would’ve been better, instead she kicked me telling me to never my face around her again.

I had to drop out of school and get a job, just to support me and my baby, vanishing my dreams of becoming a Pokemon doctor.

———9 months later———

I had finally given birth to her baby, a little girl that looked exactly like Me except for the lighting bolt marks on her cheeks, clear where she got those from.

Despite everything that happened to me, when I looked at my baby I felt a sense of hope.

So when the doctor asked me for a name, I had the perfect one.

“Luz.”

———7 years later———

Years had gone by, I had a stable enough income to support me and Luz, but it wasn’t the best, just enough to keep food on the table, and pay for a small house.

Luz had grown up into a wonderful girl, with an amazing sense of adventure.
But she didn’t have many friends sadly, probably because parents told their kids to stay away from her, since she was the result of a teen pregnancy.

But I had been feeling sick lately feeling fatigued, losing weight, and bumps have begun to form on my skin , so I scheduled a doctors appointment, hopefully it isn’t anything to worry about, right?

———at doctors appointment———

“Well miss Noceda I have bad news.” The doctor plainly told me.

“And good news, right?” I asked trying to be hopeful.

“No, only bad news” now I’m scared, what’s happening,

“Miss Noceda, you have only two months left to live.” It was as if the world went silent.

“What?” I said, trying to hold back tears.

“You have cancer, I would suggest treatment but I’m afraid it’s too late for that. I suggest you get your affairs in order.”

After I left the hospital I just sat in my car for next hour or so crying my eyes out, thinking about what would happen to Luz.

On my way back home, I knew I had to tell Luz, but I didn’t know how, I stopped by the store hoping to find her something to soften the blow.

I found something that Luz might enjoy a book called ‘The Good Witch Azura’.

When she got home I called my daughter down. “Mija, honey I need to talk to you.”

Luz ran downstairs tackling me into a hug, “Welcome back Mami.” She said excited, but her excitement waned as she saw my expression, causing her to worry.

“What’s wrong Mami?” Luz asked.

“Luz I need to tell you something.” I told her, holding back tears,“but first I have a gift for you.”
As I bring the book I bought her.

———one month and two weeks later———

Here I am in a hospital bed, on death’s door, what my Mami would say if she saw this.

Luz had to call the ambulance since I collapsed in the kitchen, that isn’t something she should’ve experienced.

The doctor came in, “Miss Noceda is there anyone your daughter can stay with that we could contact?” He asked.

Guess my time is just about up if they’re asking, but maybe “you could try her father.”

“Who would that be miss?”

“A man named Satoshi Ketchum.” Thank god she knew his actual name, never stopped being a fan, Luz was also a fan.

“We’ll try and contact him miss, but we can’t make any promises.” He said as he left the room, not fully believing me.

I prayed to Arceus that he wouldn’t just assume I’m lying and not even come.

The doctor returned and said, with disbelief, “He’ll be here in two days.”

That brought smile to my face even if there was no hope for me, there was still hope for Luz.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

One more part of the prelude left, where Ash meets Luz.
Still open to suggestions, but I should’ve been more clear, I meant primarily Luz and Amity, for Pokemon suggestions.

Chapter 3: Prelude to the Journey: Part 3

Summary:

Ash and Luz finally meet.

Notes:

CW: It’s time for that Dead Camila Noceda tag to come into effect

Tomorrow I head out to Gravesfield to see what is going on with my supposed daughter.

But before then however, I decided to quickly visit my Mom, to discuss what is going on.

She still lives in the same house as when I was ten years old. I knock on the door and my mom comes out, “Ash!” She brings me in for a tight ursaring hug.

“What brings you here?” She asks.

“I need to head out to Unova tomorrow and just need to discuss what’s going on with someone if you don’t mind.”

“Oh ofcourse not Ash I’m your mother you can talk to me about anything.” She tells me as I walk inside.

I look around and see old photos, including of my Dad, I question how they’re still married when Dad spends all of his time on the peak of Mt. Silver.

Me and Mom walk into the living room to talk, as Mr.Mine brings in freshly brewed tea.

“Tea Ash?” My Mom offered.

“No thank you.”

I decided to start of the conversation with some small talk, “So how’s Dawn doing?”

Mom quickly answered the question, “She’s doing well, she’s currently at a therapy appointment right now. But I’m pretty sure that’s not what you came to talk about is it?”

Realizing I should get to the point, I mentally prepare myself for what I’m about to say, “Yeah, Mom the reason why I’m going to Unova is because I may have a daughter there.”

Mom just froze still for a few minutes, but for what felt like days.

And then.

“WHAT!?” She yelled spitting out the tea she was drinking right into my face.

“Ow! Mom that was scolding hot!”

“Sorry Ash, here take this.” She apologizes while handing me a towel to clean up with.

After I cleaned up, me and Mom continued our conversation, with her not drinking her tea this time.

“Okay Satoshi can you please explain what you’re talking about?” I can tell she urgently wants to know, since she’s using my actual first name.

“Yesterday, when I got home I got a call from a hospital in some Unovan town called Gravesfield, a woman is claiming that I’m the father of her daughter, I’m going there tomorrow to see what’s going on.” I told her.

“Are you sure Ash? Maybe she is lying?” She questioned.

“Maybe, but something is telling to go there.” I answered.

Mom looked unsure when I said that, “Okay Ash, just be careful.”

“I will be Mom.” I promise, as I get up to leave.

As I was exiting out the front door Mom had to remind me of one last thing.

“Ash, remember to change your underwear. “

“MOM!”

———The Next Day———

Here I was in front of the Gravesfield Hospital, Pikachu on my shoulder. It was easy to get here since there was an airport nearby.

“Time to see what’s going on.” I said to myself, and Pikachu.

“Pika.” Pikachu answered, ready.

As I enter the hospital, I see a woman at the front desk, assuming it’s the receptionist I walk up to her.

“Excuse me miss, I was asked to come over here a few days ago?”

“Oh, what’s your Name?” The receptionist asked. I question how she didn’t me but never mind that.

“Satoshi Asher Ketchum.” I told her.

“Ah yes, Dr. Hanford,” she called out to a doctor that was walking by, “Mr. Ketchum is here.”

He looked surprised when he heard that. “Oh you actually came, well good, can you please follow me Mr. Ketchum.” He asks as I nod my head.

He leads me to a hospital room, in the room lays a Latino woman with short straight brown hair, glasses, something about her seems vaguely familiar, next to her is a Beheeyem, most likely her Pokemon, but there is also a, roughly, seven year old girl, that looks like the woman with long curly hair, and more importantly very similar lighting bolt cheek marks like his own.

“Camila Noceda, Mr. Ketchum is here to speak to you, I’ll leave to let all of you speak.” The woman, most likely Camila, looked as the doctor left. I could just see how sickly she looked.

‘I’m beginning to worry about why I was called here.’

When the little girl noticed me she ran up to me jumping up and down, with stars in her eyes, “You-you’re Ash K-ketchum the wor-world champion!” She stuttered out

I couldn’t help but smile at the little girl, “Yes I am kid.”

“Luz give Mr. Ketchum some space.” Camila tells the girl.

“Yes M-Mami.”

“How about you go play with Pikachu, as I speak with your Mother kid.” The girl gets excited as she follows Pikachu outside the room, I just hope Pikachu doesn’t accidentally shock the girl.

With just me and the woman left in the room, “So that girl is my…?”

“Daughter, yes.” Camila tells me.

“Say can you please explain how it happened?” I ask of her.

The woman just takes a deep breath then begins to explain, “seven years ago, after you had stopped Team Plasma from freezing over the region, some girls from the school I went to dragged me to a bar, where you were drinking a lot of alcohol, the girls I was with, knowing I had a celebrity crush on you, coerced me into sleeping with you. Which resulted in Luz.”

“That explains why I woke up naked that morning.” I said blushing a bit.

“The reason why I called you here, is because well I’m dying.” She told me.

“I can see that.”

“I need you to take care of Luz when I’m gone, I already instructed Beheeyem to help watch over her, please.” She asked me, with desperation clear in her voice.

“I’m guessing there wasn’t anyone else to go to.” I asked in return.

She hesitated for a second before talking, “No, when my Mami found out I was pregnant she kicked me out.”

“Sorry for asking.” I solemnly apologized.

“Don’t apologize, this is what I get for taking advantage of someone.”

“You were only a teenager.” I tell her, as I come a decision of what I have to do.

“Okay I’ll do it.” I declared.

“Huh?” The woman was surprised.

“I’ll look after Luz.” I tell her.

Camila began to tear up after I said that, “Thanks so much Mr. Ketchum!”

“Just call me Ash please, you’re making me feel old. I just can’t stand to let a child suffer.” I explain.

“Luz you can come back now.” Camila called out.

Luz walked back into the room holding Pikachu, clearly having been shocked.

“Wh-what is it Mami?” The girl asked her mom.

I decided to tell the girl, “Simply to tell you, I’m your Dad.”

The girl looked ecstatic when she heard that, “Really, Really, Really…!”

Camila was happy to see her daughter happy one last time.

She died later that night.

Camila Noceda died in the Gravesfield Hospital, at 10:13 PM, age 23, surrounded by her only daughter, and the child’s father.

———2 weeks later———

I was able to get papers to officially adopt Luz, making her Luz Noceda-Ketchum, I decided to let her keep Noceda to remember her Mother by.

They held a small funeral for her, another one added to Gravesfield already large graveyard.

I told Mom what happened, she felt bad for the girl, but was at least excited to have a granddaughter to spoil.

We had packed everything to be brought to Pallet town, since Luz was going to be living with me, I have some rooms in my house currently not in use, that can be turned into a bed room, I’ll probably have to teach her kantonese.

It was time to leave, but I couldn’t see where Luz was.

“Luz! Where are you?”

I decide to check the backyard. Where I see her with an Oshawott.

“Ah, oh hi Papi.” She says when she notices me, trying to hide the Oshawott.

“I can see the Oshawott kid.”

Luz basically gave up trying to hide the Oshawott, “ I fo-found him t-two months ago in the backyard, I-I’ve been taking care of him, so can I please keep him.” Made sense from what I heard most Oshawotts used as starters are found nearby so it probably just wandered off.

I couldn’t say no to the expression on her face so, “Fine, come on it’s time to leave.”

Both Luz and the Oshawott hugged me.

As we left with her Mom’s Beheeyem, I saw a small weird looking Hoothoot that was stealing from people’s garbage.

I don’t have the time for this.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Chapter 4: One last talk with Mami

Summary:

Luz visits her Mother’s grave as she begins her journey, and encounters the owl from back then.

Notes:

CW: Infodumping

“It has been seven years ever since you’ve passed away Mami, I’m now fourteen, a lot of things have changed over the years.”

“To start Dad is great, he’s been nice ever since he took me in. He’s surprisingly not as busy as you would think for the world champion, well mostly when it comes to battles, he often complains about paperwork, very often, I know he enjoys battles, I’m a bit worried that he had to stop doing as many to take care of me, didn’t help that I didn’t go on a Pokemon journey when I turned ten. Lack of motivation and all.”

“It’s nice to have a grandma, even if she’s only in her late 40’s surprisingly, she’s a really great cook, actually owning one of the few restaurants in Pallet Town, she basically spent the first two years since she met me spoiling me, Dad was annoyed at that, but she was this weird habit of reminding Dad to change his underwear every time they see each other, which Dad has unfortunately started to do himself.”

“My Aunt Dawn is great as well, she’s a Pokemon coordinator, someone who participates in Pokemon contests, those were never that popular back in Unova. The weird thing with her is that there are videos and photos that show her and Dad traveling together when they were both ten, but she’s currently three years younger than him, but something tells me that I shouldn’t ask.”

“I also like a lot of Dad’s friends, his friend Brock is actually a Pokemon doctor, like you wanted to be until I ruined that.”

“Despite the fact I haven’t actually gone on a Pokemon before I do have some Pokemon.”

“First is Oshawott, the funny thing is I met him a month and a half before you passed, I took care of him by myself, since your condition. Dad let me keep when he found out, and Oshawott became my first Pokemon.”

“Next was Ralts, Ralts was a gift from Dad’s friend Anabel, she was a member of the battle frontier, she’s an empath which means she can sense emotions, she gave me her me when I was eight since she could feel my emotions and knew about how I had been feeling, she gifted a Pokemon who could help me out with them.”

“Finally is Rowlet, Rowlet was the only one that I got from a professor. When I turned ten me and Dad were in Alola so he could defend his title as Alolan champion, so the local Pokemon professor Kukui let me choose one of the Alolan starters. I chose Rowlet because she was cute, okay, what do you want for me.”

“You know that book you gave ‘Azura the Good Witch’ I loved it! Dad once brought me to meet the author Mildred Featherwhyle. It inspired me to want to be a witch, which is not possible, I’m not even psychic, and I don’t know if I want to know about what aura manipulation is, I asked Dad if he’s heard of it bey he just got a tensed look on his and something just told me to leave it there, but it’s time for me to begin my Pokemon journey, even as if I’m not sure about what I want to do, I’m sure I’ll figure it out, Dad agreed to bring to Unova to start my journey as well.”

“So good bye Mami, I love you.”

As I place the flowers on my Mami’s grave I begin to leave the graveyard as I realize I had dropped my Azura book on the ground. As I turn around I see a familiar small weird looking Hoothoot taking the book and placing it in a bag of garbage.

“You again!”

I remember seeing the same Pokemon the day I left Gravesfield. Dad didn’t let me follow it since we didn’t have time, but now’s as good as ever.

As it begins to run, well hop, away.

“Get back here little thief!” I call out as I begin to chase it.

As I follow, we enter woods near my old house, as it enters an abandoned house, the same that my Mami wouldn’t let me play in since it was ‘dangerous’ in her words, a strange glow appears.

As I enter instead of the interior of an abandoned house like you’d expect. Instead I find myself instead I find myself inside a tent, that’s clearly outside, with a tall pale woman, with Gray hair, wearing a red dress, going through the trash bag the Pokemon brought in.

‘What is going on!?’ I thought.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

We’re bringing to actual get into the TOH side of things.
Also I appreciate the Pokemon suggestions, but can I also get some feedback on the story itself please, or atleast more reasoning for the Pokemon, partially cause I’m not sure about giving characters Pokemon that match their palisman, while letting them keep their palisman.

Chapter 5: A lying witch and Pokemon trainer

Summary:

Luz meets Eda and King, and gets introduced to this strange world she finds herself in.

Notes:

CW: wait I’m being told there is no CW this time, so my boss is letting me out of the basement he keeps me in, so I can see my family again.

Luz found herself in a tent inside of the inside of an old decrepit house.

Looking around she sees a weird collection of objects, “I thought I had a lot of weird stuff, but this is impressive, creepy, but impressive.”

“Oh, you’re back.” She hears the voice of a woman, as she goes to look, making sure she is not seen, there is a pale tall woman, wearing a red dress, with grey hair, having a banana cover part of her hair and her ears.

The weird Hoothoot jumps onto her staff somehow interlocking with it, as the lady turns it around the Hoothoot becomes wooden.

“Let’s see what you brought.” The woman says, as she begins to look through the trash bag.

First she pulls out a linking cord, “Garbage.”

Then an old amber, “Also garbage.”

Then a literally master ball, “Absolute garbage!” The woman says as she chucks the master ball so hard that Luz could hear it shatter upon impact, ‘that would’ve been nice to have’ Luz thought.

“Now this! This will make me rich!” The says taking out and putting a pair of glasses with springy eyes attached.

“And this, well, it will make some good kindling.” She says as she takes out the book from the bag and holds it over a candle.

“Sorry I’ll take that back!” I quickly say as I take my book back and make a break for it back to the door and leave.

But before I can the door folds up and goes away with the woman telling me, “You stay right there!”

In order to try to escape Luz tries going under the tent.

But on the other side, she sees what could be described as some kind of abstract horror painting of a town, with people that don’t even pass a human. “What is going on!?”

A small pink human like creature with bug like wings, “Fairy thing please tell me that this is some kind of fantastical dream, that I will wake up from!?”

Instead of anything actually helpful, “GIVE ME YOUR SKIN!” With a quick swipe Luz hit it, the creature slamming into the ground, probably dead.

“Where am I!? Did I die? Is this the Distortion World?!” Luz said panicking.

“You’ll wish you were.” The woman said grabbing her shoulder bringing to the front of what looks like a stand, placing Luz on a stool.

Luz ready to defend herself grabbed Oshawott’s Pokeball, prepared to send him out. “If you think you’re going to eat my skin without me putting up a fight, you have another thing coming.”

When the woman saw the Pokeball she had a look of panic.

“Put that away kid or you’ll start a mass panic,” the woman tells her, “anyways why would I want to eat a potential customer!” ‘What?’ I look and see the sign of the stand ‘Human Collectibles’.

“What can I offer you, a human foot filled with holes,” a croc, “this bar of green human candy,” deodorant which she hoped no one actually ate, “oh, how about this shadow box that only reflects sadness.” A small battery powered TV.

Luz couldn’t help but smile a little bit at what was going on, so she decided to help the woman out a little.

“That’s not only the only thing it can do,” Luz says as grabs some batteries from a pile labeled ‘human candy! (????)’ ‘I pray to Arceus that no one has eaten that candy.’ As inserts the batteries an old video begins to play.

“elease from my hand, the power that’s inside Venomoth, Poliwag, Nidorino, Golduck, Ivysaur, Grimer, Victreebal, Moltres, Nidoking…”

It was an old video from before her Dad even became a trainer, he told her about this, the original Professor Oak commissioned it to help trainers memorize the kanto dex, I still don’t know why it was only 150 Pokémon,

While the woman manning the stand looked intrigued by the video, everyone else were not even slightly intrigued, out of anything they were afraid of it, panicked even.

“Ahhh, Pokémon!” One person? yelled out as everyone ran away from the stand.

The woman just looked at Luz then said, “Well you still caused a mass panic, uh what did you say your name was?”

“Luz Noceda-Ketchum”

“Luz, but it could’ve been worse, I’ll say you did pretty well for a human.” The woman told her.

“What a weird thing for a fellow ,what I hope is, but am slowly realizing is not, human.” Luz replied.

“That’s because I’m not like you Luz,” the woman says as she takes off the bandanna from her head, revealing pointy ear, “I am Eda the Owl Lady, the most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles!” Luz widened and sparkled a little when she heard witch.

“I am respected, feared, -“

“-BUSTED!” Said a large man, dressed similarly to an old pokerus doctor, smashing the TV.

“Eda the owl lady, you’re wanted for the misuse of magic, demonic misdemeanors, and inciting mass panic just now.” He said bringing out a wanted poster with a ludicrously high bounty. “You’re hereby coming with me to the conformatorium.”

Eda in defense replied with, “Hey will you guys leave me alone, I haven’t done anything wrong!”

He then picks up Luz too saying, “You’re coming with me too, for fraternizing with a criminal, and helping in inciting mass panic.”

“Wait that’s not cool!?” Luz reacted.

“Okay I’ll go, just let me grab my stuff…” Eda says as almost immediately swinging her staff at the man.

Eda quickly packed her entire stand inside a sack, as she runs away she tells Luz, “Follow me kid.” Which she does

“What is going on, this is crazy, and if I die here, I don’t think Arceus will bring me back!” Luz says while running panicked.

“I don’t think I want to know what you are talking do I human? But don’t a human like you is more valuable alive than dead.” Eda responds.

“What does that mea-“ before Luz can finish that sentence she is dragged onto Eda’s staff as it begins to fly, with Luz keeping her eyes closed.

“You can open your eyes now.” Eda tells her, Luz opens them but hangs on tight to the staff.

“Flying staffs, crazy monster, and you’re a witch, what is this place!” Luz asked.

“This is the Boiling Isles, most of your myths come from our world leaking into yours” she tells Luz as a creature that looks a giant pidove attached to a pyroar and vomits out webs.

“Well what about, Darkrai, meloetta, phione, or Melmetal?” Luz asked, with Eda getting a confused expression on her face.

“What even are those things?” Eda asks back.

“Those are mythical Pokemon.” Luz answers with a smug expression.

“Touché kid, but we still banished some of our things to your world, vampires, Girafarigs.”

“Wait Girafarig?”

“Yeah banished them a long time ago, a bunch of freaks with their two heads.” Eda explains as they land, but as they get off Luz notices something.

“Ahh! Eda your hand!” Luz pointed out that Eda’s hand was still very much attached to her staff and not her body.

“Oh that happens sometimes.”

‘That doesn’t sound right in the slightest’ Luz thought.

“Well I think I’m done here, this is more pg-13 than I hoped and expected, so I’ll just be on my way. If you mind helping me out?” Luz told Eda.

“Only if you help me out first, so follow me human.” Eda says while chuckling.

They walk up to a strange house that literally has a tower, and a stain glass that resembles an eye.

“Aren’t you even slightly worried about those guards finding us?” Luz asked.

“Ofcourse not my house’s defense system is state of the art.” Eda replies as the Rowlet looking face on the door begins to speak.

“ hoot-hoot! Password please-“ but is interrupted as Eda pokes it in the eye.

“Hurry up Hooty I don’t have time for this.” Eda tells the thing apparently called Hooty.

“Okay, jeez, you never want to have fun, HOOT!” It says as it opens it mouth for Eda and Luz to walk through.

“Luz welcome to the Owl house, where I hide away from the pressures of life, also the cops, also ex-boyfriends.” Luz is amazed, and fill with awe as she looks around.

“Woah, this place is beautiful, do you live here alone?” Luz wondered.

“Actually I do have a roommate.” Eda says as they hear loud stomping coming by.

“Who dares intrude upon I, the king of demons.” Says a voice that gets higher pitched, as it finally appears, there it is looking like a cubone with black fur. Luz has one reaction upon seeing the critter.

“Ay que lindo!” Shouts Luz as she immediately tackles the demon into a tight hug. “Eda’s he’s so cute, who’s a widdle guy, you’re a widdle guy!”

“Eda get her off me!” The demon yells out, as Eda pulls Luz off him.

“This is Luz the human, she’s here to help out with our little situation.” Eda tells him while holding a Luz trying to grab at the demon to continue hugging him.

“Oh, hooray!”

“Wait what even is this situation?” Luz asks.

“See here,” Eda begins to tell Luz, “ the Warden Wrath stole Kings crown of power, leaving him in a weakened state, it is sealed within contraband at the conformaturium, which only a human can access for some reason.”

Eda continues to tell Luz, “we just need you to get the crown back, and you can leave.”

“I don’t have much of a choice do I?” Luz ask.

“Nope, so let’s get going kid.” Eda says as she literally picks Luz up and brings her out.

———later at the conformaturium———

“Okay we’re here, the conformaturium the place for those considered unfit for society.”

As Luz looks she once again takes note of Eda’s high bounty on a wanted poster, “these guys really want to catch you do they?”

“Yeah but we’re too slippery for them.”

“Try catching me when I’m covered in grease I’m a squirmy fella.” Says King as he squirms on top of Luz’s head.

“I’ll distract the warden while you and king sneak in, also need to free one of Hooty’s friends who are locked up there as well.” Eda tells Luz.

“Do I need a disguise,” Eda just looks confused, “because I’ve been waiting to use this for a long time,” she says flipping up the purloin ears on her hoodie, “ meow, meow”.

“Hideous!” King calls it.

“Eda just smiles saying, “you’ll fit right in kid, now let’s go.”

Eda’s creates a platform out of light using her staff to bring Luz and King up into the Conformaturium.

“See you in the top tower, and use your Pokemon as a last resort or you’ll cause a riot.” Eda warns her as she flys away on her staff.

Luz looks around and sees nothing but cells lining the walls.

“Hey, how’d you get out of your cell cat lady?” A lady with long fangs, in a cell, asked her.

“I’m not a cat, I don’t really know what that is, but I’m also not a criminal.”

“Not yet, anyways.” Kings says to her while on her shoulder.

“Neither are any of us, the warden just locks up anyone who doesn’t fit in.” The lady explained, “Like I write fanfics about food falling in love.” Opening a book showing what looks like a chesto berry and razz berry with each other, “I like food I like love, just let me write about it.”

“I’m here because I like to eat my own eyes.” Says a blue demon with multiple eye sockets, eating an eye, but luckily it rolls back in.

“We awe in a stowy combining two sepawate univewses into one for puwe entewtainment.” A demon that was just a white head with a giant nose, orange hair, limbs, but not a torso, yelled out.

“That’s Tinelle, she’s obsessed with conspiracy theories.” The fanged lady told Luz.

“The god of ouw wowlds cweater is an all powewful llama with a thousand hands.” Tinelle yelled again.

Luz realized something, “Wait, none of these are actually crimes. You did nothing wrong. You’re all just a bunch of weirdos, like me.” Luz didn’t even want to think about if her Dad wasn’t accepting of her.

Before Luz could say anything else she heard giant stomping coming close, and something told her it wasn’t a fake out, “It’s the warden Wrath, hide!” The fanged lady told her.

After sneaking into an empty cell, in came a giant man also for some reason dressed as an old pokerus doctor.

“I can hear you. What are you fools whispering about.” The Warden said picking up a wanted poster of Eda, “Ah the owl lady, she’ll be mine soon enough.” While turning his hand into a hammer slamming it into the cell that Luz was in.

“Fight against the oppwessers! We will wesist! We will conquer! We will never be afwaid of you, you old cweep!” Tinelle yelled again, but weirdly the Warden opened her cell.

“Hooway, I’m fwee!” She said while running out of the cell, just right before the warden grabbed and squeezed her.

“Let this be a lesson for you, there’s no place in society for you if you can’t fit in.” The warden said as he took Tinelle away to be probably tortured.

As Luz leaves the cell so goes over to the level to free the prisoners, “Don’t worry, I’ll free you.”

“It’s not worth it kid, just save yourself-“ the fanged lady begins to tell Luz, but as she says it Luz pulls the level opening her cell. ‘Thank

“Oh, thanks uh…?” The fanged lady says, not knowing Luz’s name.

“Oh, it’s Luz.” She tells her.

“Katya.” The newly named Katya tells her, “You go get going, I’ll free Eyegore here.”

“Okay, let’s go meet with Eda King.” Luz tells King as they walk away.

As they walk into the top tower Eda fly down on her staff, “Okay I just checked the warden is distracted tormenting Hooty’s friend right now. So we have time.” Eda says as Luz walks up to the that is labeled ‘contraband’.

“My crown! It’s close!” Says King running towards the door trying to get it open.

“Aw, he’s adorable when he’s power hungry.” Eda says as she watches what King is doing

“This isn’t fair, why do they have to be punished for being themselves, what’s wrong with being a weirdo.” Luz says as King takes the doorknob off and opens the door.

Inside the room is a giant beam of light that King keeps trying to run into but fails.

“King, we have a human, remember?” Eda reminds him.

“Oh yeah.”

As Luz walks to the beam of light she passes through with little resistance, as she looks around she looks around she sees piles of random objects around, but only one crown and well…

“Are you serious.”

Luz walks out carrying a crown, a burger queen crown.

“My crown!” King shouts as Luz hands him his ‘crown’ back, “yes my power is returning! you there, nightmare critter!” King said pointing to a doll looked like a buneary, “I’ll call you Francois and you shall be a minion in my army of darkness!”

“That crown doesn’t actually give any powers does it?” Luz asked Eda.

“Uh no, kid look at us, me and King is all we have in this world, so if his crown is important to him, it’s important to me.” Eda replies, “And besides, us weirdos have to stick together, you know?” Luz smiled at the sentiment.

“Well we owe you one. Let’s get out before the warden finds us and loses his head.” Eda says not noticing the warden walking up behind her.

“Too late.” He says cutting Eda’s head clean of her body with Luz catching it.

“AHHHH!”

But Eda’s head began talking, “Ow! I hate when that happens!”

Luz was just shocked at what was happening, “EDA YOUR HEAD!”

“Don’t worry this happens when you’re older.” Eda says, trying to reassure Luz.

“DOES IT!?” The reassurance did not work.

“Finally I have you cornered, Eda the Owl Lady. My guards could never get you, but if I took your pets toy you would come running.” The warden says, grabbing Kings crown and crushing it in his hand.

“No! My power!” Luz heard King say.

“What do you want with me! I haven’t broken any of your dumb laws, well in front of you.” Eda complained.

“I want you to go out with me.”

“What?” Luz, Eda, and King.

“You go boss!” One of the guards with the Warden encouraged.

“You’ve always eluded us. You’ve always been that got away. I found that alluring.” He said holding up a bouquet.

Luz was disgusted to say the least, “I hate everything you’re saying!” And she made it clear.

The warden also didn’t like Luz interrupting yelling, “Stay out of this!” Throwing Luz into a wall while grabbing Eda’s head by the hair.

“HEY!” Eda screamed.

“So tell me Owl Lady will you go out with me and we can be the strongest power couple on the Boiling Isles. I mean you don’t really have much of a choice do you?” The warden said chuckling softly at the last part.

‘Thats it I’m stopping this now, time for a last resort!’ Luz thought while grabbing Oshawott’s pokeball.

“Go Oshawott I choose you!”

When Oshawott came out he just stood confused looking around his surroundings.

The guards however, “AH! ITS A POKEMON RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!”

“What the!? Where did you get a Pokemon!?” The warden reacted.

“Quick, Oshawott use razor shell on his arm!” Luz commanded.

Oshawott garbed his scallop it being consumed in a water aura, as he attacks the arm holding Eda’s head, causing him to drop it.

“OW!” He says, as Luz returns Oshawott to his Pokeball and picks up Eda’s head.

Luz grabs Eda’s staff, with Eda’s body and king getting on it.

“Expecto flying? Go staff go? Staff take flight?” Luz tries to make the staff fly but fails.

“Gun it, magic stick!” Eda yells at the staff making it fly, as the Warden gives chase.

As they get outside the warden catches up to the, causing them to crash land, at least Eda got her head back on.

“Luz, go back to the human realm.” Eda tells Luz handing her a key with an eyeball on it.

“What about you guys?”

“You think this is bad? Wait until you see her last boyfriend.” King jokes.

“Not my boyfriend!” Eda did not like the joke.

“Now, run kid, run!” Eda says putting Luz on the staff making it fly Luz, as the warden takes off his mask revealing a giant mouth with two small eyes above it.

The warden is thrown into a wall breaking, when he walks away Luz sees the prisoners standing there but not escaping so she flys down.

“Why aren’t you escaping?” She asks the prisoners.

“The Warden will catch us, he always does.”

“He’s right, we belong here.”

“Self-doubt is a pwison you cannot escape fwom.”

“So what if you have a different way of doing things. A different way of seeing things. That may make you weird but it also makes you awesome. Don’t you see!” Luz told them.

“Why are you helping us?” Katya asked confused.

“Because us weirdos have to stick together, and no one should be punished for who they are.” Luz said as she turned around, grabbing Oshawott’s Pokeball again.

“Oshawott I choose you!”

After Oshawott came out the prisoners step back from surprise, but soon they went to attack the warden.

“I eat my own eyes!”

“I think the wowld is a twiangle!”

“I practice the ancient art of fanfiction!”

Eyegore soon ties up the Warden’s arms as Luz decides it’s her turn.

“Who do you think you are!” The warden yells at them.

“Do not underestimate me, Warden Wrath, for I am Luz, the human warrior of peace. Now eat this sucker!” Luz quotes.

“Oshawott first use water pulse!” As she says that, Oshawott shots a blast of water at the Warden’s face.

Then he begins to slam his head into the ground repeatedly.

“Why am I doing this!?” The warden asked confused.

“Good, now Oshawott end this with scald!” Oshawott blasts hot steaming water at the warden’s face, burning him.

“AW! IT BURNS! AND WHY AM I STILL HITTING MYSELF!” The warden screams as he runs back into the conformaturium.

“That was one of her better breakups.” King jokes, again, as he and Eda walk up to her.

“Not a breakup, but let’s bounce before anymore monsters fall in love with me.” Eda says as they fly away.

———back at the owl house———

“Well, a deal’s a deal. Let’s get you home.” Eda says as she snaps her fingers the key from earlier returns to her hands, pressing the eye on it the strange door appears folding out.

“Before I go,” Luz says as she grabs a Azura doll from bag removing the crown, “I know it’s not the same, but a King deserves a crown.” She places the crown on top of King’s skull.

“This shall suffice, you there plant you are under my command.”

“Before you go, don’t forget this.” Eda says while handing Luz her book back.

“Thanks.” As Luz walks to the door, she looks down at her book she sees the titular character her old mentor, and the animal companion, when she sees this she comes to a realization. This is a world of magic, where witches are a real thing, this could be her chance to become a witch, so she makes a decision.

“I know you got your head cut off, and we started a prison riot, but this has been some of the most fun I’ve had, without someone else almost destroying the world because they grew a god complex.”

“Seriously what are you talking about kid?” Eda asked beyond confused.

“I don’t fit in that well back in my world, you don’t fit in here, so if I stay we can not fit in together?”

“What are you implying Luz?”

“Why don’t I stay here and train to become a witch like you or Azura?”

“What, that’s crazy, humans can’t become witches.” Eda sternly tells Luz.

“The I’ll be the first.” Luz declares. “If you teach me then I’ll do anything you ask.”

“Let her stay, she make us snack.” King whispers to Eda, even though Luz could still hear him.

“Well I could use a hand keeping this goofball out of the cupboards. All right I’ll teach you how to be a witch, granted it might not work. But you have to work for me before you learn any spells. Deal?” Eda offered.

Luz hugged Eda when she heard the offer.

“Okay I’ll take this as a yes. But get off me kid.”

———later that night———

Luz had let her Pokemon out of their pokeballs and fed them. She was currently setting up her sleeping bag in a room that she was pretty sure Eda was using for storage that she let Luz sleep in.

Then Luz heard a notification from her Rotom phone, checking it she saw a text message from her Dad.

-“Hey Luz, how is the first day of your journey going”-

“Your sleep cocoon looks comfortable.” King says to her.

She texted her dad while smiling.

-“I think it will be fun”-

As Luz layed down her Pokemon, and King, cuddled up to her.

‘I can’t wait for tomorrow.” Luz thought as she fell asleep.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

I’m just going to warn everyone the early parts are going to mostly be the same to the show but will slowly deviate more and more, until I’m just not doing the episodes, and is doing original storylines.

Chapter 6: Just like Dad: part 1

Summary:

Luz’s first full day on the Boiling Isles, but she gets scammed quickly.

Notes:

My freedom didn’t last long so CW: Adegast being creepy.

Luz woke up after dreaming about yesterday’s events exclaiming, “It wasn’t a dream!”

She opens up the window, “Good morning, terrifying fantasy world!”

“Good morning.” A sea monster says to her before submerging under water.

“Good morning everyone.” She says as her Pokemon get up.

“You too cutie pie.” Luz says as she picks up King.

“I’m not your Cutie pie!” King yells as Luz rapidly smooches him, not noticing Rowlett getting jealous of the attention King was getting.

After setting King down, him immediately falling back asleep, while ignoring the murderous look on Rowlett’s face, goes to the bathroom to freshen up.

But…

“HELLO THERE!” The weird Hooty says to her, while she’s in the bathroom.

So naturally she punches it.

“Ow, I’m just wishing you a good morning! JEEZ! HOOT! OW!” Hooty complained going, or stretching away.

“Sorry Hooty, but next time don’t sneak up to someone when they’re in the bathroom, where I’m from that’s an easy way to get arrested.” Luz told Hooty, not feeling that bad.

Luz looks into the mirror and begins to hype herself up, “Today’s your first day as a witch’s apprentice Luz!”

After that, Luz went down stairs to feed her Pokemon, with Ralts helping by getting bowls, and wait for Eda.

Eda came downstairs, and well.

“Who are you?” Eda asked, referring to Luz.

Luz, disappointed, told her, “I’m Luz Noceda-Ketchum your apprentice.”

“Not ringing any bells.”

“We broke into a prison, freed the oppressed, helped you break up with your boyfriend, Yesterday?” Luz reminded.

“For one, not my boyfriend,” Eda sternly told her, “two, lay off the details I haven’t even had my cup of apple blood.”

“You mean apple juice?”

“No.”

Luz ran to Eda asking, “C’mon, teach me some magic spells. When can I get a magic staff? Was I supposed to bring my own runes? I have some with unknowns on them.”

“What does that even mean?” Eda asked, questioning what Luz was talking about.

“Wait! Do you have a magical quest for me?” Luz wondered, while basically shaking Eda.

“Slow down kid. You’re acting like you’re a witch in some JRPG, don’t ask how I know that, but you aren’t a proper witch yet just my apprentice.” Eda reminded while drinking the apple blood which Oshawott was trying to get to.

“But a staff is what you want?” Eda asked.

“More than anything!” Luz said, almost yelled, while furiously nodding her head yes.

“Magic staff, come to me!” Eda says holding out her hand for her staff to go to. Her staff clearly knocking into everything in its way.

Luz actually notices another masterball on a counter, before Eda’s staff knocks into it causing it to shatter on the ground.

Eda catches her staff, after it hit her in the face, she begins to explain, “Now, witches receive their staff through school. With me as your teacher, you’ll be taking a different approach.”

Eda proceeds to drop a big sack filled with potions on the ground saying, “You’ll receive your staff through hard labor.”

They walk in to the living room as Eda explains, “I run a few businesses. On weekends, I sell rare human treasures that Owlbert drags from your world.” As she picks up a random toy sword from a random pokestar studio’s movie that Luz recalls seeing once.

She continues after throwing the sword away, “But most days I sell the finest homemade elixirs and potions.”

Luz looking through the bag and sees, “Snake oil?”

“No one wants an unoiled snake.” Eda states like it’s common sense, followed by, “Follow me.”

Eda brings Luz to a balcony overlooking a town.

“Today you’ll deliver packages and sell potions to that town over there, Bonesborough.” Eda tells her pointing to the town, “But be careful I have enemies and rivals everywhere who would do anything to ruin my business. You want a dangerous magic guest? Here you go kid.”

“I won’t fail you Eda.” Luz tells her as she accidentally drops the sack of potions.

“I’m sure.”

They go downstairs to the front door.

“Remember, never a man in sandals and always measure twice, cut once.” Eda advises Luz.

“Okay?”

Eda looks at King before saying, “Wake up King you’re going with her.”

King woke up annoyed complaining, “What why!?”

“Because Luz is either going to get lost or tricked. Also you don’t pay rent.” Eda sternly told King.

“I’m still here. you do know that right?” Luz reminded.

Eda continued, “Whatever. Also Luz bring your Pokemon just in case, in their Pokeballs.”

“Okay.” Luz said, “Ready Ralts and Rowlett.” She realized something immediately, “Wait where is Oshawott?”

She soon got an answer when they heard something in the kitchen fall, as they run into the kitchen they see Eda’s mug on the ground and Oshawott having drank it, his face all red.

“Osha-osh” He said like he was drunk?

“Yeah he’s not going to be in use for a while.” Eda plainly told her.

———later———

Luz looked around as she and King walked through the town. “I’ve only seen places like this in my dreams.” Luz said.

“You mean nightmares.” King commented.

Luz ignored that, “It’s incredible, and I’m the only human here?”

“You’re the only one I’ve seen.” King shrugged.

Luz had a thought when she heard that, “That can’t be a coincidence, I must be destined for greatness, like how my Dad was.”

“Did it involve having to sell boil cream?” King said, holding well boil cream.

“Today it’s delivering potions, tomorrow I’ll be earning everyone’s respect with my magical prowess.” Luz proclaimed, overly optimistic.

“HA! Good luck! The Boiling Isles is nothing but a cesspool of despair.” King bounty told Luz, overly pessimistic.

“You mean a cesspool of delight.” Luz said, extremely optimistic.

King just rolled his eyes at that, “Whatever. Let’s just get this over with.”

“Don’t worry, it can’t take that long.” Luz would regret those words.

———later again———

Yeah, Luz regretted those words. Luz and King had been delivering potions for roughly 4 hours now. Why? Because almost everyone tries to kill Luz. Most of them were scared away the second Luz sent out her Pokemon, but she did have to actually fight a few, weirdly Rowlett’s razor leaf kept on hitting King as well.

‘At least that ‘Park’ couple was nice.’ Luz thought of the only people she delivered to that didn’t try to kill her.

“Theres only one person left.” King pointed out.

Luz was happy to hear that, “Adegast.” She read off the scroll, ignoring that it was for some reason in reverse alphabetical order.

Arriving at the address they look up and are amazed to see a giant castle, they walk up to it as the gate opens up for them.

“Big houses always belong to big whack jobs.” King warns her, “Let’s just kick the package inside and go.”

Luz doesn’t listen and moves further.

“Hello?”

Luz walks into a room that looks like a study with books lining the walls with the lights off. “I’m here to deliver your package from the Owl Lady.” Luz called out.

All of a sudden the lights turn on, as a man that looks like a stereotypical wizard walks out.

“Magical wizard!” Luz said, excited.

“Weird man in Jim-jams.” King countered.

“Sorry if I took long, I was in my oscillarium, reading the stars. And who might you be young curious child?” The wizard, probably Adegast, said.

“I um-“

“Might I say.” Adegast interrupted, “I sense something unique about your soul.”

“How about you join me for tea?” He ask, summoning a table and two chairs, as he sits on one.

Before Luz could sit on one of the chairs King grabs her leg, telling her, “Let’s scram! Wizards are weird old people who carry glitter in their pockets, and everyone knows glitter is evil.”

“But his robe sparkles, and there is a baby animal in his beard.” Luz pointed out referring to an animal that looked like a Nickit crawl out of his beard, looking scared for some reason. “Also there are scones on the table.”

King ran over there yelling, “Free food!” Luz followed.

As Luz sat down she noticed equipment for making potions, “Do you also make potions?” She asked.

Adegast looked oddly annoyed at that quickly saying, “Uh yes, I do fancy myself a potionier. Anyways, I wasn’t aware that Eda had picked up an apprentice?” Adegast asked, changing the subject.

“It’s a recent development.” Luz told him, failing to notice him beginning to smirk.

“Tell me child, are you having fun so far?” He ask her in a slow tone.

“I thought it would be fun, but so far she hasn’t taught me anything, I just wish I could go on a-“ Luz confesses before being interrupted.

“Magical quest.” Adegast answers for her.

“Yeah.”

“Luckily for you I have a quest.” Luz perks up when she hears that, “You see, the Boiling Isles are cursed to be a land of darkness slowly falling apart due to its own depravity, but fortunately there is a staff that can only be wielded by a girl from another land, a chosen one if you will, with the celestic staff she will free the land form the curse.” Adegast explained to Luz.

King felt uncomfortable with the interaction and decided to get involved, “Let’s go Luz, Eda is probably waiting for us.” King told Luz urgently.

“Take this chosen one, it will take you to your destination.” Adegast said throwing Luz what was likely a map, as King and Luz left, them not noticing his smile not reaching his eyes.

———Later at the Owl house———

In her room Luz begins to pack for her quest as King tries to stop her.

“Luz I don’t think this a good idea.” King told her, worried.

Luz rolled her eyes, ignoring King’s concerns, “Don’t worry King. Anyways should I be an optimistic chosen one or a pessimistic chosen one?”

“Luz please listen.”

Eda proceeded to walk into the room, “What’s going on here?” Eda asked.

“Eda please tell Luz not listen to wizards.” King asked her.

“Wizards are the worst.” Eda stated.

“But he told me I’m the chosen one, he gave me a map to the celestic staff.” Luz said, starting to feel deflated.

“You seriously fell for that, if such a staff existed I would have stolen it years ago.” Eda said as she began laughing, while King just looked worried for Luz.

Luz looked like she could cry, Eda stopping laughing when she saw that, “Oh-okay, guess that’s on me for being a dumbass, can you leave me alone then.” Luz said, almost a whisper.

“Okay kid.” Eda said, as she and King left Luz alone. Eda feeling bad about laughing,

———a few minutes later———

“King, who was that client that told Luz all that, I don’t want Luz delivering to him again.” Eda asked.

“Oh Adegast.” Eda eyes grew wide the second she heard that.

Eda sprints upstairs bursting into Luz’s room yelling, “Luz!”

But Luz wasn’t there, the window opened.

Eda picks up the map Luz left on the floor, holding it up to sunlight with a path appearing on the map, with words saying, “the path will only appear to the worthy”.

“FUCK!” Eda yelled out, “HOOTY!”

Hooty appears through the window. “Yeeees?” Hooty says sing songy.

“Where did Luz go!?” Eda asked desperately.

“I’ll tell you if you answer my riddles three within a we-“

Eda banged her hand on the wall, “NOW!” She didn’t have time for this.

“OW! Okay, she went into the woods. HOOT!” Hooty told Eda as he slithered away.

‘This isn’t good.’ Eda thought.

———in the woods———

It was obvious, the fact she could see the path, proved that she is the chosen one, just like Dad. She could finally help, instead of ruining everything.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Be careful Luz your inferiority complex is showing.

Chapter 7: Just like Dad: part 2

Summary:

Eda and King go rescue Luz from the scam she walked into.

Notes:

CW: Adegast is disgusting

Eda and King were walking through what looked like an abandoned village, looking for Luz.

“Are you sure she came here?” Eda asked King panicked.

“Can’t mistake her smell. Like situs berries, and young naive confidence.” King replied.

Eda sees a creature that resembles a meowth, running up to it she grabs it yelling, “Hey, where is Luz!?”

The thing just giggles, “To find your pupil and still your wrath, look ahead and follow the path.” It says as it turns to dust.

“Damn bastard!” Eda cursed.

“Eda what is going on?” King asked confused.

Eda begins to explain to him, “Adegast is a rival potion maker, he’s luring me here using Luz so he can kill me.”

“What’s going to happen to Luz?”

Eda tensed up when king asked that only answering, “You’re a little too young to know and let’s keep it at that. But he’s going to expect us. So we’ll have to sneak up on him.” Eda looked towards her staff with an idea.

———with Luz———

Luz found herself walking up to the celestic staff in the middle of the lake, with the help of the companions she made along the way she was going to save the Boiling Isles, she was the chosen one after all.

She was going to celebrate with her companions after this, well maybe not Nevereth, Luz thought he was hot and all, but she was frankly starting to feel uncomfortable with the way he kept bringing his hand towards her lower back, she told him to stop but he didn’t.

A pathway towards the staff rises from the water to let her grab the staff. “I knew this world wasn’t as bad as Eda and king told me. There is wonder here. I knew I came here for a reason.”

As Luz steps in front of the staff she thinks out loud, “Okay, this is it. The moment of truth.”

Luz grabs the staff, what looks like mystical energy is released, “I knew I was the chosen one! I always hoped there was a reason I suffered all those years ago, why no one understood me back then. Now I have proof, I can save everyone just like dad.” Despite how happy Luz was, something within her told her something was terrible wrong.

All of a sudden the staff turns to dust, the flora dies, the water dissipates.

“What the distortion!” Luz exclaims.

That same feeling makes her remove the items her companions gave her.

“Luz the human.” Adegast says walking out of the fog, “It seems your hubris has failed you.”

Luz begins to see a strange looking demon with tentacles behind the wizard, one connected to him.

The companions and other colorful characters she meet along the way appear also with tentacles connected to their backs.

“Why do I feel like you’re behind all of this aren’t you.” Luz accused the creature.

“Ofcourse I was, you were so easy to trick with a simple chosen one scam. Now not only will I kill Eda for taking my customers, I will get a new plaything if you will.” It revealed a disgusting smile forming on its face.

Luz almost immediately realized what it meant. “Wait that means… Nevereth, OH EUGH! Your disgusting, you need to bur-“

Before Luz could finish a hot air balloon, the balloon part looking a giant meow this head, fell on top of the thing crushing it, hopefully killing it.

“Okay that was unexpected,” Luz thought out loud, “but I’m not looking a gift Rapidash in the mouth.” Luz began to walk away until…

“Prepare for trouble!” A human woman with long dark pink hair said

“And make it double!” A human man with short blue hair said as well.

“To protect the world from devastation!”

Luz swears she recognizes them from something.

“To unite all people within our nation!”

“Luz are you okay?” Eda asks as she flys down on her staff with King, becoming confused as she sees what’s happening.

“To denounce the evils of truth and love!”

“Luz what is happening?” Eda asked her.

“I don’t really know.” Luz replied.

“To extend our reach to the stars above!”

“Jessie!” The woman introduced herself.

“James!” The man called himself.

Those names sounded familiar to Luz, but where.

“Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light!”

‘Team Rocket! Does that mean, these are who I think they are?’ Luz thought.

“Surrender now or prepare to fight!”

“Meowth that’s right!” Said a talking Meowth.

‘Yeah it’s them.’ Luz figured it out.

“Wobbuffet!” A Wobbuffet said popping out.

“Luz?” Eda was beyond confused, “I may not know much or anything about Pokemon, but last time I checked Pokemon couldn’t talk.”

“Most can’t.” Luz says pointing towards Meowth, “He’s the exception.”

Meowth looked prideful from that, “You betcha. I’m guessing the twerp told you about us then.”

“Yeah, he also told about how incompetent you were always trying and failing to steal his Pikachu, and also how he ultimately took down Team Rocket.” Luz reminded.

Jessie countered, “Just in case you didn’t hear Twerp Jr. but last week Team Rocket revealed themselves to have returned, us included.”

Luz had heard about that, but last week no.

“What are you talking about? That was a month ago?” Luz asked.

“Wait!? What!?” James screamed.

“I wonder if all those concussions have finally caught up to us?” Meowth questioned.

Ignoring all that. “What are you doing here!?” Luz yelled.

“We were at sea searching for rare Pokemon, when a storm hit us!” James began.

“We woke up to this strange land, filled with beast the boss has never seen before.” Jessie finished.

Eda was still confused. “Luz what is Team Rocket?” Eda asked.

“They’re a group of people that steal other people’s Pokemon, and the occasional world domination.” Luz explained, offhandedly mentioning the world domination part, which kinda concerned Eda.

“Yeah, well imagine our surprise when we see the twerps daughter so we decided to drop in.” Meowth continued.

“We also heard what that THING said.” James included, a look of extreme disgust on his and the other members of TRio, Wobbuffet included, faces referring to Adegast.

‘Good to know they have standards.’ Luz, Eda, and King all thought somewhat relieved.

“This is what’s going to happen Twerp Jr.” Jessie began to explain their plan, “We are going to steal your Pokemon, and if you want them back your father must give us Pikachu!”

‘Ofcourse they’re after Dad’s Pikachu.’ Luz thought exasperated.

“How about I choose you Rowlett!” Luz yells sending Rowlett out.

“Use pluck!” Luz commanded.

Instead of attacking Team Rocket, Rowlett swooped down and pecked at Kings head.

“WEH!” King screamed.

Luz started to realize, along side the razor leafs from earlier and now, that Rowlett just didn’t like King.

“Rowlett use pluck on Team Rocket.” Luz redirected.

As Rowlett actually listened and targeted Team Rocket, they countered with well…

“Wobbuffet counter with counter.” Jessie countered.

As Rowlett slams into Wobbuffet he is sent flying back.

“Just give up your Pokemon an-“ James demands as he is interrupted.

“Gojira use hyper beam!” A male voice yells out, interrupting Team Rocket.

A hyper beam’s hits Team Rocket sending them flying.

“We’re blasting off again!” They screamed as they blast off into the sky.

Starting to get tired of everything going on today, they turn around and see a man wearing a cloak with red hair covering his ears, besides him is a shiny Tyranitar, likely Gojira.

