Summary: Why did we ever want an Owl House Beach episode?
"This is somehow even weirder than it was during the test-fest." Gus took a bite of his food, watching Boscha from across the cafeteria.
"Another bite for milady." And Lucci was hand feeding her.
"Thank you, my little crystal ." The three eyed bully actually sounded a tiny bit girly as she accepted it.
Gus turned to Willow, who was banging her head against the table. "I liked it better when everyone was oblivious." She grumbled. "It was heaven, an untouched paradise where I didn't have to live with this horrifying schmultz twenty four seven. I could've prevented this. If I didn't ignore him ten years ago, I could've steered him away from the Boscha trail. This is all on me."
"Don't be so hard on yourself, I don't think there was any stopping this track from rolling." Amity rubbed Willow's back. "The only other options back then were Ed and Em….and I think that would've been more terrifying."
"Probably so." Luz agreed as she ate her packed lunch. "I couldn't imagine them dating anyone other than each other at this point."
"... You were right, that stuff WAS repressed." Amity said with a gag.
"Okay, it can't be that….no, can't even finish that thought, it's bad, it's really, really bad." Gus agreed wholeheartedly. "It's like I'm watching a trainwreck crash in slow motion. How long have they been dating?"
"Two days. Yet it feels like an eternity already." Willow continued to bang her head on the table even more. "Can we get a new topic, any topic?"
"What about the beach?" Luz suggested.
"... Shit, you may have found something worse." Willow muttered.
"What's wrong with the beach?" Gus asked. He didn't remember her bringing it up at any time.
"Yeah, we used to hang out at the beach all the time when we ditched swim class." Amity spoke up. "You didn't hate it back then."
"It's a developmental thing. Just like how you used to love making abomination pets." Willow answered.
"Wait, you can make abomination pets?" Luz asked with sparkly eyes.
"Uh yeah…I used to...but….it got…out of hand one day...I had to put down so many of my babies." Amity sniffed. "So many cute faces I had to burn….the demonity of it all."
"The rabbit hole of backstory hasn't quite reached the bottom I see." Luz laughed. "Come on, beaches aren't so bad. Some of the most fun and relaxing episodes of Anime I've watched all take place during the beach episode."
"I thought we established that your ideas of fantasy don't exactly jell with what happens on the boiling isles?" Gus questioned.
"It's about fifty-fifty, and this doesn't just happen in the fantasy shows, this happens in the drama and slice of life genres as well!" Luz exclaimed. "And I live right next to a beach back in the human world. Trust me when I say there's nothing more relaxing than laying down on the soft sand shore while smelling the saltiness of the sea breeze."
"Actually the water of the boiling ocean has little to no salt due to it constantly boiling." Willow answered.
"... Oh yeah." She nodded. "I keep forgetting the ocean here is hot … but I still say we could have fun there. Dancing, sand castles, hidden treasure." The girl looked herself over. "Although I might need a new bathing suit, I think I grew."
Amity immediately blushed. "A beach day sounds like an amazing idea!" Wow, this girl was super unsubtle.
"What sounds like what?" They turned to see Lucci approaching them.
"Uh, nothing! Just…talking about….popping pimples and stuff." Willow weakly excused.
Lucci raised an eyebrow, before shrugging. "Whatever you say. Just came by to tell you guys me and Boscha have another date planned, in fact, she's planned out a different date for each day of the week." Lucci chuckled.
"It sounds a little over controlling, don't you think?" Willow questioned.
"Maybe, but if she's put so much thought and care into planning out so many dates for a guy like me, then I'm all for it." Lucci sighed with a dopey expression on his face. "Just wanted to let you guys know so you won't be worried about where I am."
"Lucci! Stop talking to those losers and cuddle me!" Boscha yelled from across the cafeteria. "We can only afford to hold hands during potions, so we need to make up for the classes we have apart!"
"I'm on it, my three eyed princess!" The boy instantly ran back over to the girl, leaving them alone.
"I'm fine with the beach if we don't have to invite…..that." Gus pointed out.
"They're still in the honeymoon phase of the relationship. We can plan anything we want and they won't notice a thing." Luz waved off. "Leave the lovebirds to their own devices, let's make the Beach day a friends day, a day full of no worries, no stress, and no relationship drama popping up whatsoever."
"Hallelujah." Willow cheered. "I'll pack an umbrella and a book to read."
"Yep, just a day full of fun…and cute beach outfits….that we can look at for hours and hours…." Blood seemed to be dripping from Amity's red face. "Aaaah! I need to use the restroom!"
"I regret this already." Gus banged his head against the table.
"I'll take the disaster that is Lumity over….that anyday." Willow pointed to the cuddling of Boscha and Lucci…and by cuddling, it was more accurate to call it the three eyed girl hugging Lucci so hard his face was turning purple.
"Touche."
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Amity walked through the sandy beech, seeing the familiar face among the small crowd. "Hey Willow." She looked over the dark green, full body suit the girl wore. "I take it the girl who built the LAW fort didn't show up today?"
"She moved to forests and suburban areas, away from sandy beaches." The girl huffed. "The nostalgia for the simpler times can only work on me for so long. I feel like I'm stranded in the middle of a desert just standing here."
"Hopefully the book lasts." Amity winced. "Hey, is my suit for Luz … too much?" She questioned.
"Lets see, it's a purple two piece showing off most of your skin and leaving very little to the imagination." Willow bluntly assessed. "Perfect for two friends that are completely platonic."
"If I give you half the ice pops I packed will you tone down the sarcasm?" Amity questioned.
"Make it three fourths of it and you got a deal." Willow gratefully accepted her bribe.
"Say…ah…this isn't weird for you, right?" Amity asked. "Me liking Luz since…you know?" They haven't addressed Willow's crush on her ever since she revealed it, and bringing it up only made things awkward between them.
"No, any hope of that died pretty fast after that day." Willow responded. "At most I'm hesitant to where I'm content with just waiting for any potential romantic interest to ask me out instead of vice versa, but I try not to associate the feelings with you."
"Well as long as I didn't ruin it for you forever, then I guess it's all good." She nodded slowly. "At this point it's probably the healthiest method any of us have…except maybe Gus…is he even into anybody?"
"Not sure, he never brings it up." Willow shrugged. "As long as there's no drama involved, I'm fine keeping it that way.
"Hey guys." They turned to Gus, who walked to them with trunks and a cooler. "Luz isn't here yet?"
"She said she'd meet us here, talking about getting a swimsuit that wasn't…so tight…" Amity slapped herself, trying desperately hard not to fantasize again. If she got another bloody nose, she didn't have enough tissues to clean herself up. "So, what's your plan for the day Gus?"
"Building the ultimate sandcastle, one that can square up with Emperor Belos himself!" Gus shouted as illusion fire flared up in the bathroom.
"I think Lucci's coven hate has slightly rubbed off on you since you formed Rubix." Willow observed.
"It's not like he doesn't have a point. Every Coven Head we come across is some creepy jerk or manipulative jerk…like Lilith." Amity grumbled.
"Hey guys!" They turned to Luz's adorable voice … and the one piece with sparkling blue scales that adorned her body perfectly. "Sorry I'm late, took a while to sneak out with this."
'Brain, status report!'
'What do you want me to say!? It's Luz in a bathing suit, and a cute adorable mermaid themed one at that!'
'Heart?'
'I just wanna stare at this all day.'
'Legs, start moving! We need to hide to save face!'
'Don't wanna. We're just going to trip again like we do every time. Plus who'd want to run away from a gal like that?'
"I'm just gonna go ahead and start taking ice pops before one of you explodes." Willow deadpanned.
"Oh come on Willow, the beach is lovely." Luz picked up an umbrella. "And here, we will claim our spot of fun!" And swung down the metal pole.
Clank
… The faces of Luz and Lucci were now staring at each other, each holding an umbrella. "Ahh….what are you doing here?" Luz asked the boy.
"On my date with Boscha, like I said I would be." He stated plainly, on his shoulders being a whole room's worth of supplies, even Boscha herself riding on top of the pile. "What are you guys doing here?"
"We were planning on having fun…..far … far away from bones-burrow so as to not run into you two dating." Amity sighed. "Of all the places to have dates, why did you have to pick the beach today?"
"Duh, it's one of the most romantic places to have one on one time as a couple." Boscha snidely called down from the pile she was sitting on. "Of course, you wouldn't know that, since you're always failing at flirting and falling on your face." And that immediately ruined her mood. "So get out of our way before I'm forced to run you over and mix your ashes into the sand."
"Boscha, what did we talk about threats to my friends?" Lucci glared up.
The three eyed girl blushed and turned her head, pouting. "Ugggh, Please move out of our way before I'm forced to run you over and mix your ashes into the sand." What the fuck just happened right now?