“Okay are you also going to attack us!” Eda accuses him, holding her staff up in defense.

The man holds his hand up in a stop motion saying, “Don’t worry I was just here for them, you can just go about your day.” He pulls out an ultraball returning the Tyranitar to it, while bringing out a fastball.

“Treble lets take flight.” Out comes a huge Crobat, noteworthy having a damaged wing. As he gets on it he looks towards us. “But we’ll see each other again, especially you Luz.” He says as he flys off.

“Should we be worried?” King asks.

Eda sees a shrunken Adegast try to run away but quickly grabs. And eats it.

“Did you want some of that?” Eda asked Luz.

“You ok kid?” Eda asks as she sees Luz’s sadness.

“I’m just confused. This place isn’t what I thought it was.” Luz says disappointed.

“Come with me kid.” Eda tells Luz as they get on her staff to fly away.

———later———

Eda had Luz wear a blindfold as they were still flying.

“You can look now.” Eda tells her.

Luz takes off the blindfold.

“Whoa.” Is the only thing Luz says, as she finally gets to see what Eda wants to show her.

A giant corpse with towns and cities built into it, it was clear, this was the Boiling Isles.

“The bones of the Isles.” Eda begins to tell Luz, “Up close it can be slimy.”

“And stinky.”

“And gross. But if you look at it from a different perspective.” Eda continues as a shooting star passes by.

“It’s beautiful.” Luz finishes.

“Eda how did you know the wizard was lying?”

“Kid, we all want to believe we’re “chosen.” but if we wait around for it we would die. And that’s why you need to choose yourself.” Eda explains before asking her own question, “But kid something tells me there’s more to it for you, isn’t there?”

Luz decides it’s her time to explain, “The reason why I easily believed him, is because there is a chosen one in my world,” Eda gains a look of intrigue on her face as Luz continues, “my dad.”

Eda was wide eyed at that. “Are you sure about that kid?” She asked.

Luz nodded her head as she continued, “When my Dad was ten he was on a island as a disaster was going on, that was predicted in a prophecy, it stated “the world would turn to Ash.””

“I’m guessing your dad’s name is Ash?” Luz nodded her head.

“It doesn’t help that he kept getting involved in world ending events, by stopping them.” Luz mentioned.

Eda sighed at that, “Makes sense why you believed it easily then, but Luz don’t worry, you can just choose yourself.”

“Does that mean you’ll give me my own magic staff?” Luz asked excitedly.

“Eventually Luz, eventually.” Eda answered.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

No one expected them to show up, and hopefully everyone has a good idea on who the red hair guy was.

Chapter 8: Abomination of a trainer: part 1

Summary:

Luz meets Willow and sneaks into magic school. Also Amity.

Notes:

CW:child @buse, and neglect

It was the day after everything involving Adegast, if anyone would ask Luz or King what happened after, they would deny sleeping in Eda’s nest because Adegast freaked them out. And Luz discovered that Eda has a nest for some reason.

Eda had Luz close her eyes and was taking her somewhere, again. From the sounds of waves crashing Luz guessed they were at some kind of water front.

“Open your eyes Luz!” Eda told her cheerfully.

Luz opened them and well.

“Isn’t it amazing?” Eda asked.

It in question, was a dead giant sickly green creature that resembled a gastrodon to Luz.

“Breathtaking isn’t it Luz!”

‘Sure is taking my breath away.’ Luz thought trying to not cough up her lungs from the retching oder the corpse was producing.

“I don’t like this.” Luz outright told Eda.

“Nothing more inspiring than a trash slug.” Eda said ignoring Luz, “It makes a home, a life from what others throw to the wayside.”

“Until a wave hits killing it from all the salt, and we can sell the stuff it ate.” Eda explains pulling out a pickaxe from your hair, motioning for Luz to grab it.”

“Please no Eda!” Luz begged.

“Come on Luz, it’s not every day you get to pick apart a carcass.” King said sarcastically while rolling out a towel with what looked like a yellow silhouette of a ducklett on it.

“Ah, nuts to both of you.” Eda says as she swings the pickaxe at the creature’s teeth shattering a masterball that was between its teeth.

With Eda still being her mentor Luz asks, “So Eda, what if we try some new for my apprenticeship?” She continues as Eda goes through the garbage that came out of the trash slug, “Like, read ancient scrolls, mix together potions, or…”

“That just sounds like a bunch of magic school stuff.” Eda said with annoyance.

Luz on the other hand was excited when she heard what Eda said. “Wait is there a magic school here? Like, winding towers, cute uniforms, dark plots that threaten your life magic school?”

“Please stop describing school! the worse part is that they force you to learn magic the “proper” way.” Eda says extremely annoyed, “There is no proper way, magic is supposed to be wild and unpredictable. It’s what makes it beautiful.”

“Besides I didn’t finish school. And who wouldn’t be envious of me?” Said Eda while standing in a pile of trash that was within something’s guts.

As Eda sees Luz’s disappointed expression she decides to give her a little lesson, “Hey. here’s a lesson a great witch is resourceful like this.” Eda tells Luz shoving her hand in slime pooled in some guts grabbing a slime ball.

“A greasy slime ball.” Luz said disappointed.

“Can I go and look at pictures of animals that aren’t dead?” Luz asked.

“Okay, but I want you to find a use from that slime ball.” Eda told her as Luz quickly gave King a belly rub before walking away.

———in the forest———

Luz was walking through the forest, she had let Oshawott out of his Pokeball for a bit. Oshawott was exploring, looking through bushes trying to find berries, climbing trees and such.

Luz, meanwhile, was pondering over the slime ball. “If magic is all about digging for slime balls, I don’t think I have the stomach for it.”

“You can do it! You can!” Encouraged a female voice, that came out of nowhere, causing Oshawott to fall out of the tree he was in.

“Mysterious voice of encouragement?” Luz questioned, before looking through a bush close to where the voice came from. Luz sees a slightly chubby, but could’ve been muscle, Luz couldn’t really tell from this distance, girl with dark navy hair, and glasses wearing some kind of cowl and hot pink selves and leggings.

“No! Little witch girl.”

“You can do it!” The girl encouraged herself, “Even if you get a bad grade, it’s not a reflection of you as a witch. And my parents are right. There are better opportunities on this track.”

Luz understood half those words, but continued eavesdropping, I mean listening.

“Now, get to school!” The girl continued but stopped once she accidentally stepped on a flower. “Oh no!” The girl exclaimed, “Oh, little friend! I’m sorry!” The girl used magic to regrow the flower.

But soon after a girl in the same uniform with a gold star on the cowl, with brown hair that was clearly dyed a minty green came by on a metal pot in a wagon.

“Willow!” The minty headed girl said with a condescending tone, “You’re so unnoticeable I almost rolled right over you.”

The flower immediately died as Willow’s expression fell, “Hey Amity.”

“Shouldn’t you get to class early to prep your…” the girl, Amity, started to say as Willows pot fell over a weird purple slime falling out of it.

“Oh you don’t have anything to show do you?”

“Witch drama!” Luz commented.

“Wott!” Oshawott was also invested in what was going on.

Amity continued, “This is why people call you “half-a-witch Willow”.” From Luz could guess “half-a-witch” was probably some kind of derogatory term. As she heard Amity’s pot rattle the girl kept on talking, “Oh, looks someone wants to say something to you. Abomination rise.” She said with a snap.

Out of the pot comes an anthropomorphic Muk looking thing, it draws what looks like a star on Willows forehead with its slime.

“Aw it’s like mine.” Amity says, “But much smaller and less significant. It’s my job as top student to motivate other members of my track, but honestly you should just change tracks.” She told Willow as she walked away.

That last sentence sounded almost apologetic weirdly. Actually everything else Amity said felt dishonest to Luz, filling her with a sense of pity for both Willow and Amity for some reason.

As soon as Amity left Willow wiped the star off her forehead annoyed, “I hate when she does that. I hate making abominations. I hate getting bad grades. I hate being called half-a-witch. I hate it!”

As the girl yelled vines grew from the ground uncontrollably, grabbing Luz dragging her to Willow.

The girl stops as she sees Luz, “Oh, no, no, no, no, no! I’m so sorry!” Willow apologizes to Luz as she helps remove the vines off Luz’s legs.

“Don’t worry, it barely went through any layers, and besides I’ve seen worse.” Luz tells Willow to calm her down before noticing she is staring at her, more specifically her ears.

“So circly, You’re human!” Willow realized, before stopping as Oshawott caught up to Luz ready to defend her.

“Osha!” Oshawott exclaimed holding his scallop out like a sword.

“AHH!” Willow screamed, “A POKÉMON!”

“Calm down, Oshawott return.” Luz said, returning Oshawott to his Pokeball in an attempt to calm Willow down.

“H-How di-d-did you d-do that!?” Willow stuttered stopping as a bell rang making her go back to the pot, “Nevermind, I have to go and disappoint my teachers and parents. It was nice to meet you human.”

“Wait! I’m Luz. And you’re Willow, right?” Willow nodded, “What you did with that flower and those plants was amazing!” Luz complimented.

“Thanks, but I’m not even supposed to be doing plant magic. My parents put me in the abominations track at school.”

Luz was excited at the mention of a magic school, “Like, Magic school?” Luz asked excitedly.

Willow nodded again. “That’s so cool!” Luz exclaimed, “I’m so jealous! I have a teacher but her methods are a bit untraditional. I bet she wouldn’t even let me enroll.
I wish I could spend one day there.” Luz told Willow.

“I wish I could get a passing grade. So people would stop calling me half-a-witch Willow.” Willow told Luz.

Luz got an idea when

“I know a way we can both get what we want.” Luz told Willow.

There was no way this could go wrong.

———with Amity———

Amity was having a bad day. Who was she kidding, she only had bad days.

Odalia had her wake up at 4 AM so she can get more studying in.

Edric and Emira set a bucket of water on her door, when it fell on her only soaked her clothes. When she told Odalia about it, Odalia just slapped her telling her to stop complaining like a child.

After eating breakfast, that to most witches and demons wouldn’t even count as a small appetizer, her Dad obviously wasn’t there, again.

‘Did he outright forget we exist.’ Amity thought.

After getting her school uniform on, the sleeves were able to cover the bruises that colored her arms, she left to school.

She came across Willow on her way to school, Odalia telepathically forced her bully Willow, but Amity did try to at least nudge Willow into changing tracks.

‘She at least can change tracks.’ Amity thought, ‘Unlike me.’

In class they had to present their abominations.

Amity hoped that Principal Bump had been hit by a confuse ray, that would actually explain why he had hired someone as incompetent as Professor Hermonculus to teach.

“If the next abomination is a failure you’re all getting extra homework!” Everyone groaned at that.

“How about I go next Professor Hermonculus.” Amity offered trying to spare everyone from extra homework.

“Amity you know I always save the best for last, how about Willow.” Yeah he really wanted to give everyone extra homework.

“Abomination rise.” Willow said, this wasn’t going to be good Amity thought.

The lid of the pot was sent flying as what was clearly a girl jumped out of the pot.

‘No way he’s going to fall for this.’ Amity thought, no way her teacher was this incompetent.

“Hm, impressive Willow, but does it speak?” Hermonculus asked.

‘He’s falling for it.’ Amity thought exasperated.

Amity was dumbfounded at how incompetent he was, she began to notice the girls traits, more specifically the ears and lighting bolt marks on the cheeks. ‘No way she’s human! And those cheek marks, it can’t be, is she related to him!?’ She thought.

After class Amity was still thinking over what happened, she had gotten an A+ naturally, but she wasn’t sure what to do about Willow and the human, they prevented the class from getting extra homework, so Amity was willing to look this over.

But then Professor Hermonculus gave Willow the top student spot. Amity didn’t want to think what her Mother would do when she learned of this.

‘Yeah I have to stop them!’ Amity thought not wanting to die, while staring them down.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

I’m probably going to go update the other chapters to fix spelling mistakes. Also I want to see if someone can guess the crack/crossover ship that will involve Ash.

Chapter 9: Abomination of a trainer: part 2

Summary:

Luz gets caught sneaking into school.

Notes:

CW: child @buse

Luz was having fun sneaking into Hexside. She met Willows friend Agustus, who she quickly nicknamed Gus after someone her Dad helped out once, who was a human fanatic, she even cleared up a minor misconception involving braces for him, but when she asked what was his thoughts on Pokemon.

“What!? You mean those disgusting beasts!?” Gus answered. Luz was really starting to question what was everyone’s problem with Pokemon. But ignoring that he seemed like a nice kid.

Luz had helped Willow pass her project, and actually caused her to become the top student position, after one good project, it was clear their teacher was as incompetent as the teachers back in Gravesfield, especially considering he didn’t notice that Luz wasn’t a abomination. Luz honestly felt bad about Amity losing the top student position, Luz felt oddly afraid for the girl.

After Amity stared them down they went about the day. Luz sweared that during the runes class that she saw Eda peering in through the window at her.

Luz and Willow had met back up with Gus during lunch.

“Do humans eat PB&Js?” Gus asked.

“Yes I haven’t had real food in days.” Luz says as she snatches half the sandwich in her mouth, before realizing it’s not the same kind of peanut butter as used in the human realm, makes sense due to the lack of peanut Pokémon from southern Kalos here.

“Gus I don’t think that was a good idea,I mean if Amity saw that-“ Willow said, worried before being interrupted as Amity ran up on the table.

“I saw that!” She screamed accusingly, “Reveal yourself! I know you’re not an abomination!” She yelled with a sense of urgency that Luz could feel.

“Amity.” The professor from said with a disappointed tone, “I knew you were jealous, but this is just pathetic, go to the principals office!” He told her.

“But-“ Amity begged,

“Go to the Principal’s office!” He demanded, Amity flinched as he yelled.

“okay.” Amity said with a scared tone, but something told Luz that it wasn’t of the Principal.

———later———

Luz and Willow were currently being chased through the school halls by the Principal and Amity.

For context. Luz, Willow, and Gus had walked into an empty room so Luz can stop acting like an abomination for a second, then Amity and the Principal Bump had walked into. The principal wanted to examine Willow’s abomination, aka Luz, and that was going to be through dissection, well vivisection to be more precise but still.

Gus was able to distract them by high fiveing the pots the abomination goo were in, allowing Luz and Willow the chance to escape, then the principal activated the security system causing them to be cornered.

“Oshawott I chose you! Use water pulse on his abominations!” Luz commanded as she sent out Oshawott hoping the Pokemon itself would scare him away, but the water pulse itself would help.

“Luz this is all my fault.” Willow said blaming herself.

“Don’t worry, it was actually quite fun until the whole vivisection thing. But we can find a way out we just have to be resourceful.” Luz says taking the things in her pocket out.

Willow eyes immediately focus on the slime ball and quickly picks it up.

“A slime ball?” Luz questioned.

“No this is a seed I can use to help us.” Willow told her.

‘Glad I had it.’ Luz thought, mentally thanking Eda.

Using the seed Willow creates a giant plant incapacitating the Principal causing the security system to shut down, allowing Luz and Willow to escape.

As they run Amity rushes in front of them. “Don’t run away!” She yelled with an extreme sense of urgency and panic, but weirdly her eyes widen and a happy smile formed on her face when she saw Oshawott.

Willow quickly creates vines to hold off Amity and her abomination, “Luz run, I’ll hold them off.”

“But Willow.”

“Luz I’ll just get detention you’ll be dissected!” Willow told her.

“Actually it’s vivisected but I get the point, I’ll bring back help!” Luz screamed as she ran out.

“Please no!” She heard Amity beg.

As Luz ran back to the Owl House there was weirdly guts and salt everywhere, but ignoring that she tackled Eda and King into a hug.

“Why do you keep doing this?” Eda asked confused.

Luz immediately remembered what she needed help with, “Luz I need your help, my friends-“ she began to explain as she was interrupted by two voices.

“Luz!” Willow and Gus called running up to her.

“You two are okay?” She asked.

“Yeah, and the principal actually switched me to the plant track when he saw what I did.” Willow explains, with a twirl the pink on her uniform changes to green.

“Well I can’t wait to see you in action next time I sneak in.” Luz says excitedly.

“Actually you’ve been kinda banned.” Gus explains as he takes out a poster showing Luz, in a photo she never took, with the words banned above her.

“That’s my girl!” Eda says overjoyed, at Luz being banned from a school.

“But we can tell you what we learned at school.” Willow says to her.

“That’s nice, but don’t worry I have my own teacher.” Luz says as a smile forms on Eda’s face.

“Wait what happened to Amity?” Luz asked worried.

“Last time I checked she was asking Principal Bu,p for extra credit. Don’t worry she’ll be fine Luz.”

———Amity———

Amity was not fine, not in the slightest. Her Mother was extremely anger when she found out she lost the top student position.

She had thrown Amity into the basement with the intention of locking her in there for the night.

“Want me to bring food down for her later?” Alador asked Odalia as they began to leave the basement.

“Ofcourse not Alador, she hasn’t earned it.” Odalia said, as they closed and locked the door.

———???———

Silver has had a stressful last month.

For one his Dad had for some strange reason brought back Team Rocket, when last time he checked he didn’t even want to think of doing that. So Silver had to go and stop them again, he just hoped Ash wasn’t busy and could help.

And when Silver actually decided to take a break by taking a hike through the Ilex Forest when he saw that green onion of a fairy wannabe, Celebi, who he foolishly followed to its shrine when a portal that looked straight from the Distortion World opened under him sending him to some place called the Demon Realm with the goal of stopping some random evil guy.

That’s not even including the fact that his cousins daughter was also here somehow, along with that idiotic TRio, but after some minor stalking from what he could tell she was safe and currently living with some witch. Silver was lucky enough to find a vampire looking witch, named Katya, who was willing to roommate with him.

Katya worked as a teachers assistant for the bard track, whatever that was, at some school called Hexside. She recently came back with a poster showing that Luz had somehow been banned from the school Katya worked at.

But ultimately there was one thing that was causing Silver a lot of stress.

“WHO THE FUCK IS PHILLIP!”

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

CPS clearly doesn’t exist in the Boiling Isles. Also we learned what’s Silver’s doing here.

Chapter 10: Pardon the intrusion: part 1

Summary:

Luz, Eda, and King are stuck in the Owl House due to a boiling rainstorm. And Eda needs to take her medicine.

Notes:

I’m surprised no one acknowledged that Ash and Silver are cousins last chapter in the comments.

Luz was currently on her rotom-phone recording King as he fought a sock on his snout. “Here is the King of demons in his nature habitat, fighting his enemy, the ferocious ducky sock.” She narrated like she was in one of those nature documentaries her Mom had watched when she was alive.

“Where are you now, ducky sock?” King yells at a now torn sock.

“Hey King why did I you call me down? Because despite how cute that was, I doubt that’s why.” Luz asked King.

“Oh, yeah.” He remembered as he got on a stool in front of a covered board.

“Luz the human,” he declared, “you have been obsessed witchcraft, which has had made you neglect my king. So prepare yourself for demons 101!” King explains removing the cover on the board revealing it to be covered by multiple demon infographics.

He continues, “Demons like me are grim tricksters of the twilight, creatures of sulfur and bone.”

“And cute little paws.” Luz interrupts.

“And cute little paws.” King confirms, “We live to create chaos and misery, it is said we were born from the rotting flesh of the Titan. Our only weaknesses are purified water and passive aggressive comments.” He told Luz.

Luz ignored her desire to call them sensitive because she actually had an important question. “Wait with creatures like that populating the Boiling Isles why is everyone so deathly afraid of Pokemon?” She asked.

King actually looked unsure at the question. “I don’t really know.” He said.

They saw Eda walk by and decided to ask her, “Eda why is everyone afraid of Pokemon?” Luz asked.

“Two reasons kid.” Eda began to explain to Luz and King, “One, people here grew up with stories about dangerous monsters from the human realm that can easily destroy a village within one hour. And two, and the bigger reason why, is because the Emperor claims the Titan was killed by Pokemon, and constantly claims that wild witches of the past used the power from Pokemon to torture innocents. And basically everyone takes what he says as fact.”

Luz was shocked from that, questioning why their Emperor would say that, but decided to change the subject as she saw what Eda was doing.

“Watcha doin’? Luz asked.

“It’s about to rain so I have to set up a barrier spell for Hooty.” Eda explained.

“Oh, I love the rain.” Luz said as she ran outside not noticing the panicked expression that formed on Eda’s face.

“Luz get back inside!” Eda pleaded.

“What’s the problem it’s just a bit of water. You must be happy little plant.” She says to a plant as a drop of water falls on it making Luz realize the rain is boiling.

“AHH!” Luz screams as she sprints back inside.

“You okay Luz?” Eda asks Luz as she sits on the ground, king putting bandaids on Luz’s burns.

“I’m okay just a few burns. You have interesting weather.” Luz says out of breath.

“We don’t have weather, we have plagues.” Eda tells her, “Shale hail, gorenados, painbows.”

“It’s like a rainbow, but it turns you inside out.” King elaborates, with Luz trying to stare at the ground avoiding the sky, and Eda finishes the barrier spell.

“I hope I can be Eda someday, Magical, sassy, surprisingly foxy for her age.” Luz says as Eda walks back into the Owl House.

“Hey, I’m only 33!” Eda corrects.

‘How does she have gray hair then?’ Luz thought, as another question crossed her mind, “Wait why do they call you the Owl Lady?”

“Cause I’m so wise.” Eda pridefully answered.

“Because she coughs up rat bones.” Hooty chimes in.

“I think it’s because she gets distracted by shiny objects.” King says.

“No I’m not.” Eda denies as King takes out a sparkly pen, “It sparkles and shimmers. It shines and delights. I must have it for my nest.” Eda says jumping to try and grab it but failing.

“Seriously, why do you have a nest?” Luz wonders.

“I’ll tell you some other time kid, but that force field took it out of me.” Eda says as she goes back into the house.

“This is perfect King.” Luz says to the small demon, “With us stuck inside Eda has to teach me a spell.”

“Wait, what about the demon lesson? I was gonna let you scratch a demon’s tummy. Mine!” Kings says to her.

“Sorry King, but we’ll magic.” Luz tells King as she goes over to Eda who is laying down on the couch, also wearing casual wear.

“Eda have I told you how rad your fang looks today.” Luz complimented.

“What do you want?” Eda asks.

“Teach me Magic?” Luz answers.

“No not tonight I’m too sleepy. I’m a sleepy little owl.” Eda tells her as she covers herself with a blanket,

“Please Eda,” Luz begged, “how am I supposed to earn my witches staff if I don’t know any spells.”

“Fine Luz.” Luz perked up at that, “But you afterwards you have to let me sleep, and also give me that sparkly pen.”

“Deal, but I’m going to record this.” Luz says as Eda gets up.

“Whatever kid, makes it so I don’t have to repeat myself. Witches staff have power embedded in them.” Eda begins.

“Gimme!”

“But before one is earned how to cast spells on their own. So tonight I’ll show you the most simple, the light spell.” Eda says as she creates a spell circle in front of Luz, turning into a ball of light, which Luz recorded.

Eda continues, “Now humans think that magic comes from nowhere, but that’s stupid, everything comes from something. So tell me where do you think magic comes from.”

“The heart.” Luz guessed, an expression of surprise appearing on Eda’s face.

“That is correct.” Eda said to Luz’s excitement, “No really a witch’s magic comes from a bile sac attached to their heart.” Eda explains pulling out a diagram that shows it out of her hair.

“Gross! Can I keep that?” Luz asked.

“Sure kid.” Eda answers handing Luz the diagram

“Wait how can I, Luz the human, perform magic if I don’t have a bile sac.” Luz asked.

The unsure look on Eda’s face concerned Luz. “I don’t actually know.” Eda said to Luz’s horror. “I know witches did magic differently long ago, but I don’t know how.”

“Wait what!?” Luz exclaimed.

“Don’t worry kid I’m sure you’ll figure it out, but I’m laying down.” Eda reassures as she goes upstairs.

Oh yeah, pen.” Eda says holding out her hand, Luz throws her the sparkly pen which she begins to fidget with.

———1 or 2 minutes later———

“Hey Luz ready to continue your demons lesson?” King asked.

“Later King I have to figure this out.” Luz told King while she was looking at the video of Eda creating a spell circle.

“Wait I have an idea.” King said, Luz decided to listen further, “Every day Eda drinks an elixir and becomes more energized, it must be giving her, her magic power.”

‘Something that someone takes daily, that makes them feel better, wait a minute!’ Luz thought.

“King that sounds like medicine. King I can’t take someone else’s medicine!” Luz told King.

“Okay.” King said, rolling his eyes before he noticed something, “Hey where’s your Pokemon?”

“Oh, I’ve been doing some training with them, so I left them at a poke-center in the human realm so they can heal.” Luz answered.

———Eda———

The last week has been interesting to say the least for Eda, she didn’t expect to take up a human apprentice, or an apprentice at all, but here she was.

The girl had begun to grow on her, even if she wouldn’t admit that about seeing Luz and King as her, she did have a soft spot for kids, that she would never admit too.

But when she took apart the trash slug from a couple days back she actually found a poster of Luz’s dad Ash, which Eda had hanged in her room, why because she honestly thought that Luz’s dad was hot, something she also wouldn’t admit too, partially out of embarrassment.

She was 33 she was too old to have a celebrity crushes.

Her curse was acting up again, so her plan was to drink her elixir and go to sleep. She knew she had to confess to them about her curse, and she should also tell King about the whole not the king of demons thing as well sometime.

She felt bad about not being able to teach Luz much, but what could she do? Humans didn’t have a bile sac.

As Eda was about to drink the elixir a clap of thunder startled her causing her to drop the elixir on ground as it shatters.

‘Farts.’ Eda thought as she blacked out.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Next chapter Luz and King have to deal with an off her meds Eda, and Luz will learn flash.

Chapter 11: Pardon the Intrusion: part 2

Summary:

Luz and King must fend off a beast in the dark without Eda’s help.

Notes:

Remember to look back at past chapters to look for things you might’ve missed.

Luz had taken a break from watching the video to eat, she was just eating leftover griffin eggs, as it turned out humans couldn’t eat much of the food in the Demon Realm, she had tried eating the meat of something called a tarasque, and had a worse reaction than if she had drank milk.

King once again tried to convince Luz to try drink one of Eda’s elixir’s, which Luz quickly shot down, she’s smart enough to not take someone else’s medication. She was most likely going to continue with Kings demons lesson after they were done eating and try her luck at magic tomorrow.

“When I was 8 I thought my Dad secretly had a harem.” Luz mentioned to King as she finished her griffin eggs.

“Really?” King said in surprise, he was going to ask further, but the lights suddenly turned off.

“What happened!?” Luz yelled in surprise.

“Hooty controls the house lights, he probably just fell asleep.” King explained, waving it to the side as if it was nothing. Then suddenly they noises that sounded like a fight and Hooty screaming.

“We should probably check that out.” Luz advised.

“You’re probably right.” King agreed as they headed into the living room.

As they run into the living room they see Hooty ripped of his hinges on the ground, and a giant beast shrouded in the darkness it running of when it notices them.

“Hooty are you ok?” Luz asks running up to him.

“Whatever did that escaped into the rain, what could even survive that?” Luz asks frantically.

“The snaggleback!” King concludes.

“The snaggle-what!?” Luz had no idea what that is.

King quickly grabs a paper from inside, running back out, Luz sees the creature on it, a horrific pink demon with a large grey shell.

“Vile fiends who can hunt during boiling rainstorms due to their shells. It must of stumbled across our house and seen us inside.” King explained, as they heard a roar they see the beast burst into a window on the top floor.

“This is terrifying! And why do you look happy?” Luz asks as she sees Kings expression.

“This is great! A close up interaction with a wild demon!” He says ecstatic.

“You want to follow it!?” Luz screams.

“You do know that window leads to Eda’s room right.” King reminded.

After being reminded about that, they went back inside, putting together makeshift armor, mostly out of pillows, and grabbing a random hockey stick for self defense, since Luz didn’t have her Pokemon on hand.

As they go upstairs, Luz using the flashlight function on her rotom-phone to see through the darkness.

They walk up to Eda’s door, it creaking open from the wind. Luz and King enter Eda’s room.

“Is that my Dad?” Luz asks, as she sees a poster of her dad almost shirtless. She was going to ask Eda about that later.

King walks towards what looks like a shattered glass bottle on the floor surrounded by a golden liquid, trying to not steep on the tiny shards of glass on the floor King picks up what seems to be a torn label.

“A elixir a day…” he reads off.

Luz checks Eda’s nest to see if she is ok, but Eda is gone. “Claw marks.” She says as she sees the torn up pillows.

‘No No No! Not again!’ Luz thought panicking at the thought of what could’ve happened to Eda.

“King! You’re the demon expert what are we supposed to do!?” Luz asked the small demon, panicked.

“I’ll go get my demon book.” He tells her, Luz on the verge of crying.

When King came back to ask Luz which volume, she was gone. King decided to chase what sounded like the beast into a closet, also picking Luz’s shoe up along the way. In the closet instead of the snaggleback…

“Please don’t hurt me!” Begged Meowth of Team Rocket, for some reason carrying a spiky grey shell.

“You’re not the snaggleback?” King realized.

“Was that the name of the guy I stole this form? Because he was more pathetic than a newborn caterpie.” Meowth said to him, making King realize he needed to reevaluate what demons were dangerous.

“What so what are you doing here, and why did you break our door and take Luz and Eda!?”

“I got separated from Jessie and James, and needed shelter from the rain, and by pure chance ended up here. But I didn’t take Twerp Jr. and I don’t even who Eda is.” Meowth told King.

“Wait, then who did?” King wondered.

Before Meowth could provide any kind of answer, the beast claw burst forth from the ceiling grabbing him.

“Is this the end for poor Meowth.” He narrated as the beast dragged him away, presumably to be eaten.

King not being a big fan on the idea of dying ran away. As he is chased he gets pulled into a room by…

“Luz?” He says in surprise.

“King!” Luz says in relief, “I’m so glad you’re safe.”

“Where did you go?” King asks.

“I checked and Eda was gone, you were gone, I was beginning to hyperventilate, and then I tripped and lost my shoe. Hey you found it.” Luz frantically explained taking back her shoe.

“What’s that?” King asks, pointing at a lane on Luz’s foot before she can put her shoe on. “Keeps the curse at bay.” Realizing it’s the rest of the label he puts them together and reads it off, “An elixir a day keeps the curse at bay!”

“King what are you implying?” Luz asked, worried about the implications of what he was implying.

“What I am implying is that thing is-“ King began to tell Luz before being interrupted by the beast bursting through the door of the room they were in.

They finally get a good look at the beast, its talons, its white and grey feathers, and its face, Eda’s face. Eda was the beast.

The shock of what was happening caused Luz to drop her rotom-phone, the flash it produced stunning Eda, allowing Luz and King the chance to hide.

“What happened to her.” Luz asked.

“Her elixir prevents her from turning into that thing. She must of failed to take it somehow.” King explained.

“Well Eda’s some kind of demon now, and we have to save her. And who knows more about demons than you, so what do we do?” Luz told King.

“She had black eyes, demons with black eyes tend to be extremely sensitive to light. Can you use the light from your wonder rectangle?” King explained.

“I can’t my camera broke when I dropped it.” Luz explained.

“Then what about a light spell?” King asked.

“King you saw that I can’t do that spell circle.” Luz told King, as she went back to the video as it buffered she saw a strange symbol within it.

“Theres a pattern inside the spell circle.” Luz said as she traced the symbol on a leaf, with a tap a ball of light arose from it.

“Oh my Arceus. I just did magic. I just did magic!” She yelled in excitement before immediately quieting down to not lure Eda to them.

“So now what do we do?” King asks.

“I have an idea.” Luz told him.

As the beast is lurking around downstairs before the sound of clicking grabs its attention.

“Look at what I have here. So shiny.” King says while clicking the sparkly pen.

Eda immediately begins to chase King, slipping on paper that was on the ground and breaking a masterball that was on the ground, Luz uses the opportunity to throw a trap on her in order to be able to finish what she is drawing on the wall.

“This is for your own good!” She says as she finishes the glyph yelling, “Luz use flash!” As she hits it.

———later———

Eda wakes up, her head hurting, she is drinking an elixir through a straw. She also throws up a pallet that the weird talking cat thing comes out of.

“I thought I dropped you?” She said in confusion.

“Oh. We found another one in the closet.” King told her.

“King!” She yelled in surprise, “What that means you saw it. Oh no! Where’s Luz!?” She yells looking around.

“Shh. Over there.” He tells her, pointing to Luz repeatedly creating the light glyph.

“Wow. How is she doing that?” Eda asked in surprise at Luz doing magic.

“I don’t know, but she did it all on her own.” He tells her.

Luz notices Eda is awake and runs over to Eda enveloping her in a hug.

“Eda what happened to you?” She asks.

Eda sighed, it was time to be honest with them, also partially because it was clear that Luz saw the poster of her Dad that she kept in her room.

“The truth is, when I was Luz’s age I was cursed, I don’t know who or why, but what I do know is that if I don’t take my elixir I become the Owl Beast.” She explained as she said one more thing, “But on the topic of being honest, King I need to tell you something, Luz can you leave the room please, don’t worry you can ask about the poster later.”

Luz agreed taking Meowth with her, since he didn’t need to hear their conversation.

But while she was standing outside the door she couldn’t help but hear King yelling, “I’M NOT THE WHAT!?”

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

The longer this story goes on the more it will deviate.

Chapter 12: Not so Coventional: part 1

Summary:

Luz goes to the covention and learns about sigil branding, she doesn’t like it. Also Lilith.

Notes:

CW: Vomiting.

As it had turned out King wasn’t the King of Demons, that was only a surprise to King himself, Eda had discovered him on a random island when she was trying to evade capture, she had thought he was a stray dog, whatever that is, and took him in before realizing he was a child.

After he had a minor existential crisis, Eda gave him the broken part of horn, which she kept in her hair, there was also a dusk stone, another linking cord, what looked like a disc in a purple translucent box, and another masterball which she broke when she threw it out the already broken window. Luz really wanted to know how Eda did that with her hair.

This leads us to now, two days later, they were at Eda’s human collectibles shop. Luz had decided to introduce King into her fandom.

“”Emboldened by the dishonor Hecate had shown, Azura with her Sliggoo by her side, lifted her staff to the cotton candy sky, challenged Hecate and her Lampent to a witches duel” look I even drew a little flip book.” Luz read from her book, while showing the doodle to king.

“Eda once told me I was the king of artists.” King commented while looking at the drawing over Luz’s shoulder.

“Oh, really?” Luz says as she turns her eyes towards Eda, with a smirk.

Eda tensed up as she proceeded to say, “Uh, whatever, it made him happy.” Saying the last part under her breath before telling them, “Also stop reading that, the flowery evidence is driving away customers.”

“What customers? We’re the only people here.” Luz points out to Eda.

Eda now notices this began to look around. “That’s weird, normally the market being empty is a bad omen. Something horrible is happening today.” Eda said, ominously, as Willow and Gus ran up to them.

“Luz something amazing is happening today!” Gus said.

“Willow, Gus, HI!”

“It’s the annual covention! Student witches get to see all the types of covens before they’re placed in one. There’s even a mystery guest this year!” Willow explained.

‘What’s a coven? Well sounds interesting.’ Luz thought.

“Mind if we go Eda?” Luz asked her mentor.

“Absolutely Not. I never joined a coven for a reason. Sure it’s like a fan club for witches, but you have to sell your soul to a dictator with a god complex! No offense.” Eda explained.

“Don’t worry, we were taught to ignore heretics and their terrible heresy.” Willows says a little too cheery for Luz’s comfort.

“Anyways I haven’t been to one since we-“ Eda said stopping herself at we.

“We!? Mysterious past, now we have to go!” Luz said excitedly.

“NO.” Eda ,sternly, answers.

“Okay.” Luz said as she got an idea, “Well to past the time how about you tell me about the poster of my Dad you have?”

“Okay! Okay! We can go, but I’m joining you so you don’t fall for their propaganda.” Eda said, a massive blush on her face, as they left.

———covention———

“Eda what are you doing?” Luz asked as Eda tried to cover her entire head of hair using a cowl.

“I’m a wanted criminal, and it’s not just for petty theft.” Eda reminded, “The big reason why is because I refuse to join a coven. And I don’t want to get captured.”

“Maybe this event will inspire you to stop being a foolish heretic and join a coven.” Willow suggested, Luz was seriously hating this ‘heretic’ stuff.

Eda pulled Willow’s cowl over her face as they walk in.

As they walked in Luz wanted to awe at what she was seeing, but she couldn’t help but feel oddly sick.

“Those are the main nine covens,” Gus said pointing at nine banners on the ceiling, they explained what the types of magic were, when she snuck into Hexside. “but there are hundreds of other ones you can join.”

“There’s Flower Coven, Artist Coven, Hunting Coven, Big Cat Coven, Normal-Sized Cat Coven, Small Cat Coven, Tiniest Cat Coven, Grumpy Cat Coven.” Willow listed off, Eda groaning at the last one being an insult towards her.

“That is the Construction Coven.” Willow said pointing to a short, burly, bald man, who gives that Tinelle girl ,from the prison break, a strange sticker after applying it she goes crazy with a power boost.

“Wow” Luz said.

“Wow” A blue translucent Luz said. Wait what?

“You’ve been taken in by the allure of the Illusionist Coven.” Gus said as it turned out the other Luz was an illusion. “We like to magic with a hint of showmanship.”

It all seemed good, too good, anxiously she asks Eda, “Why didn’t you join a coven Eda?”

“Just look.” Eda says, referring as a man wearing a strange glove goes to a teenager, he places the glove on his wrist a symbol being branded on the teen’s wrist, Luz felt sickened to her core, that symbol felt like anguish given physical form, it sickened her so much that she ran over to a trash can to vomit.

“Luz!” Eda called running over to Luz. “Are you okay?” She asked worried. Some people who were nearby looked to see what happened, but soon looked away.

“I’m fine,” Luz told Eda, “but that just felt wrong, what even was that?”

“That was a sigil branding, he can now only use illusion magic, and that’s not even mentioning the fact that anyone with a sigil barely makes it past 50, the sigil prevents the bile from producing other types of bile for different kinds of magic, which also heavily damages their heart.” Eda explained to a still puking Luz.

“Want to go see the Emperor’s Coven Luz.” Willow offered.

“You go, I need a second.” Luz told them as they left towards a large tent.

———later———

“We find King and leave.” Eda said to her apprentice.

“Yeah.” Luz agreed. So far every time Luz saw a branding she would end up puking.

“Edalyn is that you?” A pale woman with dark blue hair asks.

“Hello Lilith, before you ask I’m leaving.” Eda tells the now named Lilith.

“Oh really Edalyn, I haven’t seen you in years.” Lilith says.

“I wonder why.” Eda mumbles under breath.

Lilith then takes note of Luz, who’s standing behind Eda. “Is that a human? Where do you even find one?” She asks in a condescending tone, acting like Luz is a pet.

“She’s my apprentice Lilith. And she could wipe the floor with any of your students.” Eda tells Lilith, starting to get pissed off.

“Oh really.” She says in an even more condescending tone, “How about this you’ll have your pet fight my top apprentice Amity, you win you’re free to go, you lose you’re under arrest.”

‘Wait Amity!?’ Luz thought in surprise of the minty haired girl.

“No, me and my apprentice are leaving.” Eda said, putting an emphasis on apprentice.

“Actually, you don’t have a choice,” Lilith said, a twisted grin plastered on her face as she continued, “there are coven guards surrounding every entrance of this place, one word and you’re captured.”

“I’ll give you a hour to prepare for your downfall.” Lilith taunted as she walked off.

“This is all my fault, it was my idea to come here.” Luz said blaming herself.

“Don’t worry Luz.” Eda reassured before asking, “Just tell me did you bring your Pokemon?”

Luz nodded her head as they had to start getting ready.

“Hey everyone!” King said, walking up to them, while wearing an absurd amount of free merch. “What’s going on?” He asked.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Next time we will reach one of the most anticipated chapters, for me at least, the battle between Luz and Amity.

Chapter 13: Not so Coventional: part 2

Summary:

Time for the witches duel.

Notes:

CW: child @buse.

It was time for the battle.

Amity walked out on the field first.

“In this corner Amity Blight!” Hexsides Principal introduced, the crowd cheering for her.

She had an expression of seriousness, but Luz could feel an air of excitement emanating from her.

“And over here some human.” He had the audacity to not even use her name.

Luz could hear the audience complaining, like that she wasn’t Amity, and she couldn’t use magic, but she didn’t care.

“Begin!” He announced.

“Abomination rise!” Amity said creating a giant abomination, even Amity herself looked surprised.

“Oshawott I choose you!” Luz sent out the otter Pokemon as the audience talked amongst themselves.

“Is that a Pokemon?”

“How did she do that?”

Amity just smiled even more as she made the first move, “Abomination attack her Pokemon!”

As her abomination began to close in on Oshawott Luz quickly reacted, “Oshawott run through it with Aqua jet!”

Oshawott shot right through the abomination, surrounded with watery energy.

Amity quickly changed tactics, “Abomination collapse in on Oshawott!”

The abomination falls upon Oshawott trapping him.

In order for Oshawott to get out Luz gives another command, “Oshawott try to use scald!”

The slime covering Oshawott is blasted away by the scalding hot water.

“Good job Oshawott!” Luz commended.

Amity makes two spell circles turning the slime on the ground into two rhyhorn like abominations.

“Rush into Oshawott!” Amity commanded, the two abominations begin to rush towards Oshawott, which would crush him between the two abominations.

“Oshawott get out of the way!” Luz tells Oshawott, but he can’t as his feet are stuck in abomination slime.

Luz is able to formulate a plan on the spot, but needs to wait for the right moment.

Just as the abominations are about to crash into Oshawott Luz puts her plan into action she tells Oshawott, “Use water pulse on the ground!”

Oshawott is propelled from the ground freeing him from the slime as the abominations crash into each other, they have trouble staying stable as they are suddenly molded into each other.

“Now use razor shell, but cut horizontally!” Luz tells Oshawott, the razor shell making the abomination more unstable as it begins to fall apart.

“Finally use scold on it!” The hot water finally causes the abomination to completely fall apart, due to the hot water it can’t properly form itself.

As Amity tried to figure out what to do next Oshawott began to glow blue, before they realized it standing where Oshawott had stood was a Dewott.

“Oshawott you evolved into Dewott!” Luz cheered excitedly as she went to give the now Dewott a hug.

As Oshawott had evolved into Dewott, all those in the audience just stared at it questioning what had happened to the Pokemon.

All except…

“Oh my Arceus!” Amity squealed in excitement at the evolution that had just occurred in front of her eyes, before realizing what she did and stopping herself, but it was too late.

“Who’s Arceus? That’s not the Titan?” One person in the audience questioned.

“Is Amity happy to see that monstrosity?” Another said in disgust.

“No that’s not! It’s not what it seems!” Amity tried to defend herself, but Eda got a glimpse of the back of her neck.

“What a minute!” Eda yelled as she came down from the stands, “Blight here cheated!” Everyone gasped as Eda pulled off one of those power up stickers from Amity’s neck, “A power glyph from the Construction Coven, which are illegal to use in a witches duel!” Eda explained, shocking everyone including Amity as Lilith came down as well.

“Well that doesn’t matter,” Lilith defended, “your apprentice cheated first by using a Pokemon.” Gesturing towards Dewott.

“Actually,” Eda began, “there’s no rule against using a Pokemon, it is technical the same as a member of the Beast Keepers Coven using a beast in battle to assist them, isn’t that right Princy B?”

“Don’t ever call me that again, but you are right, no rules expressly prohibit the use of a Pokemon, partially because no one expected anyone to use a Pokemon.” He confirms, as Eda notices something about Amity’s necklace.

“Wait another minute,” she says grabbing the girl’s necklace, “this is a telepathic necklace, which are also not allowed use in a witches duel!” She accuses as she hands the necklace to Bump.

“Sadly this is true.” He said with a disappointed tone, “This also brings into question Amity’s academic integrity. Luz Noceda-Ketchum the human wins by default!” He announced.

“I didn’t know.” Amity stuttered out, on the verge of tears, she ended up booking it.

“Amity!” Luz called out.

“Dewott return.” She said returning Dewott to his Pokeball as she began to give chase as Eda taunted Lilith, like they were siblings.

Luz found Amity sitting in a corner crying while hugging her knees.

“Amity are you okay?” Luz asked, Amity’s head perking up at the realization she wasn’t alone.

“No.” She got out through her crying, “The closest I’ll ever get to a Pokemon battle was ruined, I’m most likely going to get into trouble at school, probably have my academic achievements taken away on grounds that I might’ve been cheated, and I embarrassed myself in front of the daughter of the Ash Ketchum, the only thing that could make that worse is if you were an Azura fan.”

“They have that here!?” Luz questioned out of surprise.

“Ofcourse you are.” Amity said hitting herself in the face.

“Don’t do that, but how do you know about my Dad?” Luz asked in confusion, while stopping the witch from hitting herself.

Amity took out a beat up rotom-phone out of a pocket. “There’s no rotom but lighting bugs do the trick to charge it.” She told Luz as she began to explain further, “When I was nine I found this on the coast of the sea, on it were videos of Pokemon battles, and they were amazing, especially your father, Ash Ketchum he always ready for anything, even with a type disadvantage, you can never predict what he would do next.”

“I could tell you were his daughter to your cheeks.” She tells Luz, referring to the lighting bolt marks on her cheeks.

“I can never be a Pokemon trainer like you though, since I’m a witch.” Amity says depressingly.

“Yes you can.” Luz says grabbing Amity’s attention.

“I’m trying to be a witch while being a human, and look.” Luz says as she draws the light glyph on a notepad, a ball of light coming from it.

“I’ve never seen a light spell done like that before.” Amity said in astonishment.

“It’s not much, but if I have found a way to be a witch, I’m sure you can be a Pokemon trainer.” Luz encouraged Amity, a blush betraying her face.

“Hey Luz let’s go!” Eda says as she runs up to them, for some reason carrying King in a tote bag. “I threw a purple and white metal ball at Lilith, so we have enough time to escape!”

“Bye Amity!” Luz says waving at Amity, she just waves back blushing.

Luz would consider this a success she made a friend out of an enemy.

———with Amity———

“How dare you lose to a fucking human and Pokemon!” Odalia yelled at her daughter.

“In my defense one of the reasons I lost was because of the necklace you made me wear.” Amity defended.

She immediately regretted it as Odalia hard slapped her across the face yelling, “Don’t you dare pin this on me! And this isn’t even discussing your reaction to that foul beast!”, Amity fell on the ground one of her fangs having been knocked out of her mouth, Amity was on the verge of crying.

“Are you seriously going to cry!” Odalia complained as she began to stomp her heels on her daughter, Amity was flat-out wailing in pain from what her mother was doing.

“You are so fucking pathetic, honestly I wish I aborted you!” Odalia said, purposefully making sure Amity heard her.

“Maybe it’s not too late for an accident to occur is it?” Odalia said quietly with a small chuckle as she left Amity’s room, locking the door on her way out.

Amity was laying down there unable to get up, just laying there bleeding in pure unbridled agony, the only she could do was cry.

———???———

Raine was helping pack up the booth for the Bard Coven, Scooter Crane, the head of the Bard Coven, was starting to go senile and Raine to represent him, all of the other coven heads, with the exception of Eberwolf and Darius, had left and not help pack up the covention.

They had saw Edalyn apprentice’s fight with Amity Blight, it seemed that humans were using Pokemon like the Beast Keeping Coven uses beast in battle. They, oddly, weren’t that surprised that Lilith used underhanded tactics for some reason, but it was surprising that Eda didn’t.

They were worried about Amity however, they went to school with the sociopath known as Odalia, and didn’t want to think what she would do when she found out her daughter lost to a human and Pokemon, or her reaction to the Pokemon changing.

As Raine finished up A man wearing a cloak and had red hair walked up to them, along side him was a reptile creature with light blue scales and red spikes.

‘Is that a Pokemon!?’ Raine thought, beginning to panic.

“Calm down teach. Sobek here won’t hurt you.” Katya reassured, making Raine realize she was with the two.

“So you are Mx. Whispers, yes?” The man asked.

“Yes.” Raine confirmed, not fully sure of what was going on.

“I’m Silver, Silver Ketchum.” The man introduced himself.

‘That was half of the last name of Eda’s apprentice right?’ Raine thought, as Silver continued.

“I have a proposition for you.” Silver said holding out his hand.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

A lot happened this chapter, Oshawott evolved into Dewott, people are beginning to catch onto Amity’s love of Pokemon, Luz wins the duel, we learn how Amity knows about Ash Ketchum, Odalia’s the worse, Silver has a proposition for Raine, and Luz becomes friends with Amity early which will have no consequences in any way shape or form.

Chapter 14: Sleepover Panic

Summary:

Luz throws a moonlight conjuring with her friends and have to deal with demon hunters.

Luz and King were with Eda, because she neglected to buy her elixirs, why because she had become obsessed with a random card game lately.

As Eda was talking to her elixir supplier, Luz and King were watching random people on the street as a group of people wearing brown cloaks dragging along a big that was tied with rope.

“You two get over here.” Eda said panicked, bringing Luz and King towards her.

“Who are they? And why are throwing a parade?” Luz asked her mentor.

“Those are demon hunters.” Eda told Luz as she began to explain, “They are technically apart of the Beast Keepers Coven, but they’re more willing to bend around the law, they capture and sell rare beast, and they would do anything to get their hands on a Pokemon to show off their hunting skills, so stay clear of them Luz.”

“Anyways I’m about to turn into a beast, so open up Morton!” Eda yell’s banging on a window.

“Sorry Eda. I was doing poison testing last night and for some reason I don’t feel so good.” The supplier said.

“I wonder why.” Eda says sarcastically.

“Anyways I’m out of juice.” She tells him handing an empty bottle to him as he goes to check.

As that is going on Luz notices Willow and Gus nearby looking depressed so Luz decides to run over and see what’s wrong.

“Willow, Gus, who hurt my babies?” Luz asked overprotective.

“Them.” Willow said pointing towards a group of witch teenagers, primarily a pink haired triclops.

“Boscha over there is throwing a moonlight conjuring and invited everyone but me, what’s weird is that I’m pretty Amity was going to be holding the moonlight but isn’t anymore and isn’t even going to Boscha’s.” Willow explained to the human.

Luz was concerned about what happened to Amity but had one question first, “What’s a moonlight conjuring?” She asked.

“You stay the night staying at someone else’s house, staying up late, telling stories, playing games.” Willow listed off.

“Like a sleepover. We have those in the Pokemon world. I haven’t personally been to one, the closest was when I stayed up all night to see something called the midnight channel, which was rumored to show you your soulmate, my Dad found me and brought back to bed before midnight, though I think there were some murders connected to it or something back in Pallet Town a couple years ago.” Luz rambled off, before stopping herself when she saw her friends confusion.

“We also bring something to life using the magic of the moon.” Willow awkwardly informs her.

“Oh a weird sleepover.” Luz realizes.

“Me and Gus have never been to one because you need three people an-“ Willow tells her as Luz interrupts.

“I’m three people, I mean, we’re three people. And we’re way better than them.” Luz says to her friends gesturing towards the bullies.