Willow didn't even gasp in shock, she simply passed out right then and there. "… We'll move her." Amity was many things, but someone who argued against a please from BOSCHA? Not conceivable at the moment.
"See, no harm, no fowl." Lucci smiled up at his girlfriend….his girlfriend that was somehow BOSCHA of all witches…that will never not be unbelievable.
"Uggggggggh, that made me feel so laaaame though! They should be the ones saying please to let me run them over!" The three eyed girl complained. "How am I going to prove social superiority if I stoop to their level!?"
"Letting your natural born beauty take everyone's breath away by taking a stroll down the shoreline with me?" Lucci suggested. "And if anyone is a jerk on the way, then you can prove your superiority with your fully rested strength as raw overkill."
The alpha bitch cupped her chin to sincerely think about it for a minute. "Alright, you've made your point, but I'm not going to get sunburned doing that." She jumped off the pile with a towel and a bottle of sunblock in her hand. "Set up our spot and then lather my back."
"Anything for you, my three eyed angel."
"....I seriously don't know who's in control of who here." Amity commented to the conscious people next to her.
"I think it might be Boscha, but she said please, and only an outside source can be capable of accomplishing that, and only after bloodsucking soul draining effort." Luz agreed.
"Maybe he's a shadow king, using strings to manipulate her power?" Gus suggested.
"Why does someone need to be in control of a relationship?" Lucci questioned.
"Oh Lucci, oh Lucci, oh you sweet, sweet, dumb and cute little boy." Boscha playfully rubbed her hand on Lucci's face before taking him off to the side. "Keep being that naive and follow my lead. Trust me, it's going to do you wonders."
"Yes mam." Amity's life would never make sense.
"So that was….disturbing." Luz commentated as the couple on the beach went off on their own. "So…wanna help Gus build that sand castle? I think we can build a tomb to place Willow's body in."
"Anything to take my mind off that."
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Willow groaned as she messed with her suit. "Why did you guys have to bury me? Now I have sand everywhere ." She complained.
"It's a classic beach tradition to bury someone in the sand." Luz explained as they molded a sandy brick for the fortress they were creating. "You don't go to the beach and NOT bury someone in the sand. Plus you were passed out for about an hour, we had to take advantage of that."
"I passed out because my mind was hit with something that defied all logic." Willow rolled her eyes. "How would you feel if you could suddenly see a painbow without dying in agony?"
"I can do that back on earth." Luz answered. What a disturbing world she lived in. "Anyways, you mind helping us mold? It's getting a little hard to do with.."
Krkrkrkrkrkrkr
Willow jumped back and fell on her butt, startled to see Luz's pet Crystal devil right next to her. "What's she doing here!?"
"Eda dropped her off. She had to go on an errand and didn't want to leave anyone alone with hooty." The girl answered. "King's up there at the top of the castle."
"Build it higher, higher!" The little guy shouted as he instructed Gus to work faster. "I may not be King of demons, but by the end of the day, I swear to be King of this beach!"
Willow sighed. "I can't help even if I wanted to. Plants really hate the beach Luz. Too much sand and heat, not enough nutrients in the soil."
"You can just do it by hand, you know." Amity said as she worked on a wall.
"That's easy for you to say, miss Abomination prodigy. You're having an abomination doing half the work with an abomination shovel as we speak." Willow grunted, pointing at the items. "Not to mention the abomination bucket, hammer, pick ax, may I go on?"
"Okay, now you're just being sour for no reason." Luz chided. "Turn that frown upside down!"
"I'd embrace your optimistic attitude normally, but may I remind you that on this beach is an ungodly horror in the making that we all must bear witness to?" Willow reminded them.
"Come on, they're on the other side of the beach." Luz laughed. "Just because we're both here doesn't mean we have to run into each other."
BAAAAM
A Grudgy ball blasted through one of the walls, the fire turning some of the sand into glass.
"It's gonna come crashing down!" Gus shouted. "Bail the castle, make a jump for it!"
"Luz, as the king of the beach, you must save me!" King jumped on Luz's head as the tower came down right on top of them.
Willow looked herself over. "And now the sand is even deeper in my suit … great."
"And that's how you can hit the ball just hard enough at the right angle to catch it on fire without using magic." The voice of the biggest bitch in Willow's life smugly prided herself as the walked over the sand dune that was once the castle.
"So it's an angle thing." Lucci nodded. "I always thought stuff just caught on fire if you chuckled it hard and fast enough."
"Nah, any bonehead can throw something hard. It takes brains and brawn to throw something in style, something you'll learn eventually, my little crystal." Oh barf, as if Willow didn't feel sick enough today.