“sorry you can’t join us Half-A-Witch real witches only!” Boscha mocks them walking away while laughing like a poochyena.

Willow creates a couple vines out of the ground out of frustration.

Luz calms her down, “Don’t waste your time getting thorny over them. Cause we’re going to have our own moonlight conjuring.”

“Are you serious? This is on my bucket list after owning a bucket.” Gus excitedly says as he takes out a bucket list.

“That’s a really weird thing to want but I appreciate your enthusiasm!” Luz replies, she noticed one item mentioning building tunnels under Hexside and was going to ask later.

“I’ll go ask Eda.” Luz told them as she went back to Eda who seemed really aggravated for some reason.

“Hey Eda can I throw a moonlight conjuring with Willow and Gus.” Luz asked the witch.

“I’m not sure Luz, I have to go to the night market to get my Elixir, and I need you to watch over Hooty since King is coming with me.” Eda told Luz.

“Wait why am I coming?” King asked.

“I need someone to watch out for pickpockets or to help pickpocket.” Eda told King, him going ‘yay’ at that,

“Eda it will just be me, Willow, and Gus. I promise we will be responsible.” Luz pleaded, Eda had a conflicting look on her face as she thought it through before saying something.

“Despite how dumb conjurings are, you it would be good magic practice for you, so fine, but don’t touch anything I have a lot of precious objects there, so I swear to the Titan or Arceus or whoever you and your friends will suffer if anything is out of place.” Eda told her apprentice.

“I think you’re overreacting Eda,” Luz replied,” it’s just a conjuring what could go wrong.”

———later that night———

Everything went wrong.

The night started off well, Willow and Gus had arrived, Eda was nice enough to make some food for them so they could eat dinner later, and Luz showed them the first Fumigator movie, which they didn’t like that much, she probably should’ve shown them Godzilla the Atomic Tyranitar, or even Gamera the Friendly Turtonator.

Things began to go wrong when they attempted the conjuring itself, they ultimately had agreed to animate an old Throh action figure, as they preformed the ritual instead of animating the action figure, they ended up animating Hooty, he apparently this entire time has had legs.

Luz was questioning if he had anything to do with a certain Baba Yaga.

The three of them were able to figure how to control Hooty through the three of them holding their hands, and decided to take the house on a joyride, they decided to first prank Boscha. Luz then suggested taking the house to check on Amity, though she had to manipulate Willow into thinking they were going to prank her.

Which is when it happened. All of a sudden they were attacked by demon hunters and before they knew it they were tied up and were able to get Luz’s Pokeballs away from her, and were going to throw them over a cliff to their imminent doom.

“Is this what you want to do with your life? Throwing children off cliffs?” Gus attempted to plead.

“Actually it’s been my dream since I was a child.” He cheerfully said, a horrified look on Luz and her friend’s faces, “What? I was a strange child.” The man said as he pushed them off the cliff.

“This is all my fault, I didn’t want to prank Amity!” Luz confessed as they fell.

“What!?” Her friends exclaimed.

“I was worried about Amity because of what you told me earlier, so I tricked you two into helping me make sure she was okay, if you were mad at me I wouldn’t blame you!” Luz explained.

Willow just sighed and said, “I may not like Amity, but I can’t make you hate her, so I can’t blame you for being concerned with her wellbeing Luz.”

“Uh guys I don’t want to ruin your moment, but is it me or are no longer falling?” Gus pointed out to them as they realized they had stopped falling.

As they look around they see they landed on something, a Magnezone.

“MAG-NE-ZONE.” It said as two individuals flow up to them.

One Luz recognized as the man that helped her out with Team Rocket a week ago, flying on his Crobat again, Luz takes note of multiple kinds of Pokeballs around his waist.

The other is a woman wearing a similar cloak to the man, while riding a staff with palisman that looked a Heracross, Luz also notices the woman carrying a singular Pokeball on her waist.

“Good job Magnum.” The man praises the Magnezone, most likely his.

“Are you three alright?” The woman asked them.

“For the most part, but doesn’t change the fact they have my Pokemon and Hooty.” Luz answers.

“Don’t worry.” The man tells them, “Vandal has one part covered.”

Then a Weavile climbs down the cliff towards them, landing on the Magnezone, cutting the rope tied around them in process, while also handing Luz her Pokeballs back, the man returning the Pokemon to a level ball.

“Thanks, but we still have to get Hooty back and I don’t think you can stealthy steal a house.” Luz said to them.

“We actually have a plan for that as well, elaborate Vampira.” The man said referring to the woman as Vampira.

“My cousin was once a demon hunter, and from what she told me that they rely on ambushing what they hunt, but that’s it, they struggle when they get attacked head on while off guard, finish off Jet Liepard.” Vampira explained, switching back to the man now called Jet Liepard.

“So we’re just going to rush them head on and make them leave.” He told them as they began to rise up.

The woman grabbed her Pokeball and said, “I hope you’re ready Erato.” to it.

“Ralts I choose you!” Luz said as they reached the surface, sending out her Ralts.

“Erato it’s showtime!” Vampira said as she threw her Pokeball revealing a Heracross.

Before the demon hunters could react Luz gave Ralts a command, “Ralts take away their with weapons with psychic!” Before they could do anything their weapons were levitating and was thrown off the cliff.

“Erato use aerial ace on the ropes!” Vampira tells her Heracross, it cutting the ropes tied to Hooty.

During this Willow also creates giant vines out of the ground.

“So you want to go the easy way and give up and go?” Jet asked them.

“Never!” The leader of the demon hunters said, trying to be intimidating, “We are fierce demon hunters you are mere-“

“Magnum use zap cannon on him!” Jet interrupts, the Magnezone hits the demon hunters leader with a giant ball of electricity sending him flying.

“So any of you have anything to say?” Jet asks mockingly, the rest of the demon hunters immediately run away.

As they escape the two cloaked individuals take down their hoods revealing.

“Wait you’re Katya right, from the conformaturium?” Luz recognizes.

“Yup kid.” The formerly known was Vampira confirms, as she returns her Heracross to its Pokeball.

Luz also notices something about the man as he returns his Magnezone to a heavy ball.

“You’re human!” Luz exclaims to her an her friends surprise.

“Yeah, the name is Silver for the record, but if I was you I get a move on it the moon won’t be up forever.” Silver tells them as he and Katya begin to fly away.

“Wait where did you get a Pokemon?” Luz asked as they were flying away.

“You just have to know where to look.” Katya says from a distance.

“So you’re calling her Erato?” Silver asks his partner.

“Yeah have a problem with it, it’s better than what you suggested, what even is a Megalon?” She jokingly answers as they fly into the night.

Meanwhile Luz and her friends were able to get back, but Eda found out and punished them, but she couldn’t help but take note of how much power it would take to animate a house.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Not the best chapter in my opinion, sorry about that, but we see a prototype BATTs. For anyone who wants to know Erato is the muse of love poetry in Greek mythology, so you can understand the nickname.

Chapter 15: Night at the Library: part 1

Summary:

Luz goes to the local library, and sees Amity.

It had been a few days since the moon conjuring. And she had fully explained the events of that night, which led them to now.

“So there is another human on the Boiling Isles?” Eda asked for clarification when Luz told her what happened.

“Yeah. How did he get here?” Luz asked, looking at Eda.

“What?! You think I leave the door open for anyone to walk through?” Eda defended herself.

“No! Maybe he got here the same way Team Rocket did.” Luz suggested.

“Okay, that at least explains that for now.” Eda said.

“But what about the whole “have to look in the right place” thing?” Luz asked.

“There’s always been urban legends about monstrous Pokemon living in the woods, lakes, and even the Boiling Sea. So it could be possible that she found one of them.” Eda explained to her.

“Let’s go and see if there’s other Pokemon here!” Luz exclaimed at the idea of Pokemon in the Boiling Isles.

“Woah, calm down kid, you’ve had an eventful last couple days, especially after that writing competition thing earlier this week, so I don’t want you going on any wild goose chases.” She tells Luz, as she summons an entire stack of books, saying, “Today you will just go bring my overdue books back to the library.”

Luz just nodded her head as she grabbed the books and left, noticing King bringing a basket to Eda, just as she was going to leave she all of a sudden heard an ear piercing screeching from the kitchen.

“Uh, Luz!” Eda called.

“Sorry got to go!” She said as she closed the door behind her and ran.

———at the library——

“Late! Late! Late!” The man at the desk said as he checked the books, “Grass and bloodstains? These are Eda’s aren’t they?” He asked Luz, who could sense how annoyed he was.

“Yesterday was weird.” Luz told him, moral of the story never touch books that talk about turning people into trees.

“I’ll just place it on her tab. Also I’m required to tell people we’re closing early for the wailing star meteor shower.” The receptionist says, disinterested.

“What’s that?” Luz asked.

“You’re in a library, read a book.” The man tells her, she could understand if he was annoyed but he didn’t have to be rude.

“I will read a book.” Luz says with a hint of spite in her voice.

As she begins to explore the library Luz accidentally walks back into to someone.

“Oh sorry.” Luz apologizes as she turns around, seeing three individuals wearing trench coats, two tall, one short.

“Hey watch it twerp, I mean kid!” The short man, with a high pitched voiced, that she walked into, snapped at her.

“Don’t worry Twerp Jr. I mean kid, right Meo-Micheal.” The tall woman, who sounded like she was trying to deepen her voice, said.

“Micheal!? I mean, yeah no big Twer-kid, we were about to leave right Johanna?” The man said with a mocking tone to his voice when he said Johanna.

“Right.” The woman said, sounding oddly aggravated, “Come along Jensen.” The three of them then proceeded to walk away.

Luz continued to look around for information about the wailing star meteor shower, but so far no dice, she had tried to ask for help from the staff, most of them rudely brushed her off, except a bird like demon, who she was pretty sure was the head librarian, who gave her some directions to where a book about the topic might be.

As she walked towards where it should be, even though she is pretty sure she got lost along the way, she heard Amity saying, “What are you doing here?”

In surprise she looked around, she saw Amity in what she guessed was a kids corner, reading to kids a child’s book with a creature that looked a bunnelby, Luz could feel that Amity felt truly happy.

As she finished up reading the book and said goodbye to the kids, one of them looking similar to the conformaturium’s warden, she ended up looking towards where Luz stood and said, “Luz?”

“Uh, Amity! Sorry about that, I was just surprised to see you here reading to kids.” Luz replied.

“Oh yeah, I get extra credit for it.” Amity answers, but Luz could tell there was more to it even without weird senses.

“Hey Amity!” Luz heard a male voice called out, Amity tensed up when she heard the voice, Luz could swear Amity said, “Oh no.” Under her breath.

Luz turned to see two teenagers with green hair, one male, one female.

“Mom says stop leaving your lunch at home.” The girl said holding what seemed to be a bag with the same character from the book on it, Amity quickly swiped the bag from the girl’s hand, well tried the girl would move the bag from Amity’s grasp right before she could grab it for a good minute.

As Amity finally grabbed the bag, the boy then asked, “Well aren’t you going to introduce us to your friend Mittens?”

Amity just grunted before introducing them to her, “Luz these two are my older siblings Edric and Emira, there can you leave now.”

The two just rolled their eyes at Amity as they walked, but not without Emira saying, “I don’t know why someone as cool as you would hang out with Amity.”

Amity just looked frustrated at them before turning back towards Luz and asking , “Ignoring them, so what are you doing here Luz?”

“Eda sent me here to drop off her books, because she felt I needed a break after this past week, I stayed so I can read some books, I’ve asked the staff but most of them have been rude.” Luz answered.

“Sorry the staff has been extremely stressed out recently, the thing is there’s believed to be a Pokemon that sneaked in.” Amity told Luz, whispering that last part so no one else can hear.

“Really?” Luz asks, surprised, also keeping quiet.

“Two weeks what is believed to be a Pokemon sneaked in during the night, every night it ends up messing up the library, the staff has been trying to stop it ever since.” Amity explains to the human.

Luz, wanting to investigate Pokemon in the Boiling Isles further, had an idea, “How about I deal with it?” She suggested.

“What?” Amity asked for clarification.

“I have experience with Pokemon, so why don’t I solve the library’s Pokemon problem.” Luz explained.

“That could work, but we’ll have to ask Malphas for permission.” Amity told her.

———later———

As it tuned out that bird demon from earlier was the head of the Library, Luz realized as Amity was explaining the plan to him, as Amity finished telling him it, he went up to Luz.

“So from what I hear you come from a world filled with Pokemon, and think you can help?” He asked her.

“Yes.” Luz answered.

Malphas sighed and said, “Fine, we aren’t getting anywhere, so it would be good to get someone who knows what they’re doing, and it might be nice to have someone help watch the library tonight, so you can stay tonight, but Amity is staying with you to make sure you don’t mess anything up or go into the forbidden stacks. understand?”

“Yes sir.” Luz responded.

“Great, arrive later tonight.” He said as he walked, well hovered, away.

Luz walked up to Amity, and exclaimed, “Guess we’re going to be staying here tonight together.”

“Yeah, guess so.” Amity said blushing.

Luz left the library to tell Eda where she will be later, and to get supplies for the night.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

We continue on the Pokemon in the Boiling Isles plotline further, also I wonder who Johanna, Jensen, and Micheal is? Also I don’t know if this is important but Luz doesn’t hang out with Ed and Em here.

Chapter 16: Night at the Library: part 2

Summary:

Luz and Amity investigate the Pokémon in the library.

Notes:

CW:Child @buse

Luz had returned to the Owl House to get everything she needed, she learned that in the basket from earlier contained a creature that was a baby head with zubat wings, Eda was watching it for some rich person called the Bat Queen, she got snacks for the night, packed some potions just in case, and a couple pokeballs, then left as soon as the baby threw up two more babies like some kinda of morbid nesting doll.

The sun was beginning to set as Luz walked to library, she saw Amity and Malphas standing outside the entrance, likely waiting for her to arrive.

“Hi Luz.” Amity said as she noticed her, also causing Malphas to take attention of the human.

“You’re here, I’ll remind you again, I will let you two stay the night here but don’t make a mess, and be careful the wailing star has weird effects to say the least.” Malphas reminded them as he opened the doors for them.

As the two teenagers walked about Amity said to Luz, “The Pokemon probably won’t appear until midnight, based on what I’ve been told, so we can wait in my secret hideout until then.”

“Your secret what?” Luz asked, as Amity led her to the romance section.

“My secret hideout.” She clarified as she pulled a specific book from the shelves, triggering the entire bookshelf to open, revealing a secret hideout.

“Oh my Arceus!” Luz exclaimed as she looked around.

“How do you have merchandise of my Dad?” Luz asked, as she saw the copies of his hats, badges, and even plushies of his Pokemon, it was honestly kinda creepy.

“I made them myself.” Amity said, impressing Luz.

“Wait are those Azura books?” Luz said when she saw the books with her favorite character on the cover, but one seemed odd.

“I’ve never seen this one before.” Luz said picking up the book.

“Wait that’s my diary!” Amity yelled panicked, quickly snatching the book out of Luz’s hand.

“Ah, sorry Amity.” Luz apologized.

“Don’t worry, you didn’t know.” Amity said, calming down, as she plugged a cord into her rotom-phone that was connected to a jar that was filled with what Luz guessed was lightning bugs.

“Here catch.” Luz said, tossing Amity a bottle of water from the bag of supplies she bought.

“Uh, thanks.” Amity said, after missing the bottle and having to pick it up from the ground as the two girls sit down, waiting for the Pokemon.

“Oh, Amity!” Luz said, grabbing Amity’s attention, “I forgot to ask, but are you okay?”

Amity looked shocked at the question, asking panicked, “What do you mean?”

“I heard about the whole moonlight conjuring stuff, and that you didn’t go to one, and was worried if you weren’t feeling well.” Luz clarified.

“Uh yeah, just my parents uh had a last minute meeting and didn’t want to leave me unsupervised.” Amity says, scrambling together an excuse for why, but Luz swears that she heard minor whistling from the witch, with a glance to her friend’s mouth she sees it.

“Amity your teeth!” Luz exclaims when she sees Amity missing a tooth.

“Huh, what?” Amity asked, like she knew nothing, even while moving her hand over her mouth to hid it.

“You’re missing a tooth! What happened!?” Luz asked, concerned for her friend, while moving Amity’s hand to get a closer look.

“Oh that! I uh tripped down the stairs and I lost my tooth.” Amity made up on the spot, Luz could feel that was a lie.

“Are you lying?” Luz asked, trying not to yell to Amity doesn’t panic any further.

“No Luz, I’m-I’m fine.” Amity lied.

Luz decided to leave it there, as they heard noises inside the library.

“It’s here!” Luz exclaimed as the two left the hideout to catch the Pokémon, failing to see the two individuals who slipped into Amity’s secret hideout after them.

They see a starnge glow emanating from the sky going through out the library.

Luz sees a book with a snowflake on the cover open laying the floor, the weird thing is that snow is coming out of the book.

Luz picks up the book and closes it stopping the snow. “Amity are books supposed to do that?” She asks.

“The power of the wailing star must be causing the books to come to life.” Amity surmised.

They heard another book fall on the floor a distance away, all of a sudden ground fog rolled in as the floor becomes wet, and moss covers the bookcases.

“Oh no!” Amity exclaims before telling Luz, “Get on something!”

“What, why?” Luz asked.

“Just do it!” Amity tells her, as they begin to hear water rippling towards them.

They jump onto a table as a monster that looks like a horrific Politoed pops out of the fog trying to grab them.

“Ahh!” Luz and Amity scream as they both grab a book and hit the monster over the head with it making it submerge itself back into the fog.

“What was that!?” Luz asked while screaming.

“That was the monster from the book “The Pokemon of the Swamp” it would attack witches by jumping out of the fog and dragging them to their deaths!” Amity tells the human.

“How do you even know this?” Luz ask as they jump from table to table to avoid the fog.

“My Mother made me do a report on the book once.” Amity informs Luz.

“You mean teacher, right?” Luz asked for clarification.

“Uh yeah.” Amity corrects.

“Well then I should have some insurance then. Rowlett I choose you!” Luz says sending out the grass flying type.

“Yes you can pet him.” Luz tells Amity when she sees the witch staring at the Pokemon.

“Thank you.” Amity thanks.

As Amity pets Rowlett two more monsters jump out of the fog trying to get them.

“Rowlett use razor leaf on them!” Luz commands.

The leafs hurts the monsters and causes them to return to the fog.

“Okay let’s close that book first, before we deal with the real Pokemon.” Amity tells Luz.

“Agreed, Rowlett can you fly up can direct us where the book is.” Luz tells her Pokemon, as Rowlett flew up looking around confused.

“Oh, Amity What does the books cover look like?” Luz asked so Rowlett would know what to look for.

“It looks like a swamp with two deep red eyes within the swamp water.” Amity tells Luz.

“You heard that Rowlett?” Luz asked her Rowlett.

The Pokemon nodded his head as he looked around for it, before staying in one location and pointing downwards, the issue was there was no tables nearby.

“Seems we’ll have to make a break for it.” Luz says as she begins to get ready to run.

“I’ll close the book you stay here.” Luz tells Amity as she makes a break for the book.

“Luz!” Amity calls out as three monsters appear from the fog and begins to chase Luz.

Amity creates two spell circles forming two Machoke like abominations to hold them off, but one gets away and continues to chase Luz.

As Luz gets close to the book laying down on the ground she trips onto the ground, she looks back to see one of the monsters having grabbed her ankle beginning to drag her into the fog, she tries kicking it in its face, but it doesn’t work.

Rowlett flys down to attack the monster and free Luz, but before he can a blue and purple blur swoops in and attacks the monster making it let go of Luz, giving her the opportunity to close the book.

As the book is closed the fog, moss, and monsters disappear. Without the monsters Amity turns her abominations back to goo and runs over to Luz.

“Luz are you okay?” She asks as Luz looks over her ankle.

“Yeah just some scratch marks, they’ll heal.” Luz tells Amity as she gets back up.

“Do you think that blur was the Pokemon?” Amity questioned.

“Likely. I think it went to the upper area.” Luz tells her, as she begins to walk up a staircase.

“Oh yeah, return Rowlett.” Luz says returning the Pokemon to his Pokeball.

“Won’t we need him for the Pokemon?” Amity asked confused.

“Don’t worry, I have it on good authority that a different Pokemon is best for this situation.” Luz tells her as they reach the top of the staircase.

They hear the fluttering of wings and begin to sneak up to the Pokemon.

“Shh, be quiet we don’t want to startle the Pokemon.” Luz tells Amity whispering.

But of a sudden.

“Prepare for trouble!” Jessie begins appearing out of nowhere scaring the Pokemon away.

“And make it dou-“ Luz interrupts James before he can finish.

“You three scared it away!” Luz yells at Team Rocket.

“Luz what is Team Rocket doing here?” Amity asks.

“I’m surprised you know them, but they somehow ended up here a while ago.” Luz informs her.

“How dare you interrupt us!” Jessie yells at them.

“We won’t even grace you with the rest of our motto!” James tells them.

“Just skip to the plan Jessie.” Meowth tells Jessie.

Just then Luz and Amity notices a book in Jessie’s grasp, the cover shows a skull made of vines. She opens it causing vines to launch out of it, trapping Luz and Amity.

“Why can’t I move?” Luz questions as she attempts to move to grab one of her Pokeball but fails.

“From what I can tell those vines produce a minor venom to keep people in place.” Jessie says to them as she walks up to Luz taking her Pokeballs.

“Hey!” Luz exclaims.

“We will be taking these to go.” Jessie says as she and the rest of Team Rocket climbs a latter to the roof to escape.

“What those idiots didn’t realize is that Formido vines like these are carnivorous, the venom is to keep the prey in place.” Amity told Luz panicking.

“What are we supposed to do?” Luz asked worried.

“I don’t know.” Amity sadly tells Luz, on the verge of tears.

“This is my fault Amity.” Luz tells Amity.

“What do you mean?” Amity asked for clarification.

“The truth is there is apparently Pokemon on the Boiling Isles, when I was told about the Pokemon problem here I wanted to investigate further, this is literally why Eda sent to drop off books so I would calm down with Pokemon in the Boiling Isles thing, I’m sorry.” Luz explains to Amity, disappointed in herself.

“Luz I’m not happy that you didn’t tell me, but this isn’t your fault Luz you had no control over this situation.” Amity consoles Luz.

The two of them begin to notice the vines loosened.

“The vines!” Amity exclaimes in excitement as Luz looks around and sees it.

“I knew it!” Luz shouts as she sees a Zubat using what looks to be poison fang on the vines.

Luz is able to get out of the vines and runs to the book closing it, making the vines disappear, freeing Amity.

“Thanks Zubat, do you mind helping with one more thing?” Luz asks the Zubat.

———on the roof———

Team Rocket were about to fly off in their hot air balloon with Luz’s Pokemon as the girl and the witch came up to the roof.

“Stop right there!” Luz yells at them, beginning her plan.

“How did you! Nevermind it’s too late we have your Pokemon!” Jessie mocked holding out Luz’s pokeballs.

Luz smiled as she gave out the command, “Zubat now!”

All of a sudden a Zubat swooped down and took Luz’s pokeballs from Jessie’s hand returning them to Luz.

“What!?” All the members of Team Rocket exclaimed.

“Thank you Zubat, now Rowlett I choose you!” She said sending out the Pokemon again.

“Oh no!” Said Team Rocket.

“Rowlett, Zubat both of you use air cutter!” Luz tells the both of them.

The air cutters pops the hot air balloon sending them.

“We’re blasting off again!” They screamed as they were sent flying.

Luz returned Rowlett to his Pokeball again, as Luz and Amity returned to her secret hideout with Zubat tagging along, something about the room seemed off, like something was missing, but she couldn’t tell what.

“Okay I called Malphas, and he’ll be on his way so we can explain what happened. Meanwhile can you explain the whole Pokemon in the Boiling Isles thing?” Amity asked Luz, who was giving a Zubat a berry to eat.

———later———

“Okay can one of you explain what happened?” Malphas asked, while looking at Zubat.

“Zubat here wondered in a while ago by accident, and has been searching for prey at night, the messes was because it couldn’t find any.” Luz explained to the librarian.

“Okay, and you too stayed out of the forbidden stacks right?” Malphas asked, looking at Amity.

“Yes, we stayed out of there Malphas.” She told him.

“Good, you two can leave then, you can figure what today with the Pokemon yourselves.” He says as he leaves.

Luz and Amity walk away from the Library with the Zubat.

“So what are we going to do with Zubat here?” Amity asked Luz.

“I don’t know, you want to come with me Zubat?” Luz asked the Pokemon, who began to shake in excitement signaling yes.

“Okay!” Luz says as she gets out an empty Pokeball, and throws it at the Zubat.

The Pokeball shakes three times before dinging, telling Luz the Pokemon was captured.

“I caught Zubat!” She exclaims holding out the Pokeball.

“Nice you caught the Pokemon Luz.” Amity compliments.

“Yeah, I guess I’ll see you around, also if you need any help you know where to find me.” Luz tells Amity, as she heads back to the Owl House.

“I’ll remember that.” Amity says.

“Wait one more thing!” Luz says quickly running back to Amity.

“Here!” Luz says holding out Azura 5 to Amity.

“I noticed you didn’t have number 5 so you can borrow this meanwhile.” Luz explains.

“Thanks Luz.” Amity says to Luz, blushing.

———the next day———

Amity woke up to the sound of her Mother’s voice.

“Amity get the FUCK down here right now!!!” Her mother yelled.

“I’m coming.” She said as she quickly got dressed.

“Okay I’m down here, what is it?” She asked.

“Care to explain this!” Her mother yelled as held out her scroll.

Amity looked at the scroll and her heart stopped, it was pages of her diary, primarily the ones that detailed how much she loved Pokemon.

Amity then noticed the knife in her Mother’s other hand.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Luz captured a Zubat, also befriending Amity early did have consequences.

Chapter 17: A New Home: part 1

Notes:

CW: kids bleeding

When Luz returned to the Owl House she meet the Bat Queen, who was a giant woman’s head with huge Zubat like wings, she was pretty sure Zubat ended getting a crush on the Bat Queen. Anyways Eda was annoyed when Luz explained what happened that night, but ultimately just sent the human to bed, after swearing to beat up Team Rocket for putting her apprentice in mortal danger.

Anyways, the next day they were at Eda’s human collectibles stand, currently arguing.

“I have the harder life!” King claimed.

“No I have the harder life!” Luz argued back.

“Okay, I know how we have to solve this, Body Swap!” Eda yelled as she raised her staff.

Before Eda could perform any spells, Willow and Gus ran up to the stand yelling, “Luz!”

“Oh sorry Eda, can we put a pin in the body swap for now?” Luz asked as he turned to her friends asking, “What’s wrong?”

“It’s about Amity,” Willow told her, Luz was staring to get worried, “I think it’s best if you see for yourself.” Willow told her as she brought out her scroll.

It showed a photo of a piece of paper, “despite how the battle ended I was honored to battle the daughter of Ash Ketchum, this will sadly be the closest I’ll ever get to a real Pokemon battle…” Luz read off, but immediately stopped herself when she realized what it was, ‘that’s what was wrong, it was gone!’ Luz realized.

“Someone posted Amity’s diary on Penstagram. I thought you would want to know.” Willow told Luz.

This isn’t good, Luz thought, she was aware how the residents of the demon realm thought of Pokemon, she couldn’t even imagine what people would do to someone who loves Pokemon.

“Who did this!?” Luz asked, getting angry at whoever put Amity in danger.

“We don’t know, it’s a new account.” Gus informed her.

“They called themselves @P3rfectTW1nS.” Willow said, pointing out the username.

Luz immediately knew who did it. She could tell that Edric and Emira liked to annoy Amity, but this was too far.

She immediately ran over to Eda and tried to grab her staff.

“Eda I need to fly now.” She told her mentor.

“Hey! What happened to body swapping?” Eda questioned, while keeping the staff away.

“Nevermind that! Amity’s siblings posted her diary online which mentioned her love of Pokemon, and I want a word with them!” Luz told her.

“They what!? Fine, but I’m joining you!” Eda said aggravated, as she got on her staff as well as putting King in her hair.

As Luz got on the staff they flew off.

“Are we supposed to just follow them?” Gus asked Willow who shrugged.

“Okay, what does her siblings look like?” Eda asked Luz.

“Twins, one male, one female, green hair.” Luz described, as the two of them tried looking around.

“Oh down there!” King pointed out to the two of them, pointing at two individuals with green hair.

Luz got a closer look to check, “Yeah it’s them, fly down Eda.” Luz told Eda.

Eda quickly landed as Luz jumped off and walked over to them.

“Hey Luz!” The twins said cheerfully when they noticed the human.

“Don’t ‘Hey Luz!’ me you two!” Luz wasn’t having any of their formalities.

“Hey, what’s wrong?” Emira asked like everything was fine and dandy.

“You tell me, what did you call yourselves, oh yeah, Perfect Twins!?” Luz accused them, her eye was beginning to twitch out of frustration.

“Oh you saw, I think it’s our best prank yet.” Edric gloated.

“In what world did you think that was a good idea!?” Luz yelled at them.

“What? Mittens was too high strung, that and she snitched on us, so what’s the problem with a harmless prank?” Emira asked acting innocently.

“Harmless!” Eda said as she walked up to them, “Knowing your Mother, Odalia, it won’t take long for it to be far harmless!” The twins started to look a little uncomfortable when they were told that.

“I’m sure she is perfectly fine.” Edric muttered out.

“The where is she?” Luz, seriously, asks the two of them.

“Uh, we don’t really know, we left before she woke up, she is probably just hanging out with Boscha.” Emira guessed.

“She better because…” Luz started as she immediately shoved the two against a brick wall.

“If she’s even slightly hurt, you better pray to Arceus for mercy!” Luz threatens the twins.

“You mean The Titan, right?” Edric attempts to correct.

“No.” Luz sternly says to them as she drops them.

“Let’s go Eda.” Luz says frustrated as they get on her staff.

“Who’s Boscha?” Eda asked as they took flight again.

“She was the witch with three eyes and hot pink hair from earlier.” Luz informs her.

“She can’t be too far then.” Eda concludes as they begin to look.

“I see her friends over there.” Luz notices pointing towards a shack on a cliff where some the teens who were with Boscha earlier were throwing what Luz hoped were just water balloons at random people.

As they fly nearby Luz calls out a silver haired girl with red sleeves, “Hey you there get Boscha!”

“My name is Skara you know.” The girl tells Luz.

“Okay, Skara go get Boscha!” She told Skara.

She just stood for a good second just looking at them before she just shrugged and walked into the shack. She walked back out with the triclops.

“Oh it’s you three, what do you want round ears? Or are you here because I insulted you!?” Boscha mocked.

“It’s not that Boscha. Do you know where Amity is?” Luz asked as she got off the staff.

“Oh you mean miss Pokemon Lover, what makes you think I know where she is?” Boscha scoffed.

“Aren’t you friends with her?” Luz questioned.

“Not anymore! I can’t afford to be seen with someone like her!” Boscha claimed.

Luz grunted as she turned around muttering, “Fine I’ll just go then.”

“Anyways I think you should just go and let her suffer.” Boscha says.

“Boscha I thinks that’s a little too far.” Skara comments as Luz turns around.

Then Luz immediately punches Boscha in her third eye, so hard she falls back on the ground leaving behind a black eye.

“What was that for!?” Boscha screeches at Luz.

“Speak that way of Amity again, and you’ll get more than a black eye, three eyes.” Luz threatens as she gets back on Eda’s staff and flys off.

“Don’t you think that was a little too much Luz?” King asked concerned.

“I’m not in the mood to be nice.” Luz tells King.

“Okay we’re going back to the Owl House.” Eda decided.

“Wait why? We need to find Amity!” Luz questions.

“And we will, but we don’t know where to look, and you need to calm down Luz.” Eda tells her.

Luz decided to not argue with the witch as they flew back to the Owl House.

———later———

After Eda forced Luz to eat something to try to calm her down, they sat down to discuss where Amity could be.

“Maybe I could ask at the library if they’ve seen where Amity?” Luz suggested.

“Okay, I could drop you off there, I can’t enter due to being banned. I might have to resort to asking Lilith, but I doubt she’ll help since the emperor says Pokemon are monsters.” Eda said.

As they try to figure what to do Hooty joins in saying in his usual joyous tone, “Hey Eda there’s a bleeding girl out here.”

“Wait what!?” All three of them exclaim.

Eda immediately runs up to Hooty, and slams open the door revealing Amity, holding onto for dear life to a backpack, her right arm covered in knife wounds, there’s blood in her hair, blood is even dripping from her mouth.

“Amity!” Luz yells out when she sees her.

Eda quickly picks the teenage witch. “You two bring in her bag and go get it some food, I’ll go and try to patch her up in the bathroom upstairs.” Eda tells Luz and King as she rushes Amity upstairs.

“L-L-Lu-uz.” Luz hears Amity mutter out as Eda takes her away.

———an hour———

Luz and King had brought Amity’s bag back inside, and gotten out a plate of leftover griffin eggs for Amity, now they were just waiting for Eda and Amity to come back down.

The two of them perked up as they heard footsteps come down the stairs, they looked up and saw Eda helping Amity walk down the stairs. Amity was all bandaged up, the blood was all cleaned up and she was wearing fresh clean clothes, but her hair was now its natural brown color.

“Amity!” Luz called out in happiness.

“Give her some space you two. And here eat up kid.” Eda told them as she sat Amity down and gave her the plate of griffin eggs.

“Amity what happened to you?” Luz asked her friend.

“Let me guess, Odalia saw the post and decided it would be best to get rid of you.” Eda guessed, Amity just nodded her head.

“I was able to use an abomination to fend her off long enough to get my stuff and go.” Amity mentioned.

‘I’m going to kill her mother!’ Luz thought as she had to ask another question, “Why is her hair brown?”

“Wait why is it brown?” Amity asked with a mouth full of griffin eggs.

“The stuff I used to clean the blood out of her hair also cleaned the dye out of hair as well, I also couldn’t regrow her teeth, it’s surprising harder than I thought it would be, so she’s missing those three teeth.” Eda explained, Luz looked and saw that Amity was missing two more of her upper front teeth.

“But I’ve got to know why did you come here?” Eda asked.

“I needed to drop something off,” Amity says as grabs something out of her bag, “I couldn’t go without giving you it back.” Amity handed Luz her copy of Azura 5 Luz gave her yesterday back.

“Please tell me you had plans besides dropping Luz’s book off?” Eda asked as Amity nodded her head, “What were they?”

“I’m going to go and see if my Grandfather will take me in.” Amity told Eda.

“I don’t think so kid, you do know Alador’s dad been dead for the last decade, right?” Eda reminds the young witch.

“I know, I’m talking about my maternal grandfather.” Amity informed her.

“Oh yeah, I forgot Odalia had a dad, I think he was banished to the outskirts of town when the emperor took over for something, can’t remember what though.” Eda recalled.

“Amity what makes you think he’ll take you in, especially after how his daughter treated you?” Luz questioned.

“Simple, it’s believed he had Pokemon.” Amity told.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

We find out what happened to Amity, it wasn’t nice. But Amity’s grandfather has been mentioned.

Chapter 18: A New Home: part 2

Summary:

Eda, Luz, and Amity go to the Shin Forest to search for Amity’s grandfather.

“What!?” The three residents of the Owl House exclaimed.

“I’m sorry care to repeat that kid!?” Eda asked trying to make sure she didn’t hear Amity wrong.

“My grandfather is believed to have Pokemon, when Belos became the emperor my grandfather had to leave the family due to his Pokemon, hopefully he’ll take me in.” Amity further explained.

“Okay, where does your grandfather live exactly?” Eda asked while rubbing her forehead.

“From what I’ve heard he lives in the Shin Forest.” Amity tells her.

“I’ve heard of that place, mostly known for its Pokemon sightings, but it’s also not too far from here, but sun’s starting to set.” Eda mumbled as she was thinking things through.

“Okay boots, we’ll bring down to see if your grandpa will take you in tomorrow, but you’re staying the night here. Understand?” Eda told Amity.

“Yes miss Owl Lady.” Amity replied.

“Good, Luz take her upstairs, you mind letting her stay in your room tonight?” Eda asked her apprentice.

“Okay.” Luz said as she let Amity upstairs.

“While you too are doing that I’ll round up some blankets or pillows for the night.” Eda called to them as they were walking up.

“Welcome to my room.” Luz said as she opened her door.

“Luz this isn’t a proper bedroom.” Amity pointed out.

“I know but it works.” Luz defended.

“I just thought your mom would’ve given you an actual bedroom.” Amity explained.

Luz went silent the moment she heard ‘mom’.

“Wait? Do you think Eda’s my mom!?” Luz screamed in shock of her friend assumption.

“You aren’t the secret love child of Ash Ketchum and the Owl Lady?” Amity asked wide eyed.

“NO!” Luz yelled out.

“Oh.” Amity said in realization before asking, “Wait then who is your mom?”

“She isn’t around anymore.” Luz sadly tells Amity.

“Oh! I’m sorry Luz!” Amity apologized, when she realized what happened to Luz’s mom.

“Don’t worry! You didn’t know. I just don’t want to replace her.” Luz told Amity.

Before Amity could ask any further questions Eda walked in with blankets and a pillow, and an anxious look on her face.

“Uh, here is some blankets and a pillow, good night.” She quickly said as she Amity them, and then left, pretending she didn’t overhear their conversation, but couldn’t help but think about putting Luz in an actual room.

———the next day———

“Let’s go.” Eda told them, they had already eaten breakfast, and packed up Amity’s stuff.

“Are you using your staff?” Luz asked noticing that Eda wasn’t using her staff.

“I can’t, the Shin Forest has a strange phenomenon that makes it impossible to fly a staff around it, so we’ll have to walk there.” Eda explained as they left the house.
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“So what exactly is even going on with that place?” Luz asked them.

“The Shin Forest is one of the most unexplored areas of the Boiling Isles in recent years, partially because of Eda mentioned, but also because it has become a hotspot for Pokemon sightings over the last 50 years, one sighting led to the book “The Pokemon of the Swamp” being written, the only witch who lives is Monty Jones, my grandfather.” Amity explained as they made their way to the forest.

‘I’ve heard the last name Jones somewhere, isn’t there a few trainers name jones?’ Luz thought as they walked up to a forest entrance.

“Here it is, the Shin Forest, Amity if your grandpa can’t take you in, you’ll just stay with us until the foreseeable future.” Eda warns Amity.

“I understand.” Amity replies.

As they begin to walk through the forest Luz decides to look around, she mostly just sees trees and the occasional Spinarak.

“Wait.” Luz says in realization, “There’s Pokemon here!”

Eda and Amity immediately look up and the Spinaraks in the tree quickly run away.

“I guess the rumors are true.” Eda said as all of the sudden giant vines grew out of the ground positioned to attack them.

“Oh no, Zubat I choose you!” Luz says as she sends out her Zubat as Eda creates a spell circle.

“Quickly Zubat use wing attack on the vines!” She commands, Zubat’s wings glow as it attacks all the vines cutting them in half as Eda uses a fire spell do the burn the rest of the vines.

They all look around in anticipation of the next attack, but it doesn’t come.

“Okay I think we’re good to go, but keep your guard up.” Eda tells them as they continue to walk through the forest, none of them noticing the green serpentine creature slithering away.

———later———

It had been a hour since the vine attack and they had just been walking around searching for Amity’s grandfather, but so far no luck.

They found themselves at a lake inside the forest now.

“I didn’t know this was here.” Amity mentioned confused at the presence of the lake.

“You two stay here I’ll check something.” Eda told them as she walked up to the lake and submerges her hand in it.

Eda removes her hand from the water and tells them, “The water is cold, we can rest and take a break for now.”

Both Luz and Amity sat on some rocks as Eda was filling some bottles with waters for them to drink.

“We’ve been looking for a good bit.” Luz brought up.

“Yeah I think we should keep looking for a bit longer, but then we should probably head back before we get too lost.” Amity suggested, starting to lose hope.

As the two teenagers were talking with each other Eda was finishing up filling the bottles with water, the water in front of her began rippling as a dark blue creature with red eyes rose from the water.

“What the!?” Eda yelled when she saw the newly appeared Eelektross, which also grabbed Luz’s and Amity’s attention to it.

“Eeleek-Tross.” It said as it shot an electro ball at Eda which she was just barely able to dodge it.

“Rowlett use razor leaf!” Luz yelled as she sent out Rowlett.

The Eelektross’s eyes widen at the sight of the Pokemon, when it was hit by the razor leaf it re-submerged itself back under the water.

“I think we should get away from the water.” Eda suggested as they left the lake back into the forest.

“Here take these.” Eda said as she handed the two the bottles of water.

“Thanks.” Luz says as she and Amity drank the water.

They continued walking through the forest when they heard branches breaking.

They looked towards where the sound came from and saw a Bisharp inching towards them.

“Oh come on! Dewott I choose you!” Luz said sending him out.

“Bisharp stop!” An old male voice called making the Bisharp stop walking towards them, the origin of the voice soon shows himself, a tall man walking with a cane, wearing a hat on top of his green hair covering his ears.

“Sorry about that, didn’t know you were a fellow Pokemon trainer.” The man said as he returned the Bisharp to its Pokeball, as the Eeleektross from earlier, as well as a Serperior slithered up to the man and seemed to be telling him something.

“Never mind, these two meant to tell me but took too long.” He said returning the two Pokemon to their Pokeballs, he then looks at Amity’s face asking, “You seem familiar kid, are you related to someone I know?”

“That depends, are you Monty Jones?” Amity asked hopefully.

“Yes I would be young lady.” He told Amity.

“Well I am Amity Blight, your granddaughter.” Amity introduced herself, her grandfather’s eyes widened as he soon gained a smile as he took Amity into a hug.

“It’s about time, I beginning to think your mama would never give me grandchildren!” He said excitedly as he let go of Amity, “I sent letters to her asking if she has had kids yet, I just took the lack of anything as a no.”

“How about I show you three to my cabin, I’m sure y’all could use a break.” He said as he started to lead them somewhere, as they started to notice more Pokemon showing themselves.

“Um, can you please explain where all these Pokemon came from?” Luz asked Monty.

“Every once in a while a Pokemon ends up some by water, some just fall out of nowhere, either way I gave them sanctuary here. The Pokemon protect them from intruders, but I’ve weirdly been getting actually Pokemon trainers lately, especially with that guy with red hair.” He explained, referring to Silver.

“If we’re asking questions, why can’t people fly with their staff’s?” Eda asked.

“I got some Claydols and Baltoys to use their psychic powers to essentially turn this place into a no fly zone for witches.” Monty joked as they approached a cabin that has Pokemon all over it.

Monty walks up to the front door and opens it for them saying, “I’ll cook up some griffin eggs while y’all tell me what’s my daughter’s been up to.”

———later———

Amity’s grandpa just rubs his forehead mumbling, “Where did I go wrong?”

“I’m pretty sure Odalia is just evil.” Eda bluntly tells him.

“I just can’t understand how my little girl who loved playing with my Serperior became someone who would try to kill her own kid?” He questions.

“Um well, could I stay here?” Amity asked.

“Oh ofcourse you can! I’ve got plenty of rooms” He tells Amity to her excitement.

“But if I may ask what’s a human doing in this world, you stuck here or something?” He asked Luz, she could fell genuine worry from him.

“No I have a way back.” She tells him his eyes widening in disbelief.

“Really? Well if you two want to get back home before sunset I suggest you should get going now.” He suggested as he got out another pokeball.

The pokeball sends out a Braviary as he tells them, “Braviary here can lead you the way out so you don’t get lost.”

“Thanks Mr. Jones.” Luz says as she and Eda leaves following the Braviary.

———that night———

Monty went to check on Amity, she was sleeping in one of the cabin’s rooms, he would have to decorate the room for her sometime, and get her new clothes.

He just couldn’t figure out what happened to Odalia, and what made this way.

Monty walked back into his room, and sat down in an old rocking chair as he grabbed a photo frame.

The photo shows a teen Monty alongside a younger man who looks similar to him but with purple hair and round ears.

Monty takes off his hat revealing his round ears as he says, “Maybe I can see you again Jeremiah, maybe.”

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Amity is officially free from Odalia.

Chapter 19: Be My Companion

Summary:

Luz gets a call from her dad.

Two days had passed since Amity began living with her grandpa, Monty Jones, ever since her siblings had posted her diary online.

Luz was currently in Amity’s new room with her, helping Amity polish her pokeball collection.

“Thanks for helping out with my pokeball collection Luz.” Amity said to her friend as she started to polish a timer ball.

“Oh don’t worry about it, it’s what friends do. Though this might be faster if we got help, how about I try getting Willow?” Luz suggested.

“I don’t think that would be the best idea.” Amity told Luz.

“Okay. Wait how do you even have a pokeball collection?” Luz asked while pondering over the freshly polished moon ball in her palm.

“I’ve found some that washed up along the coast,” Amity explained, “and sometimes I would wear a cloak and go to the Owl Lady’s stand to buy some that she sells as baseballs, I got most of them that way.”

“I’ll have to ask Eda about it, you have almost every type of pokeball, except a masterball.” Luz commented.

“Actually I use to have one.” Amity revealed to the human’s surprise.

“Wait really!?” Luz asked.

“Yeah what happened is…” Amity began to explain.

———flashback———

“Finally my collection is complete!” Amity cheered while examining her new masterball.

She had bought it had at the Owl Lady’s stand for only a couple of snails, the Owl Lady had no clue how valuable it was, especially since she was selling it as a baseball.

“What you got there Mittens?” Emira asked, causing Amity to realize the twins had snuck up on her.

“I think it’s one of those baseballs the H.A.S. have Em.” Edric guessed as Emira took the masterball out of Amity’s hands.

“Great! Ed catch!” Emira yelled as she threw the masterball at her brother, which he failed to catch as it slammed against the wall behind him shattering.

“I wonder why humans play with something so fragile?” Edric questioned as Amity just stared at the now shattered on the ground masterball, disheartened.

“What are you seriously going to cry Mittens.” Emira mocked as Amity shed tears over it.

“You can just buy another baseball.” Edric laughed as he and Emira walked away.

———end of flashback———

“Do you mine if I punch your siblings?” Luz seriously asked Amity after she told the story.

“Maybe later.” Amity joked as she then began to polish a dive ball.

“I’m not joking.” Luz bluntly told Amity as they heard a ringtone.

“Oh sorry, that’s mine.” Luz said as she took out her rotom-phone and saw the caller ID.

“Oh it’s my Dad.” Luz exclaimed to Amity’s surprise.

“Wait. You mean Ash Ketchum ‘Dad’?” Amity asked excitedly.

“Yes.” Luz told Amity, as she noticed the witch inching closer and closer, “I’m taking this outside.”

“Yeah, that’s fair.” She heard Amity say as she walked out outside.

She saw Amity’s grandpa in the distance watering plants with his green and orange Seismitoad, she gave a wave to them as she took the call.

“Hi Dad.” She started nervously.

“Hey Luz, how are you doing?” Her Dad asked cheerfully.

“I’m doing great, I’ve actually recently caught a Zubat.” She told him.

“A Zubat really? Those aren’t exactly common in Unova, but congratulations either way, I’ve actually know a couple of people who have Crobat’s, I can call them to give you advice, if you want.” Ash offered.

“I’m good Dad, but I’ll remember just in case.” She answered.

“Okay. Anyways, so tell me you got a traveling companion yet?” He also asked, causing Luz to momentarily freeze.

“I’m sorry what?” She muttered out.

“I wanted to know if you’re traveling with anyone. It’s personally one of the best parts of traveling.” Her Dad clarified.

“Uh, yes actually, she’s great, you would love her.” Luz claims on the spot.

“Well can’t wait to meet her soon.” Ash said to his daughter.

“Wait what?” Luz questioned.

“Oh yeah, that’s why I’m calling, I’m going to be Unova in a bit and wanted to meet up.” He revealed to Luz’s shock, “So I was thinking we could meet in Excelsior City in a few days, I could meet your traveling companion, and spend the day together. How does that sound?”

“That sounds great Dad.” Luz answers, beginning to panic internally a little.

“Excellent. I love you.” He said.

“I love you too.” Luz said back as they both hanged up.

Luz took a moment to think over the conversation she just had, before running back into the cabin yelling, “Amity!”

“What is it Luz?” Amity asked confused as Luz ran into her room.

“I need you to be my traveling companion!” Luz scrambled out.

“What!?” Amity yelled blushing.

“I was just on the phone with my Dad, and I told him I have a traveling companion, and now he wants to meet up in a few days.” Luz elaborated.

“I’m probably not the best fit, Willow is a better friend than I could ever be.” Amity suggested.

“Oh come on. You know more about the Pokemon world than Willow ever could, and I know you would love to meet my Dad.” Luz told her.

“I think you should go.” Monty suggested as he appeared in the door way, “A trip with your friend might do you some good after whats happened recently, and I could make sure everything’s good with your school, and decorate your room.”

“Come on Amity.” Luz begged getting close to Amity’s face, causing her to blush.

“Okay, I’ll come.” Amity replied to Luz’s joy.

“Great! I’ll go tell Eda, we’ll meet tomorrow.” Luz told Amity as she left.

———the next day———

“You got everything Luz?” Eda asked as she got out the portal door.

she didn’t want Luz to go, but she knew that Ash had more authority over Luz as her dad.

“Yeah Eda I’m all ready to go.” She told her mentor as she finished up packing her bag.

They then heard a knock on the door.

“Come in.” Luz said, the door opened revealing Amity wearing a hat similar to the ones Luz’s dad wears, covering her ears, carrying a bag on her side.

“Your grandpa not here to send you off?” Eda asked the young witch.

“He went to go meet up with Principal Bump, to make sure I’m still good to go to school.” Amity answered.

“Seriously, in my opinion school’s overrated.” Eda scoffed.

“Honestly I think it would be nice to go to Hexside, especially with how little you take teaching me seriously.” Luz said under her breath, which Eda was able to hear, an unsure look appearing on her face.

“Whatever. I’m going to keep the door up for when you two get back.” Eda told them as she pressed the eye on the key causing the door to the Pokemon world to open.

“Goodbye Luz.” King said giving Luz a hug goodbye.

“I’ll see you soon King.” Luz told him.

Luz then took Amity’s hand, causing the witch to blush, as they walked through the door, it closing behind them,

“Luz I need your help!” Gus yelled as he burst through the door.

“You’re too late Goops, she already left.” Eda bluntly told him.

“Oh. Then could I buy more baseballs the ones I bought last time all shattered.” Gus asked as he got out a bag of snails.

“Sure. Honestly I have so many, you can just have them.” Eda said as she took out an entire crate, from her hair, filled with masterballs.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Time to begin our next mini-arc taking place in the human realm, staring Luz and Amity. I had an entire section of the chapter dedicated to the masterball gag, I realized I forgot it in the last five chapters, and it won’t be in this mini-arc, so I felt I had to make up for it.

Chapter 20: Loose Ends: part 1

Summary:

As Luz and Amity begin their trip, Luz encounters someone she wish she never would meet again from her past.

As they walked through the portal Amity took in a breath of air as she looked at the surrounding flora.

“So this is the human realm?” Amity said as she looked up to the blue sky.

“Yup, welcome to my birth town Gravesfield.” Luz introduced as she continued to explain, “We’re going to meet my Dad in Excelsior City, so I think we should leave this place by the end of the day.”

“Don’t you want to spend time in your hometown Luz?” Amity asked as they began to walk away from the cabin they walked out of.

“Not really, I might’ve been born here but I would rather leave as soon as possible.” Luz bluntly told Amity.

Amity didn’t ask further as they continued to walk, random people for some reason waving at Luz, until they reached what looked like a town square.

“You better be leaving Nerdceda!” They heard a girl yell out.

“Ofcourse I can’t leave in peace.” Luz mumbled as they turned to see a blond girl with a pink streak in her hair.

“Hello Clara, don’t worry I’m leaving.” Luz said, annoyed.

“Good, my aunt Eleanor told me about your mom, and we don’t need any mistakes soiling our town’s reputation.” Clara mocked, reminding Amity how Odalia made her act.

“You’re just jealous of Luz! I bet she can beat you in a Pokemon battle right here right now!” Amity claimed after she saw the two pokeballs on the bully’s waist.

“Oh really! Let’s settle this right now!” Clara screamed as she walked towards a battle field next to a Pokemon center nearby.

“Guess we’re going to be here for a bit longer.” Luz said exasperated as she walked towards the field.

“Sorry for challenging her on your behalf.” Amity apologized as she followed.

“Don’t worry, you were just defending me.” Luz reassured Amity as she stood on the field parallel of Clara.

“So how many Pokemon are we going to be using?” Luz asked.

“Two, oh wait do you even have two?!” Clara laughed.

“I have four Clara.” Luz bluntly told Clara, already getting annoyed at her.

“Uh, whatever! Put Nerdceda in her place Vullaby!” She yelled sending out her Pokemon.

“Ralts I choose you!” Luz said as she sent her Pokemon out starting the battle.

“Vullaby use pluck!” Clara commanded, her Vullaby running towards Ralts with her beak glowing.

“Ralts use disarming voice!” Luz countered, Ralts singing a melody that produces pink music notes that sends Vullaby flying.

“Vullaby use feather dance!” Clara told her Pokemon, soon Ralts was covered in a barrage of feathers as Vullaby used the opportunity to get behind the other Pokemon.

“Now Vullaby finish it off with thief!” Clara said with smirk, as small black orbs appeared on the tips of Vullaby’s wings, it rushes past Ralts, damaging, but not fainting, her.

“Hey! You’re cheating!” Clara accused.

“Huh?” Both Luz and Amity said at the accusation.

“Thief is a dark type move, Ralts is psychic type, which is weak to dark type moves, that attack should’ve done Ralts in!” She yelled, extremely frustrated.

“Ralts is also fairy type, which resists dark type moves, that attack was only neutral.” Luz reminded Clara, annoying her more.

“Fine if you’re going just ignore the type chart! Vullaby use rock tomb!” Clara commanded to Luz’s surprise, as a myriad of boulders were summoned above her Pokemon.

“Ralts use psychic on the rocks!” Luz quickly told Ralts.

“What!?” Clara exclaimed at the now floating rocks.

“Now throw them back at Vullaby!” Luz commanded, the rocks being flung at the bird, piling on her before she could get out of the way, some rocks roll away revealing a swirly eye Vullaby.

“Dammit! Vullaby return! Finish her off Tepig!” Clara said as she sent out her next Pokemon.

“Ralts use confusion!” Luz directed.

“Tepig dodge out of the way!” Clara told her Pokemon it jumping out of the way.

“Tepig use tackle!” Clara commanded as her Tepig ran towards Ralts tackling her.

“Now use heatwave!” Clara yelled as a wave of heat pulsed from Tepig, blasting Ralts sending her flying.

“Ralts are you okay!?” Luz says as she checks her Pokemon, seeing the swirly eyes on her face.

“It’s no surprise your Pokemon lost, my Tepig is the best money can buy, he’ll beat your next Pokemon in one turn!” Clara claimed as Luz returned Ralts to her Pokeball.

“Go Dewott!” Luz said sending out her first Pokemon, a confused look showing on Clara’s face.

“I thought you had a Snivy?” Clara asked confused, making Luz confused.

“What no. I haven’t ever had a Snivy.” Luz clears up.

“What I swear… Whatever! Tepig use dig!” Clara told Tepig as he dug underground and began to direct itself towards Dewott.

“Dewott use water pulse on the ground!” Luz quickly tells Dewott, the blast of water turning the ground Tepig was under into mud, forcing it to rise from the mud, but is still stuck.

“Tepig use heat wave to get out of there!” Clara said, the mud the Tepig was in began to bubble and boil until Tepig burst out of it in an explosion, some of the hot mud hitting Dewott.

“Tepig tackle!” The Tepig started to run at Dewott.

“Dewott stop Tepig with water pulse!” Luz attempts to counter, but the mud in Dewott’s eyes cause him to miss and be tackled, which did knock some of the mud out of his eyes.

“Tepig end it with a tackle into flame charge!” Clara commanded as Tepig started to run at Dewott, soon picking up the pace as he became surrounded by a veil of fire.

“Luz tell Dewott to get out of the way!” Amity begged when she saw Dewott unmoving.

Right before Tepig slammed into Dewott Luz made her move, “Dewott use razor shell!”

The razor shell slammed Tepig into the ground, when the dust settled Tepig was revealed to have fainted.

“Come on! How can someone like you beat me!?” Clara shouted as returned Tepig.

As she walked away annoyed, she said one last thing, “Just go! I don’t even know why you’ve been here this past month.”

Luz and Amity were shocked at that, before they could ask Clara was gone.

“What was she talking about?” Amity asked Luz, as her friend looked towards the pokecenter.

“I don’t know. I’ll ask inside the pokecenter.” Luz said as they walked towards the pokecenter.

When they entered the pokecenter Luz walked towards the Nurse Joy, as she handed her Ralts and Dewott’s pokeballs, she asked, “Excuse me Nurse Joy. This might sound weird, but have you seen anyone who looks like me this past month?”

“Actually I have. I’ve seen her around the town. Your Pokemon will be healed in a hour.” Nurse Joy answered, as she took Luz’s Pokemon to be healed.

“Why did she act like that was normal?” Amity asked, confused.

“She’s a Nurse Joy, they understand having someone who looks exactly like you.” Luz explains.

“So what are we going to do about that?” Amity asked, as she and Luz walked out of the pokecenter.

“We’re going to look around for this other me.” Luz says as she look towards a building with a statue of two men in front of it.

“I’ll ask in there, you look around outside.” Luz tells Amity, who gives a thumbs up, Luz walks towards the building, with a sign that reads “Gravesfield Historical Society”.

As Luz enters she sees a man at the front desk, who gets a strange look on his face when he sees Luz.

Luz quickly decides to not talk to the man, because of the malicious feeling he’s giving her.

Luz decides to look around for someone to ask about the other her to, but she mostly just sees imagery depicting the witch trials.

As Luz decides to leave, she notices the man at the desk is gone, as a rag is placed over her face, causing her to blackout.

———with Amity———

Amity was standing outside the building Luz entered, twiddling her thumbs, waiting for Luz to get back.

Amity wasn’t exactly sure about looking around the town without Luz.

She questioned what was with the statue, she looked at it plat it said it was the brothers Wittabane, they were something called witch hunters, which she didn’t want to know what they were, but she had a bad idea of what they were from the names alone.

As Amity just looked she saw a girl wearing a blue hoodie who looked exactly like Luz.

“Hey you!” Amity called out, the girl immediately started running towards the nearby neighborhood, Amity immediately gives haste.

Amity follows the girl until she goes into an abandoned house that was across the street from the cabin that was connected to the Demon Realm.

Amity entered the house and she saw something she never would’ve expected.

“A basilisk!” Amity exclaims.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

We meet the closest thing Luz will have to a Pokemon rival. I’m writing Clara, by how I personally think Trip should’ve been written, some one who thinks so lowly of their rival, they can’t comprehend losing to them, becoming borderline obsessed with defeating them.

Chapter 21: Loose Ends: part 2

Summary:

Amity and the basilisk must save Luz from the crazy curator.

Notes:

CW: attempted child murder

Amity was shocked to find a basilisk inside the house, but it did explain how there was another Luz running around.

“Who are you!?” Amity yelled at the basilisk, causing it to flinch, as a Snivy ran to Amity and started punching her shoes.

“Don’t yell. I’m number 5, I’m a basilisk.” She introduced herself.

“I can see that. You’re supposed to be extinct though.” Amity reminded.

“I know. The Emperor’s coven brought us back to life.” The basilisk explained.

“Wait why would the Emperor’s coven do that?” Amity asked.

“I think they wanted us for our power absorbing magic.” The serpentine girl elaborated.

“So how did you get here?” The witch continued to ask.

“We were captured by the Emperor’s coven until recently when a blonde teen freed us, when I saw the human at the Owl Lady’s stand I took the opportunity to sneak into the human realm pretending to be the girl, whenever someone challenges me to a battle I use Anna here.” Number 5 told her, referring to the Snivy that was still punching Amity’s shoes.

“Just please don’t bring me back to them.” She begged.

“I won’t, but we’re talking about this to Luz, I think she’s at that “Historical Society” place.” Amity told the basilisk, a scared expression appeared on her face.

“Oh no!” She exclaimed.

“Why did you say that!? What’s wrong!?” Amity started questioning, panicked.

“The historical society is where Jacob Hopkins resides, he caught on to me a while back, and if he sees Luz.” Five began to tell her.

“He’ll think she’s you.” Amity realized.

“We have to go and save her.” Amity declared as the basilisk turned into Luz again.

“Okay, it’s probably not the best idea to look like Luz.” Amity suggested.

“Fine.” She said disappointed, as she turned into a similar form, but with slight differences including sandy hair that matched the basilisk’s scales.

“Okay let’s go save Luz.” Amity said as they left the house, number 5 carrying her Snivy in her arms as they left the abandoned house.

———with Luz———

Luz slowly opened her eyes, she looked around her environment, she took note that she was strapped down on a table, she saw surgical equipment nearby and was worried.

She heard footsteps approach her, as she looks up she sees the man from the reception desk from earlier.

“Hey what’s going on?” She asked panicking.

“Shut up demon!” He yelled at her.

‘Yeah he kidnapped me.’ Luz concluded in her mind.

“What do you want!?” Luz asked.

“What do I want? I’m being a hero by stopping demons like you!” He claimed.

“What are you talking about!? I’m not a demon!” Luz told him.

“Cut the crap I know you’re a demon sent from Mars to harvest our teeth to power your Time Machine!” He accused.

“Are you FUCKING insane! I’m not a demon.” Luz yelled back.

“Stop lying I have proof!” He said as he turned on a computer playing a video, the video shows a girl that looks exactly like Luz turning into a serpentine creature.

“That is not me!” She tells the psycho.

“I know you’re lying! You killed the girl and took her place, and I’m going to avenge her death!” He claimed as he walk towards a case with a suit of armor in it.

Luz attempted to grab one of her Pokeballs, but the restraints on her wrist prevented her from reaching them.

Luz just hoped Amity would get here in time before her entrails became her extrails.

———back with Amity———

Amity and her new basilisk ally stood outside the historical society building as they formulated a plan to save Luz.

“So how are supposed to get close to Luz.” Amity pondered out loud.

“Oh I have an idea.” Five exclaimed, grabbing Amity’s attention.

“Ok, lay it on me Five.” She said to the basilisk.

“From what I’ve heard Jacob Hopkins repeatedly attempts to contact a, non-government organization, called the Anomaly Research Coalition, otherwise known as ARC. If we tell him we work with ARC he might let us near Luz, and we could save her.” Five explained.

“Are you even sure he would fall for it?” Amity asked, not sure with the plan.

“Amity, trust me, this guy is a nut job, he’ll fall for it.” Five reassured as they walk into the building.

When they walked up to the desk they saw no one was there, so Amity started to ring the bell on the desk, rapidly, repeatedly.

“I’m coming!” A man yelled from the back, Amity still rang the bell though.

The man appeared behind the desk, wearing a strange suit of armor.

“What do you want?” He asks, taking the bell away from Amity.

“Are you Mr. Hopkins?” Amity asked for clarification.

“Yeah. What about it.” He answered.

“We’re members of ARC, we heard that you have a demon, and would like to see it.” Amity introduced.

“Aren’t you a little young to be members of ARC?” Jacob asks, becoming skeptical.

“Yes, yes we are.” Five tells him, pretending to be confident.

He stares at them for a minute, making Amity begin to sweat profusely, Five would’ve sweat, but basilisk can’t sweat.

“Okay.” He said shrugging before opening the door behind for Amity and Five.

As they follow the crazy curator down the hall towards a door, they look around and see disturbing imagery, like paintings of women being burned alive at the stakes.

“I’m surprised you got here so soon.” He said surprised.

“We have cameras everywhere.” Amity tells him.

“Me too. Now I must warn you, what you will see is horrific.” He warned before opening the door.

‘How can this get any worse?’ Amity thought as he opened the door, revealing Luz on a table restrained, literally mouthing ‘help’.

“Here is the demon I caught.” He bragged.

“Call the cops.” Amity whispers to Five, handing the basilisk her rotom-phone.

“I was thinking we could tour its corpse after we dissect it.” He morbidly suggests.

“Vivisection.” Luz corrects.

“Shut up demon!” Jacob yells at the human girl.

“Uh, don’t worry, we’ll take her off her hands,” Amity says as she frees one of Luz’s hands, specifically the one closest to her Pokeballs.

“Hey you can’t do that! Wait, are you calling the cops!” He yells, noticing Five on the phone with Officer Jenny.

“He noticed, come quick, we’re in the Gravesfield Historical Society.” Five quickly says before hanging up the phone.

“We’re not letting you kill my friend!” Amity tells him as she tries to free Luz from the other constraints.

“Don’t you dare take my catch, go Crustle! Use Rock slide!” He yelled sending out his Pokemon, Amity having to jump out of the way to avoid the falling rocks.

“Anna use vine whip!” Five tells her Snivy, who jumps out of her arms to attack the Crustle.

Luz is able to grab one of her Pokeballs using her free hand.

“Go Rowlett I think!?” She said as she sent out her Pokeball, a Zubat coming out of it.

“Okay Zubat you will do, Zubat use wing attack!” Luz told her Zubat as she started to release her self from the rest of the restraints.

Amity and Five ran over to Luz and helped free her.

“Zubat use supersonic!” Luz commanded, Zubat producing a sound wave that confuses Crustle.

“Crustle use rock slide again!” Jacob yelled, but out of confusion Crustle used rock slide on itself and Jacob, knocking both of the out.

“Anna can tie them up with vine whip?” Five ask Snivy, who ties them up.

“While we wait for Officer Jenny to get here, and I delete the demon footage, can you introduce me to your new friend?” Luz asked as she went towards the computer.

———later———

Officer Jenny had arrived and arrested Jacob Hopkins for kidnapping, illegally recording people, and setting up traps, it was easy since there was footage of him chloroforming Luz.

They explained number Five to Luz, and she decided to bring her and her Snivy (as well as giving her a Pokeball for Snivy), along on their trip as they figure out what to do with her.

“So what should we call you?” Luz asked the basilisk.

“What do you mean?” Five asks.

“Well we can’t just keep calling you a number.” Luz clarified.

“How about Vee.” Vee settled on.

———???———

A pale man with sunkened eyes and scrambled black hair is pondering over the video he stole.

He took the video from a crime scene, apparently the crazy guy who had been contacting them for a while had kidnapped a girl, claiming she was a demon, he just had to see what happened.

Someone tried to delete the video, but they didn’t do a good enough job, and after a bit of hacking he was able to get the video back.

“So shapeshiftering demons, I think Jerry would want to hear about this.” He said as he left the room.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Should I cross post this fanfiction.net?

Chapter 22: Why’s Amity

Summary:

As Luz and Vee get supplies Amity is left by herself at the pokecenter, but not for long.

A day had passed after what happened in Gravesfield the trio of Luz, Amity, and their new basilisk friend Vee left the town and spent the night in a pokecenter in a nearby town.

Amity eyes started to open as light poured into her eyes, she got up and looked around, she couldn’t see Luz or Vee anywhere in sight, but she did see a note nearby.

Stumbling out of bed she picked up the note, it read, “Hey Amity. You may of noticed me and Vee are gone. We only packed supplies for two people, not three, so me and Vee decided to go to the store, we considered bringing you, but you were asleep and we didn’t want to wake you up. Don’t worry we should be back soon. Love Luz.”

Amity blushed a little at that last part.

After getting dressed Amity left the room and went to the pokecenter’s cafeteria.

She just got some eggs and toast with some juice, she had been trying to get use to eating and drinking while missing some of her teeth, the juice she drank did sting some of the cuts still on her gums.

She finished her breakfast, not drinking much of her juice since it kept irritating her gums.

She thought about leaving the pokecenter to go explore the town a bit, but she thought it would better to explore with Luz, so she decided to wait in the front room for Luz and Vee to come back, surely it can’t take that long.

Amity just sits on a bench nearby the front door, she just watches people enter and drop off or pick up their Pokemon, they all just go about their business ignoring Amity, with one major exception.

A tall woman with long lavender hair wearing a suit walked through the doors, she walked towards the desk and gave Nurse Joy all her Pokeballs, then she looked towards where Amity sat and walked up to her with a smile on her face asking, “Excuse me do you mind if I sit with you?”

“Sure.” Amity says, trying to be nice, as she moves to make room for the woman.

“So are you waiting for your Pokemon to get healed?” She asked trying to be friendly.

“Uh, no I actually don’t have any Pokemon, I’m just waiting for my friends to get here.” She told her, to the woman’s surprise.

“Really you look like you’re 13 to 15, and you don’t have a Pokemon?” The woman asks surprised.

“I’m from a place where they aren’t popular to say the least.” Amity answered.

“Oh. Well I can see you’re not there anymore.” She pointed out.

“Yeah, I joined my friend in her trip to go visit her dad.” The witch admitted.

“I’m actually on a trip to visit my dad as well, and also my two half-sisters.” The woman mentioned, with a hint of disdain at the last part.

“You and your sisters don’t like each other do you?” Amity guessed.

“Yeah, you’re the child your dad had with an other woman, and it’s apparently your fault their mom divorced dad.” The woman vented.

“Was your mom at least nice?” Amity asked, beginning to relate to the woman.

“Maybe. She passed away during childbirth, so I didn’t get to know her. But something tells me you wish that would’ve happened to yours.” The woman claimed.

“What!? How did you…” Amity started to question.

“Know that. I’m what’s called an empath, I can sense other people’s emotions, and when I mentioned what happened to my mom, along with feelings of remorse and empathy, you felt jealous. So you don’t have a good relationship with yours don’t you?” The woman surmised while she looked at Amity, with pity in her eyes.

“She hurt me, to say the least.” Amity tells her.

The woman gives Amity a hug before asking, “Please tell me you’re free now, and don’t lie I will notice.”

“Don’t worry, I no longer live with her anymore.” Amity answered.

“Well that’s good, I hope you get better, I just never asked your name.” The woman realized.

“Oh, I’m Amity Jones.” Amity answered, the woman giggled when she heard that.

“Well isn’t that a coincidence, I’m Anabel Jones.” The woman introduced herself as she got up.

The front door of the pokecenter opened as Luz and Vee walked in, carrying a bag of supplies.

“Hey Amity we’re back. Hi Anabel?” Luz said in recognition.

“Oh hi Luz.” Anabel said as she turned around and saw Luz.

“You two know each other?” Amity asked.

“Yeah, she’s one of my dad’s friends, she was actually the one who gave me my Ralts.” Luz told the witch.

“I’m guessing you’re going to meet with Luz’s dad Ash?” Anabel guessed.

“Yeah.” Luz confirmed.

“Well, you probably don’t want a boring adult in your hair, so I’ll be on my way.” Anabel said as she started.

Before Anabel is gone Amity says one more thing, “Hope I can see you again Anabel.”

Anabel, with a smile, turns around and tells her, “I can tell you do, and don’t worry things will get better. Hope you can get a Pokemon Amity.”

As Anabel walks away Vee just looks back and forth before asking, “What did we miss?”

Luz shrugged as the three left to their room and got the rest of their stuff and left.

As they got on the road to Excelsior City Amity asked, “Where to next Luz.”

“We’re voting to have to pass through Maroon City to route 4 and then we’ll reach Excelsior City near Castelia City.” Luz answers.

“We’re going to be on the road for a few more days aren’t we?” Vee asks out loud.

“Yep.” Amity and Luz tell Vee at the same time.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Anabel properly appears for the first time, and has a heart to heart with Amity.

Chapter 23: The Game Corner Conspiracy: part 1

Summary:

Luz, Amity, and Vee arrive in Maroon City and almost immediately get in to trouble.

Our trio of Luz, Amity, and Vee are on the road to visit Luz’s father. It was been two days after they met up with Anabel.

“Here we are Maroon City.” Luz said as they entered the city.

As they walk through the city they see multiple boarded up buildings.

“Hey Luz do you know why these buildings are boarded up?” Amity asked.

“If I remember correctly, this place used to be known for its game corners, a law was passed that banned them, so I guess they’ve gone abandoned.” Luz explains.

“Why would they be banned?” Vee also asked.

“I don’t know.” Luz answers with a shrug.

As they walk through the street they hear a car approaching, they turn around to see a truck speeding down the street.

“Get out of the way!” Luz tells her friends as they get out of the street.

The truck speeds right past them, paying no heed to the teenagers, as a cage falls out of the back.

“Hey! What the distortion was that for!” Luz cursed out to the truck driver.

“Luz! Something fell out of it.” Amity pointed out, making Luz notice the cage.

As the three of them walk up to the cage they hear coming from it, “Spriga-Tito.”

“There’s a Pokemon in it!” Amity realized, she immediately opened the cage and grabbed the Pokemon that was in it.

She pulls out a thin Sprigatito, but it’s a slightly different shade of green, and has purple eyes, with bruises covering it.

“We have to get it to a pokecenter quick!” Amity tells them, as she carries the Sprigatito in her arms.

The trio rush the Pokemon to the nearest pokecenter, they burst into building the only person in it being the Nurse Joy, who gets a suspicious look on her face when she sees what Amity is carrying.

Amity rushes over to the front desk asking, “You need to treat Sprigatito please!”

Nurse Joy takes Sprigatito to the back.

The three of them stand around waiting for Nurse Joy to appear and give them an update.

Until suddenly…

“Put your hands up you’re under arrest!” Officer Jenny yells as she bursts through the front doors.

Immediately the three of them put their hands behind their heads as Officer Jenny handcuffs them.

“What did we do!?” Vee asked panicking.

“Illegal purchase of Pokemon.” Officer Jenny accuses as she finishes handcuffing them.

“What!?” They all exclaim as she takes them outside to the police cruiser.

———???———

“You lost one of the Pokemon!?” Proton yelled at one of the grunts, one of his veins on his forehead bulging.

“Don’t worry, it was only one, maybe it wasn’t that much money.” The grunt defended.

Proton calmed down and pulled out a clipboard asking, “Fine, maybe you’re right, just tell me what assigned number is missing so I can check what Pokemon it was and maybe it won’t be that bad.”

“It was number 906 sir.” The grunt recalled.

Any calmness Proton had remaining immediately disappeared as he crushed the clipboard in his hands, the vein on his forehead being on the verge of exploding.

“That was a shiny Sprigatito!” Proton told grunt, getting close to strangling the man.

“It didn’t cost that much right?” The grunt foolishly hoped.

“It was the most expensive Pokemon in the entire haul, costed more than everything else combined! You are going to retrieve the Pokemon or else you will be shipped back to your family in multiple pieces!” Proton threatened.

“Yes sir.” The grunt said panicked as he ran out.

———police station———

Luz, Amity, and Vee are standing around in a prison cell waiting for Officer Jenny.

They perk up when she comes back and unlocks their jail cells.

“You can go.” The cop says apologetic.

“What happened?” Luz asked.

“We checked the CCTV footage and saw that you three picked up the shiny Sprigatito from a cage on the road. Sorry about that.” Officer Jenny apologizes as she opens the cell door.

“What is even going on?” Amity asked, annoyed.

“After all this you at least deserve some kind of explanation. See here, as of late secret underground game corners have been set up, and they’ve importing rare Pokemon from Paldea to be sold in them, the shiny Sprigatito was likely one of them, when Nurse Joy saw it she just kinda assumed the worst.” Officer Jenny explained, as the three teens walked out of the cell.

“Have a good day officer.” Luz says to the officer Jenny’s in the police station, as she and her friends leave the place.

As the three of them stepped outside, seeing that the sun is setting they walk back to the pokecenter, partially to check on Sprigatito.

———with the Grunt———

“Where is it?” The grunt said as he looked for the cage.

“There!” He yelled when he saw the cage in the middle of the road, but when he looks in it the shiny Sprigatito is gone.

“Where could it be!?” He thought out-loud as he remembered the three teens he almost ran over.

Looking towards the nearest pokecenter he immediately had an idea where to look.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

The whole game corner stuff basically provides an in cannon explanation for the disappearance of the game corner.

Chapter 24: The Game Corner Conspiracy: part 2

Summary:

Sprigatito is kidnapped and Luz, Amity, and Vee must rescue the shiny.

Luz, Amity, and Vee had returned to the Pokecenter, they got a room for the night, after Nurse Joy apologized for getting them arrested.

Amity, with Nurse Joy’s permission, was checking on Sprigatito.

“I hope you get better.” Amity says as she caresses the Pokémon’s head.

All of a sudden the lights begin to flicker in and out.

“Hey what’s going on?” Amity asks out loud as the lights fully go out, and she hears glass breaking.

Hearing the glass breaking Amity calls out, “Hey who’s there!?”

No one answers, causing Amity to panic, she thinks through her decisions, surely if the lights are out, maybe the cameras aren’t working as well, so taking a risk Amity makes a spell circle with her hand creating a ball of light.

From the ceiling, where a glass panel was, a man, wearing a Team Rocket uniform, was on the roof having a Tangela use its vines to steal Sprigatito away.

“Hey you!” Amity called out, grabbing the man’s attention towards Amity.

“What the!?” The man yelled in shock when he saw what Amity was doing.

“Stop right there!” Amity said as she started to create another spell circle to try to stop him.

“No way you thing!” The man yelled as he grabbed out a purple ball with string tied around it, and a string hanging loose out of it, he pulls out a lighter setting fire to the loose string as he quickly throws it into the room below him.

Almost immediately the room is filled to the brim with smoke.

Amity attempts to persevere through it, but the smoke is to much and soon Amity ends up in a coughing fit, causing the spell circle she was making and her already made light spell to disappear.

As soon as Amity can slow down the rate she was coughing at she recreates the light spell, looking through the remaining smoke Amity sees that the man, his Tangela, and worse of all Sprigatito are gone now.

“Oh no.” Amity says under her breath, panicking even more, as she runs out of the room to tell Nurse Joy and her friends what happened.

———with the others———

Luz and Vee are waiting in the front room waiting for Amity to finish checking up on Sprigatito.

The lights begin flickering in and out, before just turning off.

“What’s going on?” Vee asked.

“Theres probably a problem with the electrical system, I’ll go check on it.” Nurse Joy says as she gets out a flashlight and walks towards the back.

“We’ll come with you.” Luz says as she and Vee get up and follow the nurse.

They walk through the back area and reach a door that has a sign saying that unauthorized to stay clear.

They enter the pitch black room, they see occasional sparks where the electrical panel should be, turning on the flashlight she had Nurse Joy points it at the electrical panel, revealing a Raticate chewing on some of the wires.

“Hey! Zubat I choose you!” Luz exclaims as sends out her Zubat.

“Use poison fang!” Luz commands an inky purple substance coming out of his fangs.

Zubat digs his fangs into the Raticate, making it yelp in pain, it quickly stops chewing the wires and as soon as Zubat lets go it runs out of the room to who knows.

As Luz returns Zubat, they walk up to the panel to see the chewed up wires.

“So how are we supposed to fix this?” Vee asks.

“Let me help with that.” They hear a male voice say as the sounds of footsteps reach the room.

“Just give me a little space, and a bit of light.” The silhouette asks as the three step away from the panel, Nurse Joy keeping the light on the wires.

“It’s your turn Vikavolt!” The man says as he sends out a Vikavolt.

The man holds the ends of the wires together, his Vikavolt placed its pincers around the ends, producing sparks.

In a matter of minutes the lights start to flicker back on, letting the man be properly be seen, his pale skin, sunken eyes, and messy black hair being revealed.

“Thank you Mr. Uh…” Nurse Joy try’s to thank, but struggle due to not knowing the man’s name.

“Oh! You can just call me Crow.” The man tells her, going to kiss the nurses hand.

“You taught your Vikavolt to fix wiring?” Luz asked, surprised at what the Vikavolt did.

“I didn’t. Vikavolt here use to belong to my uncle, and he was electrician who liked having his Pokemon help him.” Crow explained as they heard footsteps rushing towards the room.

“Guys!” Amity says, out of breath from running, entering the room.

“What?” Luz asked.

“Sprigatito was kidnapped by a member of Team Rocket!” Amity tells them.

“What!?” They exclaim.

“That would explain the blackout.” Nurse Joy said as everyone left the electrical room.

“Wait who’s that?” Amity asked referring to Crow.

“Oh, he’s Crow, he just fixed the power.” Vee told Amity.

“And I might have an idea.” The man said as he walked up to the front door exiting the building.

Luz, Amity, and Vee deciding to listen to the man follow him outside.

“It’s your turn Honchkrow!” The man says sending out the winged Pokemon.

“So what are you doing?” Luz asked.

“Surely he can’t be too far, so I’ll fly up and follow him, you three follow me, and then we’ll get your Sprigatito back.” Crow says as he gets on his Honchkrow’s back.

“Not my Pokemon, but we’ll follow.” Amity accepts as Crow and Honchkrow fly upwards.

After staying within the same area for a bit, Honchkrow flys off in a direction, the three of them begin to follow.

———later———

Luz, Amity, and Vee followed Crow to a warehouse a couple blocks away.

“This is the place.” Amity asks as Crow lands.

“Yup. So here’s the plan I’ll distract the grunts in the front, you three get in through the back and retrieve the Pokemon.” He tells the teenagers.

“How are we supposed to get in?” Luz asked.

“Here’s a key, use it on a window.” Crow tells them as he hands Luz a rock he picked up on the ground.

“Wouldn’t you need more than one Pokemon?” Vee points out as Crows grabs another pokeball.

“I know. It’s your turn Barbaracle!” He says as he sends out another Pokemon as he walks into the warehouse’s front door.

From the sounds of fighting, they know they’re ready to go.

The three sneak around to the back of the building, specifically a window, hoping no one hears them Luz throws the rock through the window shattering it.

“Be careful with the glass shards.” Luz warns as they go through the window.

Finally entering the building, the three of them are in a gray hallway.

“Where do we go?” Vee asks.

“That way.” Luz says pointing at a doorway, “I can feel it.”

Walking through the doorway they find themselves inside a large room with empty metal shelves and random crates littered around the place, and most importantly cages filled with Paldean Pokemon.

“Sprigatito!” Amity exclaims as she runs over to the cage the shiny was in.

“Look who’s here a couple of twerps.” A new voice says making himself present.

The man, with blue-ish green hair, who’s wearing a jacket similar to the Team Rocket uniform shows himself.

“Who are you!?” Vee asks yelling.

“The name’s Proton twerps. Anyways you have bigger problems to deal with.” The man tells them as he grabs two pokeballs.

“Teach these kids a lesson Magmar and Zangoose.” He says as he sends out his Pokemon.

“Magmar use smokescreen.” He tells his Pokemon, the room being consumed in smoke.

“Ralts I choose you!” Luz says as she sends out her Pokemon.

“Zangoose repeatedly use aerial ace.” He commands his Pokemon.

“Ralts use psychic!” Luz try’s to tell her Pokemon, but before Ralts could use psychic she’s attacked from behind.

This goes on for a few minutes, until Luz figures out what to do.

“Ralts use disarming voice behind you!” Luz tells her Pokemon, who turns around blasting Zangoose with a pink sound wave, knocking it to the ground.

“Ralts throw it with psychic!” Luz commands, Ralts picks up the Zangoose with the psychic, throwing it where turns out to be Magmar, enough of the smoke clears to reveal the fainted Zangoose.

After that Ralts begins to glow, soon standing in its place is a Kirlia.

“Ralts you evolved!” Luz exclaimed joyous.

Proton just scoffs as he returns Zangoose to its Pokeball, suddenly police sirens are heard.

“Come on! The Jenny’s are here! Magmar use smokescreen!” He commands filling the room with more smoke.

“Put your hands up!” Officer Jenny yells as she enters alongside Crow, clearing the room of smoke, but Proton is gone.

“Where’s their leader!?” Jenny asks.

“He’s gone.” Luz tells her.

“Well we can get their Pokemon back to their own region now.” Officer Jenny tells them.

———the next day———

The Officer Jenny’s are taking note of the current Pokemon to return to Paldea.

“Officer Jenny there’s a problem!” A Jenny tells a fellow Jenny.

“What is it Jenny!?” The Jenny asks.

“One of the Pokemon, besides the ones they stole, are gone!” She tells her.

“What!? Which one!?” Jenny asks.

“The shiny Sprigatito!” She answers.

Meanwhile Luz, Amity, and Vee leave the city unaware of the Pokemon now following.

———???———

All of the grunts are sitting in police cells. Crow walks up to one.

“Are you the one who broke into the pokecenter?” He asked the grunt.

“Yeah, what about it!?” He questioned.

Crow immediately grabs the man’s neck through the bars and asks, “Tell me what you saw the kid do!?”

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

We are properly introduced to the ARC agent from a bit ago. And don’t worry Amity will get Sprigatito soon. Also Ralts evolved.

Chapter 25: Sticks and Stones Won’t Break My Bones, But Tumbleweeds Will

Summary:

Luz, Amity, and Vee reach Route 4 and help with a tumbleweed problem.

Notes:

Chapter 24 was updated.

Luz, Amity, and Vee were approaching route 4, on their way to meet Luz’s dad in Excelsior City.

It had been a day or two since the incident in Maroon City, and they were making up for lost time as they entered route 4.

“Luz it didn’t mention we were going to cross a desert.” Amity complained.

“In my defense, the desert resort is up north.” Luz told her, making Amity and Vee sigh as a tumble weed rolls across of them.

“I think that’s the fifth tumbleweed that’s passed by.” Vee said.

“Um, actually I don’t think they’ve passed at all.” Amity pointed out, making the other two notice that they were being surrounded by five tumbleweeds, one much bigger than the others.

“Luz I may be wrong but last time I checked tumbleweeds aren’t sentient here, right?” Vee asked.

“It may be a Pokemon.” Amity suggested as Luz turned on the Pokédex function on her rotom-phone.

When pointed at the tumbleweeds, the Pokédex said, “Bramblin, the tumbleweed Pokemon, a grass and ghost type. Not even Bramblin knows where it is headed as it tumbles across the wilderness, blown by the wind. It loathes getting wet.”

Discovering they were Pokemon she pointed her Pokédex at the big tumbleweed next, her Pokédex read off, “Brambleghast, the tumbleweed Pokemon, a grass and ghost type, the evolved form of Bramblin. It will open the branches on its head to envelop its prey. Once it absorbs all the life energy it needs, it expels the prey and discards it. NOTE: this Pokemon and its pre-evolution have only been native to the Paldea region.”

“What are they doing here in Unova?” Luz questioned.

“The Officer Jenny in Maroon City said Team Rocket were illegally importing Pokemon from Paldea, maybe these ones just got away from them.” Amity suggested.

“Well either way, they don’t seem nice!” Luz said as she saw the look on, what might be their face, as she grabbed on of her Pokeballs.

“Zubat I choose you!” Luz said as she sent out the Pokemon, the opposing Bramblin and Brambleghast trying to intimidate them.

“Zubat use wing attack!” She told Zubat, his wing becoming enveloped in energy as he swoops down at the tumbleweed Pokemon.

He is able to get a hit off on the Bramblins, but the Brambleghast catches Zubat with its branches.

“Oh no! Zubat try to use poison fang!” She told her Pokemon, the purple inky poison covered his fangs as he tried to bite the branches, but unfortunately the branches are just out of reach, as Brambleghast begins to drain Zubat’s life force.

Luz panics as she tries to think how to get Zubat out, just as she grabs another pokeball two voices make themselves.

“Escalavier use x-scissor!” A mature female voice calls out.

“Joe use drill peck!” A less mature female voice tells a Pokemon.

As soon as the commands are given a Escalavier and Fearow appear and attack the Brambleghast, making it let go of Zubat.

With a breeze the living tumbleweeds roll away from them.

The three of them look towards where the voices came from, and to Luz’s surprise, it’s her dad’s old friend Professor Bianca, alongside a girl with shiny black hair around her and her friends age.

“Hello Luz.” Bianca greeted.

“Oh, hi Professor Bianca.” Luz said in return.

“She’s a friend of your dad’s isn’t she?” Amity guessed.

“That would be correct, but you can just call me Bianca.” She told them.

“Nice to meet you I’m Marcy Wu.” The teen introduced herself holding out her hand.

“Nice to meet you too, I’m Luz Noceda-Ketchum.” Luz said, surprising Marcy, as she went to shake her hand.

“Wait are you related Ash Ketchum?” She asked.

“Yup, he’s my dad.” Luz confirmed to Marcy’s excitement.

“Oh my Arceus! Really!? I’m a huge fan of your dad!” Marcy tells her, rapidly shaking her hand.

“Get in line.” Vee says gesturing towards Amity.

“Mind if your friends introduce themselves?” Bianca asked.

“Oh, I’m Amity Jones.”

“I’m Vee.”

“Are you two Pokemon trainers?” She asked further.

“Oh no. Honestly neither of us have trainer IDs. And only Vee has a Pokemon, I don’t.” Amity explained to Bianca’s surprise.

“Oh really. Anyways what are you three doing out here?” The professor asked once more.

“We’re on the way to meet up with my dad.” Luz explained as she asked her own question, “But what are you doing here?”

Bianca smiled answering, “How about I show you.”

As the three Pokemon are returned to their Pokeballs, Bianca and Marcy bring the three to a jeep nearby.

“Get in.” Bianca tells them.

As they all get in Bianca tells them, “Strap in, this is going to be a bumpy ride.”

Luz gulped as she tightened her seatbelt.

———one extremely bumpy ride later———

Bianca drove them to a small research building.

They exited the jeep and walked up to the building, after fumbling the key for a minute she unlocks the door, letting them all enter.

“Here is why I’m here.” Bianca told them pointing towards a glass panel, preventing multiple Silicobras and Sandacondas from getting out.

“What are you doing?” Luz asked as she got closer to the glass.

“I’m introducing them to the ecosystem.” She told them, to their surprise.

“Wait, why?” Luz asked.

“For one, to increase the biodiversity, and the bigger is because when I was younger, after my first Pokemon league I took a trip outside the Unova region and I was amazed by how diverse the Pokemon were, and ever since then I’ve been trying to make Unova just as unique.” Bianca explained.

“But isn’t it dangerous to introduce a Pokemon to a non-native environment?” Amity asked concerned.

“Woah, don’t worry I took that into consideration, we now only introduce Pokemon that we are sure will benefit the environment.” She reassured.

This calmed them down a little bit but Luz had one more thing to ask, “Okay, but does the Bramblin and Brambleghast have anything to do with the illegally imported Pokemon in Maroon City.”

“What?” Bianca asked confused.

“Oh, I think I heard something related to this, I think one of the grunts was found in his cell with his neck snapped or something.” Marcy mentioned to the Professor.

“Uh, well no, the living tumbleweeds are kinda on me. You know how I said we now make sure to introduce Pokemon that will benefit the environment?” She asked.

“Yeah.” Luz, Amity, and Vee answered at the same time, getting suspicious of Bianca.

“Well, when I first started introducing new Pokémon to the environment I didn’t really think things through, so I brought in Bramblins and Brambleghasts to this place, because well tumbleweeds fit in with a desert. And they kinda thrived ever since.” Bianca, nervously, elaborated on.

“So you introduced an invasive species.” Vee asked for clarification.

“Yes. Most of them have been captured, but the five from earlier still remain.” Bianca answered.

“How about we help?” Luz suggested, catching everyone off guard.

“Wait? Really?” Bianca asked.

“Yeah. I’m not just going to go while the Bramblins and Brambleghast ruin the environment.” Luz told.

“Fine, I’ll join as well.” Amity said.

“Me too.” Vee joins in.

“Thank you so much!” Bianca exclaims as she goes into give them a hug, but insteads accidentally knocks Luz into a sink filled with water.

“Sorry.” Bianca apologized as Marcy helped Luz out.

———later———

All of them had split up. Luz and Amity paired up together as Vee went with Marcy and Bianca stayed back at the lab.

The two were watching one of the Bramblins a distance away so it wouldn’t notice them.

“Got any ideas Amity?” Luz asked the witch.

“If it’s a grass type maybe you should try using Rowlett.” Amity suggested.

“Good idea.” Luz said as she got Rowlett’s Pokeball out and began to sneak up on the Bramblin.

“Rowlett I choose you!” Luz yelled as she sent out her Pokemon, causing the Bramblin to notice them.

“Rowlett use air cutter!” She told her Pokemon, who created strong blast of wind which caused sand to go everywhere and blow the Bramblin away, who immediately rolled back to them and caught Rowlett in it’s branches, immediately beginning to drain him of his life force.

“Oh no!” Luz and Amity panicked as Luz grabbed another pokeball.

“Kirlia I choose you!” Luz said as sent out another Pokemon.

“Quickly use disarming voice!” Luz tells Kirlia, with a blast of a pink sound wave the Bramblin lets go of Rowlett and rolls away.

“What happened?” Amity asks as she walks up to Luz, who is returning Rowlett and Kirlia to their Pokeballs.

“Let me check.” Luz says as she pulls out her rotom-phone and checks Bramblin’s Pokédex entry.

“Apparently Bramblin’s ability makes it immune to wind-based moves, which includes air-cutter.” Luz explained.

“This is all my fault.” Amity claimed.

“What no it’s not, it was my idea to use air cutter.” Luz reassured.

“But I told you to use Rowlett in the first place! I knew you should’ve brought Willow, she could’ve communicated with them or something, and she’s a better friend.” Amity told Luz, saying the last part under her breath, but Luz still heard.

“Okay, this is the second time you’ve said Willow is a better friend, what is going on with you two?” Luz asked, trying to help her friend.

“Me and Willow used to friends, best friends even, but then I ruined it, and I’ve regretted it ever since.” Amity revealed, on the verge of tears.

“So maybe things between you two, went badly back then, but maybe you two could try again.” Luz comforted.

“Maybe.” Amity says, with a small smile, Luz goes into hug Amity, but she stops her saying, “I appreciate the hug Luz, but you’re covered head to toe in sand.”

Luz looks up and down at herself seeing that her clothes are covered in sand now, she giggles and says, “I am, guess I should wash up.”

Amity immediately thought of something when she heard ‘wash up’.

“Wait Luz play Bramblin’s Pokedex entry again.” Amity requested.

“A soul unable to move on to the afterlife was blown around by the wind until it got tangled up with dried grass and became a Pokémon.” It read.

“No the other one.” Amity clarified.

Luz pressed a button her phone as it played, “Not even Bramblin knows where it is headed as it tumbles across the wilderness, blown by the wind. It loathes getting wet.”

“I think I have an idea Luz.” Amity told her friend with a smile on her face.

———later———

The four Bramblin and Brambleghast are all rolling around together as Luz, Marcy, and Bianca appear to put Amity’s plan in action and sent out their Pokemon.

“Dewott use water pulse!” Luz commanded.

“Marshtomp use water pulse as well!” Marcy directed.

“Gorebyss use hydro pump!” Bianca told her Pokemon.

As of the tumbleweed Pokemon gather up together trying to avoid the water attacks, Bianca pulls out another one of her Pokeballs.

“Come on out Emboar!” She says as she sends out her starter.

“Use flamethrower!”

All of the Bramblins and Brambleghast are significantly weakened.

Luz pulls out 4 empty pokeballs and Marcy grabs an empty great ball.

They throw them at the Pokemon, after shaking for a bit they dinged, signifying that Luz caught the Bramblins and Marcy caught the Brambleghast.

As Marcy and Bianca celebrated finally catching all of the Bramblins and Brambleghasts, Luz looked towards where Amity and Vee were standing, and smiled at Amity who smiled back with a slight blush.

———that night———

Everyone, except Bianca who inside the lab momentarily, was sitting at a table outside eating takeout Bianca got while talking.

“So Marcy, I just sent my Bramblins to Professor Gary Oak’s lab, what are you going to do with your Brambleghast?” Luz asked her new friend.

“Actually, I currently don’t have a grass nor ghost type on my team currently, so I think I’m going to keep Brambleghast on my team for a while to try her out. So where are you going?” Marcy asked her.

“We’re going to head out in the morning and finally reach Excelsior City.” Luz answered.

“That’s nice. Maybe the next time we meet we could battle. Oh, you could also meet my friends, I think you would like Anne.” Marcy tells Luz.

Luz nodded her head as Bianca exited her lab holding two rotom-phones, with actual rotoms in them, and walks up to them.

“What are with those?” Amity asks.

“These are my thanks for the help, as of now Amity Jones and Vee Non-Applicable are official Pokemon trainers, Amity if you need a starter you can visit my lab in Aspertia City to receive one.” She says as she handed them the new rotom-phones.

Vee acted normally saying, “Thanks.”

Amity however, was literally struggling to contain herself from jumping up and down.

“Anyways with no more Bramblin and Brambleghast it’s time to let the Silicobra and Sandaconda out.” Bianca said as walked towards a hatch connected to the lab.

Opening the hatch all the Silicobra and Sandaconda slither out.

As they’re watching the Pokemon slither away, Amity noticed something.

“Hey Luz you dropped a great ball.” Amity pointed out, making Luz realize she dropped one of the few great balls she carries just in case.

As Luz goes to pick up her great ball a Sandaconda slithers up against the great ball, being beamed into it, after repeatedly shaking the great ball dings.

They all just look at it until Marcy says, “Guess you also have a Sandaconda now.”

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Luz’s Bramblins aren’t going to used often, they’re basically her version of Ash’s Tauros.

Chapter 26: Return of the Legend: part 1

Summary:

Luz, Amity, and Vee finally reach Excelsior City and he makes his appearance.

As morning passed Luz, Amity, and Vee bid farewell to Bianca and Marcy and made their way towards Excelsior.

“We’re almost there.” Amity cheered as they saw the skyline of the city approaching.

“Hey Luz? I forgot to ask but what’s the big deal with your Dad?” Vee asked the human, confused.

“My Dad is one of the most famous Pokemon trainers in the world, he not only became the first champion of a region, but he also became the world champion at only 10.” Luz explained, impressing the basilisk.

“Woah. So what about your Mom?” Vee asked curious.

Luz went silent as Amity made a stop talking gesture towards Vee.

Vee getting the hint quickly changed the subject, “So what about your parents Amity?”

After another uncomfortable silence Amity answered, “I would prefer to never see them again.”

“Yeah I can understand I could go without ever seeing my mom again as well.” Vee replies, causing extreme confusion for Luz and Amity.

“You have a mom?” Amity asked.

“Yeah Number 0, or as she preferred to be called Nil, she was used to give birth to me and my siblings One to Four, by the time we escaped she lost her mind and had become obsessed with getting payback and went her own way.” Vee explained to Luz’s and Amity’s surprise.

“Wait? Then what about your dad?” Luz questioned.

“I don’t know. For my siblings they used leftover basilisk DNA, but I think they used the remaining DNA to create Four.” Vee told them.

“But what about you?” Amity clarified.

“From what I overheard from guards for me they used a random bag of blood that washed up on shore.” Vee revealed.

“So you might be half human?” Luz asked.

“Maybe.” Vee shrugs as they kept on walking towards the city.

“Okay, moving on from that let me call my Dad to tell him we’re almost there.” Luz says as she pulls out her rotom-phone and dials up her Dad.

“Hey Luz.” Her Dad greeted.

“Hi Dad.” Luz answered back, as she literally had to push Amity back, who was trying to eavesdrop on their conversation.

“What’s going Luz?” Ash asked.

“Oh nothing, just that me and friends are entering Excelsior City as we speak.” She told her Dad as the three walk pass a ‘welcome to Excelsior City’ sign.

“That’s great! How about we meet in front of the ‘Lieber Cafe’?” He asked.

“Sure, what does it look like?” Luz asked in return.

“It has a big red and blue sign on the place.” The champion tells her.

“Okay Dad I will see you there.” Luz tells him.

“Okay, love you Luz.” Ash says to his daughter.

“Love you too Dad.” Luz says as she hangs up, looking around she sees she and her friends are properly in the city.

“Okay, look for a big red and blue sign that reads ‘Liebar Cafe’ my Dad will meet us there.” Luz tells them as they began to look around.

———later———

After looking around for a bit, and stopping Amity from buying any Ash Ketchum related merchandise her eyes laid upon, they came across a cafe with a big red and blue sign that said ‘Liebar Cafe’.

“This is the place.” Luz told them as they looked further for Luz’s father.

Arceus behold, right in front of the cafe with his back turned to them, wearing his famous blue jacket and red baseball cap with his black hair sticking out, and a Pikachu on his shoulder.

“Dad!” Luz called out.

The man turned around revealing the Ash Ketchum, who immediately gained a giant smile at the sight of his daughter exclaiming, “Luz!”

The father and daughter ran towards each other, hugging each other upon collision.

“I missed you Dad.” Luz said as they let go of each other.

“Missed you too Luz. How was the trip here?” Ash asked his daughter.

“It was great. Crossed paths with Anabel, foiled a Team Rocket plan, my Ralts evolved, helped Professor Bianca, caught a couple Bramblins and a Sandaconda.” Luz informed her Dad.

“That’s great, can’t wait to see them. I see you have one more traveling companion.” Ash noticed when he saw Luz’s friends behind her.

“I’m Vee Non-Applicable.” Vee introduced.

“I’m Amity Jones! I’m your biggest fan! Please sign my hats!” Amity begged as she summoned out of nowhere perfect replicas of Ash’s hats.

“Okay, I’ve meet a couple of Jones, never met a Non-Applicable before though.” Ash commented, slightly worried, as he started signing Amity’s hats.

“Can I pet your Pikachu?” Amity asked staring deeply at the yellow rat.

“Sure, just be careful so he doesn’t-“ Ash tried to warn Amity, but failed as Pikachu electrocuted her for squeezing him too hard.

“Pika!” Pikachu cued apologetically.

“Amity are you okay!?” Luz asked as she checked her friend.

“I am honored.” Amity said starry eyed, and covered in soot.

“Sorry about that kid. So what Pokemon do you two have?” Ash asked as he helped Amity up.

“Oh, meet Anna.” Vee said as she sent out her Snivy.

“I actually don’t have a Pokemon, unfortunately.” Amity revealed to the world champion, who gasped in shock.

“We must change that then.” He told the teenagers.

“Wait what?” All three teens muttered.

“The original plan for today was just to see the new Galvantual-Man movie, which we still will do, just later today, because Amity Jones I swear to Arceus you will have a Pokemon by the end of the day!” Ash claimed.

“Ash Ketchum will help me catch a Pokemon.” Amity started repeating to herself, before passing out.

“Luz is your friend okay?” Ash asked concerned.