"Seriously Boscha, we were minding our own business, why did you knock down our castle!?" Luz demanded an explanation
"Because it was in the way of the shack." She pointed at the flaming beachside restaurant. "They said it was vip only, so I showed them that everything they held important is worth nothing more than ash."
"Do I have any non murderous friends?" Luz muttered to herself.
"No, because sanity left the station the day we decided to exist." Willow banged her head against the sand. Unlike the table, it at least wasn't giving her a concussion…though being unconscious right now would've been welcomed. "Why do I even try? The day was ruined the moment we decided the beach was the best option we had."
"Aww come on Willow." Lucci smirked. "Don't tell me today is the day you decide to not have fun."
"It's not that I don't like having fun, it's just, the beach isn't me." She argued. "The sand gets everywhere, the razor crabs cut off body parts, the sun rains down on you all the time, and ice cream just melts. Not to mention there's no plants around."
"Well I have something you have never tried before." Luz grinned. "Surfing!"
"Whating?" Amity asked.
"You take a plastic board, and jump into the ocean." Everyone stared at the girl in horror. "Then you swim around until waves start popping out, and ride them all the way back to the shore." Maybe she really was suicidal.
"What kind of madman would willingly jump into boiling water and strand themselves in the middle of the ocean on nothing but a piece of plastic that'll melt to your skin?" Lucci called out.
"... Oh right, the water boils in the Boiling Isles." The girl gave a slow nod.
"Give the human an award for figuring out the freakin obvious." Boscha slow clapped sarcastically.
"You know what Boscha, if you're going to hang out with us, you can't talk like that!" Amity growled.
"I'm not hanging out with you, I'm on a date with my boyfriend." She pointed out. "You're the ones who don't even want to be here, so you leave."
"No, we're not going to leave just because you are turning things sour." Luz stood up. "You don't like us, and we don't like you, but we also don't want to murder each other.."
"Uh, I literally want to kill you." Boscha corrected again.
"...That SAID!" Luz kept going. "Why don't we settle this with friendly competition?"
"We are NOT challenging her to another Grudby match, I thought we were clear that would never happen again!" Willow yelled.
"Also we're trying to avoid you developing the clawthorne habit of gambling." Lucci pointed out.
"This isn't a gamble, and it is not another Grugby game." Luz answered. "We're going to play a little game back in my world called Volleyball."
"Pfft, sounds lame." Boshca rolled her eyes. "Why would I play your dumb little earth game?"
"Are you scared to play then?" Luz smirked.
"... If I win, I reserve the right to crush your skull into powder." Boscha growled.
"And if I win, you can't have dates on the beach anymore. Sorry Lucci, but that's how it has to be."
"Luz, you're gambling your life, again!" The boy shouted.
"Don't worry, it's all going to work in my favor, you'll see!" Luz turned to Willow. "Feel like knocking Boscha down?"
"Luz, I reiterate, I DON'T have strong magic here." Willow reminded her.
"Here's a couple plant glyphs for you to work with." She handed her over a stack of papers. "And this requires pure raw power, something you have in spades." Luz grinned. "With the four of us, it'll be a breeze."
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Luz stared at the scoreboard. "Three to twenty seven …" Luz fell back on the sand. " How is that possible! ? We have the numbers advantage and versatility in magic! HOW ARE WE LOSING THIS BADLY!?"
"Boscha is really good at sports." Willow deadpanned. "And this time she managed to get Lucci on her side."
"It was four against one and no one wanted to side with her, of course I joined her this time." Lucci explained. "I talked it down from outright death to just a thrashing if I stayed with her." The boy responded. "Take it as a lesson to not gamble Luz."
"She's the one who destroyed the sand castle, look at poor Gus!" She pointed to the boy sulking on the ground.
"Dreams fall with the ocean tide …" Their young friend attempted to keep one of the blocks upright, only for it to fall to pieces.
"Again, the castle was in the way of my target, not my fault it was so big and tacky." Boscha scoffed, before turning to Lucci. "And you were just so adorable when you spiked the ball into the ground at Mach two speed. Such ferocity in one unassuming package."
"And you are so majestic when you can use sheer air pressure to catch the ball from a plant powered spike." The boy responded back, instantly going back to the girl.
"Ugh, why do I keep running into flirting!?" King complained as he and Centi rested in their own cozy looking sand cavern. "Just one day!"