“Don’t worry, she’s just star struck.” Luz reassured.

“Okay. First let’s bring her unconscious body to the hotel where we’re sleeping tonight, and then get supplies to capture some Pokemon.” Ash said as Pikachu got back on his shoulder cheering, “Pika-Pi!” And Luz picked up Amity’s body, bridal style.

On their way to the hotel Ash took Luz aside for a moment and asked, “Hey Luz?”

“Yeah Dad?” Luz replied.

“Do you mind telling about Vee’s family?” He continued.

“Um, why?” Luz asked, slightly confused, and worried.

“Just it’s not exactly reassuring if a kid uses ‘Non-Applicable’ as their last name, can you just give me some information?” Ash clarified.

“She may be all on her own.” Luz nervously mutters out.

Ash just stares at her for a second before saying, “I’m going to talk to her about this later.”

After that they continued walking to the hotel, Ash keeping a concerned eye on Vee.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Ash is here. And next time Amity will stop being Pokémon-less.

Chapter 27: Return of the Legend: part 2

Summary:

Everyone goes out to the forest so Ash can help Amity catch her first Pokemon.

After Ash and Luz bought catching supplies and Amity finally woke up, and had Ash sign her badge case replica, they went out into a nearby forest to help Amity catch her first Pokemon.

As they walked through the forest Ash said to them, “Now like any good teacher, I will show you the basics in catching Pokemon. The first step is to challenge a Pokemon to a battle.”

He then pointed to a Venipede that was crossing by and called out to it, “Hey you!”

The Venipede turned around to look at Ash and pointed at itself with its hind legs, confused.

“Yeah you! The Venipede right there! Want to battle my Pikachu?” He asked the bug type.

The Pokemon immediately got into a battle position.

“Pikachu I choose you! Next you have to weaken the opposing Pokemon.” He told Amity as his partner Pokémon got off his shoulder and stood across from the Venipede.

Olive green energy formed around its mouth as it began to run Pikachu, likely using bug bite.

“Pikachu use thunderbolt!” Ash told Pikachu.

The Venipede bite onto Pikachu’s tail as Pikachu began to produce electricity and electrocuted the Venipede, causing it roll over onto the ground covered in soot.

“Now you grab your pokeball and throw it at them.” He said as he took out a pokeball and threw it at the Venipede, after shaking for a bit the dinged signifying the capture.

“And that’s how you do it.” Ash said as he picked up the pokeball and walked back over to the teens.

“So what should I catch?” Amity asked.

“Whatever you want. Just remember you only have one first Pokemon, for example mine is Pikachu, and Luz’s was Oshawott.” Ash reminded.

“Okay, need to find the perfect Pokemon.” Amity said to herself as she started to walk ahead.

“Maybe I can get some training in for my new friend.” Luz guessed as she sent out her Sandaconda, who immediately hissed and launched herself at Luz prying her fangs into Luz.

“This is fine.” Luz said as she sped up to catch up with Amity, leaving Ash and Vee behind to talk.

“So how has your day been Mr. Ketchum?” Vee awkwardly asked.

“It’s been going great. But if you don’t mind me asking, care telling me about your home life?” Ash asked.

“Oh, we haven’t seen each other in a while, everyone in my family kinda went their separate ways after-“ Vee started to explain to Ash, before stopping herself from revealing to much.

“Hey, you don’t have to tell me, okay? But if you need a place to stay you can come to my house.” Ash comforted.

“I don’t want to intrude.” Vee argued.

“Don’t worry, I have plenty of rooms open.” He told her.

Vee caved and answered, “I might take you up on your offer sometime.”

Ash smiled as he and the, unbeknownst to him, basilisk caught up to Luz and Amity.

Amity was looking all around trying to figure out what to catch, “Maybe a Sewaddle? No, not the type of Pokemon to be your first. What about a Pidove? No what am I thinking, Unfezant not a good Pokemon.”

“As someone who has an Unfezant I take offense to that.” Ash joked as he walked up to them.

“Sorry, I know. But even I would admit Unfezant isn’t a good Pokemon.” Amity justified.

“Your first Pokemon doesn’t have to be strong or even one you like, the reason why Pikachu is my Pokemon is because I overslept and all that was left was pikachu, and I haven’t regretted it since.” Luz’s dad told Amity.

“I just want to find the right Pokemon.” She said as she slumped down.

“Don’t worry Amity, I’m sure we’ll find the right Pokemon for you.” Luz encouraged as she finally got Sandaconda off of her.

“Maybe we should take a small break.” Ash offered as he sat down.

Ash handed the three teenagers a bottle of water and a sandwich as they sat down.

“Hey Amity. I forgot to ask you but do you happen to be related to the Jones family?” Ash asked the witch.

“What’s the Jones family?” Vee questioned.

“They’re three sisters who are Pokemon trainers, Anabel is one of them she’s a member of the battle frontier, they also include Burgundy a Pokemon connoisseur she’s the least well known, and finally the most famous one Shauntel a member of the Unoavan Elite Four and famous writer.” Luz explained to her shape shifting friend.

“Trust me we’re not related. My family lives pretty far out.” Amity told him, she didn’t really want to be related to Anabel’s half-sisters, but she honestly she wouldn’t mind just being related to Anabel though.

“How far?” Ask further asked.

“Very!” Amity blurted, the look on Ash’s face said he was suspicious.

Before he could ask even further a massive roar bellowed out through the forest, immediately becoming the center of everyone’s attention.

“Uh, what was that?” Luz asked worried.

“You three get behind me.” Ash told them as he started to approach the source of the noise.

They sneak behind trees as they go towards where the roar originated, the girls all staying behind Ash, there they see, behind the safety of the trees, a giant Pokémon none of them recognized, that looked kinda like an Ursaring.

“What is that?” Vee asked, Luz and Amity shrugging their shoulders as they all looked towards Ash, who was pulling out his Rotom-phone and pointed it at the mysterious Pokemon.

“Ursaluna, the peat Pokemon, the evolved form of Ursaring. I believe it was Hisui's swampy terrain that gave Ursaluna its burly physique and newfound capacity to manipulate peat at will. NOTE: in recent years this Pokemon has gone extinct, it was primarily found in ancient Sinnoh, formerly known as Hisui.” It told them.

“Clearly not.” Ash said to the Pokédex, trying not to yell and grab its attention.

“Well, what should we do?” Amity asked.

As the girls talked amongst themselves, Ash was silently staring at the Ursaluna, filled with pure rage at the thought of Hisui and what it did to her.

Suddenly started sniffing the air, slowly looking around until its red eyes met with Ash and the three teenagers behind him.

“Oh no!” Ash said as they quickly got of the way of a slash attack that knocks over nearby trees.

“Now what do we do!?” Luz asked her Dad, panicking.

“I would’ve suggested we run, but we’re far past that point, so we have to fight!” Ash said he took out two pokeballs.

“The Pokédex said it’s a ground, so Bulbasaur, Sceptile I choose you!” Ash yelled as he sent out the grass type starters.

“Count us in!” Luz said as she and Vee ran up to Ash bringing out their own Pokeballs.

“Go Anna!” Vee said as she sent out her Snivy.

“Rowlet I choose you!” Luz called out as she sent out her Pokemon.

Amity just stood back, unsure how to help, she tried to help by discretely creating an abomination, but she realized something, her magic was becoming weaker, she could barely make an abomination, and as soon as she tried to make it a size to where it could help it fell apart.

As Amity stood in shock of what was happening to her magic, she didn’t notice the Ursaluna swinging its claws at her.

“Amity!” The others called out to her, but it was too late.

Just as the Ursaluna’s claws would’ve slashed Amity open, a barrage of leafs came out of nowhere just barely knocking the claw away from Amity.

As they reeled from the shock of what happened, a Sprigatito jumped right in front of Amity guarding her from the Ursaluna.

The Sprigatito turned its head towards Amity revealing its purple eyes.

“It’s you!” Amity gasped in recognition, it was the shiny Sprigatito from Maroon City she helped save from Team Rocket.

“What are you doing here? Do you want to help me?” She asked the Sprigatito, confused.

“Tito!” The Pokemon meowed in confirmation.

“Okay then, Sprigatito start with leafage!” She told the shiny, who unleashed a barrage of leafs in the Ursaluna’s face.

“Now use tail whip!” Amity continued, Sprigatito shaking her tail in front the Ursaluna, decreasing its defense.

“Sceptile use leaf blade!” He commanded the gecko Pokemon, a leaf blade protruding from his arm as he slashes the Ursaluna’s head with it knocking it down.

“Use vine whip!” Luz and Vee told their Pokemon, the vines are used to tie the Pokemon down.

“Now Bulbasaur use sleep powder!” Ash commanded, a faintly green powder do produce from its bulb, making Ursaluna fall asleep.

As the Ursaluna becomes unconscious Ash grabs an ultra ball and chucks it straight at it, as it is beamed in, Ash just has an irritated look on his face as he waits for the ding, which fortunately does come.

As Ash retrieves the ultra ball Luz and Vee run up to Amity.

“Amity is that what I think it is?” Luz asked looking at the shiny Sprigatito.

“Yeah, it’s the one from Maroon City.” Amity confirmed.

“What’s she doing here though?” Vee asked.

“She must’ve wanted to thank me.” Amity guessed before the Pokemon, “Thanks for the help you allowed to go now.”

But the Sprigatito stays.

“She must’ve wanted you to catch her.” Ash concluded as he walked up to them.

“Really!? Sprigatito do you want to be my Pokemon?” Amity asked the Pokemon, who immediately nodded her head ‘Yes’.

“Okay then.” Amity said as she checks her pockets for a pokeball.

“Here you go kid.” Ash says as he hands Amity an empty pokeball.

“Thank you Mr. Ketchum. Okay. Sprigatito I choose you!” She yelled as she tossed the Pokeball at the Pokemon.

Almost immediately, skipping any shaking, the pokeball dings.

“I caught Sprigatito!” Amity says as she hold up her Pokeball to the sky.

“Great, but I have to ask something kid.” Ash said to Amity.

“Once again my family lives very far.” Amity told her idol.

“No not that, well yes that but we’ll talk about it later. Why do you have pointy ears?” He questioned.

The three of them were stunned when they heard the question. They all check Amity’s head, only to realize her hat had flown off at some during the fight, revealing her pointy ears to the world.

“I owe you an explanation Dad.” Luz told her father, as she mentally prepared herself for proceeding conversation.

———one info dump later———

“So let me get this straight.” Ash said pinching the area between his eyes, “The day I dropped you off you entered a place called the demon realm, a place filled with magic where Pokemon are a taboo, you took an apprenticeship under a cursed criminal who is, in your own words “Foxy”, this world has a dictator who puts restrictions on magic. Amity over here is a witch who was banished from her family for liking Pokemon and now lives with her grandpa, but Vee is something called a basilisk, something that can drain magic and shape shift, which shouldn’t exist, but said dictator brought them back, and Vee might be half-human. Did I get that right?”

“Uh, basically.” Luz answered.

“Okay.” Was all Ash said.

“You’re taking this surprisingly well Mr. Ketchum.” Vee pointed out.

“For one don’t call me Mr. Ketchum, makes me feel old, and I’m only 31. And two, kid I have seen some crazy shit in my lifetime, I once saved our worlds god by going to the past, and almost got erased from existence, and I’m not lying just ask your aunt Dawn. If you tell me there is a world filled with human like poliwhirls, I would believe you. If you told me there was an evil 2 dimensional triangle, I would believe you. My life is just that crazy.” Ash told them.

They just stared in shock as Ash also said, “Also Vee please consider the offer I gave earlier, because your mother seemed to have lost it, and I doubt it’s the best idea to leave you there.”

“Uhm, Dad can we talk privately for a minute?” Luz asked her dad.

“Uh, sure kid.” He said as he got up followed her.

“So what’s the problem?” He asked his daughter.

“Are you mad at me?” She bluntly asked.

“What!? No! Why you would you think that?” Her Dad answered.

“Because I abandoned our world and lied to you, just to live a fantasy.” She confessed.

“Luz I’m not mad at you. If anything I’m proud of you.” Ash told her.

“What?” Luz questioned with tears starting to drip from her eyes.

“Luz I’ve spent years watching you suffer from never being able to achieve your dream. I’m happy you’ve found a way to do it.” He told Luz.

Luz just hugged him as she cried.

“But I do have one condition.” Ash said, grabbing Luz’s attention, “I would like to meet this Edalyn and make sure everything is okay.”

Luz nodded her head as she and her Dad walked back to the others.

“Okay, we’re going back to the demon realm with my dad.” Luz told them.

“Wait do we have to go through the desert again? I don’t think my scales could handle it.” Vee complained.

“We can just take a shortcut through Nadium.” Ash said.

The three teens just sat in silence. “We took the long way here.” Luz realized.

“Well, now that has been dealt with. Can you sign my plushies?” Amity asked as she brought out plushies of Ash’s Pokemon.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Amity has captured the shiny Sprigatito from a couple chapters back. Ash has learned about the demon realm. We’re going to spend roughly two more chapters in the Pokemon world in Nadium before we return to the demon realm.

Chapter 28: The Clubsplosion-Max!

Summary:

Everyone arrives in Nadium and the teens quickly sign up for a local tournament.

Notes:

Fun fact: the chapter “Why’s Amity” was originally supposed to take when Ash and Luz were getting supplies to help Amity catch her first Pokemon, but I decided to move it, I just wanted to mention this.

Last time Amity caught her first Pokemon, Ash Ketchum found out about the demon realm and that his daughter was studying under a witch, he accepted her decision but he is now following them back to the demon realm so he can meet Eda himself.

After the embarrassment the teenagers experience at the realization they took the long way to Excelsior City, they went to the hotel for the night. In the morning taking the train to Nadium.

“So what exactly is Nadium?” Vee asked on the train.

“Nadium is a city in the central part of Unova, it’s actually the biggest, it’s well known for having some of the worst winters in all of Unova, it’s the place of the great Unovan fair, and also it’s the only place in Unova to have native Nacli.” Ash explained, causing the three teenagers to stare at him confused.

“Dad how do you know this much?” Luz questioned.

“When I was 11 Cilan invited me to go visit the great Unovan fair, and the guy can’t help himself but rant.” He told them as the train stopped.

They stepped outside the train and viewed the city skyline, alongside the gray sky.

“The train that will get us to Gravesfield departs in the morning, so we already missed it, we’ll have to get a hotel room and go tomorrow.” Ash told them as they made their way to a hotel.

“So Amity are you going to nickname your Sprigatito?” Luz asked the witch.

“Why do you ask?” Amity questioned.

“Well some trainers nickname their Pokemon I just wanted to know if you were going to?” Luz clarified.

“I don’t know, if I do what should I name her?” Amity asked as she stared straight at no one in particular.

“Who are you looking at?” Luz asked extremely.

Before Amity could provide an excuse they heard a voice only familiar to the father and daughter duo, “Ash! Luz!”

They looked to see where the voice originated from and saw a woman with navy hair.

“Dawn!” Ash said as his little sister ran up to them.

“Aunt Dawn!” Luz exclaimed as she hugged her aunt.

“You two meet my little sister Dawn.” Ash introduced.

“Adopted little sister.” Dawn corrected.

“Don’t care, as far as I’m concerned you’re just my little sister.” Ash told her as he brought her in for a hug as Dawn took note of the other two teenagers.

“Anyways, let me introduce myself to these two, I am Dawn Berlitz-Ketchum.” She introduced herself.

“Oh yeah, I think I heard of you, weren’t you a famous Pokemon co-ordinator at one point, what happened?” Amity recognized.

Dawn stood there in silence for a moment before answering, “I would rather not speak about that, but nowadays I work to coordinate events, mostly contests but today is an exception. But who are you two?”

“I’m Amity Jones, no relation to the Jones family though.” Amity told Dawn.

“And I’m Vee.” The basilisk nervously introduced herself.

“Vee here is actually going to become my foster daughter soon.” Ash revealed to everyone’s shock.

“Really!?” Everyone asked synchronized.

“Yes, due to her home life not being safe she’ll be staying with me for the time being.” He elaborated.

“Oh okay. I guess Mom will be happy to have a second granddaughter to spoiler.” Dawn joked.

“Yeah. So what exactly are you doing in Nadium, last time I checked the grand Unovan fair isn’t for another month or two?” Ash asked his sister.

“Why tell when I can show you.” Dawn said as she led them somewhere, with Ash and Vee in the back.

“Were you serious about the whole foster dad thing?” Vee asked Luz’s dad.

“Yup, your mother is extremely mentally unstable and obsessed with revenge form what you told me, and basically everyone in the demon realm would want to kill you. So for your own safety you’re staying with me and Luz.” Ash told her.

Vee smiled, with a tear falling from her eyes, as she quickly gives her foster dad a hug.

Dawn leads them to a stadium with people surrounding it.

“What’s going on?” Amity asked.

“The reason I’m here. Don George of the battle club has requested me to help set up the clubsplosion-Max.” Dawn revealed.

“Whats a clubsplosion?” Vee asked, kinda concerned.

“It’s just a small tournament held by the battle club, but isn’t held in Ambiga Town?” Ash questioned.

“Ash didn’t you listen, I said Clubsplosion-Max. It’s like the normal Clubsplosion but better, and held in Nadium. I was able to help since I was going Nimbasa City to convince Elesa to help establish contest in Unova.” Dawn informed him.

“Well that’s great. Maybe you three should sign up.” Ash suggested.

“Really.” Ash and Amity asked enthusiastically.

“Yeah, it would be great, you three can practice battling.” He told them, Luz and Amity taking a less enthusiastic Vee towards where they can sign up

“You’re not going to sign up Ash?” Dawn jokingly asked her brother.

“I’m a little too old for this, unfortunately. But there is something I need to speak to you about.” Ash told her, grabbing her attention.

Ash pulled the ultra ball he used to capture the Ursaluna the day before revealing to her, “There’s an Ursaluna within this ball, a hisuian Pokemon.”

Dawn’s eye immediately widened as panic set in.

———with the teens———

Luz, Amity, and Vee join the large crowd as a man appears and steps on a podium.

“Hello everyone I’m Don George.” The man introduces himself, “And I welcome you to the first Clubsplosion-Max! The Clubsplosion was created by my family and I have come here to improve upon what they created. There will be more battles, more action, and the biggest difference every round you are allowed to use a different Pokemon! So come on up and sign up!”

Immediately everyone runs up to sign up Luz, Amity, and Vee are able to get to the front to sign up. On the form Vee stares at the last name part as she writes something down.

As they meet up after signing up they hear a voice they didn’t expect, “Hey guys!”

They look and see their friend back from route 4, Marcy Wu, approaching them alongside a girl with wild brown hair with leafs littered in it.

“Hey Marcy!” They said to her.

“What’s up?” She asks.

“We just signed up for the Clubsplosion-Max what about you.” Luz answers.

“The same! Oh yeah, meet my friend Anne Boonchuy.” Marcy excitedly introduces.

“Nice to meet you I’m Anne, Marcy told me about you three.” Anne said as she shook Luz’s hand.

“Likewise, didn’t Marcy also mention a girl name Sasha?” Luz questioned.

“Sasha was supposed to come but she had to attend a family wedding.” Anne explained.

“Nerdceda!” An unfortunately familiar voice called out.

“Arceus damnit.” Luz said under her breath.

Clara walks over to them saying, “What are you doing here? Do you think you can beat me!?”

“Clara last time we fought I beat you.” Luz reminded.

“Who’s this?” Marcy asked.

“A jerk.” Luz, Amity, and Vee all said.

“Whatever that won’t happen ever again.” Clara taunts.

“Hey kids.” Ash says as he and Dawn walk over, Ash quickly giving Luz and Vee a small hug as Anne and Marcy stare at in him in disbelief at being in his presence.

But Clara weirdly just walks away, Luz and Ash feeling an extreme sense of envy from her.

Before Ash could question what was going on Anne and Marcy immediately run up to him.

“You’re the Ash Ketchum!” Marcy points out.

“Can you sign our foreheads?” Anne asked bringing out a marker.

As Ash quickly did that, his sister Dawn mocking him over it, as Don George comes out with a megaphone, “Everyone competing check your Rotom-phone to see who you will be fighting!” He announces as everyone checks to see their opponent.

Luz Noceda-Ketchum Vs. Anne Boonchuy.

The two look at each and smile.

Amity Jones Vs. Masha Arcanum.

Amity looks around and sees an enby with black hair messing with a tarot card deck.

Marcy Wu Vs. Molly McGee.

A girl with a Drifblim waves aggressively at Marcy.

Vee Ketchum Vs. Clara Amberson.

Vee shivered as she could feel Clara staring daggers at her. Meanwhile Ash smiled at the last name.

“The first battle between Luz Noceda-Ketchum and Anne Boonchuy will commence in a hour in the stadium.” He announced as everyone when to prepare.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

The next few chapters are going to be dedicated to this. Dawn has appeared, so has Anne. Also Dawn is Ash’s adopted little sister.

Chapter 29: Battle of the Protagonists and Crushes!

Summary:

The Clubsplosion-Max begins, first is Luz Vs. Anne and then Amity Vs. Masha.

Notes:

Quick updated this chapter at the end.

It was time to begin the battles and Luz’s battle with Anne was up first.

As Luz was heading towards the battlefield a man with brown hair wearing a uniform and a cap covering most of his face approached her, “Don George neglected to mention but before ever battle you must register what Pokemon you will be using in the battle, so you could you just sign here.” He asked as he handed her a clipboard with a paper.

“Oh sure. I will be using my Dewott.” Luz said as she registered the Pokemon on the paper.

“Thank you.” The man said as he took the clipboard back, Luz could feel that something was off with him as he walked away.

Luz entered the field standing across from Anne as they take out their Pokeballs.

“Dewott I choose you!” Luz says sending out her Pokemon.

“Go Ivysaur!” Anne says as she sends her starter.

“Battle begin!” The referee declared.

“Now Anne has the type advantage here, but if Luz is anything like her father Anne is in trouble.” Don George commentated from the announcer box as the two began to fight.

“Ivysaur use leech seed!” Anne started spitting a couple of seeds at Luz’s Pokemon.

“Water pulse on the ground!” Luz countered, Dewott propelling himself off the ground avoiding the seeds, but they’re still planted into the ground and watered, with small plants rising from it.

“Slam Dewott into the ground with Vine whip!” Anne commanded, vines sprouted out of Ivysaur’s bulb grabbing onto Dewott.

“Dewott try to get a burn with scald.” Luz instructs her Pokemon, blasting scalding hot water at Ivysaur, but from what Luz can tell she doesn’t get the burn off as Dewott is slammed into the ground.

“Ivysaur again!” Anne repeated as Ivysaur sent out vines again.

“Dewott try Scald again!” Luz suggested, as Dewott tried the attack again, but fails to get the burn once more as Dewott is slammed to the ground again.

“Once more!” Anne said trying to end the battle as the vines take hold of Dewott again.

“Try scald one last time.” Luz asked her Pokemon, he blasting Ivysaur with the scalding hot water making Ivysaur drop him as it was now burned.

“It seems Anne got greedy with that vine whip strategy and Luz took advantage of it.” Don George commentated.

As Dewott lands Ivysaur looks at him, with hearts in its eyes.

“Uhm, Anne just to check what gender is your Ivysaur?” Luz asked

“Female. Your Dewott is a male isn’t he.” Anne realized.

“Um, Da-Ash I’m new to battles but is this normal?” Vee asked, in the stands.

“If attract or cute charm was used then it would be, but as far as I can remember this is the first time a Pokemon just fell in love with the opposing Pokemon in the middle of a battle.” Ash answered, confused at the sight of what was happening.

“This isn’t even close to the weirdest things we’ve seen, right Ash?” Dawn joked as she nudged her older brother with her elbow.

Meanwhile back in the actual battle Dewott was running away from Ivysaur who was trying to kiss him.

“How did this happen?” Luz questioned.

“Sorry about this, I guess my Ivysaur is just attracted to Pokemon like your Dewott. Want to set them up a play date at the daycare.” Anne jokingly suggested.

“No thanks Anne, they aren’t even apart of the same egg group.” Luz replied.

“Hey life finds a way.” Anne claimed, Luz could understand why she thought that she also heard rumors as a kid about Pikachus mating with Eevees as a kid-

“Hey! Get on with the battle!” Clara yelled from the stands, interrupting Luz’s thoughts.

Despite how much Clara reminded her of a jerk older sibling, she had a point.

“Dewott use razor shell!” Luz commanded as Dewott pulled out his scallop which was consumed by watery aura, and turned around and attacked Ivysaur knocking her away but did push him back into the seeds from earlier.

Plants immediately implanted into Dewott, draining energy from him.

“Isn’t this amazing the leech seed from earlier has finally landed a lot later!” Don George commentated on.

“Great! Ivysaur use take down!” Anne commanded as her Ivysaur started to rush at Dewott surrounded in energy, still with hearts in her eyes.

“Oh! I have to go!” Amity realized.

“Huh?” Dawn questioned.

“I’m up next so I have to get ready, since the next fight will start after theirs.” Amity said as she left.

“Good luck.” They said to her.

Before they were attacked Luz came up with an idea.

“Dewott try to use the new move I taught you!” She directed her Pokemon a faint shiny white outline surrounding Dewott as he rushes at Ivysaur, breaking free from the leech seed, striking the Pokemon.

“Aerial ace again!” Luz directed, the attack send Ivysaur flying when she lands everyone sees her eyes, which are both swirly and filled with hearts at the same time.

“Ivysaur has fainted! Luz Noceda-Ketchum is the winner!” The referee announced making the crowd cheer.

The two returned their Pokemon and met in the middle of the field shaking each other’s hands.

“Great job.” Anne congratulated.

“You put up a good fight. But let’s keep our Pokemon out of the same daycare.” Luz joked.

“Hey! I like shipping, okay.” Anne defended.

“Me too, but not real people or Pokemon.” Luz clarified.

“The next match of Amity Jones Vs. Masha Arcanum will begin momentarily.” Don George announced, making Luz and Anne go back to the stands to see their friends.

“Amity is up next, but who is Masha?” Luz questioned as she sat down next to her father.

“Oh I know them, they’re actually from Gravesfield, they’re nice.” Vee revealed, with a small blush

“Really?” Luz exclaimed in surprise.

“Yeah I saw them around town a couple of times, last time I checked they were trying to get work at the historical society.” The basilisk explained.

“Hopefully that should be easier since the curator was arrested.” She mentioned.

“That’s what he gets for trying to dissect you.” Vee comments.

Ash just slowly turns his head to his daughter, asking, “I’m sorry what? Luz explain?”

Luz starts to panic saying, “In my defense, the proper term is vivisection, not dissection.”

———with Amity———

Now it was Amity’s turn to battle, she informed the strange guy that she would only be using her shiny Sprigatito, since it’s her only Pokemon.

Amity entered the standing across from the enby, which she knows due to Vee telling her.

“Sprigatito I choose you!” Amity yelled for the first time as she sent out her Pokemon, the crowd was impressed to see a shiny.

“You didn’t mention she had a shiny!” Marcy yelled from the stands.

“You didn’t ask.” Luz jokingly replied.

“A shiny cool.” Masha said from the other side of the field.

“Yeah, just go easy on us it’s our first battle.” The witch asked.

“I don’t make promises I refuse to keep.” They said as they sent out an Impidimp.

“Battle begin!” The referee declared.

“Now we don’t know much about either competitors here, but from what we were told Amity shares no relation, from what we know, with the Jones sisters, which one of them has competed in a Clubsplosion before.” Don George mentioned from the announcers box.

“Okay, Sprigatito use scratch!” Amity commanded, as her Pokemon started to run up to Impidimp with her claw glowing.

“Sucker punch.” Masha countered, their Impidimp’s fist becoming surrounded with dark aura as he punches Sprigatito.

“Hey let’s make this fun.” Masha offered, “Everytime you get an attack off on my Pokemon I’ll read a tarot card for your past and present, defeat me and I’ll tell you your future.”

“Sure.” Amity agreed as she gave Sprigatito a new command, “Sprigatito use leafage!” The barrage of leafs hit Impidimp.

“Okay! Let’s start on your past.” Masha said as they pulled a tarot card. “The reversed chariot, your past has been filled with aggression and a lack of control.” She read from the image.

“This is the first time I’ve seen someone read cards during a match.” Don George commentated surprised.

Amity didn’t like how accurate it was, but she was also questioning how they could get all that from a weird image.

“Impidimp use play rough.” The enby told their Pokemon a subtle pink aura covering the Pokemon as he runs to tackle into Sprigatito.

“Sprigatito get out of the way!” Amity tells her Pokemon which just barely dodges the attack.

“Use leafage again!” Amity commanded, another barrage of leafs hitting Impidimp.

“Time for your present.” Masha said drawing another card. “The fool, I presume you have broken free from the who controlled you and have begun a new part of your life.”

Amity was beginning to question is Masha was secretly an oracle witch due to how accurate they were getting.

“Use dark pulse.” Masha said, making Amity stop trying to see if they had witch ears under their hair.

Impidimp shot rays made of darkness at Sprigatito knocking her back.

“Okay let’s end this, Sprigatito try to use magical leaf!” Amity told her Pokemon, which created leafs consumed in mystical energy.

The leafs attack Impidimp, when he falls his swirly eyes are revealed.

“Impidimp has fainted. Amity is the winner!” The referee declared as the two returned their Pokemon.

“Oh, all that’s left is your future.” Masha draws one more card from the tarot deck. “The lovers, I think that’s self explanatory.” Masha jokes as Amity blushes while looking up at Luz.

“Why’s she looking at me.” Luz questioned.

“I have no idea.” Her dad answered, making Dawn shake her head in disappointment.

“Who’s the girl with blue tips?” Masha asks looking at Vee next to Luz.

“The next match of Mason “Dipper” Pines Vs. Buford Van Stomm will begin shortly.” Don George announced as they returned to the stands.

“Hey Marcy.” Anne says to her friend, after she got off the phone.

“What is it?” Marcy asked.

“I got word from Sasha, she should be here for your battle.” Anne answered.

Meanwhile Ash was in middle of calling his friend in Interpol so he could have a word with the man who tried to dissect his daughter.

“It’s vivisection.” Luz corrects the author.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Sorry if the tarot card readings aren’t correct or done properly, I had to use google for the information.
NOTE:chapter has been updated

Chapter 30: First Round Wrap Up!

Summary:

Time to finish the first round of the Clubsplosion with Marcy versus Molly and Vee versus Clara.

The first round was almost over, the last two battles were Marcy’s and Vee’s. There was a small break before it began.

“I never knew a man could have such a connection with a Seaking, shame he lost.” Dawn discussed with her brother about the match after Amity’s.

“Hheeyy Anne and Marcy!” A blond girl with a ponytail and a Toxicroak following called out.

“Sasha!” The two say as they go hug their friend.

“Oh meet our new friends, Luz, Amity, and Vee.” Marcy introduced as the three walk up.

“Nice to meet you three, so Anne, Marcy how has the competition been, sorry I couldn’t join?” Sasha asked.

“I actually lost to Luz.” Anne told her.

“Oh really?” Sasha said in a malicious as she glares at Luz.

“She’s also the daughter of the Ash Ketchum who’s over there.” Marcy mentions as she points to Ash still talking with his sister, making Sasha stop glaring at Luz.

“I’m actually up next.” Marcy told her friend.

“The next match between Marcy Wu and Molly McGee will begin momentarily.” Was announced over the intercom’s.

“Oh no.” Marcy said as she immediately started running towards the battlefield, not without tripping down a flight of stairs first.

———during the match———

Marcy finally walked out onto the field, well more like rolled out, but still.

“Go Joe!” Marcy said as she sent out her Fearow.

“Go Drifblim!” Molly yelled as she sent out her Pokemon.

“Let the battle begin!” The referee declared.

“Now we don’t have that much on Marcy, but Molly here is the apprentice of the gym leader of Brighton. But both of their Pokemon have an immunity to the others primarily type so they’re going to have to rely on flying type moves.” Don George.

“Joe use wing attack!” Marcy tells her Pokemon with attacks Drifblim with a glowing wing.

“Drifblim use will-o-wisp!” Molly countered as it generated a few violet balls of flame.

“Joe get out of the way with acrobatics!” Marcy told her Fearow which barely dodged the attack and ended striking Drifblim in the process.

“Drifblim use air cutter!” Molly told her Pokemon, which pushed back Joe with the air cutter.

“Now use will-o-whisp again!” Fearow was too distracted too avoid the attack and was now burned.

“Oh no. Joe use wing attack!” Marcy tried to tell her Pokemon but right before the attack lands the burn kicks in causing Joe to miss.

“Drifblim use calm mind!” Molly commands as her Pokemon increases its special attack and defense as she gives her Pokemon one more command, “Use air cutter!”

Marcy’s Fearow is sent flying.

“That’s it, Joe try to end this with drill peck!” Marcy told her Fearow, which immediately began to spin rapidly towards Drifblim striking right in the middle of it, it landed with swirly eyes.

“Drifblim has fainted Marcy is the winner!” The referee declared.

“How was Drill peck enough to make Drifblim faint?” Molly questioned as they returned their Pokemon.

“My Fearow has the ability sniper, it increases the power of an attack if it’s a critical hit.” Marcy explained.

“The final match of the first round Vee Ketchum Vs. Clara Amberson will begin soon.” Don George announced.

Vee shivered as she saw Clara giving her a jealous glare all the way from the other side of the arena.

———Vee’s turn———

As Vee was approaching the field she was stopped by a man with brown hair and a hat covering his face carrying a clipboard.

“Hey you have to register what you’re using.” He told her.

“Oh, I only have a Snivy.” She informed the man.

“Thanks for telling me that.” He said as he wrote it down on the clipboard and walked away.

Vee stepped onto the field and gripped onto Anna’s Pokeball as Clara stared at her, it was as if she could see into her soul.

“Come on out Anna.” Vee said as she sent out her Snivy.

“Let’s get this over with, Varoom.” Clara said in a low tone as she sent out her Pokemon.

“A Paldean Pokemon you don’t see those often here in Unova.” Don George commentated on.

“Use vine whip!” Vee told her Pokemon, the attack didn’t even phase Varoom as it kept approaching the Snivy.

“Use toxic!” Clara demanded her Pokemon, it unleashed thin dark purple strands that attach to Anna poisoning her.

“Now use venoshock!” Clara continues as Varoom blast Anna with poisonous darts dealing extra damage due to already being poisoned.

“Use vine whi-“ Vee attempts to tell her Pokemon.

“Iron head!” Clara interrupts as Varoom immediately rushes straight at Vee’s Snivy with its head faintly glowing silver.

“Again!” Clara yells as Varoom repeats the attack and Anne take progressively more damage from toxic.

This goes on for a bit. When Varoom finally stopped Anna instantly collapsed on the ground covered in bruises and eyes swirly.

“Snivy has fainted Clara is the winner!” The referee declared as both trainers returned their Pokemon.

“This concludes the start of the Clubsplosion-Max the second round will begin tomorrow.” Don George announced.

“You did your best Vee.” Ash comforted as he and Luz gave Vee a hug.

From across the arena Clara saw what was going on, and clenched your fist and shed a small tear from her eyes.

Ash could feel the extreme amount of jealousy emanating from Clara just from the sight of what was happening, and started questioning what’s with her.

“Check your rotom-phones to see who you will fight in the next round.” Don George told everyone.

“Guess we’re gonna fight each other next.” Marcy joked as she held up her phone showing “Marcy Wu Vs. Amity Jones.”

“Who you fighting next Luz?” Dawn asked her niece.

The phone read “Luz Noceda-Ketchum Vs. Clara Amberson.”

Luz looked up and glared at Clara across the arena, Clara gave a death glare back.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Vee has sadly lost, but Luz is going to avenge her basilisk sister next chapter.

Chapter 31: Interlude: Back With Eda

Summary:

Quickly checking in with Eda back in the demon Realm.

Eda was concerned about Luz, and also Amity, but primarily Luz.

She didn’t realize they would take this long to go visit Luz’s father, Ash.

“Eda when is Luz getting back?” King asked as she was starting to build a bed frame, we’ll try she couldn’t read the instructions, they were from a human company called aeki, and she couldn’t even understand the instructions.

“I don’t know, she is still visiting her dad.” Eda told him, neither could really relate to it since Eda avoided her father ever since the incident, and King didn’t even know his father.

“What if her dad found out about the demon realm and has forbade her from ever coming back.” King suggested to Eda’s horror, the shock of what King suggested made Eda miss the nail with her hammer and shattered another one of those easy to shatter purple and white baseballs.

Eda went to grab her staff and was about to go open the portal door before King stopped her. “Or maybe not.” He reassured.

Eda took a deep breath and calmed, setting her staff down and getting back to work on the bed frame she was working on for Luz.

“Anyways if Luz is in danger she has her Pokemon and Amity to help out.” Eda concluded, the teenage witch’s siblings had come by asking about her sister, Eda sent them away. While a witch’s magic does become weaker in the human realm it should still be okay unless-

“Why have you been doing so much for Luz anyways?” The small demon questioned, interrupting her thoughts.

Eda knew what King was referring to, not only had she been working on an actual bed for Luz, and also went out of her way to find a book about how a human would he effected by demon food, so she could feed Luz anything other than griffin eggs, but most of all she did something that a year ago would’ve made her puke, she signed Luz up for Hexside, she had to do the unthinkable and clean up her pranks from when she went to Hexside, but it will be worth it for Luz she thought.

“I’m just trying to be a good mentor.” Eda defended.

“More like mother.” King silently jokes as he goes off to take a nap.

No, Eda knew Luz didn’t want a new mom ever since she eavesdropped on her and Amity conversation a while back, and she would respect that.

Eda finally finished building Luz’s bed frame and grabbed a sack from her hair and gave it to Hooty.

“Here, a bag filled with rare bugs. Now increase the size of Luz’s room.” She told the house demon throwing the sack at him.

As Hooty started digging into the sack, Eda decided to head to her stress room to break some of those purple and white baseballs to relax.

‘Luckily those things aren’t worth much.’ Eda thought as she shattered one of the baseballs with a sledgehammer.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

I decided to write a small chapter taking place in the demon realm for two reasons. 1:We haven’t been in the demon for a while. And 2:To buy more time to keep working on the next chapter.

Chapter 32: For a Sister

Summary:

The Clubsplosion-Max continues as Amity fights Marcy and Luz avenges Vee.

Morning had passed since the end of the first round, the first two matches of the second round had already happened the winners being Mason “Dipper” Pines and a guy from a part of Pallet Town named Kanji Tatsumi.

Amity’s match with Marcy was up next.

As she made her way to the arena she decided to make a small abomination in the palm of her hand but it almost immediately falls apart.

“Oh no, not yet.” She says under her breath, beginning to panic, as she keeps on moving.

‘I’m too young for this!’ She thought with a tear running down her eye.

While she was internally panicking she crossed the guy that registers the Pokemon on her way to her match, he just patted her back and left.

She walked out onto the field standing across from Marcy and grabbed her pokeball.

“Go Marshtomp!” Marcy said as she sent out her starter.

“Sprigatito I choose you!” Amity yelled as she sent out hers.

“Let the battle begin!” The referee declared.

“Water pulse on the ground Marshtomp!” Marcy started, her Marshtomp turning the rest of the non-mud ground into, well, mud.

“Sprigatito use leafage!” Amity told her Pokemon, which created a barrage of leafs to attack Marshtomp with.

“Get out of the way with dig!” Marcy quickly told Marshtomp, the Pokemon swimming beneath the mud, avoiding most of the leafs.

“Now use ice punch!” Marcy declared as her Pokemon jumped out of the mud underneath Sprigatito, punching her with a fist covered in icy energy.

“Point blank leafage Sprigatito!” The witch commanded, using the opportunity to get a hit off guaranteed, Marshtomp is pushed back from the barrage of leafs.

As Sprigatito lands on some mud Amity gives one more order, “Use hone claws Sprigatito!”

“Marshtomp use water pulse on the ground again!” Marcy tells her Pokemon, turning even more of the ground into mud, as Sprigatito is scratching her face to increase attack and accuracy.

“Now use mud bomb!” Marcy yells, Marshtomp creates a giant mud ball that he launches at Sprigatito.

“Get out of the way!” Amity tries to tell her Pokemon, but Sprigatito’s paws are stuck in the mud and she can’t get out of the way, getting hit by the mud bomb, having her entire sight covered covered in mud.

“Oh no! Sprigatito use magical leaf and then hone claws!” The witch yelled, Sprigatito created leafs surrounded in mystical energy that immediately went towards Marshtomp, as Sprigatito uses her claws to get the mud out of her face.

“Try to stop it with water pulse!” Marcy tried, the water pulse only stopping a few leaves.

“Use ice punch!” Marcy commanded, her Pokémon’s fist becoming covered in icy energy again as he rushed through the mud towards the shiny.

“Use bite!” Amity counters, Sprigatito biting Marshtomp’s head, causing him to flinch and stop the attack and stumbled back a little bit.

“Now use leafage!” The witch directed, as her Pokemon attacked the water/ground type with a barrage of leafs, sending him flying.

“Marshtomp dig!” Marcy told her Pokemon, Marshtomp starting to swim beneath the mud once again towards Sprigatito.

“Once Marshtomp comes out of the mud use leafage on him!” Amity instructed her Pokemon as Marshtomp continued approaching the shiny underneath the mud.

“Now end this with ice punch!” Marcy commanded.

As Marshtomp burst through the mud with icy fist, Sprigatito immediately blasts Marshtomp with a barrage of leafs, both Pokemon are sent flying to opposite sides of the battle field.

Both Pokemon stand strained, covered in bruises, mud, and leaves, trying to withstand the pain and stay standing, until one falls.

“Sprigatito has fainted Marcy is the winner!” The referee declared.

“Sprigatito return.” Amity says disappointed, in herself, as she and Marcy return their respective Pokemon to their Pokeballs.

“Let’s not meet in the middle.” Marcy yells from across the field, noticing Amity was about to walk through the mostly mud field.

“Good point.” Amity agrees as the two walk around the field and shake hands.

“Great job Marcy.” Amity congratulated.

“Hey, you did a good job too.” Marcy told the witch.

“The match between Luz Noceda-Ketchum Vs. Clara Amberson will start after we repair the battle field, since it is currently 90% mud.” Don George announced, Amity and Marcy becoming slightly embarrassed at the realization at what they did.

The two leave the field and meet back up with their friends.

“Hey Amity.” Luz said as she walked up to her friend, patting her on the back, feeling what felt like a small object.

“Hey Luz.” Amity replied, still disappointed in herself, distracting Luz from the small object.

“Don’t beat yourself up kid you did great.” Ash encouraged the still new trainer.

“Yeah you did much better than Ash did during his first gym battle.” Dawn told her.

“Wait how do you know that Dawn?” Ash asked his sister, blushing from embarrassment.

“Brock told me about it when we first traveled together in Sinnoh, Mr. Used the sprinklers.” Dawn teased her older adoptive brother.

“Hey I’ve been meaning to ask how were you two the same age-“ Luz started to question her dad and aunt, before being interrupted by an annoying voice, but Luz loathes.

“Hey Nerdceda get over here!” Clara called out to Luz.

“Ugh, time to deal with this.” Luz said as she walked over, wanting to get whatever she had to say over with.

“What is it Clara?” Luz asked her rival.

“I’m just going to make it clear that you should be prepared to lose.” Clara taunted.

“No, I’m going to defeat you for what you did to my sister.” Luz countered, she could feel an extreme sense of rage coming from Clara when she said sister.

“Why do you even hate me?” Luz questioned.

“You don’t understand! Everything revolves around him.” Clara said as she pointed at where Luz’s family and friends were, specifically her dad Ash.

“What do you-“ Luz asked for clarification, but before she can finish Clara walks away.

Luz realizing the conversation was over walked back to her family and friends.

“What was that about?” Vee asks.

“Basic taunting, and apparently the reason she hates me has something to do with dad.” She explained.

“What did I do?” Ash questioned.

“I don’t know she left before she could explain.” Luz said with a shrug.

Ash and Dawn looked at the girl in the distance, something about her seeming familiar to them.

“Okay we repaired the battle field, the match between Luz Noceda-Ketchum and Clara Amberson can begin.” Dan George announced over the intercom.

“Time to fight.” Luz said as she started to go.

“Good luck Luz.” They called out to her, Vee adding in, “Avenge me!” And her dad including, “Love you.”

“Love you too.” She replied as she entered the hallway to reach the field.

As she made her way down the hall she was stopped the weird Pokemon registration guy again.

“You know the deal kid.” He said as held out the clipboard.

“I’m using Rowlet.” Luz answered as she took the clipboard and wrote it down before handing it back, the man soon leaving.

She walked out to the field, Clara staring at her with hate and envy in her eyes. Ash in the stands trying to figure out he has to do with her, thinking that she reminds him of someone.

It looked like they used a thin substance to cover up the mud, one that could break easily under heat.

“Teach her a lesson Pignite!” Clara declared as she sent out her starter.

‘Her starter has evolved.’ Luz realized in her head as she grabbed a pokeball.

“Rowlet I choose you!” She yelled as she sent out the Alolan Pokemon.

“Let the battle begin!” The referee declared.

“Pignite use flame charge!” Clara ordered her Pokemon, who immediately rushed towards Rowlet covered in flames, damaging the ground in his path.

“Fly out of the way Rowlet!” Luz quickly tells her Pokemon, which flys off before Pignite can tackle into him.

“Use wing attack!” Luz told Rowlet, the Pokémon’s wing glowing as he flys towards Pignite.

“Stop him with heatwave!” Clara commanded, Pignite blasting a wave of fire at Rowlet, stopping the Pokémon’s attack.

“Now use arm thrust!” She continued, as Pignite grabs and slams Rowlet to the ground, damaging even more of the floor some mud from the previous battle seeping through the cracks.

“Rowlet use bullet seed to get out!” Luz told her Pokemon, Rowlett shooting seeds at Pignite, causing the fire type to let go of Rowlet, so the Pokemon was able to fly free, shaking off some of the mud that got on his wings.

“Use air cutter Rowlet!” Luz commands, her Pokemon rapidly flapping his wings, blades of wind at Pignite.

As this happens Rowlet starts glowing, a new Pokemon flying where Rowlet was when the glowing stops.

In the stands Vee, not recognizing the Pokemon, since she doesn’t know much about them, pulls out her rotom-phone at the new Pokémon.

“Dartrix, the blade quill Pokemon, a grass/flying type. It throws one knifelike feather after another at its enemies, and each one precisely strikes a weak point. These feathers are known as blade quills.” The Pokédex read.

“Isn’t this impressive, Luz’s Rowlet has evolved into a Dartrix. According to the rules of writing a Pokemon battle, when one of the trainers Pokemon evolves, it means they will most likely win the ongoing battle.” Don George commentated on, breaking the fourth wall.

“Arceus damnit.” Clara said under her breath at the sight of the newly evolved Pokemon, as she quickly gave her Pokemon a command, “Try and take it down with heatwave!”

Dartrix is able to mostly avoid the wave of fire, taking minimal damage.

“Dartrix use duel wingbeat!” Luz tells her Pokemon, both of his wings glow as he swoops down at Pignite.

“Get out of the way with flame charge!” Clara commands Pignite, the Pokemon barely dodging the attack covered in flames.

As Dartrix misses, only one of his wings stop glowing, the other still shining bright as he turns and flies at Pignite, tripping the Pokemon up and causing him to slam into the ground breaking more of it, when the dust clears Pignite’s eyes are swirling as he lays in mud that poured through the heavily damaged floor.

“Pignite has fainted Luz is the winner!” The referee declared.

Both return their Pokemon to their Pokeballs, Luz congratulated her newly evolved Pokemon.

“The semifinals and finals will occur tomorrow, since we need to actually fix the field.” Don George announced, referring to the extremely damaged battlefield with mud literally seeping through every single crack.

Clara just looks where Ash was and shed a single tear, saying under her breath before leaving, “I’ll get you next time Nerdceda.”

Luz returns to her friends and family, as they congratulate her, Luz notices something on Amity’s back.

“What’s on your back?” She asks as she removes a small object on the witch’s back.

“That’s a bug, for hearing in on conversations.” Ash pointed out to their shock.

“Wait how did that get there?!” Amity questioned until she realized it, “It was the Pokemon registration guy, he patted my back before I fought Marcy!” Dawn, Marcy, and Anne were all confused.

“Wait there is no Pokemon registration guy.” Dawn told them.

“We didn’t have to register what Pokemon we would use.” Marcy pointed out, Anne shaking her head in agreement.

“Wait then who was the guy that was asking about what Pokemon we would use?” Luz questioned, panicked.

“I don’t know, but I’m taking this up with Don George.” Dawn said as she took the bug and walked away.

While they were panicking Don George announced, “All the competitors taking part in the semifinals check your rotom-phones for your match up. Also we have heard reports of a Pokemon registration guy and will be investigating further.”

Luz checked her rotom-phone and saw, “Luz Noceda-Ketchum Vs. Marcy Wu.”

She looked at her recent friend who smiled at her.

———that night———

Amity was getting ready to go asleep, she was still worried about why there was a bug on her, when she got a notification.

She grabbed her rotom-phone and saw she got a message from someone she was hoping to see again soon.

“From Anabel Jones. Hello Amity I’ve heard that you have become a proper Pokemon trainer and in celebration of this I have sent you a gift. Hope you enjoy it, love Anabel.” It read.

Amity touched a button that said “Receive girt.” A pokeball appeared in her hand, a beam coming out revealing an Abra.

Amity smiled as she returned the Abra and went to bed, not without sending a message back in return.

“Thank you.” It read.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Rowlet has evolved and Amity has a new Pokemon. The next chapter will probably be the end of the Clubsplosion-Max.

Chapter 33: Clubsplosion-Max Ending

Summary:

Time to end the Clubsplosion-Max with Luz Vs. Marcy.

It was morning time and everyone was waking up, except Vee who was sleeping in, Amity was interacting with her new Abra she was given by Anabel the night before.

“Ready for the last day of the Clubsplosion-Max everyone!” Dawn announced as she entered the hotel room.

“Yup, after today we will continue our trip.” Luz answered.

“Yeah you four can continue your trip to the demon realm.” Dawn mentions to their shock.

“How do you know that Dawn?” Ash asked his little sister, extraordinary confused.

“During the first night of the tournament you got a little drunk, before you ask you didn’t hook up with anyone like last time, and you ended telling me about witches and demons, don’t worry no one else heard.” Dawn explained to everyone’s shock. Luz and Amity turning to look at Ash who was now embarrassed.

“Also Vee is in her basilisk form.” She pointed out, causing them to notice the girl stirring in her sleep in her basilisk form.

“Good morning everyone.” Vee yawns as she wakes up from her sleep, saying when she saw Dawn, “Oh hey aunt Dawn.” Before immediately realizing what form she was in. “Um, I can explain, the truth is I’m a furry and I fell more comfortable sleeping in my fursuit.” Vee claimed, the attempt at the lie being painfully obvious.

“She knows.” Everyone told her with Luz including, “Also, technically you would be a scalie.”

“Luz how do you even know that?” Vee questioned her sister.

Before Luz could make up an answer Ash answered for her.

“She has a Goodra fur suit she keeps in her closet at home that she thinks I don’t know about.” Ash revealed, Luz dying from embarrassment due to her dad over sharing.

“How long have you known?” Luz asked her dad embarrassed.

“Since the day you got it, you think I didn’t notice the huge package in the mail, or the times I checked on you in your room while you were wearing the suit, also you needed me to buy it for you.” He pointed out to his daughter.

Luz at this point curled up into a ball, her entire face blushing red, not as much as Amity can, but still.

“Well we should get going if we want to be on time so Luz can fight Marcy.” Dawn told them, Vee turning into her human form, Amity returns Abra, and Ash picks up the curled up Luz.

———at the tournament———

They had arrived to the tournament, Luz uncurling and was able to walk, not needing to be carried.

“Oh hey guys.” Marcy said when she saw them, “The first battle is almost over.”

“Claydol use earthquake!” They heard someone yell from the battlefield.

Soon after she said that, they heard the referee call out, “Pawmot has fainted Dipper is the winner.”

“Guess it’s time for our battle.” Marcy says as she walks away.

“Yeah, I’ll see you guys after the battle, wish me luck.” Luz said as she made her way towards the hall to reach the battlefield, her family and friends wishing her good luck.

She walked down the hall, this time no one stopping her to ask about what Pokemon she will use.

She made her way out onto the battlefield, standing across from Marcy.

“Go Brambleghast!” Marcy said, sending out the Pokemon she caught back at route 4.

As Luz was about to grab a pokeball, one of them opened on their own her recently caught Sandaconda coming out.

“Let the battle begin.” The referee declared.

“Wait! Oh okay, Sandaconda I choose you, I guess.” Luz said, kinda disappointed, but accepting that she would have to use the still violent Pokemon.

“Brambleghast use hex!” Marcy tells her Pokemon, which shots three flame like spirit balls at Sandaconda.

“Get out of the way with dig.” Luz quickly tells Sandaconda, the Pokemon going underground avoiding the attack. But almost immediately, without any command, Sandaconda pops right out of the ground latching onto Brambleghast.

“Use mega drain!” Marcy told her Pokemon, using the opportunity of Sandaconda being right there. Brambleghast latches its branches onto Sandaconda beginning to drain his energy.

“Oh no, Sandaconda use poison tail!” Luz told the sand snake Pokemon, her tail becoming consumed in inky poison. She strikes Brambleghast with the poison coated tail, making him let go of her, but even after Brambleghast lets go of her, Sandaconda keeps on attacking the living tumbleweed.

“Sandaconda stop!” Luz told her Pokemon, but she didn’t stop she kept on using poison tail.

“Use hex!” Marcy commanded her Pokemon, blasting Sandaconda in the face sending her flying.

“Use dig!” Luz tried to Sandaconda, but once again she didn’t listen and instead was enveloped in black and red energy and starts to spin rapidly towards Brambleghast, using brutal swing.

“When Sandaconda reaches you use mega drain!” Marcy instructs Brambleghast.

The second Sandaconda hits Brambleghast, he hooks his branches onto the sand snake Pokemon, draining her energy once again.

Sandaconda struggles as she tries to break free, Luz tries to give commands and instructions, but she ignores them all, soon she stops struggling, Brambleghast letting go of Sandaconda, her swirly eyes being seen.

“Sandaconda has fainted Marcy is the winner!” The referee announced.

As the two returned their Pokemon Don George announced, “The final match between Marcy Wu and Mason “Dipper” Pines will begin momentarily.”

Everything was a blur afterwards, she doesn’t even remember what they said to her, she just needed a moment to herself.

“Go Pawniard!” She heard Marcy yell as she sent out her Pokemon.

“Come on out Klang!” Marcy’s opponent said.

Luz sat with herself in a hallway, filled with anger at herself for her loss.

“Hey Luz.” Ash said, causing Luz to notice her father’s presence.

“Hi dad.” Luz says to him.

“Mind if I sit here?” He asks, Luz nodding her head.

Ash sits down, slowly caressed her hair, asking, “Are you okay kid?”

“I’m fine, but I wouldn’t blame you for being ashamed of me.” She answers, to his confusion.

“Ashamed of what?” Ash asks for clarification.

“That I’m a bad trainer.” Luz explains to her dad.

“No you aren’t.” He sternly tells her.

“My Pokemon didn’t even listen.” Luz pointed out.

“You’re not the first Luz, my Charizard for a long time didn’t even respect in the slightest, distortion, even Pikachu didn’t obey me when I first got him.” Ash told her, Pikachu saying, “Chu!” In confirmation.

“You’ll just have to have Sandaconda learn to respect you overtime.” Ash encouraged.

Luz ends up giving her dad a hug, crying a little bit.

“Hey Luz!” Amity says popping in.

“Huh? What?” She asks the witch.

“I’m just going to tell you the battle is over Marcy won.” Amity informed them.

“Oh really?” Luz said surprised, “That was quick.”

———later———

They went on to congratulate Marcy.

“Good job.” Luz said to her.

“Yeah. I actually won a bunch of nature mints.” Marcy told them as she pulled out a jar of multiple colored mint plants.

“I’ll beat you next time.” Clara says to Luz as she walks by.

“Seriously what is her problem?” Luz questions.

“I heard she’s adopted if that means anything.” Masha answers, appearing behind her, before walking away.

They continued to celebrate Marcy’s victory that night.

———???———

Crow was pacing around, waiting for the informant he sent to the Clubsplosion-Max to get back.

A man wearing a hat covering his face walked up to him, handing him a clipboard.

“Thanks. Now where is the audio?” He asked.

“I couldn’t get it, they found the bug before we got any information.” The agent informs Crow.

“Great going dipstick.” Crow says as he knocks the man’s hat off, revealing the Big Dipper birthmark on his forehead.

“It’s Dipper.” He clarifies as he puts his pine tree hat back on.

“Whatever, the point is they’re on to us now, we’ll have to fall back on the investigation before they get too wise.” He tells Dipper.

“Also is your sister still good to watch my daughter Raven?” Crow asks, Dipper nodding his head in confirmation.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Next chapter will be the proper return to the demon realm.

Chapter 34: Return to the Mentor

Summary:

Luz and Amity finally return back to the Demon Realm with Ash and Vee in tow.

A new day begun after the end of the Clubsplosion-Max, everyone were going to go their separate ways, Dawn was on route to Nimbasa City to speak with Elesa about contests, Marcy and her friends said they were taking a boat to Johto, Masha was staying in Nadium, and Clara just ran off claiming she would defeat Luz next time they meet.

Ash, Luz, Amity, and Vee, they take a train to Gravesfield.

“Now Luz I will remind you, me and Vee will stay in the demon realm with you for a few days to make sure this Edalyn isn’t mistreating you.” Ash reminded.

“Yes dad, I know this.” Luz said to her dad, questioning why he was bringing it back up again.

“I was just reminding you, just in case you forgot over the course of the last couple days due to the Clubsplosion-Max.” Ash clarified, while he looked straight at no one.

“But I didn’t. Also who are you even looking at? And why are doing the same thing Amity did when she talked about nicknaming her Sprigatito?” Luz questioned, beyond confused, even Vee was scratching her head at their father’s behavior.

As Luz and Vee were wondering what was wrong with their father, Amity was discreetly performing some minor magic.

While no one was looking Amity twirled her fingers, creating a spell circle that turned into a luminous orb of light, for a total of two seconds before flickering out of existence. She knew what was happening to her, she just couldn’t accept it.

When the train ride ends, they get off and walk the town.

Ash walks up to his daughter silently asking, “Do you want to go visit your mother’s grave before we leave?”

“I’m good Dad, we should just go to demon realm, but thanks for the offer.” Luz answers, whispering.

“Okay. But we do need to make a quick stop.” Ash tells them as they stop before a police station. Ash walks into the building, the three teenagers staying outside. After some yelling and screaming Ash walks out, wiping blood off his face and hands, but it ain’t his.

“Okay we can go now. I just had to deal with an attempted dissection.” Ash tells them as they start to walk towards a neighborhood.

“Vivisection.” Luz once again corrects.

They lead the man towards the cabin. “Here it is.” Luz tells Ash.

“So the old cabin in front of your childhood home was a portal to a different world this whole time?” Ash asks for clarification.

“Apparently.” Luz answers, Vee feeling awkward at the realization she had been staying in Luz’s old house.

“Eda said she would keep the portal open for when we got back.” Luz said as she opened the door revealing a gold portal.

“So there is a portal to another world.” Ash says as he examines the gateway.

“Yup, just go through the door and you’ll be in the demon realm.” Luz tells her father.

“Let’s go.” Amity says as she walks through the door disappearing before their eyes in the golden light.

Ash and Luz soon follow the witch through the door, leaving Vee as the last still in the Pokemon world, she hesitates for a minute before walking through the doorway as well.

After Vee walks through she sees Ash, Luz, and Amity all silently staring at shattered masterballs all over the ground, while the owl lady shatters more masterballs with a sledgehammer. Ash, from the sight of the broken masterballs, faints and falls onto the floor, causing Eda and King to notice them.

“Luz you’re back!” King exclaimed as he ran up to her, tackling her into a hug.

“It’s great to see you Luz, but who is that man?” Eda asked not recognizing Ash, while she magicked away the broken masterballs.

“That man is my dad, he found out about magic, and wanted to make sure I would be okay here.” Luz revealed to her, Eda becoming embarrassed at meeting Ash, and the fact he fainted was a bad sign for her.

“Titan damnit.” Eda quietly said as she walked up to them, using a spell to wake Luz’s dad up.

“I’m up. I’m guessing you’re Luz’s mentor, Eda the “foxy” witch.” Ash said to her as he got up.

“Yes, I am Edalyn Clawthorne, the Owl Lady.” She introduced herself, blushing a bit from the foxy comment.

“Let me introduce myself I am Luz’s father, Satoshi Asher Ketchum, but you can just call me Ash.” He told the witch as he finally stood up, standing a few inches taller than the owl lady.

“HELLO LUZ’S DAD!” Hooty greeted popping out of nowhere scaring Ash.

“Okay what is that thing!?” Ash asks, extremely concerned since all he can feel from the creature is a sense of weirdness, like a tapeworm feeding off from a giant magical beast, a power that felt similar to the one the furry horned cubone was emitting.

“Oh that’s Hooty, he’s Eda’s house demon, he’s harmless most of the time, unless he’s holding a tea party, if that happens you’ll be more safe in an active volcano.” Luz tells him, her voice obtaining a traumatized tone during the last part.

Hooty turns to where Vee is standing, staring at her for a minute before saying cheerfully, “OH A BASILISK YOU DON’T SEE THOSE VERY OFTEN!”

A horrified look dawns upon Eda and King’s face as they looked towards Vee.

“I’m just going to go.” Amity said sensing the tense atmosphere and decided to leave and go back to her grandpa’s cabin.

“Luz get over here.” Eda told Luz, gesturing for her to move away from the basilisk.

“Uh, what’s the problem?” Luz asked confused on what the issue with Vee is.

“What do you mean what’s the problem? That’s a basilisk Luz, one of the most dangerous creatures to ever live.” Eda tells the human girl.

“Vee is not dangerous, also you shouldn’t talk about my sister that way, especially in front of my dad.” Luz points, making Eda look and see the agitated look on Ash’s face, and the sad look on Vee’s.

“Okay I’m sorry, but how was she even in the Pokemon world?” Eda questioned.

“I snuck into the Pokemon world by using your portal door when you weren’t paying attention, it was when Luz first arrived here.” Vee explained.

“I should probably start paying more attention to that thing, with how many teenagers have snuck through it.” Eda told herself.

“Well moving on from that, I must ask you about everything involving Luz’s mentorship.” Ash says to Eda, still standing in front of Vee for her safety.

“Fine, ask away.” Eda tells him, sitting down on the couch in front of her wanted poster.

“First, will Luz be safe, considering that you’re a criminal?” Ash asked, pointing at Eda’s wanted poster on the wall.

“Don’t worry the coven guards are extremely incompetent.” Eda reassures him.

“More incompetent than Team Rocket?” He asks further, with Eda answering by nodding her head yes.

“Good. Now, the food in this realm is likely extremely different from ours, minding that she is lactose intolerant, of any dietary problems occur will you be able to solve it.” He asked.

“Yes, during a recent book fair, instead of searching for eternal life,” She started to explain, Ash interjecting with a “Good, it’s overrated.” As she continues, “I picked up a book about how a human would be affected by demon food.” She finished explaining, with Luz actually being surprised that Eda did this.

“That’s great. Now one of the most important parts how will Luz be educated?” He finally asked.

Eda took a deep breath before answering, “I did something I hate, and signed Luz up for a magic school, called Hexside.”

The second Luz heard that she started squealing, soon she was literally bouncing up and down from excitement.

“She’s going to be like this for a good bit.” Ash told Eda, referring to how Luz was acting.

———back with Amity———

Amity was walking through the Shin Forest as she approached her grandfather’s cabin.

“Hey Grandpa I’m back.” Amity called out as she entered the cabin.

“That’s great, how was your trip?” He asked as he hastily put his hat back on, before Amity could see what was underneath.

“Let me show you.” Amity said as she sent out her two Pokemon. Her shiny Sprigatito deciding to rub up against Amity’s leg.

“Isn’t this amazing? You’re a fully fledged Pokemon trainer now, I’ll have to give you advice sometime. Anyways I got more good news Amity.” Montgomery tells hers, causing Amity to pay more attention to her grandfather, “I spoke with your principal and you’re all good to return to school next semester. Malphas is still okay with you helping at the library. And I’ve scheduled an appointment with a healer, so we can see if they can do anything for your teeth.” He explains to her as he taps his own teeth.

“Thanks grandpa, but I think I need the healer for another thing.” She tells him, a worried expression forming on his face.

“What’s wrong kid?” Monty asks concerned for her wellbeing.

“I think it’s best if I show you again.” She said, her grandfather paying close attention, as she creates a spell circle using her fingers, a small abomination forms on the ground but barely a minute later it falls apart.

“Oh no.” Monty said when he saw what happened, a somber look appeared on his face, he could immediately tell this wasn’t simple magiclag from being away from the demon realm. He was filled with pity for his granddaughter, he knew what would happen to her, it was the same thing that happened to his wife.

———that night at the Owl House———

Ash had finished interrogating Eda. The two were currently watching a sleeping Luz, who was in her new bed, with King lying down on her chest and Vee was sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor.

“So are you going to let Luz stay here?” Eda asked.

“You seem to have things mostly handled, I’m going to speak with the school’s principal to make sure everything is in order, but otherwise I’ll let Luz stay.” He told the Owl Lady.

Eda smiled before telling him, “Good, but honestly if you said no, I would just kidnap her.”

“Then I would rip off your arms.” Ash, intimidatingly, promises the witch.

“Two steps ahead of you.” Eda jokes as she pulls her right arm off her body handing it to Ash.

Ash, not even shocked or creeped out by what she did, hands the arm back, the witch reattaching it.

“How about we have a little celebration?” Eda suggested.

“Sure.” Ash said, slightly curious.

“Good. I was thinking about introducing you to a Boiling Isles specialty, apple blood.” Eda tells him, as they head downstairs.

———the next day———

Luz, King, and Vee were all downstairs. They had already fed the Pokemon and were now waiting for Eda and Ash. They knew that Eda was sleeping in her room, but they had no idea where Ash was.

The three heard footsteps coming downstairs, and looked up to see Eda walking down.

She had a faint blush and a small smile on her face, her hair was all messy unlike how it normally is, and most of all she was wearing Luz’s dad’s shirt all wrinkled up.

Luz almost immediately figured out what happened.

“Eda what the FUCK!?” She exclaimed, Vee putting her hands over King’s ears.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

The arc in the Pokemon world has come to the end, sadly some of the point lines and characters that started there are going to be pushed to the wayside for now, but don’t worry they will return.

Chapter 35: Cold Shoulder or Knee: part 1

Summary:

Luz and Eda go to the knee so Luz can learn her second spell, there they meet up with Amity and her grandfather.

Luz was flying with Eda to the mountain like knee of the Boiling Isles.

“So what are we doing here?” Luz asked Eda as they landed.

“You must know at least two spells or else you’ll be placed in the baby class according to Hexside standards, but you only know your light spell, and no student of mine is going to be placed in the baby class.” Eda told her as they started hiking up the mountain.

“Still why are we here?” Luz continued asking.

“The earliest witches came to the knee to develop their magic drawn to its natural power. So as your father go meets with the principal you should be able to find your second spell here.” Eda explained as they walked upon ruins.

“It’s beautiful!” Luz exclaimed at the sight.

“Though it’s not without its dangers.” Eda said as she pointed out a seemingly eyeless creature covered in white fur chewing on something.

“That is the Slitherbeast, one of the most dangerous creatures on the Boiling Isles, it was only second to the Basilisk, well with your sister around it’s back to being second. Anyways we just have to mind our business and we’ll be safe.” Eda explained as she walked up to the ruins.

“We’ll set up shop here, I told your dad where we will be, so he’ll come here when he’s done speaking with Bump.” Eda said to her apprentice.

“I bet you’ll be excited to see him again.” Luz commented snarky.

“Do you have a problem with me seeing your father?” Eda asked concerned. That one night was unfortunately not a one night-stand, the day after that night Ash and Eda went out on a date.

“It would be more accurate to say I have a problem with you loudly fucking my dad at night.” Luz told her as she remembered last night.

———last night———

Luz and Vee were unable to sleep due to the extremely loud moaning coming from Eda’s room.

“WEH! What are they doing?” King asked, yawning, as he woke up from the sound of Eda’s loud moans.

“They’re just playing a game King.” Luz told the young demon, in an attempt to protect his innocence.

“Oh can we play with them?” King asked as he started to get up.

“No! It’s an extremely private game and they’re in the middle of a round.” Vee excused, stopping King from getting up.

“Oh. Can we play with each other then?” King excitedly asked, as Luz and Vee, horrified, immediately look to each other as they start to come up with a myriad of excuses just so King stop with this.

———that was the closest we will ever get to smut in this story———

“That was a very long night.” Luz told an embarrassed Eda, annoyed.

“Well at this rate you’re going to have to call me Mom, only if you want to.” Eda joked, before quickly taking it back once she sees the traumatized look on Luz’s face and remembered what the girl told her friend.

Before Luz could say anything a pink fireball came hurdling at her.

“Get out of the way!” Eda says as she knocks the human girl down.

“I’m sorry whoever that is!” They heard a familiar voice call out.

It was Amity with her grandpa, who was wearing a different hat that still covered his ears, alongside a Heatmor. Luz noticed a wand in Amity’s hand.

“Hey Amity!” Luz said to her friend, who quickly put her wand away, before Eda could take note of it.

“Oh hello Luz, sorry about that. What are you doing here?” Amity asked as she and her grandpa walked up to them.

“Oh I need to learn a second spell so I don’t get placed in the baby class at Hexside.” Luz explained.

“You’re going to Hexside.” Amity said, surprised, and a blush forming on her face.

“So what are you and your grandpa doing here Boots?” Eda asked the two.

“Amity was suffering some magic fatigue due to being in the human realm for a week.” Monty told Luz’s mentor, but the girl could sense there was something more to it.

“Mittens!” They heard, an unfortunately, familiar call out.

“Arceus damnit! Don’t tell them where we are!” Amity begs as she and her grandpa go and hide from them.

“Luz!” Edric and Emira say as they run up to Luz and Eda.

“Hello Ed and Em.” Luz says, dryly, annoyed at the twins presence, even Eda had a look of annoyance on her face at them.

“Do you know where Mittens is?” Emira asks, Luz and Eda pointing in the opposite direction that Amity was, which coincidentally was where the slitherbeast was, and the twins go that way.

“Thanks Luz.” Amity says as she gets out of her hiding place.

“What’s going on?” The human girl asked.

“They somehow found out I was going to be here and followed and have been trying to bother me all day. Well I guess we’ll see you two around.” Amity explained as she and her grandfather walked away.

“Hey Eda what’s magic fatigue?” Luz asked her mentor who was starting to gather up snow.

“Oh, long story short, witches create bile by absorbing energy from the Titan, if a witch is far from the Boiling Isles for too long their magic becomes weaker, it was probably worse for Boots since she was in a different world.” Eda explained before she was about to put some of the snow in her mouth.

“Okay. Anyways how come you didn’t mention there were wands?” She asked further, catching Eda off guard.

“I’m sorry what?” Eda asks for clarification, shocked from the question.

“Amity had a wand.” She clarified, to Eda’s shock.

“How do I put this.” Eda said to herself as she thought of a way to explain a wand. “A witch performing magic using a wand, is like a human using crutches, a wand is supposed to help a witch use magic when they are experiencing difficulty, mainly medical.” She explained.

“Is Amity okay?” Luz asks concerned.

“Don’t worry, she probably just hurt her fingertips or something.” Eda told her, but Luz could sense she was worried it was something else.

“Huh?” Luz said at the fingertips comment, confused on what that has to do with anything.

“A witch secretes magic through tiny pours in their fingertips.” Eda explained as she brought Luz to a cliff with a view of the isles.

“Anyways kid, magic comes from the isles, so you’re going to sit here and learn from the isles.” Eda told her as she sat the girl on a rock.

“Also tip: eat the snow.” She told her as she walked away.

———with Ash———

Principal Bump was currently filling paperwork getting ready for the new semester next week, when all of a sudden someone started banging on his office door.

“Who’s the-“ Bump started to say before the man at the door broke it open.

“Oh sorry.” The man said before entering the room, he was a tall man with a subtle tan, black hair, a red and white cap, round ears and a Pokemon on his shoulder.

“Who are you.” Bump asked him, ready to summon the school guards in a moments notice.

“Hello I am Satoshi Asher Ketchum, or may call me Ash. I’m here to speak to you about the enrollment involving my daughter Luz.” Ash told the principal.

‘Oh it’s the human’s father.’ Bump thought, relieved it was just a harmless human.

Ash then weirdly crushed the arm of the chair he was sitting. “Oh sorry about that. I just weirdly felt like my entire species was insulted, I don’t know that came from.” He apologized as Bump immediately retracted his internal comment.

“So what do you wish to speak about sir?” Bump asked, intimidated.

———back to Luz and the main plot———

Luz was still sitting on a rock, looking around just in hopes of finding a new spell but no luck so far, she even resorted to eating snow like Eda suggested, it honestly wasn’t that bad.

“Hey mind if I join you?” Amity asked, Luz being surprised at the witch’s presence.

“Sure.” Luz said as she made room for Amity.

“Thanks, I just needed a break from Ed and Em.” She told her.

“What are they doing?” Luz asked, concerned they were harassing Amity.

“They keep trying to have me forgive them.” Amity revealed.

“Have they actually apologized for what they did?” Luz continued.

“No. I think they just want me to come back so Mom won’t bother them.” The witch elaborated.

“Do you want to forgive them?” Luz knew for a fact Amity would not return to her mother.

“I don’t know.” She said as she rubbed her forehead.

“Well they can’t force you to do anything. And I’ll help keep them away from you if they become too much of a problem.” Luz comforts Amity, giving her a little hug.

“Thanks Luz.” Amity says reciprocating the hug, blushing a bit.

“Look who’s here.” A pale witch with long blue hair said at the sight.

“Ms. Clawthorne what are you doing here?” Amity asks when she sees Lilith.

“I came here to investigate reports of wild witches, but instead I found my sister’s human pet, if you’re here she must be close.” She tells them.

The two immediately go to grab their Pokeballs, but this doesn’t go unnoticed by Lilith, who immediately uses her staff to levitate their Pokeballs away.

“Seriously Amity you’re using Pokemon, I thought I taught you better.” Lilith says, extremely disappointed and ashamed at Amity.

Amity then grabbed her wand and started creating a spell circle, before Lilith stopped her by taking the wand away, causing the spell circle to dissipate.

“A wand, how come I never realized you were pathetic at magic Amity, it was likely for the best you stopped being my apprentice.” Lilith said as she used her staff to create a blue cage around the two teenagers made of light.

“You two stay here as I use you as ransom to force my sister to join a coven.” Lilith told them as she got on her staff and flew off searching for her sister, leaving the two in the cage.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Lilith is here because she hasn’t been seen ever since the covention.
Anyway for everyone who wants a scientific explanation on how witches do magic here: A witch absorbs a specific energy, that is radiated from the Titan, through their skin, they use that specific type of energy to create magic bile (which contains glyph particles, which are the building block of magic, like how cells are the building block of life) in their bile sac, which is pumped through the circulatory system, the bile is secreted through microscopic holes on the finger tips in a gaseous state, immediately once it exits the body it ionizes, which is used for a spell circle, it has to be a circle to keep the glyphs stable (the glyphs essentially act like a line of code that programs the spell, if any of the glyphs are damaged the spell will be messed up).

Chapter 36: Cold Shoulder or Knee: part 2

Summary:

Luz and Amity must escape the cage and help Eda.

Notes:

CW: inappropriate language

Luz and Amity were still trapped within the light cage. Luz had attempted to grab their Pokeballs that Lilith left on the ground by putting her arm through the gaps, but she would immediately be shocked by it. Amity meanwhile.

“I’m pathetic.” Amity told herself as she was curled up on the ground.

“Don’t say that about yourself Amity.” Luz said as she went up to her friend.

“But I am, I have to use a wand just to do magic, damn bile sac.” Amity said as she tried to create an abomination that immediately fell apart.

“Amity what is going on with you?” Luz asked, genuinely concerned.

“Yesterday I went to the healer and they diagnosed me with what’s commonly called Bile Sac Failure, or BSF, it’s a primarily hereditary condition that triggers some point after puberty, it causes a witch’s bile sac to slowly die away overtime, luckily a witch can live without one, but eventually even with a wand I won’t be able to do magic, both my grandma and grandpa had it, it’s why he doesn’t use magic ever. Magic fatigue only makes it worse.” Amity explained to Luz’s horror.

“I shouldn’t have brought you to the Pokemon world.” Luz said blaming herself.

“Luz you had no idea this would happen, and even if I didn’t go I still would’ve started suffering from BSF. But I deserve it, I called Willow half-a-witch now I’m literally half-a-witch.” Amity claimed.

“What?” Luz questioned slightly confused at the half-a-witch stuff.

“Half-a-witch first started as a derogatory term for a witch or demon suffering from BSF, the human equivalent would be the R word.” Amity elaborated to the human. Luz quickly felt sympathy for Willow, remembering a few times before she meet her dad when a few nasty teachers and other adults would call her the R word, and was worried that Amity would experience something similar.

“Don’t worry Amity I’ll be with you, and even if you can’t use magic then you can just the same type of magic as me.” She tells Amity. Getting out a notepad and quickly drawing a light glyph on it, she holds it out for Amity to touch.

Amity taps the glyph, a ball of light rising from it and going to the dark where Luz notices a strange constellation in the sky.

“Amity has there always been a light glyph in the stars?” Luz asks, confusing Amity and making her check the sky.

As she does that Luz gets an idea and catches a snowflake in her palm seeing what looks like a glyph in it before it melts.

“What does it mean?” Amity questioned.

“It means magic is a gift from the isles, magic is everywhere.” Luz said as she used a stick to sketch the glyph on the snow, she hit the glyph a pillar of ice rising from it.

“Luz you just performed an ice spell!” Amity exclaimed.

“I think I have an idea, Amity get on top of the rock.” Luz tells her friend as she uses a bigger stick to draw a giant ice glyph within the confines of the cage.

Luz gets on the rock picking Amity up bridal style, causing the young witch to blush, she yells, “Luz use ice beam!” As she jumps on to the glyph, a giant pillar of ice sending them flying outside of the cage.

When they land Luz exclaims, “Yes! I have my second spell! Thank you, snow. Thank you, isles. Thank you, Eda. Eda! We have to go help her so she doesn’t listen to Lilith!” The two garb their Pokeballs and go to the ruins where Eda is.

———with Eda———

Eda was pacing around the ruins waiting for Luz and Amity to get there.

“Where are they?” Eda questioned getting increasingly worried.

“They’re probably just messing around like most teenagers.” Monty told her, in an attempt to calm her down.

“Hello sister.” Lilith said as she landed her staff.

“Lilith! What are you doing here!? I’m not in the mood for your coven shit, just get back to sucking the emperor’s dick and leave me alone!” Eda told her, not in the mood of dealing with her sister.

“Why I’m here doesn’t matter, what does is what I have.” She told her, causing Eda to put the pieces together.

“What did you do to Luz!?” The Owl Lady accused the coven headess.

“Don’t worry she and my ex-apprentice are safe as long as you cooperate.” She threatens, causing both Eda and Monty to curl up their fist in anger.

As they start to consider what to do they hear Luz calling out, “Eda!”

They look and see Luz and Amity approaching them.

“How?” Lilith questioned.

“Eda I learned my second spell from the isles!” Luz revealed as she ran to them.

But before Luz can reach Eda, Lilith grabs the human and points her staff at Luz’s head threatening, saying, “Eda! Either you join the Emperor’s Coven like was intended or I blow your pet’s head off clean, and don’t even think of using magic or one of those disgusting Pokemon!”

They all stand still not sure what to do, until a flamethrower is blasted right behind Lilith, they look up and see Ash flying on Charizard with an expression of pure fatherly rage, Ash immediately jumps off Charizard tackling into Lilith, forcing her to let go of Luz, he pins her down just with his foot, grabbing onto her right arm.

“Who do you think you are!? Do you know who I am!?” Lilith yells at the man.

“Don’t care!” He tells her as he starts pulling on her arm.

“This is a private matter.” Lilith claims.

“Yeah, between us! That “pet” is my fucking daughter!” He yells at the top of his lungs, a faint blue outline surrounding him.

“Oh, you’re just a weak human then. How about this let me go you and your “daughter” can go scratch free.” She says, thinking she is intimidating and can take him.

SHE CAN NOT!

“OR! How about this you leave my daughter alone forever or I’ll rip your fucking arm off!” He promises her as he starts pulling on her arm even harder.

Normally Lilith would laugh in the face of such a threat, especially if it was issued by a human. But something about this man has told her to take him seriously.

“Fine!” Lilith accepts, Ash lets go of her still glaring at her as she gets on her staff and fly off.

“Who was she?” Ash questioned extremely aggravated.

“My sister, aka the emperor’s favorite lap girl.” Eda revealed to her boyfriend.

“Please never bring Luz to your family reunions.” He tells her as they check on Luz and Amity, who is blushing.

“You do realize that Boots likes Luz, right?” Eda asked.

“Ofcourse she likes Luz, they’re friends.” Ash answered.

“No, like girlfriends.” Eda clarified.

“Yeah, they’re friends who are girls.” Eda was becoming astounded at how dense this man was.

She tried to make it more clear by having her hands making a kissing motion with each other, Ash just stared at her confused. Eda annoyed at him just decided to kiss on the lips to make it clear.

“Oh, you meant that way!” Ash realized, blushing from the kiss.

“Good grief, how dense are you?” Eda questioned.

“Well I didn’t realize my first girlfriend liked me, even after she kissed me on the lips at an airport.” He answered, with Eda just staring at him wondering how he could be this dense with how he is in bed.

“Hey Mittens!” Ed and Em called out to Amity a distance away.

Amity starts walking towards them, Luz asking, “Amity what are you doing?”

“I’m giving them a piece of my mind.” She tells her with an angry expression as she goes to them and starts yelling at them.

Meanwhile Luz walks back to her dad and Eda.

“Let’s go kid.” Eda tells her, Luz started to draw an ice glyph on the ground.

“What is she doing?” Ash ask as Luz stomps on it causing a giant pillar of ice to send them flying.

“AHH! Is this what Team Rocket goes through?” Ash questions as Charizard follows them.

———???———

Silver and Raine are standing guard waiting for Lilith to attack.

They had Raine’s Ninetails lead the wild witches to the secluded part of the knee where the Emperor’s Coven.

There were rumors that Lilith was nearby, but so far they hadn’t seen her.

“Let’s just go Raine.” Silver tells them as they start to go to the others, but on the way Raine hands him a weird mask that looks like a Swoobat.

“What’s this?” He asks.

“Our masks, Amber designed it, the others think it would be nice to wear more than just a cloak.” Raine informs him.

“No way.” Sliver tells them.

“Did you know that Katya think men who wear masks are attractive.” Raine claims, causing Sliver to immediately put on the mask, with a subtle blush, causing Raine to chuckle lightly, as they keep on hiking.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Liz has a new spell, we learn what’s happening to Amity, by the end of this fanfic she will basically be a human with pointy ears, and Ash meets Lilith.

Chapter 37: Interlude: To Forgive or Not to Forgive

Summary:

Amity vents her frustration to her siblings.

Notes:

People wanted to see what Amity had to say to her siblings so here you go.

“I’m giving them a piece of my mind.” Amity tells Luz with an angry expression as she walks towards her older siblings.

“Hey Mittens.” They say to her.

“What do you two want?” Amity asked, wanting to get to the point.

“Don’t have to be rude.” Ed says under his breath, Em nudging to shut up.

“Can you come back home?” Emira asked her.

“Why?” Amity questioned, deciding to humor them just to hear why they want her to comeback.

“Mom’s been on our ass ever since you left, and we’ve been unable to prank anyone.” Edric explained, in the distance she heard Luz using her ice glyph to go back to the Owl House.

“That it?” Amity questioned.

“Yeah, so if you can come home so mom would leave us alone that would be great.” Emira tells her not even looking her in the eye.

That was what made Amity snap.

“So that’s it! Odalia doesn’t let you prank anyone and that’s enough for you to drag me to my death!” Amity began to scream at them.

“Oh stop being a drama queen it wasn’t that bad.” Emira claimed, thinking Amity was being overdramatic.

“ “it wasn’t that bad”!? Why do you think I have scars all over my body!? Why do you think I’m missing three of my front teeth!? She is the reason why!” She told them, as their eyes started to widen, beginning to consider that she might be telling the truth.

“The reason why I have brown hair again is because she made my head bleed so bad that when cleaning it out it cleaned out the dye in the process!” She revealed.

“We just thought you wanted to try something different.” Emira squeaked out.

“I never even wanted green hair, Odalia just did it so it would match you two and her hair!” She said pointing at her hair.

“We’re sorry we didn’t realize that.” Edric said as he backed away slightly.

“Ofcourse you didn’t, you never cared about me you just wanted her to focus on me, you got to actually choose what track you entered!” Amity yelled, a tear falling from her eyes.

“Oh come on you’re good at abominations.” Emira argued, trying to calm Amity down.

“I was good at it but I didn’t want to do it, I wished I entered the beast keeping coven so I could be like a Pokemon trainer!” Amity started to vent.

“I wish I didn’t have to ruin my friendship with Willow!” Amity was starting to cry now.

“I wish I was born human so I could be a Pokemon trainer!”

“I wish mom died when I was born!” Ed and Em were shocked form what she just said.

“I wish dad showed any semblance of care!”

“I wish I wasn’t suffering from BSF!” She revealed, her eyes temporarily flickering pink.

“You’re suffering from BSF?” Emira asked, actually starting to show genuine concern for Amity.

“And most of all I wish you two protected me!” She told them as she fully collapsed on the ground crying.

The twins approach Amity in an attempt to comfort her, but she just yells at them saying, “JUST GO!”

The two walk away, not without taking a look back at the sobbing Amity and becoming filled with a sense of pity and regret.

Monty just walks up to Amity and gives her a hug. The flight back to the cabin on Braviary is nothing but a blur to her, all she knows is that she just goes to her room and pulls out her rotom-phone and scrolls through her limited contacts hoping to get some kind of comfort.

She holds the phone close to her, occasionally having to wipe the tears building up in her eyes, waiting and begging for her to pick up.

“Hello?” Anabel asks as she takes the call.

“Hey Anabel.” Amity gets out through the crying.

“Amity!? What’s wrong!? You sound like you’ve been crying.” Anabel asks from the other side, concerned for Amity’s wellbeing.

“I saw my siblings earlier today…” she tells her as she begins to vent about EVERYTHING, and Anabel listens, believing what others would call crazy. Why? Because she wanted to help.

———with Luz———

Luz, Eda, and Ash finally land in front of the Owl House.

“How does Team Rocket live life blasting off all the time.” Ash questioned as he and Eda fix their backs, Eda literally taking her back off to do it.

They enter the Owl House and saw King, Vee, and Hooty hugging each other surrounded by torn-up stuffed animals.

“What the heck happened!?” Eda questioned at the sight of the mess.

“We’re having a moment here.” King told Eda.

“YOU’LL NEVER UNDERSTAND WHAT WE’VE BEEN THROUGH! NEVER! NEVER!” Hooty claimed.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Chapter 38: Escape the Forest: part 1

Summary:

Luz, Willow, Gus, and Amity go to a grudgeby game. Meanwhile Ash watches over Eda.

Luz was currently standing in front of the Owl House. Luz was waiting for Willow and Gus to get here and then they would go meet up with Amity and go to a grudgeby game. Her dad was originally supposed to join them, since today was the last day he and Vee would spend in the Boiling Isles before leaving, and he wanted to check out their sports, but Eda’s curse was acting so Ash decided to stay and help her out.

“Luz!” Willow and Gus called out as they ran up to her.

“Hey!” Luz says as she hugs them.

“Sorry we haven’t been able to see you, Principal Bump gave me detention when he found out about the tunnels I’ve been digging, I escaped after a student in the healing track used a griffin to destroy it, sadly she’ll have detention next semester.” Gus told her, causing Luz to question what was destroyed.

“And I was visiting family in the left ulna. I thought your dad was coming?” Willow asked.

“Oh yeah, uh, Eda came down with something and he’s helping her. But he said hello.” Luz told them, not sure if she should tell them about Eda’s curse, since it wasn’t her problem to share.

“Aw. That’s a shame, I was hoping to meet one of the most famous people in the human realm.” Gus exclaimed, slightly disappointed.

“Yeah sorry about that. But anyways we just have to go meet up with Amity and then we can go to the grudgeby game.” Luz told them, asking, “If that’s good with you?” To Willow when she sees the unsure expression on her face.

“Uh, yeah. Don’t worry Luz, like I said I don’t have a problem with you being friends with Amity.” Willow answered, Luz sensed a hint of dishonesty in that sentence but didn’t press further.

The three made their way to the Shin Forest’s entrance.

“Amity’s Grandfather’s cabin is in the middle of the forest here.” She told them as they entered the forest, Luz noticing some fog sticking to the ground a bit away from where they were going.

“Are you sure it’s a good idea to go through here, considering the rumors?” Willow asked, a chill running up her back when she saw what looked like an Orbeetle in the distance beginning to approach her.

“Don’t worry they’re nice, just as long you don’t threaten them.” Luz said as she waved at the hidden Serperior, Willow and Gus jumped from surprise when the Pokemon slivered away.

“Maybe we should wait outside while you get Amity.” Gus suggested at the sight of the Pokemon.

“Oh come on you two have seen my Pokemon before and you haven’t acted this way before with them?” Luz questioned.

“Your Pokemon aren’t as big as the Pokemon here, for half a second I thought that was basilisk due to how big it was.” Willow told her.

“Thank the Titan they’re extinct.” Gus sighed out of relief, as they keep walking.

“Well, just wait until they’re fully evolved, Samurotts and Decidueyes aren’t exactly small.” Luz joked, not ready to tell them about Vee, as they approached the cabin.

“Oh hello Luz, and two random witchlets. What are you doing here?” Monty asked when he saw them from the rocking chair he was sitting in.

“Hi Mr. Jones, Amity is coming with us to a grudgeby game.” Luz answered him.

“Yeah I think she mentioned something about a sports game, I think, she was on my left side, and I’m a bit hard of hearing on that side ever since I performed the Heimlich maneuver on a chocking Exploud. I’ll go get her.” He told them as he got up and went inside.

A few minutes he walked out with Amity, who was wearing a necklace with a crescent moon and star on it, had her brown hair flowing down, and was wearing a short jacket derivative of Ash’s just with purple not blue.

“Hey Luz, Willow, and Willow’s friend.” Amity said as she walked up to them, anxiously waving apolegitly at Willow.

“Hello Amity.” Willow greeted dryly glaring at her once friend, Amity letting out a nervous chuckle at the interaction.

“Hey, we’re all here so let’s go.” Luz said, sensing the tension between the two.

“Have fun kids!” Monty tells them as they started to leave, not without warning them of something else, “Just one more thing, stay out of the ground fog, around this time of the year Phantumps practice forest’s curse, so be careful otherwise you might be lost!”

Primarily Amity remembered that. But none of them noticed as they accidentally walk into the ground fog.

———with Ash———

Ash was currently tending to his girlfriend, well he wasn’t exactly sure if Eda was girlfriend, he never properly understood romance or non-platonic love that well, but still he was helping out with her curse.

King had just went to take a nap, after he convinced him not to go kill a toddler, and Vee was listening to Hooty’s stories. He was going to start speaking with his lawyer Mr. Wright to start up the process to adopt Vee, when he sensed something was going on upstairs with Eda with his aura powers.

As he went up to the door he it felt like an entirely different soul was internally conflicting with Eda’s, it was like Eda’s soul was being used as a living prison cell for the other, and it was trying to break out.

“Eda is everything alright?” Ash asked as he opened her door. There was Eda as a big fluffy, winged, quadruped with talons, and Eda’s face but one eye was all black. His powers told him that both souls were in turmoil.

Ash immediately ran up to the owl-beast. He saw the half-drunken elixir on the ground, he considered giving Eda the rest of it, but the second he went to grab he felt pure fear from the owl-beast so he decided against.

Ash decided to do something he hadn’t done in almost forever, he placed the palm of his hand against its mane, blue energy being emitted into the owl-beast relaxing it, letting Eda take control again, turning back into a witch, he felt a sense of calm filling both souls, especially as faint accents of orange appear in Eda’s hair.

Ash holds the resting Eda close to him, caressing her hair trying to continue calming both souls.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Amity and Willow meet again. And we properly acknowledge Ash’s aura powers.

Chapter 39: Escape the Forest: part 2

Summary:

Luz, Amity, Willow, and Gus find themselves lost. Meanwhile Ash speaks with Eda.

Luz was currently leading her friends through the fog.

“So how are you doing Willow?” Amity asked awkwardly, trying to make small talk.

“I’m doing fine, have you called anyone half-a-witch lately?” Willow asks, not doing a great job at hiding her contempt for Amity. Amity chuckles nervously as they continue to walk, the fog getting thicker.

“It’s getting harder and harder to see.” Luz complained as she started to use her arms to make sure she didn’t walk into anything.

“Didn’t Amity’s grandpa mention something about the fog?” Gus asked, grabbing onto Luz’s shoulder after tripping over a stone.

“Yeah I think it had to do with Phantumps. Amity what was it again?” Luz asked her friend, only to get no reply.

“Amity?” Luz repeated, thinking the witch just didn’t hear her, but still no reply.

“Amity!?” Luz called out beginning to get concerned, but still no one answers.

“Amity!” Luz yelled out for her friend.

“Wait where’s Willow!?” Gus questioned when he realized they hadn’t heard from her in a bit either.

Luz quickly drawn up a light glyph, producing a ball of light. Using said ball of light they look around only to see that Amity and Willow were gone.

“Oh no! We must of lost the, in the fog at some point!” Luz concluded panicking at her friend’s disappearance.

“Wait I think I see someone!” Gus said pointing at a figure in the distance.

“It might be Willow or Amity.” Luz suggested. So hoping to find their lost friends, they approached the silhouette.

———with Amity and Willow———

“Luz!” Amity called out for the human.

“Gus!” Willow called out for the young illusionist.

Amity turned on the flashlight on her rotom-phone, showing that they weren’t even close to their friends.

“We’re lost, as if this day could get any worse.” Willow exclaimed, being more silent during the last part while glaring at Amity, who decided to ignore it. “How did this even happen?” Willow questioned.

“This is what my grandfather warned us about. In battle the move forest’s curse makes the opposing Pokemon a grass type, but not as know when it’s used inside a forest it turns it into a fog filled labyrinth.” Amity explained to Willow.

“Great we’re lost because of Pokemon.” Willow said annoyed.

“Hey! Not all Pokemon are bad, only bad trainers.” Amity defended, as they start to walk in hopes of stumbling across their friends.

“There’s a bad witch in front of me.” Willow mumbles, but Amity hears it and holds back her anger, trying to stay calm and not make the situation any worse.

“Let’s hold each other’s hands so we don’t get lost from each other.” Amity suggested as she held out her hand, Willow after a minute of consideration reluctantly grabs onto Amity’s hand.

The two start to make their way through the fog calling out for their friends, until Willow trips over something.

“Willow are you okay?!” Amity says as she rushes over and tries to help her up.

“I’m fine, I don’t need your help. What even did I trip on?” Willow questioned, as she got up, rejecting Amity’s help.

The two heard a cry from the area that what Willow tripped over is and pointed Amity’s rotom-phone at it revealing a Phantump.

———with Ash and Eda———

Eda’s eyes began to flicker open, she found herself in her nest with a blanket placed on top of her.

“Uh. What happened?” Eda groaned as she got up.

“Hey lay back down. Your curse was active.” Ash told her as he gave her some water.

In the distance Eda saw a half-drank elixir lying on the ground, and in the corner of her eyes she saw that her usual grey mane of hair had orange accents in it.

“Ash what happened?” She asked the human, who tensed up from the question, making her realize he was involved with what happened. “Ash what did you do!?” Eda asked, concerned about what happened to her.

Before Ash could answer any questions, Eda coughed up an empty elixir bottle.

“First care to explain why you already had an elixir in your system?” Ash asked worried.

Eda sighed before telling him, “My curse has progressively been getting worse, nowadays I need more than one elixir a day to keep the curse calm. But don’t tell Luz you’ve seen the kid and she’ll get all worried about it.”

“It’ll be okay.” Ash said, comforting Eda by caressing her hair, still blue energy in his palms, causing more orange to return to her hair and some of her skin softens losing some wrinkles.

“Okay, now explain how are you doing this?” Eda tells him as she examines her hair and skin, meanwhile Ash takes in a deep breath as he prepares to tell her the truth.

———back with Luz and Gus———

“Is that you Amity, or Willow?” Luz asked the figure, who was staring at a tree, as she and Gus approached them.

“Huh?” The figure said as they turned around revealing not Amity or Willow, but instead a girl with pink skin, white hair, weird ears and a swoobat mask.

“Who are you two!?” The figure asked as she pointed a finger at the two.

“I’m Luz, and this Gus.” Luz introduced themselves, Gus looking at the girl in recognition.

“Wait aren’t you Amber Phycophyta?” Gus asked the girl answering with a nod. “Oh yeah, you held last year’s record for getting sent to detention, before graduating. Her dad is supposed to take over the plant coven when Terra Snapdragon finally dies.” He mentions to Luz.

“You better believe it. Now if you mind, me and Sableye have a tree to climb.” She told them as she and a Sableye that was with her jumped on the tree and started climbing it.

“Why are you even climbing a tree?” Gus questioned as Luz started getting a closer look at the tree.

Luz’s eyes widened when she saw something in the leaves. “Is that a glyph!?” Luz said as she took out a notepad and started copying the symbol down. Tapping it a small plant arises.

———back with Amity and Willow———

“A Phantump.” Amity said in recognition of the Pokemon that Willow tripped over.

“A what?” Willow asks.

“A Phantump, a grass/ghost type Pokemon. They’re the ones using the move forest’s curse. But they can traverse through a forest where forest’s curse was used.” Amity tells Willow, as the Pokemon goes to hug the plant witch’s leg.

“What you want me to ask it for directions?” Willow asks when she notices Amity looking at her expectingly.

“Well it’s a grass type, and it seems to have taken a liking to you.” Amity says as she points out the Pokemon hugging Willow’s leg.

“Fine. Phantump can you please get us out of this fog?” Willow gently asked the Pokemon, who nodded its head and started to lead the two somehow.

“Follow that Pokemon!” Amity tells Willow as they follow Phantump into the fog.

———back with Ash and Eda———

“So you’re something called an aura user, someone who can quite literally manipulate life force, but there is a limited number of them left and you try to keep your identities secret?” Eda asked to clarify.

“Yes. Some of us hide our secret by claiming we’re empaths to explain our ability to sense other’s emotions.” Ash clarified.

“So is Luz one?” Eda asked.

“Most likely, I can sense aura abilities developing in her, but she doesn’t know yet.” Ash answered.

“Why haven’t you told her, she could use her powers to help Amity with her BSF.” She told him.

“What’s BSF?” Ash questioned.

“Bile Sac Failure.” Eda clarified.

“It doesn’t work that way, and shouldn’t there be medication for that?” Ash asked.

“There would be, but the Emperor has for some reason made the production of medication to treat BSF illegal.” Eda told him.

“I swear at this point if you told me the Emperor killed his own brother I would believe you.” Ash claimed.

“Don’t change the subject! What do you mean your powers don’t work that way you were able to heal my curse?” The Owl Lady questioned.

“I didn’t heal your curse I just calmed the other soul down.” Ash clarified.

“What other soul!? Nevermind, how do you know it doesn’t work that way?” Eda continued.

“Because I tried to help Luz’s mom Camila, but only made it worse.” Ash revealed to Eda.

“What?” Eda said in shock.

“When I meet Camila and Luz, Camila had an extra day to live, I tried to use my aura powers to buy her more time but form what I could tell it only accelerated her cancer, she died a few hours later.” Ash revealed to Eda’s shock, “Aura can heal scratches and wounds, and even more mystical ailments to a degree, but it seemingly only worsens biological conditions.”

“Okay. How about you tell me about this other soul?” Eda asked, deciding to change the subject from Ash’s confession.

“It’s seems like your soul is being used a living prison cell…” Ash began to explain to Eda.

———back to Amity and Willow again———

“Amity I’m pretty sure we’ve been walking in circles.” Willow complained to Amity as they had been following the Phantump for roughly a hour.

“Don’t worry Willow Phantump will be able to get us out of here. But maybe we should sit for a second.” Amity offered as the two sat down on rocks, with Phantump going to Willow’s leg again.

“I knew this was a bad idea, Luz shouldn’t have brought me and Gus.” Willow said to herself.

“Huh?” Amity asked.

“If we never came here for you we wouldn’t be in this situation, for all we know Luz and Gus could be in extreme danger, about to be eaten by a Pokemon!” Willow claimed.

———Luz and Gus———

“Plant magic! Plant magic! Plant magic!” Gus and Amber cheered as Luz kept using her new plant glyph.

“This is so much fun! Luz use frenzy plant!” Luz yelled out.

———back to Amity and Willow———

“Willow I’m sorry, I didn’t mean for this to happen.” Amity said, trying to calm Willow down.

“Sure you are! You ruined your friendship with me are you going to ruin your friendship with Luz!?” Willow accused Amity.

“Ofcourse not Willow, I didn’t even want to stop being friends with you.” Amity claimed.

“Then why did you!? Why did you stop being my friend!? Why did you bully me!? Why did you let others hurt me!?” Willow begged.

“Because my parents told me, and I was too weak to ever argue back, and as time goes on you’ll get stronger and I’ll keep getting weaker, you were never the half-a-witch I am.” Amity confessed to Willow, calming then witch down.

As Willow took in everything Amity just admitted to her, the fog started to clear up, letting the two see Luz, Gus, and weirdly Amber from last year using weird plants that weren’t there as trampolines.

“I guess they weren’t in danger.” Willow said as she and Amity begin to approach them.

“Yeah. So do you forgive me for everything that happened?” Amity nervously asked Willow.