"Hey, we don't like it anymore then you do." Willow groaned. "We have to go to school and spend eight hours with this train wreck unfolding."
Luz groaned. "Okay, clearly we're all stressed, and maybe the beach wasn't the best idea. We can work something out later. Probably after Boscha beats me up." It wasn't like they had a chance of winning at this point. "I'm sorry guys."
"Not completely your fault." Amity reassured her with a back pack. "No one could've predicted Boscha and Lucci getting together. That alone throws everyone off."
"Seriously, you guys are just being rude for no reason by this point." Lucci rolled his eyes. "You're acting like me and Boscha together spells the end of the world or something."
The ground in front of Gus exploded into a massive spire of sand. "... Wow, Mattholomew must be rubbing off me."
"I don't think that was magic, or at least magic from you." Amity wearily said as she looked at the ground. "It's been a while since I've been to the beach…but I don't remember sand being able to move around like this." She pointed to the ground, where the silicates of sand began moving beneath their feet.
"It's definitely not something that happens on earth." Luz noted as she watched it form into stairs leading to nowhere. "Willow, is this on the list of things to hate about the beach?"
"No, but it's going to get added real quickly." Willow said as walls began to form around them. "Okay, please tell me this is just some elaborate prank from Boscha. I won't even be mad this time and try to murder her."
"No, Hexide doesn't have any decent construction magic users." The girl admitted. "I checked after a particularly bad run in once …"
"Maybe this is the moment where we leave the beach before we almost die." King suggested, before stone walls entrapped the exit. "... I blame your world ending romance Lucci."
"My love isn't a sign of the apocalypse!" The boy himself groaned as spikes grew on the walls. "Okay, Boscha, you packed those Potions for later?"
"When don't I have one?" The alpha bitch smirked as she covered the vial in flames. "Stand back everyone, we're bursting our way out!" She threw one at the walls as Lucci whistled. The vial began to bubble and boil…
Kappppooooom
A neat and clean hole formed from the impact as a result. Almost perfectly clean, with little bits of glass being formed around the rim from the heat. "Everyone through!" Lucci shouted as they all jumped in.
"Okay, we just have to make it to the forest, and we're good to go." Luz looked at the trees … which were uprooted with multiple, spikey pillars of sand. "Or maybe not because it's a beach with practically unlimited ammo!"
"Those trees …" Willow gained an apocalyptic look on her face. "This thing will pay."
"And we lost Willow to the rage of revenge." Gus signed as platforms of sand began raining down on them, trying to flatten them like pancakes. "How is this possible!? How is the sand moving on its own without a source!?"
"I swear I feel like we've covered something about this before, like it was something important we read about.." Luz scratched her head, before snapping her fingers. "Duh! Of course! Amity, Willow, you guys remember that pamphlet of old magic artifacts you showed us? Wasn't one of those things something that could control sand."
"Right, the Sandstone!" Amity shouted.
"It can't be the sandstone you moron!" Boscha once more rudely downed her. "It's stuck in the Emperor's Castle, where no moron without any experience would touch it!"
"....So funny story.." Huh, she would've expected Lucci to stay quiet. Dating someone was turning him into an honest guy, who knew? "We were trying to heal my mom's curse with the healing hat, so we broke in, and I may have, sort of…swiped it and lost it."
"... You lost one of the most powerful artifacts on the Boiling Isles …" Boscha looked at him with a blank face. "You know, I usually attribute your choice in friends to naivety, but this may be the first time I'm genuinely disappointed."
"May I say in my defense that it was a very emotionally charged day that led to me going manticore for the first time and trying to kill my aunt." Lucci scratched his head. "I think I lost it when I transformed for the first time over the bridge to the castle. Must've floated into the water and to the beach shore."
"And it's doing … what?" Luz questioned.
"Construction." Amity responded. "Endless construction without any purpose until the end of time passes by."
"Hey, it works by having someone control its power when it's holding it, right?" Gus asked. "So all we need to do is find it and get it to stop."
"Where would it be in the middle of a beach?" Lucci asked.
"Best guess. The giant temple it's creating around itself." Willow glared outward, pointing to the structure.
"Okay then, to the giant temple of sand!" Luz shouted, hoisting King onto her back.
"Why are you bringing me!?"
"Your tiny and can fit through any small holes."
"Again Lucci! I blame your world ending romance!"
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Boscha was actually having a pretty good day before this. Her boyfriend's attention was on her and nobody else, and she got to put the loser squad in their place and utterly humiliate them. Sure she had to 'act nice' per Lucci's asking, but the payoff was more than worth it.