“You can’t take back what you did. But it’s a start.” Willow told Amity, who gained a small smile from the answer.

“Oh, you still have someone on your leg.” Amity pointed out, making Willow notice the Phantump still on her leg.

“You’re not going anywhere are you?” Willow asked the Pokemon, who tightened the hug in confirmation. “Fine, Amity can you hand me a Pokeball?” Willow asked Amity, who fetched out a pokeball from her pocket handing it to Willow.

Willow simply tossed the pokeball at Phantump, who entered with no struggle, almost immediately the ball dinged, confirming the capture.

“You know we will probably miss the grudgeby game.” Amity told Willow while she checked her rotom-phone.

“Want to join them?” Willow asked referring to Luz, Gus, and for some reason Amber.

Amity shrugged as the two run over to join them on the trampoline flowers.

———the next day———

Ash and Vee were standing in front of the portal door ready to go.

“Bye Dad.” Luz said to her father.

“Bye Luz, wish I could stay longer but I don’t think Vee would like to stay here any longer and we need to finish the adoption process, I got my lawyer Mr. Wright to start it up.” Ash told her as he gave her a hug.

“I’ll see you when we’re legally sisters Luz.” Vee tells her.

Ash goes and gives Eda a hug whispering to her, “Remember what I said about the second soul.”

“And you have to tell Luz the truth.” Eda reminded as they broke up the hug.

Then Ash and Vee walked through the door back to the Pokemon world.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Luz has the plant glyph now, Ash reveals the truth about aura to Eda, Amity and Willow begin to rekindle their relationship, and Willow has a Pokemon now.

Chapter 40: Rough Day at School: part 1

Summary:

Luz starts her first day at school.

Notes:

CW: inappropriate implications.

Luz was currently flying with Eda on her staff towards Hexside. Luz passed the entrance exam with flying colors since she knew three spells.

“We should just go back, this was a mistake I will probably mess everything up.” Luz panicked as they made their way.

“Woah calm down kid, why are you panicking so much? You’ve been to school before.” Eda pointed out to the human.

“Yeah but I wasn’t really popular, and then people only wanted to be around me since my dad is Ash, and school isn’t even required after you turn ten. I just don’t want to screw this up.” Luz told Eda.

“I question your world’s rules. But don’t worry about those dorks or what they think, if you want my advice punch the first kid you see, to establish dominance.” The Owl Lady reassured Luz.

“I won’t do that, but thanks.” Luz said, getting the point of what she said.

“Last chance to back out, and get a new patch for the bad girls coven. Quitting it’s easier than trying.” Eda encouraged as they landed, trying to get Luz further into her made-up coven.

“I’ll earn it when I quit showering, like my dad did when he was ten once.” Luz said as she started to walk towards.

“Wait!” Eda yelled as she tossed her hand at Luz getting her attention. “Your dad wanted me to take a first day of school photo for him.” Eda said as she pulled out a Polaroid camera out of her hair taking a photo with it. “And don’t be a goody loose shoes kid. You’ve got this.” Eda told her.

“Thank you Eda. I’ve actually written a heartfelt sonnet to commemorate the occasion.” Luz says as she brings sock puppets she made of them.

“You didn’t get the hair right.” Eda tells her pointing at the all grey hair of the sock puppet, as she then flys off.

“How was I supposed to know some of your hair would suddenly have orange accents!?” Luz yelled at the flying Eda.

Luz puts the puppets away and walks up to the school, not without bumping into Amity first.

“Oh hey Luz! Congrats on getting in! And make sure to pick a good track, Bump just put me back into abominations.” Amity told her.

“What’s wrong with abominations?” Luz asked.

“It’s harder to do when suffering from BSF and honestly I would’ve liked to try out beast keeping.” Amity explained to her before walking away.

“Okay. Time to begin my journey at Hexside, and hopefully meet a hot but vulnerable upperclassman.” Luz declared.

“In your dreams.” King said getting out of Luz’s backpack, surprising the human.

“King what are you doing!?” Luz asked the small demon.

“You’re a free ride to the best buffet in town! The trash cans are filled with half-eaten gold!” King told her as he jumped into a trash can.

“Have fun.” Luz told him as she walked up to her friends.

“Luz!” Her friends say as she walks up to them.

Before she say anything they heard numerous gasps behind her, looking behind Luz they see girl with brown hair tied up into a ponytail, a hook in her ear, and grey sleeves.

“Who’s that?” Luz asked as the girl passed them.

“That is Viney Diana, most witches and demons stay clear of her, she already is in the detention track this semester for destroying the detention pit, and most of all her dad assassinated the last golden guard.” Gus told her.

“Woah, bad girl. Well I should get going.” Luz says as she runs in.

“Wait I made a sign for you!” Gus yelled, waving his hand creating a sign that said, “Congratulations on your ascension to godhood Luz!” Willow just stares at Gus, with a confused expression on her face. “What!? I wanted to cover all my bases.” He defended.

Luz made her way through the halls. She gave a glare at Ed and Em when she entered. As she walked a couple people poked fun that there was a human, especially one.

“Hexside is for those who have magic Round Ears!” Boscha told her as she purposely bumped into her.

“Whatever three eyes.” Luz countered as she made her way to Bump’s office. She entered the office saying, “Hello Princy-B. Can I call you that?”

“Absolutely not. Now today we will be visited by a member of the emperor’s coven in order to get a grant, so in order to impress them you must join a coven track before they arrive.” He tells the human.

“Actually, Principle Bump. I’ve made my own schedule.” She tells him as she takes out the proposed schedule, Bump actually looking over it, and laughs.

“Studying multiple tracks at once? No one does that.” He tells her.

“Then I can be the first.” Luz claims.

“No. The rules states you can only study one track.” Bump explains as he gets up and turns around and look at banners of the covens, “How about beast keeping that’s similar to your Pokemon training.” With a triwl of his finger the white selves on Luz’s uniform turned orange.

“I don’t even to choose!?” Luz complained.

“Now go off to class. And don’t cause problems.” With another twirl of his fingers Luz was sent off to class.

———???———

Raine had sneaked into the secret testing site with the help of Kricketune using sing. This was the site where the basilisk were created. They were even supposed to know about them, the Emperor’s Coven have been trying to hide the basilisk’s existence, but they found out since Scooter Crane in his old age had blabbed about the whole thing to them, which led them here.

They looked the dark facility, seeing the broken cages which once held the basilisks. They found them in front of the a desk littered with papers and files, it was even worse than theirs.

They picked up the first, that read, “Alki 24, 22 AE. After numerous reports of basilisks seen around the left fibula we sent out scouts to investigate the reports, with the order to bring them back alive, given by the emperor himself. The scouts found three basilisks living within a cave system in the area. After a struggle that killed two of the basilisks they were able to bring one back, which we have named number Zero. Thus beginning Project: Leviathan. -Flora D’Splora.”

Raine took note that the former member of the Emperor’s Coven was using the old calendar, the one that was used before Belos decreed that they would use the same that humans use.

They continued reading the next file, “Gira 38, 23 AE. After some guards one night decided to mess around with the basilisk, which was against protocol, number Zero has been inseminated with her first known child, though Belos was agitated when he heard it would be half-witch, and it seems Zero has grown to distrust us even more than she already did, due to what she experienced, the guard responsible for the incident while be promptly terminated, permanently, to prevent him from spreading word of the incident. -Flora D’Splora.”

Raine began to pity what the basilisk went through as they picked up the next file, “Zel 8, 26 AE. Number Zero at this point has produced two known offspring, number One and number Two, both being created through the same method, the second guard has been token care of as well, Zero has not mentally recovered from the experience, becoming more violent. But both of them are half-witches, which for unknown reasons have deeply angered the Emperor. And they are not perfect basilisk, they’re weaker than their mother, and unlike most basilisk who are hermaphrodites, having both sex organs, One and Two only posses one each, One is male, Two is female. -Flora D’Splora.”

“Mes 19, 30 AE. We were able to replicate basilisk reproductive DNA and have successfully inseminated Zero using it. -Flora D’Splora.”

“Alki 2, 34 AE. We were able to create two basilisk children using the DNA, Three and Four, and they were proper basilisk as they were hermaphrodites. But sadly after an incident caused by the new head coveness Lilith Clawthorne, who still has know idea about project: Leviathan, we have lost the basilisk DNA. We will have to find a way to create more. I’m also concerned considering the fact the emperor had brought One out of the facility temporarily, around the same time of the golden guard’s assassination. It’s best I leave that be. -Flora D’Splora.”

“Arce 17, 37 AE. After some scouts discovered what we believed was a bag of human blood that washed up on shore, the Emperor has been extraordinarily adamant that we use it, so we will begin synthesizing reproductive DNA from it to inseminate Zero. -Flora D’Splora.”

“Cres 25, 37 AE. We were successful able to inseminate Zero with the human DNA, which produced Five. Five is so far the weakest compared to her siblings and mother, she is also the smallest, and similar to One and Two Five is not a hermaphrodite, this likely a result of the human DNA. -Flora D’Splora.” That was the last file they could read. Raine heard footsteps approaching and decided it was time to leave.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Luz begins going to Hexside, and we get Basilisk lore.

Chapter 41: Rough Day at School: part 2

Summary:

Luz gets sent to detention and a basilisk attacks the school.

Luz was put in the beast keeping coven, and was currently standing outside the school in front of a battlefield.

A dark skinned witch stood in front of them. “Hello students and human, I am Ms. Vixen.” She introduced herself as she pulled out a clipboard, telling them, “We will start the new semester with some basic battles by commanding beast with magic. First up Mr. Underwood Vs. the new student human student.”

“So is this like a Pokemon battle?” Luz asked as walked out on the field.

“What no! Don’t even compare this to a filthy Pokemon battle! This is much better!” Her opponent, a short witch with blue hair and glasses, claimed in an annoyingly shrill voice.

“What’s the difference?” Luz asked.

“It just is.” He stammered out as he made a spell circle, summoning a creature that had the body of a Durant and the head of a Pyroar.

“Okay. Dartrix I choose you!” Luz said as she sent out her Pokemon, all her classmates gasping.

“Use razor leaf!” Luz tells her Pokemon, who launches sharp leafs at the creature, meanwhile everyone gets a more horrified expression on her face.

“Human!” Ms. Vixen yells at Luz as she walks up to her, with an angry expression on her face. “Go to detention!” She tells her while signaling over some school guards, who for some reason had upside down skulls and hooks.

“What did I do?” Luz asked panicking as the guards picked her up with the hooks.

“Not only did you bring in a Pokemon, you were clearly mixing beast keeping with plant magic!” The teacher told her as the guards pulled her into the school.

They drag her through the school and use their hooks to take away, bringing her in front of Principal Bump who was next to a classroom.

“Oh you’re already got sent to detention. Have fun not learning any magic.” He says as he takes away her Pokeballs. “We can’t have you use these to cause more trouble.” Bump tells her as her orange sleeves turn grey.

“Oh come on!” Luz exclaims as she’s thrown into detention with three other people, including Viney, and one being a lilipup like demon with a human face, it didn’t help that she thought that Puruglys with human faces were terrifying.

“Hello. I like the little spikes in your hair.” Luz complimented Viney as she sat down.

“Hey! Be quiet or you’ll scrub the classroom down!” The multi eyed teacher threatened.

“Hey don’t blame them! I was the one who was talking.” Luz told him.

“Then you can clean the classroom.” The teacher tells Luz summoning a mop.

“Arceus damnit.” Luz curses under her breath as she gets up to begin cleaning, Viney getting a small smile as it happens.

———at the school entrance———

Bump was standing out in front of the school waiting for the representative from the emperor’s coven. When in a poof of smoke and light a woman with black hair and a square jaw.

“Ah, you must be the inspector. We could use the grant to pay for repairs caused by the students.” Bump said as the woman walked up to him.

“Yes, I am the inspector Nil. And I know how children can be I have five.” The woman said as they entered the building, prepared to enact her revenge.

———back with Luz———

Luz was washing the windows when someone tapped her shoulder. “Ah! It’s you.” Luz exclaimed as she turned around and saw Viney, who immediately shushed her, pointing at the teacher who was sleeping.

Viney brought Luz over to the chalkboard, using a piece of chalk she draws a small door, which actually opens to a hallway that Viney goes into, helping Luz enter as well.

“What is this place?” Luz asked as the door closed behind her.

“The last place you’re going to see alive.” Viney tells her intimidatingly. So Luz replies by pining her down to the ground. “Woah, I’m joking.” Viney clarifies.

“Oh sorry, just thought you were serious, considering what I heard of you.” Luz apologized as she let go of her.

“Yeah, understandable. You probably heard of me, but I’m Viney in case you didn’t.” She tells Luz.

“I’m Luz.” The human introduces herself.

“Yeah, I heard of a human who had Pokemon was going to attend Hexside. Also, do you happen to have your Pokemon on you?” Viney asked.

“Uh, no Principal Bump took them away.” Luz told her to Viney’s disappointment.

“That makes sense. But thanks for standing up for us anyways, not many would do that.” Viney thanks as she would she leads Luz to a door that says “keep out” on it. “Still since you’re one of us troublemakers you get special access to the secret room of shortcuts.” Viney says as she opens the door, revealing a spirally room filled with doors.

“You can come out Jerbo and Barcus!” Viney calls out.

“How do we know she won’t rat us out? What do you think Barcus?” Presumably Jerbo asked the quadruped.

“Bow-Wow!” Barcus called out, causing Jerbo and Viney’s eyes to widen.

“Woah! He said your aura is a like star burning bright blessed by gods.” He translates for her.

“Cool. I love secret rooms! I wonder where these go?” Luz questioned as she opened one seeing Amity pace.

“Calm down Amity, it doesn’t matter we go to the same school now, we travelled alone, well we were alone for only one hour then Vee joined us.” Amity said to herself, blushing heavily.

“I wonder what she’s talking about?” Luz questions as she closes the door.

“This place connects the different parts of the school. We found it after being thrown into the detention track. The witch who created the place is known as Lord Calamity.” Viney explains as she pointed to a portrait covered with graffiti.

“They started this trouble maker wall and we added ours names in their honor.” Jerbo told her.

“This place is amazing. I bet you guys can get up to so much trouble in here.” Luz joked.

“Sure, we can but we could do so much more.” Viney says as she points at Barcus who’s looking into a classroom and taking notes.

“We’re not allowed to study any king of magic. So we study any kind of magic in secret.” Viney explained.

“You actually like school?” Luz asked surprise.

“I like learning, classmates are another story. But yeah, we got in trouble for mixing magic.” Viney told her.

“I tried mixing plant magic with abominations. Bump was not thrilled. Barcus makes potions with oracle magic. And accidentally gave his teacher a panic attack and existential crisis.” Jerbo answered.

“And while yes I ended up here this semester because I, rightfully, destroyed the detention pit, most of the time it’s because I like healing beasts.” Viney revealed.

“Oh, like a Pokemon doctor or what nurse joys do?” Luz asked, causing Viney’s eyes to widen in surprise.

“That’s a thing in your world, could your world get any better!?” Viney questions in surprise as she throws her hands up.

“I’m guessing you like Pokemon?” Luz asked.

“Yeah, I never bought anything the Emperor said, like my dad.” Viney told the human girl.

“Hey, I’ve heard stuff about your dad and something called the golden guard. Could you explain that please?” Luz asked the witch, who gained a disheartened look on her face.

“Viney you don’t have to tell her.” Jerbo reassured.

“No. Don’t worry Jerbo, she would’ve heard about him either way, it’s best I tell her myself.” Viney told him as she began to explain what happened, “Years ago there was a movement led by my father, Wolfgang Diana, that wanted to form a nation separate from the emperor’s for wild witches, and it was actually getting traction, until one day my dad publicly killed the at the time Golden Guard, who was basically the emperor’s right hand, soon after that my dad was captured and petrified, he is actually the last public petrifaction so far.”

“Oh I’m sorry for your loss.” Luz says, knowing what it’s like to lose a parent.

“Don’t worry, it was a long time ago and I just a baby, I just have to deal with everyone looking at me like a murderer and not wanting to be around me or be my friend.” Viney says with a false cheerfulness, that Luz doesn’t need any weird senses to tell is fake.

“If it helps you can call me a friend.” Luz comforts, as she gives Viney a hug.

“Thanks Luz. The confusing thing is that my mother told me that my dad and the golden guard were working together in secret, and that the golden guard secretly supported the movement, so I don’t understand why my dad would kill him.” Viney told her.

Before Luz could reply they heard screaming from outside the room.

“What’s going on?” Luz questions as she opens a door, Amity, who was slightly pale falling into the room.

“Luz! Where are we?” Amity asks as she looks around and sees the room.

“That doesn’t matter. Amity what is happening?” Luz asked the witch.

“One moment students are demonstrating their magic the next inspector Nil shapeshifts into a basilisk and starts draining everyone’s magic, including mine but somehow I’m mostly fine.” Amity revealed.

“How is a basilisk even alive? They’re supposed to be extinct! And how are you okay?Even someone with BSF would be unconscious.” Viney questioned.

“I don’t know. Oh yeah, Luz I was able to snatch your Pokemon from Bump’s unconscious body.” Amity said as she gave the human back her Pokeballs, as Luz came to a realization.

“Wait! Nil, like Vee’s mother.” Luz realized.

“Who’s Vee? What are we missing?” Viney asked, extremely confused.

“To make a long story short, the emperor’s coven brought basilisk back and we have to stop this one but we can’t kill her because she’s the biological mom of my adopted sister.” Luz explained to the three troublemakers.

“Okay? But if Bumo catches us mixing magic again…” Jerbo begins.

“He’d kick us out of school.” Viney finished.

“So if we don’t do anything there might not be a school to get kicked out off, so what if you’re troublemakers, let’s make some trouble.” Luz encouraged.

The three look between each other before Viney tells her, “Okay we’re in. What’s the plan?

“That depends, Amity do you have your Pokemon?” She asked, Amity answering by bringing out her Pokeballs.

———one explanation later———

Luz stands where Barcus said Nil should be, the second Nil slithers by Luz places an ice glyph under her, causing the basilisk to be thrown back, Luz can sense what feels like a typhoon of rage and confusion from her.

“Nil please stop!” Luz begged the basilisk, who started smelling the air in her direction.

“There is an energy from your soul that is different from magic, stronger.” Nil tells the human, as she immediately lunges at her beginning to chase.

As Luz runs down the hall she calls to Viney, “Viney do your thing!”

A griffin immediately lunges at Nil pinning her to the ground, as Jerbo uses vine to fully hold her down.

“Let me go!” The basilisk yells at them, as she struggles to get out.

“No! Listen to us and stop!” Luz tells her as she approaches Nil.

“They deserve it! For what they did to me!” Nil rationalized.

“They aren’t here, these are children.” Luz told the basilisk.

“Still! Someone must be punished!” Nil claimed out of rage as she struggles even more.

Out of frustration Luz slams her hands on Nil’s hand to try to hold her down, a blue wave going over her calming her down. “Then do you want Vee to be punished for what you did!?” Luz questioned.

“Vee? Do you mean…?”

“Yes Number Five, your daughter, she’s safe in my world. Please stop for her.” Luz begged, appealing to the basilisk’s motherly side.

“Fine! What do you want?” The basilisk asked, no longer struggling.

“Return everyone’s magic and stop hurting others, in return we’ll help protect you from the emperor’s coven. Do we have a deal?” Luz told Nil.

“Okay.” Nil agreed.

“Good. Amity!” Luz called out, an Abra appearing and teleporting them to an abandoned classroom.

“This classroom hasn’t been used in years so you can stay here for the time being.” Viney told her as they left the room, Nil releasing everyone’s.

Using the room of shortcuts they go into the auditorium to lie to Principal Bump.

“Ugh, what happened?” Bump asked as he got up.

“We were able to scare away the basilisk after we made it throw up everyone’s magic.” Luz lied to Bump, who got an angry expression upon seeing them.

“What are you doing out of detention!? Do you have your Pokemon!? Mixing magic!? And is that a secret hideout!?” Bump asked extremely angry.

“Yeah so. Think why they even would need one?” Luz told him.

“I don’t care to know the ins and outs of rascality. But if the emperor’s coven sends an actual inspector so we can get a grant…” Bump began before being interrupted.

“Are you fucking serious! They clearly is no grant from the emperor’s coven! You were tricked by the basilisk! Do you even care about your students learning or do you just want money!?” Luz snapped.

“And about the Pokemon thing! I heard rumors that you made a deal with her dad to let her keep her Pokemon! Just wait for Ash to hear that you punished his daughter for having Pokemon, going against your deal! He’ll probably burn this place to the ground!” Amity threatened.

“Okay fine, it’s clear I made a mistake, so you can keep your Pokemon, and you can choose whatever tracks you want to study.” Bump decides.

“Beast keeping and healing.” Viney tells him.

“Plants and abominations.” Jerbo answers.

“Bark!” Barcus barks, probably translating to potions and oracle.

“Actually can I study multiple tracks as well?” Amity asks.

“Sure, what do you want to study?” Bump concedes.

“Beast keeping and bard.” Amity tells him.

“You’re not studying abominations?” Bump asks.

“Yeah I think I’m done with it.” Amity tells him as everyone’s sleeves change to match their new tracks.

“How about you human.” He asks as he turns to look at Luz.

“It’s Luz. But I’m not sure I still want to study a bit of everything.” Luz said as suddenly in a flash of light her sleeves match the colors of all 8 tracks.

“There you go, I added a bit of flash so your dad won’t kill me. You know only one person wanted to study all 8 tracks before.” Bump said as he summoned the portrait covered in graffiti, the graffiti disappearing revealing…

“Eda!” Luz said in surprise.

“Wait you know Lord Calamity?” Voney asks as she turns to Luz surprised, Luz answering by nodding yes. “You must introduce us to her.” Viney begged.

“All of you should leave, since school is going to be out for the rest of the day.” Bump told them, causing the students to leave the auditorium.

“Amity you do know my dad would never burn a school to the ground right?” Luz asks her friend as they leave.

“Bump doesn’t know that.” Amity says with a smirk.

As they leave Luz is left to question what Nil meant by energy, and what that weird blue wave was.

———the next day———

Luz was in the room of shortcuts and was FaceTimeing her dad.

“Hey Luz. Aren’t you at school?” Ash asked.

“Don’t worry it’s lunchtime. Anyways can you put Vee on the phone?” Luz asks.

“Uh sure. Vee Luz wants to talk to you!” Ash calls out, Vee soon taking the phone.

“Oh hi Luz, we’re almost finished with the adoption process. What is it?” Vee asks.

“There’s someone I think you want to see.” Luz says as she opens the door revealing someone Vee hasn’t seen in a while.

“Nil!” Vee exclaims in surprise.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Amity is no longer in abominations, Nil lives, and we learn about the previous golden guard.

Chapter 42: Return of the Girafarig: part 1

Summary:

School gets canceled due to Pokemon sightings.

Luz was currently speaking with her friends on a crystal ball, showing them a human magic trick.

“Luz you’ve been talking to them all morning.” King complained as she crawled up to her on the table. “Don’t forget about the Luz and King comedy hour.” King reminded.

“This week I’m working with props.” King told her as he turned around momentarily. “Oh, dear. I’ve gotten a tube stuck on my nose. Will I ever eat again?” King then puts his head through a piece of bread. “Looks like I’m toast.” He jokes.

“Hey you dough boy. Quite loafing around.” Luz jokes back.

“Why don’t you bake me?” King jokes again.

“What is with you two’s obsession with bread puns?” Eda questioned from the pot she was stirring.

“Because they’re funny.” King defended, then the crystal ball’s alarm activated.

“School time! I’ll see you guys in class.” Luz says as she grabs her bag.

“Wait!” Amity tells her while looking at her scroll, “Apparently due to the basilisk attack, a pixie infestation, and Pokemon sightings at the right shoulder school is canceled.”

Amity’s grandfather who was walking behind her immediately perked up when he heard the last part. “I want you three to immediately get here! Don’t worry you will be paid!” He tells them before hanging up for Amity.

“Should we go?” Gus asked Luz and Willow.

“I got nothing better to do.” Willow said shrugging her shoulders.

“Oh, can I come?” King eagerly asked.

“Can he Eda?” Luz asked her mentor.

“Fine. But you two better stay safe.” Eda tells the two.

They immediately hang up the crystal ball and head out, leaving Eda just stirring the pot.

“MAILTIME!” Hooty says as she burst into the kitchen, beginning to gag something up.

———???———

“You summoned me uncle?” Hunter asked as he entered the emperor’s throne room.

“Yes Hunter I require you for a mission.” Belos told him.

“What is it?” The Golden Guard asks.

“There have been mass reports of Pokemon around the right shoulder. I want you to go and promptly put these disgusting fiendish beasts down.” He instructs his nephew.

“May I know why head coveness Lilith wasn’t sent?” He asks, not making eye contact with his uncle.

“Today is unfortunately her day off for the year, and besides you must make up for freeing the basilisks.” He tells Hunter.

“In my defense uncle their treatment was-“ Hunter argued before being stopped by his uncle slapping him across his face.

“Shut your mouth boy! It was the Titans will to do that to them, and now it’s your fault that witches and demons will be tortured.” Belos tells him, Hunter not seeing the sadistic smirk on his face behind his mask.

“Yes uncle, sorry I spoke out of line.” Hunter apologizes, quickly bowing before leaving, not noticing the shadow that appears once he leaves.

———the BATTs———

“Why did you call us here?” Derwin asked as they meet up at their secret hideout.

“Shut up Derwin! Raine will begin the explanation.” Silver says as he mentions to the bard.

“There have been mass reports about Pokemon sighted at the right shoulder, which are true, schools have already been shut down accordingly.” Raine explained.

“From the descriptions Raine provided me it seems to be a species of Pokemon called Girafarig, a psychic/normal, the herd is most likely led by a Farigiraf, their final form.” Silver finished.

“So what are we supposed to do?” Katya asks.

“The emperor’s coven is likely going to send someone to deal with them, we are going to protect them and try to move them to the Shin Forest.” Silver explained.

“Why didn’t you tell her to shut-“ Derwin questioned before-

“Shut up Derwin!” Silver yells, interrupting both Derwin and me the author.

“Anyway, let’s go.” Raine tells them as they get their masks back on, Derwin still questioning what’s Silver’s problem with him.

“I’ve always wanted to pet a Girafarig.” Amber says as they head out.

“Do we have an actual-“ Derwi-

“SHUT UP DERWIN!” Silver yells, interrupting both us before I could finish the sentence.

As they leave they don’t notice the figure who’s watching from a distance.

———back with the hexsquad at Amity’s———

The four teenagers were sitting in chairs that Monty got out for them, King was on Luz’s lap.

“Hello friends of my granddaughter, and small demon. You must be wondering why I called you here?” Montgomery asked.

“Yeah why are we here?” Willow asked confused.

“Now as you all are aware of is that I watch over Pokemon who end up in the Boiling Isles by bringing them to the Shin Forest.” He established.

“Oh, that’s why there’s Pokemon in the forest.” Gus said in realization.

“Correct. Now I need all of you to do me a favor and bring the sighted Pokemon to the forest here.” He told them as he set out some small sacs, “Here is your payment upfront, you’ll get the rest when they’re brought here.”

“Aren’t we a little young for this?” Gus asked concerned.

“What? No! When I was your age I learned how to fly a plane.” Monty argued.

“What’s a plane?” Willow questioned.

“Let’s just go.” Amity told the others as they took the some bags of snails and headed out.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Fun fact: I originally planned for this to be the start of the first arc in the Pokemon world but I decided to move it to be earlier.

Chapter 43: Return of the Girafarig: part 2

Summary:

Luz and her friends go help the Girafarigs.

The Hexsquad had started to make their way to the location that the Pokemon sightings were located at.

“So what was with the pixie infection I was told about?” Luz asked.

“From what I heard Boscha brought her pet pixies to school and they got out.” Willow explained.

“Oh, Boscha actually did something useful for once.” Luz joked, her friends snickering a bit at it.

“Anyways, Amity what’s with the new teeth?” The human asks Amity, gesturing towards the newly appeared front teeth Amity suddenly has.

“Oh these.” Amity says pointing at her teeth. “They’re fake teeth I got from the healers, I can actually take them out.” Amity tells her, demonstrating by using her tongue to push them out of place.

“Cool!” Luz exclaims, causing Amity to blush a bit as she pushes her teeth back to place, meanwhile Willow and Gus look with subtle expressions of disgust.

As they continue walking something runs in front of them.

“Girafa!” It cry’s out pleadingly.

“So the Pokemon are Girafarigs.” Luz realizes as Willow freaks out and falls over, while Gus stares at it majestically.

“What is Gus doing?” Amity questioned as Gus began to approach the Pokemon.

“Gus has always been interested in interacting with a Girafarig to say the least.” Willow explained as Luz helped her back up.

“So beautiful.” Gus said under his breath as he went to pet the Girafarig, before its second head on its tail immediately went to bite at Gus, Willow, Luz, and Amity having to pull him away from the Pokemon.

“Forgot there was a reason they were banished for second.” Gus said in reaction to the Pokemon.

“I thought there was an entire herd of Pokemon based on the sightings, but here’s only one?” Amity questioned as the Girafarig started gesturing its head in a direction.

“Are your friends that way? Are they in trouble?” Luz asked, sensing the panic coming from the Pokemon.

The Girafarig immediately started nodding its head and began to move towards a direction into the forest, the second head staring at the witches threateningly.

“Do we just follow it?” Willow asked unsure about following the Pokemon.

“We can’t just not help them.” Luz tells Willow as she, Amity, and Gus begin to follow the Pokemon into the forest.

“Overruled by, I feel like there’s a word for what I was overruled by but I don’t know.” Willow sighed as she followed the others.

They follow the Pokemon until it stops, hiding behind some shrubbery.

“What’s wrong?” Luz asks as they catch up with the Pokemon and see why it stopped.

In front of them were multiple Girafarigs fenced up, a man wearing a white cloak and gold mask next to an airship nearby.

“Who’s that?” Luz asked, her and her friends hiding behind the shrubbery as well.

“It looks like a Golden Guard.” Willow noticed.

“I thought the Golden Guard was assassinated?” Luz questioned.

“The Golden Guard is a position, the last one was assassinated, but this must be the new one.” Amity explained as a coven scout approached the Golden Guard.

“Mr. Golden Guard sir are you sure we have to put them all down? It seems a little cruel.” The scout asked him hesitantly.

“Sorry Steve but it’s the Titan’s will. You understand that right?” The Golden Guard told him.

“Yeah. Just tell me how many are left so we can get this over with?” He asked.

“There seems, according to the reports, one remaining.” He told the scout after checking a clipboard, the scout walking away to continue looking.

“Oh no. They’re going to kill them.” Luz exclaims, quietly to grab their attention, as she sneaks out of the shrubbery and goes to the fence.

“Luz what are doing?” Willow asked panicked.

“What does it look like? I’m trying to free them.” Luz told her as she started to try to break the fence, some of the Girafarigs begin to go towards curious, but to her detriment.

“Huh? Wait, Golden Guard sir someone’s trying to break the Pokemon free!” The scout called out, noticing Luz due to the Girafarigs surrounding her.

“What!? Someone go capture her!” The guard yells as they begin to chase her.

“Oh no!” Luz exclaims as she and her friends run away with the Girafarig.

“Maybe you should’ve better thought your plan through!” Amity pointed out as they ran.

“You’re probably right! Gus can you use illusions to make us invisible?” Luz asked.

“Uh probably we just have to stay still.” Gus told them, as they stopped running, letting Gus create a spell circle making them invisible.

The Golden Guard and scout reach them and start looking around.

“Don’t stop looking! One of them might be an illusionist!” The Golden Guard told the scout.

“Gus keep the illusion up.” Luz whispered to Gus as his illusion started to flicker.

“I’m sorry but I don’t think I can for much longer.” Gus told her as the illusion fell apart, causing them to become visible again.

“There they are! Get them and the Pokemon!” The Golden Guard told the scout, who immediately approached them.

“You’re not getting the Girafarig!” Luz yells as she punches the scout in the gut, giving the Girafarig the opportunity to escape.

The Golden Guard uses his staff to tie up Luz and her friends, telling them, “You four aren’t going anywhere.”

———later———

The Golden Guard had brought them to the airship and had locked them up and took their Pokeballs away.

“Okay, did you have to punch Steve?” The Golden Guard questioned, with Luz answering by sticking her tongue at him. “Whatever! I feel nice, so how about this you tell me where these Pokemon came from, and I’ll let all of you go free.” He offered.

“Never!” Amity countered.

“Fine be that way. But after we’re done with the Pokemon we’re going to drop you four off at the conformaturium.” He tells them as he leaves the room the teens are being held.

“His voice sounds annoyingly familiar.” Luz said as he left.

Amity, seeing he was gone, tried grabbing their Pokeballs through the bars to no luck.

“Hey Willow you mind trying to create some vines to help out over here?” Amity asked the plant witch.

“Fine.” Willow said as she created a spell circle making some small vines, until the door opening.

“Oh no he’s back!” Gus exclaimed, causing Willow to stop the spell.

When the door opens standing there instead of the Golden Guard is Silver, Katya, some guy wearing a cloak and the same mask Amber was wearing a while ago.

“Silver!” Luz exclaims.

“What is the bard track’s assistant teacher doing here?” Amity questioned.

“I heard you four were caught by the Golden Guard and decided to break you out.” Silver explained as he grabbed the key on the table that their Pokeballs were on and unlocked the cage they were in.

“So this is the other human Luz told me about.” Amity realized.

“I’m guessing you’re here to help the Girafarigs.” Luz guessed as she and friends walked out of the cage.

“Yup.” Silver told them as Katya handed them back their Pokeballs.

“So what are you going to do?” Amity asked.

“We’re-“ The cloaked individual began.

“Shut up Derwin!” Silver yelled at him before explaining, “We’re going to distract the Golden Guard while the others free the Girafarigs.”

They exited the airship hiding from the Golden Guard and scout, Silver and Katya putting back on their masks and cloaks, Luz and her friends noticing two others wearing masks approached the fence.

Then Silver, Katya, and from what they could tell Derwin, sent out a Gengar, Appletun, and Bronzong out respectively, even Luz joined in sending out Zubat.

“Urania use metal sound!” Derwin yelled, causing the members of the emperor’s coven to notice them, but it’s too late as they clutch their ears from the ear piercing noise produced by Bronzong.

“Spectra use confuse ray on them!” Silver commands his Gengar, who sends a wavelength at them causing them to lose balance.

The Golden Gaurd grabs his staff trying to perform a spell, but not before Luz interrupts him. “Zubat use air cutter!” The blades of wind causes him to let go of his staff, stopping the spell.

Then Katya has Appletun use seed bomb to tie them down, Willow joining in with a plant spell to help, as the other two individuals free the Girafarigs from the fence.

“I think you know we’re going.” Silver said as he and the others ran with the Girafarigs to the Shin Forest.

“We probably shouldn’t follow them just in case he gets out.” Luz suggested as they turned around to see the Golden Guard trying to get out of the vines tying him and the scout down.

“Yeah. Abra I choose you! Use teleport!” Amity told the psychic type, causing them to vanish.

“Titan damnit! We’re dead when we get back.” The Golden Guard said as he gave up trying to break free.

“Huh!? What did you say!? Steve thinks he has gone deaf in one ear!” The scout loudly shouted out.

Meanwhile back with the hexsquad. They were teleported to the entrance of the Shin Forest, Amity returned Abra as they waited for the Girafarigs to get there.

As they waited an extremely happy Girafarig ran up to them.

“Oh, I think it’s the Girafarig from earlier.” Luz pointed out as the Pokemon brushed up to Gus.

“Aw, he likes me. Can I keep him?” Gus asked them.

“Uh, sure. You also don’t have to ask us.” Luz said as she handed him a pokeball to catch Girafarig in, which he did.

———later with the BATTs———

“I wish we were paid like those kids.” Derwin complained as they entered their secret base.

“Shut up Derwin!” Silver yelled at him as a new voice made their presence known.

“Yes Derwin it is best if you stop speaking.” A male witch covered head to toe in orange who was smelling what looked to be a rose said.

“I’m sorry but who in the distortion are you!?” Silver questioned as he saw the man at the table, who was getting up.

“Hello. Hola. Bonjour. Ciao. Guten tag. Namaste. Konnichiwa. Hallo.” The man read out of a book that was labeled “languages”. “Sorry for the intrusion, you fine folks, I noticed the door was unlocked and let myself in, once again sorry about that.” The man apologized theatrical.

“We don’t even have a door.” Amber pointed out.

“Yes, I noticed that as well, you should really do something about that, otherwise people will keep walking in like I did.” The man told them.

“Okay. Get to the point! Who are you and what do you want!?” Silver yelled.

“No need to yell. For everyone present may I introduce myself as Uno!” He introduced himself, like he was in a play or something. “And I would love to join your little orchestra of rebellion here.” He revealed.

“Why?” Raine questioned.

“I have a bone to pick or two with those antagonists referred to as the Emperor’s Coven.” Uno told them, the rose he was holding morphing back into his hand.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Roughly 5-6 chapters left for season one.
Edit: realized I forgot that King was with them so for the sake of the sake of continuity we’ll say they dropped King back off with Eda and they went to the carnival and promptly killed Tibbles.

Chapter 44: Grom Night Fright: part 1

Summary:

The start of Grom.

“Something’s different today. Did everyone get haircuts?” Luz jokingly asked as she, Gus, and Willow walked through the decorated halls of Hexside.

“Oh yeah! You’re new here, so this is your first time at the social event of the year.” Willow realized.

“Luz we welcome you to Grom!” Gus said theatrical, as someone passed by on a gurney to that Skara girl.

“Cool, you have your own weird version of Prom.” Luz exclaims exited. “I was kicked out of my school’s dance since I dressed up as a Goodra. Maybe here I can be your Grom Queen.” Luz said as she struck a pose.

“That’s not something you would want to be.” Willow seriously tells Luz.

“Hey Luz!” Amity said as she approached them, preventing Luz from questioning what Willow said, carrying a note in her hands.

“Oh hey Amity.” Luz says.

Amity begins to hold out the note, before taking it back, and repeating the sequence, Luz sensing Amity being conflicted to give it.

“Luz-“ Amity began before immediately being interrupted by the school intercom.

“Hello Hexside! I am glad to declare this year’s Grom Queen as Luz Noceda-Ketchum!” Principal Bump announced over the intercom’s, causing everyone nearby to look at Luz, some with pity, others laughing at her.

“Yes! You are looking at your new Grom Queen! Give me five Gus!” Luz celebrates as she holds out her hand, Willow stopping Gus from high-fiving.

“Luz you don’t understand what that means do you?” Amity asked extremely worried.

“What’s the problem?” Luz asked confused.

“Follow me.” Amity solemnly tells Luz, beginning to lead her somewhere.

Soon Luz finds herself and Amity in what seems to be a gymnasium.

“Woah.” Luz exclaims as she looks around at the decorations that were being set up, including a demon being used as a disco ball.

“I can’t wait to take awkward photos and get overdressed.” Luz says excited.

“Luz you still don’t know what’s the problem. Press the button.” Amity tells her, alluding to a button that was a bit away.

“Oh! Don’t mind if I do.” She says as she presses the button, causing the floor to open up and a weapons display to appear, she could sense something that felt like physical misery down there. “Oh, medieval torture, definitely would not be my first pick for a theme but overall isn’t that bad.” Luz jokes.

“This isn’t for fun Luz. Down there in that arena is where you’ll make your debut as Grom Queen.” Amity told her.

“Yeah. So, what’s the problem?” Luz questioned.

“Down there you’ll have to fight Grom, short for Grometheus the fear bringer. It’s a monster that lives under the school. Every year it tries to break out and a student has to defeat to prevent it from escaping and invading the town. Bump for some inane reason decides to throw a party and call it tradition.” Amity explained, “The worst thing is that Grom can read minds and turn into your worst fear.”

“Okay, just some fear creature. Shouldn’t be that much of a problem.” Luz shrugged.

“Luz take this seriously! If it gets out everyone is going to live out their worst nightmare! You should just give the title to me.” Amity plead.

“No Amity this is my fight, and besides I’m a big girl now, it’s about time I conquer my fear of human souls trapped within the bodies of Puruglys, and MILK.” Luz answered.

“What?” Amity said, rubbing her forehead as she noticed the principal nearby. “Mr. Bump!” Amity called out, grabbing the educator’s attention.

“Yes Ms. Bli-Jones?” Bump asked, quickly correcting Amity’s last name.

“Why is Luz Grom Queen?” Amity questioned, kinda insulting Luz.

“The Parent Creature Association decided it would be best to risk the life of the human and not an actual witch, their words not mine.” Bump told them, adding the last part so Ash wouldn’t kill him.

“Can’t I just switch with Luz.” Amity asked.

“That depends. Luz do you want Amity to take other as Grom Queen for you?” He asked the human.

“Nah, I’m good.” She answers.

“Well that settles it Luz will be Grom Queen. Hope you two have a good day.” He tells them as he walks away.

“I totally got this.” Luz arrogantly says as she looks off into the distance.

“Oh Arceus.” Amity says as she rubs her forehead out of frustration, questioning why she liked the girl in front of her, blushing as she looks at Luz, the human being none the wiser.

———later———

“Amity we’re not switching.” Luz tells the teen witch as they enter the Owl House, Eda is trying on a suit, the portal door up.

“Hey Eda. What are you doing?” Luz asked her mentor and definitely not mother figure.

“Old Princy B asked me to chaperone along with someone else.” Eda told the human.

“Oh who?” Luz asked.

Eda responds by opening the door letting a certain human pop out. ‘Me!” Ash says as he exits the portal. “And her.” He says as he moves to the side revealing Anabel. “She just walked up to me a hour ago and said she would like to join me in the demon realm. I don’t even know how she knows any of these.”

“Hi Anabel!” Amity cheerfully says, Anabel waving in return to her.

“Nevermind that’s how.” Ash says, not surprised in the slightest. “Anyways before you ask your sister is back in Pallet Town, your grandmother wanted to know how to properly spoil her new granddaughter, though she is happy to hear about her mother.” Ash told Luz.

“I was quite surprised when I heard about the basilisk you’re hiding in the school.” Eda said.

“How did you find out?” Amity questioned.

———flashback———

“How was your first day at dumb-school kid?” Eda asked as she shuffled through the fridge, grabbing out an entire jug of apple blood.

“We’re now protecting a basilisk who broke into the school to drain witches magic for revenge, by keeping her in the school after appealing to her motherly side and making her give back the magic! She is also Vee’s mother!” Luz word dumped.

After hearing all that instead of pouring a cup of apple blood like she planned she just started chugging straight from the jug, not even noticing Luz’s uniform and its multiple colors.

———flashback over———

They just stared at Luz for second.

“Anyways, I was given a run down on what’s going down. So who’s fighting this thing?” Ash asked.

“Yeah. Who’s the victim?” Eda asked as well.

“Me!” Luz reveals, causing Eda’s expression immediately changes to one of horror.

“Oh no! You are not ready to fight Grom! You have to switch with someone!” Eda told her.

“I tried Eda, she’s determined to fight Grom.” Amity told her.

“Oh come on. Ash you have to make your daughter switch.” Eda told the Pokemon champion.

“What? It’s only some kinda of fear creature, she’s 14 she can handle it.” Ash said.

“Thanks dad.” Luz said as she quickly hugged him and went upstairs.

“What?” Ash questioned when he saw Eda staring at him.

“What do you mean she can handle it, because she certainly can’t?” Eda asked, extremely concerned.

“Oh come on, Luz is 14 and it only can turn into your fears.” Ash shrugged off.

“Ash it doesn’t only do that. It reads your mind and turns into your nightmares, regrets, everything.” She explained to him.

Ash had a concerned look for a second. “Eda I’m sure Luz can handle this, and besides we’ll be there to jump in just in case things go wrong.” He reassured her.

“Yeah, it’s just that I know there’s more to it for her than just some things that creep her out.” Eda told him.

“We’re going to go.” Anabel said as she and Amity started to leave.

“Where are you going to stay?” Ash questioned.

“I already asked my grandpa for permission to let her stay with us.” Amity explained as she and the salon maiden left.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Chapter 45: Grom Night Fright: part 2

Summary:

Luz trains to fight Grom.

Monty was sitting in his rocking chair when he saw his granddaughter and, what he thought at first glance was a man, approach them.

“Hello Mr. Jones.” The what might actually be a woman said as she walked up to him reaching for his hand.

“Nice to meet you miss…?” Monty inquired as he shook her hand.

“Oh I’m Anabel Jones. Yes we have the same last name.” The woman introduces herself, causing Monty to freeze as he looks over the woman and notices some similarities to Jeremiah, the hair, the nose, the round ears!

“Uhm sir are you okay?” Anabel asks as she notices a tear rolling down from his eyes.

“Oh yes miss, just have something in my eye.” He claimed, Anabel confused by the feelings of familiarity he gets from her as she and Amity go inside.

“It seems you did well for yourself Jeremiah.” Monty says as he sits back down.

———the next day———

“LUZ YOU HAVE A GUEST.” Hooty said as he popped into Luz’s room, who was looking at clothes.

“Hey Amity!” Luz said as Amity entered and Hooty left.

“I’m this close to killing that bird tube. Anyways ready to start training?” Amity asked.

“Sure but first what should I wear to Grom? This says I’m a witch with a dark side, and this says I’m an Oshawott with a dark side.” Luz says as she holds up her newly obtained fursuit.

“Luz! Please take this seriously.” Amity begged.

“Okay, let’s go outside.” Luz said as Amity brought her outside.

Outside with them was also Anabel, as well as Ed and Em.

“Wait! What are they doing here!?” Luz asked pointing at the twins.

“They were insistent on helping out, and their illusion magic will be useful in getting you ready, so, despite what I’ll normally recommend, tell them what you are afraid of.” Amity instructed Luz.

“I’ve made a list to prepare.” Luz said as she handed a paper listed with her fears, the twins look at it before creating spell circles.

First a giant phone with a picture of a weird man, “AAH! Jerks online who want to debate!”

Then a Purugly with a human face, “Luz, help me, help.” It pleads.

“AHH! Human souls trapped in Puruglys!” She exclaims.

And finally a glass appears in her hand as milk is poured into it.

“No! Not Milk! I’m lactose intolerant!” She cry’s.

Amity looks towards Anabel, who has an expression that says “there’s more to it”.

“Not enough. Luz what are you truly afraid of!?” She asks the human.

“I’m afraid, I’m afraid that Eda doesn’t respect me as her apprentice.” Luz claims, Anabel getting an expression of disbelief that the twins don’t notice as they put their fingers together creating a giant spell circle.

Suddenly an illusion of a giant Eda appears and starts mocking her. “Look here a pathetic little human who thinks she can be a witch, but at best she uses slips of paper that steal magic from the Titan, and even the you rely on worthless Pokemon more often than not! I only keep you around to be with your father! You ruin everything just by being alive!” The illusion tells her, most of it doesn’t affect, but that last part causes her to start crying, making Anabel’s eyes widen in realization.

Before the illusion could continue berating Luz, someone interrupts the training.

“What is going on!?” Eda yells as she comes outside, immediately confused by the presence of a giant.

“We’re training for Grom Eda.” Luz tells her, wiping her tears away.

“Okay kid, please switch with someone.” Eda begged the girl, extremely concerned.

“Eda no! I can handle this.” Luz claimed as the illusion disappeared.

“Well Luz you’re ready.” Amity told her.

“Really!?” Luz exclaimed.

“Well actually no, but we’re out of time so this will have to do. Me and Anabel will see you later tonight.” Amity said, with a small blush, as she and Anabel left.

“What’s going on?” Ash questioned as he peered his out, trying to put a bow tie on.

“Luz still refuses to switch her position of Grom queen with someone.” Eda told him.

“Don’t worry I’m sure Luz can handle it.” Ash reassures her.

“Let’s hope you’re right.” Eda said under her breath as she watched Luz wipe away the rest of her tears.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Twist: this is going to be a three parter.

Chapter 46: Grom Night Fright: part 3

Summary:

Time for Luz to fight Grom.

“So why are we gracing this establishment that is a failure of education with our presence?” Uno asked as he and the other BATTs hiding on the roof of Hexside, looking in through a window.

“We’re being crowd control if what’s going to happen goes wrong. There is an entity that lives in the bottom of the school, once a year a student is sent to fight said creature, but the issue is that it can turn into their worst nightmare, I remember getting bullied after everyone found out about my fears, didn’t help when she left.” Raine explained, saying the last part under their breath.

“Oh who’s she?” Amber asked, hearing that last part.

“Probably a former lover.” Katya teased, making Raine blush a bit.

“It’s shapeshifter’s like them that tarnishes the name of my race, the basilisk, and prevent women from being smitten by my charm.” Uno says, over dramatically.

“Didn’t your mother go on a rampage and attack multiple schools.” Derwin pointed out.

“Let’s see you get raped and tortured for decades and not go insane.” Uno defended, cutting out his weird theatrical talk momentarily.

“Also you don’t even tell women you are a basilisk.” Derwin pointed out again.

“It doesn’t have to be spoken they can see it in my beautiful majestic eyes that am I basilisk, either that or you tell them to ruin my chances.” Uno continues, talking normally during the last part.

“Boo Derwin! Why are you ruining his love life!?” Amber asks accusatory, while Katya stares at him with a look of disappointment, meanwhile Derwin has a face of pure confusion.

“Shut up Derwin! You’re distracting me from watching everyone inside. It seems my denser than osmium cousin is here with his new girlfriend the Owl Lady.” Silver says as he watches everyone inside through the window, what he said catching the attention of their co-leader.

“They’re what!?” Raine yells as they try to get a look inside through the window.

“I think we know who she is.” Katya says to Amber while they see the display that Raine is doing.

“Dear Katya aren’t thou supposed to assist inside as a member of staff.” Uno points out as he inspects a rose that is just a shifted part of his body.

Katya eyes immediately widen in realization. “Oh shit!” She exclaims as she gets off the roof and runs inside.

———inside———

“So this is what a school dance looks like.” Ash said as he looked around the modified gymnasium with Eda.

“You’ve never been to one?” Eda asked.

“No, I stopped going to school when I was 10 and when I did go back it wasn’t for that long and I was still 10, the school dances were for older students who stayed in school.” Ash explained to Eda.

“Seriously why does your world let children leave at 10 years old?” Eda questioned.

“It’s just a part of our world. And besides don’t act like your government has an obsession with branding children.” Ash pointed out.

“Hey! I don’t agree with them, you have no problem with yours.” Eda countered as the school’s principal approached.

“Hello again Mr. Ketchum and Ms. Clawthorne interesting to see you dye your hair Edalyn.” Bump complimented.

“Cut the formalities Bump I know you’re sucking up to us since Luz is Grom Queen.” Eda bluntly told him.

“Hello again Mr. Bump. I must ask why a student is in charge of fighting Grom and not a proper adult?” Ash asked, genuinely curious, as he shook his hand, getting a bad feeling the second he gets a glimpse of the principal’s coven sigil.

“Well we figured it would be better for a student to fight Grom since they’re more likely to be afraid of physical things like clowns or spiders, for adults it would be hard to fight something like death or missing rent.” Bump explained to him.

“Makes sense.” Ash says as Bump walks away.

“Are you doing okay?” Ash asks Eda, sensing feelings of worry from her.

“Ofcourse I’m not doing, I’m going to have to save Luz from a nightmare creature.” Eda tells Ash.

“Eda don’t worry Luz can handle this. And if she can’t we’ll be there to help out.” Ash comforts his lover.

“You do know you’ll have to face your fears as well if that happens.” Eda pointed out to him.

“I don’t have much when it comes to fear, honestly Grom will be scared of me and kill itself if it reads my mind.” Ash jokes.

“Oh, really?” Eda says, skeptical.

“Yeah. How about you anything you afraid of?” Ash asks.

Eda goes silent as she looks to where King is with Gus.

“You’re afraid of losing Luz and King.” Ash guesses accurately.

“Yeah. Along with other things.” Eda says as she instinctually moves her hand to her left eye, shedding a tear as she remembers what she did.

“Don’t have to be able to feel others emotions to tell that. It’ll be okay.” Ash said as he pats Eda on the back, trying to comfort her.

“Talking about others emotions without me?” They hear Anabel say from behind them.

“Hello Anabel. Where’s Amity?” Ash asked when he and Eda turned around, noticing the lack of the presence of the teen witch.

“She wanted to speak with Luz and give her surprise before she fights Grom.” Anabel tells them.

“She’s either trying to convince Luz to not fight Grom, or she’s confessing to her.” Eda guessed.

“Confess what?” Ash asked confused, Eda and Anabel immediately palmed their heads in frustration.

———with Luz———

Luz was preparing herself to fight Grom when she heard Amity call out, “Luz!”

Luz turned around and was amazed by the sight of Amity, she was not only wearing a beautiful dress and a new necklace with a crescent moon on it but her hair was different, she now had a pixie cut, and her hair was dyed lavender.

“You like it? I decided it was time to change it and Anabel helped out.” Amity asked the human.

“It’s beautiful.” Luz says blushing for once, causing Amity to blush in return.

“Thanks. So I’m guessing you’re still going to fight Grom?” Amity asks.

“Amity I’m going to fight Grom no matter what.” Luz tells her, as Katya for some reason runs past them into the gymnasium.

“Fine. But before you go and fight Grom I want you to read this.” Amity tells her madly blushing as she hands Luz the note from yesterday.

Luz takes the note and reads it, “Luz, will you go to Grom with me? -Amity.”

Luz looks up, blushing, to see Amity also blushing up a storm. “Luz I have been having feelings for you for a bit, and if this goes well maybe we can dress up and travel together?!” Amity asks.

“Huh?” Luz exclaims, extraordinarily confused.

“Oh sorry. Don’t know why I thought you would know what that means. “Dress up and travel together” is an old way of, what I’m saying is would you like to go out with me sometime!?” Amity asked causing Luz to blush further, not as much as Amity but still.

“Woah. Uh-uh, sure, ofcourse.” Luz answered as she blushed, making Amity smile from her answer.

“Now introducing your Grom Queen! You know her! You love her! You at least heard of her. Luz the human!” Gus announces from inside the gymnasium.

“Guess it’s time for you to fight Grom. Good luck.” Amity said as they entered the gymnasium, with a spotlight on them, and departed, not without Amity giving Luz a kiss on the cheek for good luck.

“So it was a confession.” Eda said in the stands.

“Oh you meant that kind of confession.” Ash realized, sitting right next to Eda, as Amity started to make her way towards Anabel who was sitting in front of Ash and Eda.

“How can someone who read emotions have such a hard time understanding love, especially with how you are in bed?” Eda questions, Ash answering with a shrug as Amity sat down next to Anabel.

Gus presses the button, making the floor open up revealing the arena, and the weapons pop up for Luz to choose.

“I wonder if I could get something like that at my house?” Ash wonders from the stands.

Luz takes a flail and places a ice glyph on it. As she starts to go to the arena her Pokeballs, with the exception of Sandaconda’s, shake.

“No this my battle.” Luz tells her Pokemon as she goes into the arena. “Show yourself Grom, you don’t scare me!” She called out, causing sludges of darkness to appear from the ground and take shape.

“Please Luz help us!” The newly formed human souls trapped in the body of a purugly begged, beginning to rush at her faster than a fighter jet.

“Ugh, so creepy!” Luz said as she slammed the flail against the ground, the ice glyph attached to it creating a wall of ice that sends them flying.

“See she’s starting off strong.” Ash tells Eda, who still has an unsure expression on her face.

Back in the arena Grom regroups itself and takes on a new form, looking like a Miltank but made out of milk.

“Ugh!” Luz says in disgust as she quickly dodges the milk Miltank rolling out at her.

Luz quickly grabs a plant glyph and uses to create a vine that grabs onto the milk atrocity. Luz then proceeds to throw it against a wall, destroying the milk Miltank.

Grom removes itself from the wall and takes on another form, becoming a giant rotom-phone with a profile of a weird man on it, and stating shooting bolts of electricity at Luz. Then a message appears on it that says “Azura will never get together with Hecate, and no matter what you say it’s true.”

Luz gets angry as she pulls out an ice glyph. “You’re not coming from a place of intellectual honesty, so debating you would be pointless.” She yells as an ice spike comes out of the glyph destroying the form Grom was taking, but immediately after Grom sends a slimy tentacle out to Luz’s forehead.

“This is when Grom turns into their worst fear.” Eda told Ash, as Grom started to take a form similar to the owl-beast, causing Eda mild embarrassment as people look at her, but it doesn’t last long as Grom changed its shape.

Ash’s eyes widen as Grom changed, the shape being one he only saw once or twice, but is eternally drilled into his mind.

Luz’s eyes widen and she drops the flail she was carrying. “Mami?” Luz asks at the sight of Grom turning into her deceased mother, with pale skin and sunken eyes, an ashamed look on her face.

“You ruin everything.” The fake Camila tells her.

“Wh-wha-what?” Luz stutters.

“You ruined me. Because of you I couldn’t live the life I wanted, it’s all your fault I had to give up my dreams and was left to suffer.” Grom, as Camila, taunts Luz, who had collapsed on the ground and started crying, as Grom slowly approached her.

“No no no no no!” Luz started saying to herself as she backed away from Grom.

“And worst of all after you ruined me you had the gall to replace me with a witch!” The fake Camila accuses the young girl of.

Luz was outright crying at this point as this became too much for her to handle, so Luz just runs away from the fight, Grom taking on a more monstrous form of Camila and gives chase. “I can’t handle it!” She yells as she runs, passing Gus and King who seemed to be having a heart to heart moment.

“Luz!” Eda exclaims as she and Ash get up and goes after them, Amity joining as well.

———on the roof———

“I’m just saying we shouldn’t be called the Bards against the throne. We’re not all bards.” Uno claims.

“Honestly I agree, the name sucks.” Silver agrees.

“Wasn’t your dad’s group called team Rocket? What even is a rocket?” Raine questions.

“How about covens against the thorne.” Derwin offers.

“Wait I thought we were also against covens?” Amber asks.

“Why not rebels against the throne.” Silver suggests.

“We’re not being called RATTs.” Derwin tells him.

“Rat? Like a Raticate?” Silver asks confused.

“What’s a Raticate?!” Derwin questions.

“What’s a rat?!” Silver asks back.

They continue arguing not even noticing what’s going on in the gymnasium.

———back with Luz———

Luz kept on running from Grom, only stopping once she reached a cliff.

“Luz why can’t you face your mother?” The fake Camila mocking asked.

“You’re not my mom!” Luz yelled out.

“How dare you say that!” It taunts.

“Luz!” Amity says as she teleports in with the help of her Abra, returning the Pokemon quickly after, Grom starts running towards them.

“Spicy toss!” Eda yells as she flys down throwing a fire ball at Grom to make more space between Grom and the girls, Ash also jumps off Eda’s staff and gets in front of Grom.

Grom touches Ash, but immediately loses form and backs away from Ash panicked.

“How did you do that?” Amity questioned.

“I have seen some fucked up shit to say the least, no wonder this thing is scared of me, things that could kill this thing fear me. Now Luz listen up!” Ash says, causing Luz to look up at her father.

“Luz you need to stop blaming yourself for what happened to your mother. Yes, what happened to her was tragic, but it wasn’t your fault.” Ash told her.

“She had to give up her dreams because of me, and it doesn’t change the fact I replaced her.” Luz argued.

“You had no control over your birth. Also there is nothing wrong with you viewing Eda as a mother, Professor Kukui and Burnet were like parents to me, and my mom wasn’t a deadbeat like my dad. And I may not of known your mother for that long but I’m sure she would want you to be happy.” Ash tells her, while he makes Grom back away from them.

“You don’t have to do this alone.” Amity tells Luz, holding out her hand for her. Which Luz takes, getting back up ready to fight, Ash goes back to Eda.

“Why did you leave?” Eda questions as Ash prevents her from running to them.

“They can handle this.” Ash confidently says as Grom turns back into the monstrous Camila form.

“Do you have Sprigatito with you?” Luz asked, Amity answering by pulling out her starter’s pokeball.

“Good.” Luz says as she sends out all of her Pokemon, except Sandaconda, and tells them her plan. All their Pokemon surround Grom and begin to attack the creature distracting it from what Luz and Amity are doing.

Amity exerts her bile sac and creates a small abomination that Luz places a plant glyph on. They send the abomination towards Grom’s second mouth, Luz throwing more plant glyphs into the air that Zubat’s air cutter blows at Grom.

Soon a giant cherry blossom tree bursts out of Grom, as they admire what had just happened both Zubat and Sprigatito glow as they evolve.

“Luz!” Eda calls out as she rushes towards the human, bringing her in for a hug, that Ash joins in.

“Zubat!” “Sprigatito!” Luz and Amity say as they notice their Pokémon’s new form.

“My Pokemon has evolved.” Amity cheers as she looks over Floragato, meanwhile Golbat imagines impressing the Bat Queen.

They turn around when they hear cheering to see everyone from the party, celebrating the end of Grometheus.

“Guess this party isn’t over yet. May I have this dance Amity?” Luz asked as Amity accepted her hand and the night went on.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Roughly three chapters left for season one.

Chapter 47: The Calm Before…

Summary:

The morning after Grom night.

It was the morning after Grom night and Eda was awoken by the sunlight pouring into her eyes. Eda tried to get up, but stopped because she felt something in her arms hold on to her. She fully opened her to see Luz and King in her arms.

“Mom don’t go.” Luz mumbles in her sleep, a tear running down her cheek, as she cuddles up closer to Eda.

A soft, remorseful, smile forms on Eda’s face as she whispers to the human, “Don’t worry I’ll be back.” Carefully removing Luz of her, leaving King in her grasp to cuddle, as she heads down stairs, not without giving the two kids a kiss on the forehead.

‘Those two are making me soft.’ Eda thought as she approached the kitchen. Standing in there, doing nothing in particular except checking his rotom-phone, was Ash.

“Morning Eda.” Ash greeted when he saw the witch’s presence.

“Morning Ash Cloud. So you’ve been up for how long and instead of making breakfast you just been scrolling on your phone?” Eda questioned.

“Eda if I tried cooking what would happen is that your house would burn down.” Ash answers her.

“Seriously?” Eda asks sarcastically.

“Yeah, just ask Luz, one time I tried cooking pasta, but all I did was not only burning the water, but also almost burning the house down, the local Officer Jenny considered charging me with arson since I should know I shouldn’t cook.” Ash explained to Eda’s shock.

“How do you burn the water?” Eda asks extremely confused and concerned for how this man was still alive standing in front of her.

“That’s what my mom, Brock, Cilan, and Mallow all asked when I told them what happened. Cooking is just not something I’m good at, like donating blood.” He told her.

“Ignoring that I know none of those people, how can you be bad at donating blood?” She asked confused.

“The one time I donated blood they somehow lost it over seas.” Ash answered.

“Why was your blood being transferred over seas?” She asks further.

“I have no idea why.” He bluntly tells her.

“Know what,” Eda says as she heads over to the stove, “I like having a house so I’ll cook, with Hooty’s help.”

“Thank you.” Ash replies.

“So when are you leaving?” Eda asks as she gets out a pan.

“I didn’t realize you wanted to get rid of me so badly.” Ash jokes before telling her, “Probably sometime early tomorrow.”

“Nice. While you’re here you mind helping me find something?” She asks.

“Sure what is it?” Ash answered as he put his rotom-phone away into his pocket.

“A box of pancake mix, I found it after it washed up on shore sometime ago, I kept it for Luz to eat sometime.” Eda tells him as he starts searching.

———later———

“Good morning.” Luz yawns as she comes into the kitchen, with King on her shoulder.

“Morning.” Ash said in return as he was given the Pokemon food, Pikachu getting ketchup with his.

“I didn’t realize there were pancakes in the Boiling Isles.” Luz said when she say the human food on the table.

“Weh!? Pancakes where?” King asked, quickly jumping off of Luz onto the table to eat pancakes.

“There aren’t. I found pancake mix a while back and just decided to use it.” Eda told her, as Luz sat down and started eating pancakes.

———???———

“You have called me my Emperor?” Lilith asked as she entered the emperor’s throne room.

“Yes Lilith. I need to speak to you about your recent failures.” Belos said as he got from his throne and approached Lilith.

“Sir if this is over my failure to capture my sister-“ Lilith began before being interrupted.

“Speak when spoken to! Your recent failures have made me consider removing you from my coven due to your incompetence.” He told her.

“No please grand all mighty judge Emperor Belos the one holy speaker of the Titan! Please I’ll do anything, I’ll even change my name for you I know how much you hate it!” Lilith begged.

“If you don’t want to be excommunicated you will bring in your sister. After all you owe it to her for what you did.” He instructs her, slowly caressing her inappropriately.

“Yes my emperor!” Lilith answered as she left.

“After all the least you could do is help put that monstrosity down.” Philip says as he heads back to his throne.

“What’s with you and tricking people? Can’t you just invite them to join our game?” A living shadow asks.

“Well our game is supposed to be a surprise.” He lies before saying, “And besides it’s not my fault it’s so easy to trick those disgusting heathens.”

———back with Luz———

Luz was currently walking through the forest alone, she just needed a moment to process everything that happened last night.

‘So Amity likes me. Do I like her? I mean she’s a great friend, and I do like women, oh Arceus do I like her!?’ Luz thinks to herself as she observes the demonic flora near her.

‘And maybe dad is right, I don’t have to feel bad about seeing Eda as a mom.’ She thought as she took note of what looked like a hive on fire. She recalled Eda told her about something called fire bees and wondered if this is what they were, she decided to get a further look.

———with Lilith———

Lilith was currently flying on her staff trying to figure out how to force Eda to join the emperor’s coven, just like she wanted when they were little. Lilith was weirdly allowed to keep her palisman, members of the emperor’s coven are required to give theirs up to help heal the emperor’s sickness, she didn’t question it since it was the titan’s will.

As she tried coming up with ideas she noticed her sister’s pet human playing with a fire beehive nearby.

She came up with an idea, she could hold the human hostage and force her sister to join the emperor’s coven. She wasn’t scared of the human’s father, there was nothing a pathetic human could do to her, she thought as she flow down to the human, who seemed to be causing small pieces of paper to explode.

“Human!” She declared grabbing the girls attention. “You are coming with me.” She told her.

“Nope! Luz use flamethrower!” Luz yelled as she tapped a piece of paper with a symbol, a wave of flames being emitted from it.

Just as Lilith raised her staff to perform a spell a Celbi appeared out of nowhere, the Celebi looked sickly was a darker shade of green, even its eyes were wrong. It seemed to be panicking as all of a sudden a portal opened underneath Luz and Lilith.

As the two fell they heard Celebi trying to communicate something to them but they were only able to hear one thing properly amongst the distorted speech.

“~p Philip p~”

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Luz has the final glyph.

Chapter 48: …The Time Storm

Summary:

If “Elsewhere and Elsewhen” was a season 1 episode.

Luz and Lilith woke up and found themselves amongst tears and nearby a building that looks similar to the owl house.

“What happened?” Lilith asked as she got off the ground and wiped the dust off herself.

“We were probably sent to the past.” Luz answered as she got up.

“What made you come to that conclusion human?” The coveness head questioned.

“The thing that appeared before that portal was Celebi, a mythical Pokemon, it has the power of time travel.” The human girl explained.

“Ofcourse it was a Pokemon.” Lilith says exasperated.

“Don’t act like you’re better than Pokemon, you force kids to have what I can only call pure darkness into their wrists.” Luz accuses.

“Don’t you dare refer to the coven sigils that way! They are a requirement demanded by the Titan.” Lilith yelled at her.

“How the distortion do you even know that?” Luz questions.

“Because the emperor said so, and everyone knows he speaks for the Titan.” Lilith claims.

“Where’s the proof then?” Luz asks, causing Lilith to rationally properly think for a second, after years of not, and then turn her head away in frustration. “That’s what I thought. So got any idea of when we are?” Luz asks after mocking the witch.

“The deadwardian era, around 350 years ago.” Lilith immediately told her.

“That was quick.” Luz said surprised.

“It’s obvious when you look over there.” Lilith said as she pointed at the nearby building. “It’s the same house that my sister lives in. The building is an ancestral home created by the founder of the Clawthorne family a witch named Baba Yaga, who was surprisingly not a palisman like most of her descendants would be, it actually started with her daughter Evelyn. You can actually see how recent the house demon connected to the house due to the free like scratch’s that surround it.” Lilith ranted as she walked up to the house, putting extra attention on a younger Hooty, which was her first mistake.

“HEY EVELYN! YOU HAVE GUESTS AND THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT YOUR MOM!” Hooty yelled.

Immediately the front door swung open as a young, visibly pregnant, witch who had a striking similarity to Eda, holding out a staff with what looked like a Pikipek on top of it at them, she also had dried tear stains all over her face. “Who ever you are go!” Presumably Evelyn told them, with a surprisingly Slavic accent

“Hey we don’t want any trouble.” Luz said in an attempt to calm her down, but failed.

“You’re lying! Just like he did! He said the same thing but he ruined everything!” Evelyn yelled as she used her staff to shout lightning at them, forcing the two to run of them, as soon as they are gone Evelyn stops and collapses to the floor crying, Hooty comforting her.

“What was with that? Who is he?” Luz questions as they end up at a beach.

“The family tree doesn’t list Evelyn’s spouse, so he is probably her dead beat husband. Anyways you’re still coming with me.” Lilith says as she holds up her staff.

“No way. I highly doubt that your emperor is around over 300 years ago, if we want to return to the present we’ll have to work together. So truce?” Luz tells her as she holds out her hand.

“Fine, so how are we supposed to get back to modern day?” Lilith asks as she shakes Luz’s hand.

“As we fell through the portal I heard Celebi say “Philip”, maybe we have to help this person out.” Luz suggested.

“That hopefully shouldn’t be too hard, from what I know Philip has never been a common name at any point in time. But you should hide those circles for ears you have, this is the savage ages and who knows what they would do to human.” Lilith tells her.

“Okay. Oh a helmet.” She says as she picks up a helmet on the sand, revealing a skull. “Oh a skull.”

The two left the beach and made their way to what seemed like Bonesborough.

“Aw look it’s baby Bonesborough.” Luz commented as they approached the small town.

“Actually at this point in time it was called Fleshborough. But anyways, this is a time before our lord and savior Belos unified the isles, so be careful we don’t know what these uncivilized savage heathens of the past might do.” Lilith warned as entered Fleshborough.

Inside of the town instead of the senseless violence Lilith expected, everything was calm and peaceful, witches were helping each other out, casually mixing magic like it was nothing.

“If this counts as savage what do you view as calm?” Luz sarcastically asks a flabbergasted Lilith.

“This doesn’t make sense, according to Belos the savage ages were characterized by pure depravity and chaos.” Lilith said confused

“Are sure? Because this place is honestly more peaceful than current day Bonesborough.” Luz pointed out, just as she said that a man riding in a carriage being pulled by Rhyhorn passed by.

“Uh sir you’re aware that is a Pokemon, right?” Lilith asked the man.

“Oh really? I didn’t notice, you got a problem with it.” The man replies sarcastically as he and the Pokemon leave.

“What is going on witches are mixing magic and tolerating Pokemon?! Know what, let’s get this over with so I can get back to the civilized witches of the present.” Lilith told Luz.

“Okay. Hey you miss!” Luz called out to a switch who was walking by.

“Yes little girl?” The witch asked.

“Do you know where to find a guy named Philip?” Luz asked her.

“Oh you’re talking about that pretentious asshole Philip Wittebane he’s that way.” The witch told them as she pointed a bit away and then left.

They headed towards the direction she pointed, there two demons with a red and green fang keeping a book away from a man, a man with round ears.

“Is that Philip?” Lilith questioned.

“It must be. Maybe we have to help him get to the Pokemon world, maybe he is the one who created Eda’s portal.” Luz concluded, causing Lilith to perk up, she had heard the emperor talking about her sister’s portal to the human realm, and maybe telling him how would be good enough.

“This book will make good kindling.” One of the demons say as they create a small fire underneath the book.

“That’s not yours!” Luz says as she intervenes, getting the book away from them. “You two should go.” She tells them.

“Sure kid, just ask that guy what happened to our brother blue fang, and you’ll understand what we did.” One of them tells Luz as the two brothers walk away, not without yelling at Philip, “Burn in that hell of yours Wittebane!”

“Here you go.” Luz says as she hands the man his book back, which he quickly snatches. “Are you Philip Wittebane?” She asked the fellow human.

“Yes are you here to gawk?” He asks dryly, with a galarian accent.

“No, I’m Luzura and this here is my aunt Dirturde, and we want to help you with anything you need.” She tells him as Lilith joins them, annoyed at what Luz called her.

“What’s in it for you?” Philip asks.

“Nothing, we just want to help.” Luz tells him, not mentioning everything involving time travel and Celebi.

“Oh really. Well I guess I could use your help for something.” Philip says as a sinister grin appears on his face, a feeling of darkness coming from him that Luz foolishly ignores.

“Great.” Luz exclaims as she and Lilith follow Philip.

———a bit later———

“So what exactly are we doing here?” Luz asked Philip as he led them into the forest.

“Just need something for a project of mine, after I get this next piece all I’ll need is titan’s blood.” Philip told them as he grabbed a big stick.

“Titan’s blood?” Luz asked confused.

“A substance originating from the veins of the isles, it’s believed to have the ability to create portals.” Philip revealed to their surprise, as he started drawing a complex sequence of glyphs on the ground.

“What are you doing?” Lilith questioned while Luz looked at the glyph sequence, not knowing they could be combined.

“Oh this, this is a shortcut.” He told them as he slammed the glyph combo with his foot, in a flash of light they found themselves inside a cave of some sort.

“Where are we!?” Lilith asks.

“We’re in the inside the skull of the Titan.” Philip told them as he made his way through the tunnel.

“What!? But that’s sacrilege!” Lilith exclaimed panicked.

“I wonder if that’s why not many demons wish to help me?” Philip guessed.

“So you also use glyphs?” Luz asks.

“I’m guessing you’re also aware of these pictoglyphs. I’ve found them across the isles, even found one in a snowflake.” He answered.

“Woah me too. Did you also see the constellation one?” Luz asks excitedly.

“No I did not, care to show it to me?” Philip asks, a dark feeling coming from him that Luz still ignores as she quickly grabs a light glyph and taps it a ball of light coming from it. “Amazing, I have looked up to the skies many times and haven’t seen it before, it’s almost like someone is try to keep it away from me.”

“Cool I taught you something.” Luz said as they approached a large door.

“What is with this door?” Lilith questioned.

“What I’m looking for is on the other side of the door, but it is locked by a puzzle.” He told them.

“Well don’t worry we can solve it, puzzles are literally in my blood, seriously when I was little my mom had to stop me from eating puzzle pieces.” She claims as she turns to Lilith and asks, “You can solve this, right?” Lilith answers by nodding her head yes, beginning to solve the puzzle.

“Great, while you two do that I’ll be over here.” Philip tells them as he goes a bit away and writes in his journal.

“So how is the puzzle going?” Luz asks Lilith as she solves it.

“It’s going well, but it isn’t even that hard, and it’s already partially solved.” Lilith told the human girl.

“Weird, I’ll go ask Philip about it.” She told the witch as she approached Philip who was still writing in his journal, Luz was able to get a look at what he was writing. “Despite my great valiance I was not able to save my two companions from the monster.” Luz read as Philip stopped writing when he realized her presence. “Philip why did you bring us here?”

Philip slowly got up and turned to look at her, Luz feeling an extreme amount of darkness from him that Luz can no longer ignore. “I needed a sacrifice.” He tells her.

At that moment the door opened. “Hey I solved the puzzle.” Lilith called out, as suddenly a creature shrouded in darkness grabbed Lilith. “Ahhh!” She screams as she is dragged into the room.

“Lilith!” Luz yells as she runs into the room, Philip walking after her.

“Sandaconda I choose you!” Luz yells as she sends her Pokemon and immediately begins to attack the creature.

“Ofcourse you have one of those vile creatures.” Philip says as he finds a disk with a crescent moon symbol on it and begins to draw a glyph combo on the ground.

“What are you doing!?” Luz yells at Philip.

“I just needed you to distract the monster as I got what I wanted.” He tells her as he finishes the combo.

“Well take us with you!” She tells him as she approaches the combo.

“No.” He tells her, as he back hand slaps her and then immediately uses the glyph combo to teleport away leaving Luz and Lilith behind.

“Human help me!” Lilith yells as the creature holds on to her, Sandaconda not being able to stop it.

Luz, sensing rage from the creature, runs over and for some reason an Eda comes to her mind, she immediately places her hands on it and yells, “Please calm down!” At it a blue wave passing over the creature as it lets go of Lilith and relaxes, Sandaconda viewing what’s happening.

“What even is this thing.” Lilith questioned as she got up.

Luz grabs a light glyph and taps it a light revealing the creature. “A hisuian Goodra!?” Luz exclaims surprised.

“A what!?” Lilith asks.

“It’s a type of Pokemon.” Luz tells her as she returns Sandaconda to her Pokeball and pets the Goodra.

“Ofcourse it is, where is Philip I want to have a word with him.” Lilith says extremely angry.

“Me too.” Luz replies.

———with Philip———

“What should I describe you as?” Philip wonders as he observes the disk. “Round, oval, oblong, a round boy.”

“Philip!” Luz yells at him, he turns around to see Luz and Lilith on the hisuian Goodra.

“Oh you two survived, well if you want to help again I’m sure there’s something you can help with.” Philip says as Luz and Lilith get off Goodra.

“Okay tell us how that disk is supposed to get you back to the Pokemon world?” Luz questions.

“Oh this is not for that.” He tells her.

“Then what is it for!?” Luz questions further.

“Even if I told you I doubt a neg-“ Philip begins but is immediately stoped as Lilith punches him in the face. “You hatable sorcerous!” He yells at Lilith as Luz immediately gives a signal to Goodra, the Pokemon immediately using hydro pump on Philip blasting him away.

“Now what?” Lilith questions.

“I guess we just wait for Celebi to bring us back to present.” Luz told her.

Almost immediately Celebi, looking much better, reappears, opening a portal under them, bringing them back to the present.

Looking around and seeing they’re back to the present, Luz says, “Oh, well I’m going back to the Owl-“ but stops talking as Lilith hits her on the head with her staff.

“Truce over.” Lilith says as she traps Luz in a bubble and starts her plan.

———back at the Owl House———

Eda and Ash were getting worried, Luz had been gone for hours and they haven’t gotten a word from her, they even called up Amity and Anabel to help.

Just then they heard a knock at the door.

“I’ll get it.” King says as he opens the door revealing a staff with a raven palisman.

“Lilith.” Eda says putting together what happened to Luz, while Ash is filled with pure unbridled rage that is visible as a dark aura surrounding him.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Next chapter will be the end of season 1.

Chapter 49: The Wrath of a Father

Summary:

Ash goes to save his daughter from Lilith.

Notes:

CW: there’s definitely things that ai should put here, but that means revealing what’s about to happen which I won’t do.

Lilith stood upon the bridge, above spikes, in front of the Emperor’s castle, waiting for her sister to arrive, she contained the unconscious Luz in a bubble, meanwhile the emperor watched what was about to unfold from above.

“Lilith!” Ash yelled at the top of his lungs as he flew in on Charizard.

“Where is my sister? This is a matter between me and her.” Lilith tells the man.

“We immediately figured out what your plan was so she stayed back. And besides this stopped being about you and her the second you involved my daughter!” Ash yelled before asking, “Tell me is this being recorded live?”

“Ofcourse in order to make an example of my sister.” Lilith answered foolishly.

“Good, because you’re the one who’s going to made an example of.” Ash tells the head coveness.

“Whatever, there is nothing a mere human like you can-“

“Pikachu volt tackle!” Ash yelled, interrupting Lilith.

“What!?” Lilith exclaimed before Pikachu ran straight into her, hitting her in the gut and shocking her with electricity in the process, Lilith coughed blood when she hit the ground.

“Fine let’s fight.” Lilith says as she holds out her hand for her staff, but it doesn’t come. “Where’s my-“

“Staff?” Ash finishes and then explains, “I put it in the human realm so you wouldn’t be able to use it.”

“Hey! That’s unfair.” Lilith claims.

“Oh now we’re talking about being unfair, this stopped being fair the second you brought my daughter into this, so I’m not going to play fair!” Ash tells her.

Lilith creates a spell circle shooting shards of ice at Pikachu, but the Pokemon easily dodges the attack as Ash gives a command, “Use thunder!” He tells the Pokemon. Lilith tries putting the orbed Luz in front of the electric mouse but it doesn’t work as Pikachu sends a bolt of electricity to the sky causing a bolt of lightning to strike Lilith, covering her skin in electrical scars.

“Dad?” Luz mumbles as she becomes half awake due to the battle.

“Don’t worry Luz I’ll get you out in no time. Pikachu get back over here!” He called out to his first Pokemon who ran back to him.

“What!? Throwing in the towel.” Lilith taunted, still thinking she had a chance.

“Not even close.” Ash told her as he grabbed a different pokeball. “Infernape I choose you!” Ash yelled as he sent out the fire/fighting type Pokemon.

“Mach punch into flame charge!” He told his Pokemon who started rushing at Lilith soon becoming consumed in flames as he punches her in the face, leaving behind a black eye with burns surrounding it.

Lilith attempts to create a spell circle but is immediately interrupted by Ash yelling, “Use close combat!” Infernape immediately starts beating Lilith up at full force, ending once she is covered in bruises.

“Good job, Infernape return!” Ash said as he returned the Pokemon and looked towards Charizard. “Use seismic toss!” He told one of his oldest Pokemon. Charizard immediately rushed at Lilith grabbed her, flew to the sky, and then redirected himself to the ground surrounding himself in fire for good measure to make sure it hurt, especially as they hit ground, Lilith leg probably being broken as she immediately struggled to stand on it as she was now also covered in burns.

“Charizard get back here, I’m ending this.” He told the fire breathing not a dragon type dragon as he grabbed one last pokeball. “Greninja I choose you!” Ash yelled as he sent out the water/dark type.

“Oh yeah! You’re dead Lilith!” Luz cheers while still only half-awake.

“What’s the big deal with this one, can’t be too strong.” Lilith said, not realizing what’s about to happen to her.

“Well then, I guess we’re going to have to get stronger and stronger!” Ash yells as Greninja is enveloped in a torrent of water becoming Ash-Greninja.

———back at the Owl House———

“Oh my Arceus! It’s really Ash-Greninja!” Amity exclaims as she and the others watch Ash and Lilith’s battle on the crystal ball.

“Good Titan! He didn’t mention the fact he could do that.” Eda said surprised.

“Ash is filled with surprises.” Anabel tells Eda.

“Hey! Think I don’t know my own boyfriend!” Eda countered.

“He will make a perfect general for my army.” King commented as they continued to watch the battle.

———back with the battle———

“How the!?” Lilith said in confusion at what unfolded right in front of her, even Emperor Belos who was looking down upon them was shocked by what happened, although you wouldn’t be able to tell with his mask on, but Ash could feel it.

“It’s a little thing called the bond phenomenon, the pinnacle of the synchronization of trainer and Pokemon, and it will be your end.” Ash tells her.

Then Greninja starts attacking Lilith, throwing water shurikens at the head coveness, some “accidentally” going astray and hitting the emperor.

“You think that some water is enough to beat me!” Lilith taunts, acting like it didn’t hurt immensely.

“If you wanted more you could just ask.” Ash replied as he and Greninja raised their hands in sequence creating a giant water shuriken. Lilith tries to get out of the way but fails as the giant water shuriken hits Lilith and even damages the castle.

“Give up and let go of my daughter.” Ash tells Lilith who was having trouble getting up due to the attack, as well as keep Luz in an orb, when she got a horrible idea that she will immediately regret.

“Fine you asked for it.” Lilith says as, out of desperation to win, throws the orb Luz is trapped in off the bridge onto the spikes just as the orb dissipates. Charizard doesn’t even need to be told anything as he immediately flys down and catches Luz before she falls onto the spikes and brings her back to the bridge.

“So what did you think would happen when you did that?” Ash asked, his entire face shrouded in darkness, the rage coming from him being palpable.

“Uh uh-“ Lilith stutters out, realizing she was doomed.

“I’m going to fucking kill you with my own two hands.” Ash tells her, his eyes blood red.

“A human like you can’t beat me-“ Lilith says but immediately stops when Ash appears right in front of her instantaneously with a trail of blue light, and then raises his palm at her a ball of blue light forming in it, the aura ball sending Lilith flying into the bricks of the castle, Ash quickly catching up with her, all while Luz looks on in awe at her father is doing.

“Okay I give up!” Lilith begged while coughing up blood.

“Oh it’s too late for that. I’m leaving behind a permanent mark to teach you a lesson.” Ash tells her as he immediately holds her still by keeping his foot on her chest and then immediately starts pulling her right arm, even as she screams from pain he doesn’t stop.

“Please stop!” Lilith begged, crying from the sheer pain her arm is experiencing.

Ash keeps on pulling, until in a burst of blood Ash rips off Lilith’s entire right arm clean off her body.

“My arm!” Lilith cry’s as she bleeds out, Ash immediately places his hand over the gaping wound, with a bit of blue light the wound is sealed. “What did you do!?” Lilith asks, still screaming from pain.

Ash signals over Charizard to come over, the Pokemon handing Luz to Greninja as he flys over and immediately uses flamethrower on the disembodied arm as Ash tells her, “Making sure this serves as a permanent mark for what you did. Anyone who’s watching, let this serve as a warning, if you even think of hurting my daughter you’re as good as dead!” He yells out making sure anyone watching the battle knows as Lilith’s arm is turned into nothing more than ash.

Ash and Charizard go back to Greninja who hands Ash Luz back as Ash returns him to his ball and fly off with Charizard.

Lilith tries to enter the castle but stopping her is Kikimora and two coven guards.

“What is the meaning of this I am the head of the Emperor’s Coven.” Lilith tells them as they throw a box of her stuff at her.

“Not anymore after your failure just now the Emperor has decided to have excommunicated from his coven, and look you already lost your coven sigil.” Kikimora told her, causing Lilith to realize the arm she lost was the one her coven sigil was on.

“I suggest you leave, you wild witch.” Kikimora told Lilith while the two guards hold spears at Lilith, the witch running away while clutching where her arm was.

———with Ash———

“Dad how?” Luz asks as Ash holds her in his arms as they fly off on Charizard.

“Don’t worry Luz I’ll tell you when you awake.” Ash tells her as Luz falls asleep from pure exhaustion from the past few days.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

This was one of the chapters I had anticipated writing the most, anyways this concludes season 1.

Chapter 50: Story Intermission I

Summary:

The first story intermission.

Welcome to the first story intermission. The purpose of these are to act as in-betweens for each season so you can provide your overall thoughts so far of the story as a whole and give feedback on how improvements could be made, or ask any questions you have that haven’t had an appropriate time to ask and I will attempt to answer it to the best of my ability without spoiling anything. I will also tell that the rate I post at is going to most likely slow down, I will not cancel this fanfic though.

Chapter 51: Wake Up

Summary:

Luz wakes up and gets answers from her dad.

Notes:

The beginning of season 2.

Luz didn’t know where she was, the land she was in was covered in a black ink like substance and cubes floating around.

“Hello Luz.” A voice greeted, the source unseeable.

“Who are you!? And where am I!?” Luz asked it, turning her head constantly not sure where to look at.

“I’m afraid to tell you that he has decided it’s not time yet to tell you who, but I can tell you where. This is what’s known as the in between realm.” It told her.

“In between what?” Luz asked confused.

“In between realms Luz. I was able to contact you due to your developing powers, along with the time you’ve been in the boiling isles, but unfortunately due to an another reason as well.” It told her.

“Wait what powers!? Like what my dad did? And what is the other reason?” Luz asked the entity when suddenly everything started to get blurry.

“I wish I could tell what’s happening but I may not get this opportunity again and unfortunately you’re waking up, you’ve been sleeping for a while, especially due to your awakening, Good luck Luz and be careful with Belos and what’s he’s planning.” It warned her as everything got blurrier.

“What awakening, and what is Belos planning!?” Luz asked, but was unable to get a response as she woke up.

———in the real world———

Luz’s eyes started to flicker open as she noticed that Vee was next to the bed she was sleeping in.

“Vee?” Luz asked confused, grabbing the basilisk’s attention.

“Oh you’re up! Dad Luz just woke up!” Vee called out for Ash.

As Luz heard footsteps approaching, she realized she was in her room in the Pokemon world at her dad’s house.

“Luz!” Ash said as he and Eda burst into Luz’s room.

“Dad! M-Eda! What happened!? How long have I’ve been out!?” Luz asked, still groggy.

“You’ve been out for three days kid.” Eda revealed to Luz’s shock as Ash continued for her.

“After my fight with Lilith you went out like a light and we decided to bring you to the Pokemon world to recover.” Ash explained.

“But how did Lily even catch you?” Eda questioned.

“I’ll tell you in a bit, just give me a bit to wake up.” Luz asked as she got up from bed.

“Okay, and besides the others want to see you.” Ash told his daughter as he and Eda led her out of her room.

“The others?” Luz says confused as she is brought to the living room, where her grandmother, Anabel, Amity, and King wait for her.

“Luz!” Amity exclaimed when she saw Luz, causing the others to notice her.

“Luz I was worried sick when I heard what happened.” Delia says as she pulls Luz into a tight hug.

“I still can’t believe your mom is this young.” Eda whispered to Ash.

“Hi Nana, sorry for worrying you, but can you please let go of me I’m having trouble breathing?” Luz asked.

“Oh sorry Luz.” Delia apologized as she let her granddaughter go, and Amity and King immediately went in to give her a hug.

“It’s great to see you’re okay.” Amity said, causing Luz to blush.

“The next time I see Lilith I will punish her for almost killing my best general.” King claimed as he tightened the hug, and then Luz’s stomach audible growls.

“Uh sorry for ruining the moment, I haven’t really eaten in a few days.” Luz apologizes as she blushes from embarrassment.

“Don’t worry I made you breakfast.” Delia said as she brought out a large plate of food for Luz, which the human girl quickly started eating.

“Isn’t that too much food?” Amity asked Delia.

“Done!” Luz says, catching Amity off guard as she turns to see Luz patting her stuffed stomach next to the empty plate, she just looks on in shock. “What? I haven’t eaten in 3 days.” Luz defended when she saw the look on Amity’s face.

“Okay Luz can you please tell us what happened?” Eda asked.

“Uh sure, when I went on my walk I found a fire bee hive and decided to look at it and found a new glyph.” Luz said as she quickly sketched it on a paper, but when she tapped it nothing happened. “Oh come on, they don’t work here.” Luz groaned.

“Luz please get back on track.” Anabel requested.

“Oh yeah, then Lilith appeared and tried to capture me, but then a sickly looking Celebi appeared.” Luz told them, a look of shock appearing on Ash and Dawn’s faces.

“Um what exactly did it look like?” Dawn asked worried.

“Oh, it was like a much darker shade of green.” Luz answered, Ash and Dawn exchanging knowing looks.

“That helps explain why you were asleep for so long, time travel takes a lot of you, you may continue.” Ash told Luz, the girl sensing worry from her father.

“Okay, when we were sent to the past Boiling Isles Celebi for some reason told us “Philip”, so in order to get back to the future me and Lilith made a truce.” Luz continued.

“Which didn’t last?” Amity guessed.

“Yes, now me and Lilith came across a human named Philip Wittebane.” Luz revealed.

“Wait there was another human?” Ash questioned.

“I guess that explains my family’s old story about a human who lived in Bonesborough.” Eda realized.

“So me and Lilith thought we were supposed to help him, but he tried to sacrifice us, don’t worry we survived and got payback, when Celebi, who looked better, sent us back to the future and knocked me out when I wasn’t expecting it.” Luz explained.

“So that’s how you got captured?” Ash asked.

“Yes, but that’s not the only thing, before I woke up I had this weird dream where I was with an unseeable entity in this place called the in between.” Luz told them.

“What happened?” King asked, very curious for reasons he doesn’t even know.

“It gave me a basic Belos is bad warning, but it claimed that I have powers that were awakened, which was one of the reasons I was asleep for so long. Dad do these powers have anything to do with what you did at the bridge?” Luz asked Ash.

Ash sighed before saying, “Knew we would talk about this sooner or later, let’s take this somewhere more private.”

Ash soon brought her to her room and sat her down.

“So what is going on?” Luz asked.

“Where to start? Okay, Luz we are something called aura guardians, of which only a small number remain, I personally only know my dad, a man named Riley who taught me everything I know about aura, actually Anabel too, and now you.” Ash started, to Luz’s surprise.

“I think I heard of this before. Isn’t aura manipulation the ability to manipulate life force?” Luz asked.

“That’s an oversimplification, aura is the essence of life though, it can be used to heal and calm others, read emotions, or even for attacks.” Ash answered.

“If I can do all that why didn’t you tell me earlier I could heal Amity’s condition?” Luz questioned.

“Luz it isn’t that simple, for one your powers have only just now properly awakened, and two you can’t just heal medical conditions, it only makes them worse.” Ash told his daughter.

“How do you know?” Luz asked, scared of the answer, as Ash took a deep breath.

“Luz before I tell you how, I want to make it clear that it was an accident, I love you no matter what, and I was only trying to help.” Ash told her before revealing, “Your mother had a bit more time,” The first part alone shocked Luz to her core but it only got worse, “I tried using my aura powers to give her more time but it made things worse, and she unfortunately passed away a few hours later.”

“So not only did you hide this from me but you took away what time I had left with my mom!?” Luz accused, shedding a tear.

“Luz it wasn’t like that, I just couldn’t bear to use them ever again after what happened, I just wanted to leave them in the past.” Ash explained as he tried to comfort Luz.

“No don’t touch me!” Luz snapped, “Just leave me alone.”

Ash accepts this as he leaves the room, but not without saying, “I still love you Luz.”

But Luz doesn’t answer in return as Ash closes the door behind him.

———a few hours later———

Luz was lying in her bed, properly dressed, mulling over what her dad had told her when she heard a knock at the door.

“Come in.” Luz told whoever was at the door, hoping it wasn’t her dad.

The door opened, revealing Amity who solemnly asked, “How are you doing?”

“Well I learned a secret my dad has been keeping from me for years.” Luz answered.

“So not good. Well I think I have an idea to make you feel better.” Amity told the human.

“What is it?” Luz asked.

“I checked online and in Navy City nearby Mildred Featherwyle is going to be holding a book signing in a few days.” Amity revealed to Luz’s excitement.

“No way!” Luz exclaimed, her mood immediately becoming better.

“Yes way! Though I was surprised to hear she was a human not a witch.” Amity told her.

“Is she the one who writes all those mystery and horror novels?” Vee asked as she was slithering by.

“No that’s Shauntal.” Luz clarified.

“What’s the difference?” The basilisk questions.

“She’s my sister for one.” Anabel chimed in, joining the conversation.

“Okay Vee we’re taking you with us so we can properly educate you and the masterpiece known as The Good Witch Azura.” Luz told her sister.

“And I’m going with you too.” Anabel announces.

“Why?” Luz asks.

“It would be nice to go on a small journey, and besides, Luz you need to be taught in the way of your abilities.” Anabel tells her.

“Fine.” Luz answers, remembering that her dad mentioned Anabel being an aura guardian as well.

———later———

Ash, Eda, and King wave off as Luz, Amity, Vee, and Anabel start their journey to Navy City.

“Why couldn’t I come along with them?” King whines.

“You don’t look anything like a human, and I don’t have a concealment stone for you.” Eda answered, King pouting and heading back inside.

“So why did you secretly tell Anabel to join them?” Eda asked Ash.

“Luz needs someone to teach her to use her powers and I doubt she’ll want my help, so I’m entrusting Anabel to help her.” Ash explains as he watches them walk away.

———???———

“Hello Jerry.” Crow says as he enters a badly lit office.

“What is it Crow?” The man at the desk asked, his face hidden in the dark.

“It has to do with our Demon case, we found out someone is involved and I think you would want to know.” Crow tells Jerry as he pulls out a couple of photographs showing Anabel with Amity.

“I want you to investigate further immediately, and two new members of ARC will be joining you on the case.” Jerry tells Crow.

“You got it Jerry.” Crow replies.

“And also how many times do I have to tell you this my name isn’t Jerry, it’s Jeremiah.” He tells Crow, his face emerging from the darkness revealing his violet hair.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

We’re starting off with an arc in the Pokemon world.

Chapter 52: Eyes Are On You

Summary:

Luz has a moment of calm while she and her friends are being watched.

“So two people are joining us in the case?” Dipper asked Crow as they prepared their equipment.

“Yeah, they should be here in 3… 2… 1!” Crow said as the doors opened, two figures appearing.

“Hello you two I am Godusa Basil,” a woman roughly Crow’s age, with strawberry blonde hair, and a hot pink jacket introduced herself, “and this here is my younger sibling Nagisa.” The woman said referring to the person next to her, a person with eye bags, and a jacket and hair that were royal blue.

“This is Mason “Dipper” Pines and I’m Crow Renatus.” Crow told them.

“Great to know that!” Godusa cheerfully exclaimed.

“So what exactly are we doing? Solving a conspiracy? Exploring a cursed cavern?” Nagisa asked them.

“We are going to be watching Jerry’s youngest daughter and a human child to make sure they aren’t going to be killed by two demons, one’s a shapeshifter.” Crow told them as they started to head out.

“Shapeshifter you say?” Nagisa asks.

“Yeah, a serpentine creature that can shapeshift into people, we are not sure if it can shapeshift into objects or Pokemon though.” Dipper explains.

A serious expression falls upon the siblings face as they follow Crow and Dipper.

———with Luz and Anabel———

“So what are we doing?” Luz asked as she and Anabel sat on flat rocks meditating next to a river.

“You must be calm to hone your abilities. But you don’t have to use your abilities if you don’t want to.” Anabel tells Luz.

“No, I do but…” Luz begins to explain.

“But there is a lot still on your mind currently.” Anabel accurately guesses.

“Yeah, I’m still reeling everything in from recently, I swear every day I’m awake something big happens.” Luz vents.

“Sorry to hear that, how about this read Amity’s emotions from here?” Anabel asked, pointing to Amity, a bit away, who was trying to explain Azura to Vee.

Luz raises her palm up to Amity and begins to read her feelings. “She’s overjoyed to introduce Vee to Azura.” Luz tells Anabel.

“Anyone can tell that, look a bit deeper.” Anabel encourages.

Luz focuses further on Amity. “She’s trying to occupy herself, she’s worried about me and she doesn’t even care that her condition is worsening here.” Luz solemnly answers.

“Good job, you’re doing as well as I did when I was your age.” Anabel congratulated.

“Who actually taught you and my dad?” Luz asked her teacher.

“Me and Ash had different mentors and we started training at different times, when I was 12, and he started when he was 14, from what Ash has told me he was taught by someone, who I think he is somewhat related to named Riley, I on the other hand was trained by a young man named Angelo.” Anabel explained to Luz.

“Where is he nowadays?” Luz asks.

“Wish I knew, the guy went MIA a little under a decade ago.” Anabel informs Luz, the young girl sensing sadness from the adult.

“I’m sorry to hear that.” Luz comforts her.

“Don’t worry Luz, I’ve gotten over it, and I like to think he’s having his own personal happily ever after.” Anabel joked.

“I wish I could help make Amity happy.” Luz tells Anabel.

“Well if I’m correct you owe her a date.” Anabel pointed out.

“Wait I have an idea.” Luz exclaims before asking, “But do you mind helping with it.”

“Sure.” Anabel answers as Luz whispers something in her ear.

———with ARC———

Crow and Godusa watch Luz, Anabel, Amity and Vee from a distance, while Dipper shows off a journal with a hand symbol and the number 4 on it to Nagisa.

“Don’t you think it’s overkill to have four people watch them, when we don’t even know if they’re dangerous, all because his daughter is potentially in danger.” Godusa pointed out.

Crow takes in a deep breath before telling Godusa, “Maybe it’s a bit much, but I understand why he’s doing this, he just wants to protect his loved ones, if I ever meet my daughter’s birth parents I would kill them for leaving Raven in a dumpster as a baby, and from what I heard the guy’s been overprotective of his family ever since his older brother died during a hurricane while flying supplies to a pokecenter.”

“Wanting to protect your loved ones, I can relate to that.” Godusa says as she looks off at Vee in the distance.

———back with our protagonists———

“Anabel where are you leading me?” Amity asks as Anabel has the young witch cover her eyes as she brings her somewhere.

“Just wait a second. Okay you can now open your eyes.” Anabel tells Amity, the girl opens her eyes to see Vee trying to play a violin, and Luz right next to a picnic basket.

“Luz what is the meaning of this?” Amity asks while blushing up a storm.

“You decided to come to the Pokemon World with me despite your condition, and I owed you a date, I hope it’s good enough.” Luz tells Amity.

Amity runs over and gives Luz a kiss on the cheek and tells her, “It’s perfect.”

“So do we join them?” Vee asks Anabel.

“No, we are not third or fourth wheels.” Anabel tells the basilisk.

———later that night———

While the protagonists sleep Godusa and Nagisa sneak over to their camp while Crow and Dipper are also sleeping.

“How did you find yourself here number 5?” Nagisa questions as Godusa caresses her face, while they remember how they found themselves in this world.

———flashback time———

“Number 3 do you even know how to sail a boat?” The pink basilisk questions, as the boat they stole in order to escape the scout shakes on the tides.

“I know more than you number 2!” The blue basilisk snaps as they try to sail the boat through the storm.

Suddenly a whirlpool forms as blue lightning strikes overhead.

“What’s happening!” 2 yells as they are sucked in, but soon as the storm calms they hit a coastline.

“Where are we?” 3 questions as they see green grass nearby, instead of the usual red.

“I think I see a sign.” 2 tells her sibling as she reads the sign, “Olivine City, Johto.”

———back to the present———

“We will be watching dear sister, stay safe.” Godusa tells the sleeping Vee before she and Nagisa return to their camp.

———TO BE CONTINUED———

Notes:

Fun Fact: most of the my OCs so far have been recycled characters from a tokusatsu fanfic I wrote on Wattpad that only reached three chapters.

Notes:

Any constructive criticism is welcomed, as well as suggestions for any Pokemon for characters to have, basically all adults from the demon realm won’t have any Pokemon, with the exception of Luz and Amity, characters will have at max three Pokemon.