Then the beach decided to screw them over and start making sandy temples to try and terrorize her day. Nobody terrorized Boscha, that was her job! She was going to the source of this mess, and she would break that rock into pieces … or give it to her parents for profit.
"You know, I really don't like this guy's sense of style!" The human shouted as she ran up a staircase that vanished behind her. "Don't just stop your artistic streak! At least finish what you started!"
A sandy anvil fell right behind the loser, missing a great opportunity to get rid of the bitch for good. "I don't think the rock is a fan of criticism!" Blight yelled as she docked under some sandy spears.
"Why does the rock even care what we say, it's a rock!!" Lucci yelled as he raised his shield to block a sand chandelier from crushing them.
"Everything has feelings apparently!" That illusionist kid shouted. "I've been trying to use illusions to distract it, but it just keeps hitting them all simultaneously."
"That's what you get for using weak magic." Boscha commented as she tossed an exploding potion at a sand wall.
"Of all the times you chose to insult us, can it NOT be when we're all about to die!?" Half a witch grabbed a desk made out of sand and began smashing it against some sandy cannonballs that began to fire at them.
"If I can belittle someone, it means I'm strong and in control of the situation!" She shouted back, tossing a tentacle potion at the line of fire.
"If you were in control of the situation, we'd already be where the sandstone is and heading back home!" Amity shouted, forming abomination goo around her hands and breaking down another wall with gooey gauntlets. "If you had any sense in your head you'd have left the beach hours ago!"
"Hey, if she needs to feel in control, let her. It's a fine enough coping mechanism as long as she's not panicking." Lucci defended her as he formed a large array of bubbles, launching them out at all the sandy constructs.
"I'd argue the extreme levels of bias you have but we literally don't have the time to talk about it!" The human sent out those weird papers and created a wall of ice over their heads. "That should keep anything from trying to fall on us, so are we any closer to the sandstone!?"
"We're about halfway there!" The furry guy shouted … before the main castle doubled in height. "Aaaaaaaaaaaagggggg! Damn you! Damn you all to heck!"
"This is getting us nowhere, and we're going to get too exhausted at this rate!" Willow shouted. "If I had plants, I could just grow something for us to reach the top with."
"I could do that if I had enough abomination goo, but I'm running low." Amity groaned. "We'd need a rocket or Something to reach the top at this rate.
"I have two options." Lucci said. "One is a very unstable plan involving trying to learn how to fly on my own and has an eighty percent chance of crashing us into the boiling seas."
"What's the other?" Gus questioned.
"We could use Glyphon to just fly there." What!?
"I think the boiling sea feels like a nice place to explore." Boscha said before she could fully process her thoughts.
"This is not the time to get jealous girl, our lives are on the line!" Porter exclaimed.
"You try being cool with it when it's your boyfriend getting intimate with another girl, a girl you can barely stand to look at for five minutes!" Bosch defended. "Pretty sure Amity would back me up here!"
"I'm not da-that's not the point!" Amity blushed, clearly agreeing with her. "It's more than just my life at stake here! I know selflessness is a foreign concept to you, but for once think about more than just yourself. You can live to be irritated at this, or you can die right now accomplishing nothing and nobody giving a damn about you!"
She growled. "... Fine …" She grabbed Lucci. "But you will make this up to me."
"Yes my angel." The boy nodded quickly. "Luz?"
"Don't even have to ask buddy! The human got her grubby and harlot hands all over her boyfriend as they began to twirl around. "I'm doing a fusion dance….this almost makes up for how terrible today has been!" A large glow overtook the two, and Lucci… her boyfriend… disappeared, creating the taller and annoying bird creature.
"Alrighty, time to take on a giant sand castle. Isn't that gonna be something for the story books." They grinned, forming a massive shield. "Let's see … align this here, and that there, a couple of these." They began to draw multiple lines and circles across the shield. "Okay people, hop aboard, we don't have all day."
"Is this some sort of hover glyph?" Willow asked.
"Sort of. Luz has been working on a safety hover glyph for when she falls from great heights, so I've tweaked it a little for speed and power." The shield began to glow. "Instead of suspending you guys in the air for about five seconds, it's going to shoot you guys upward at high velocity and crash through the walls above us to the final room."
"... How is this better than Lucci's plan B!?" Amity questioned.
"That involved just hovering forward and hoping for the best." The glow got brighter. "Since I'm here, I'll be the safety net…unless I lose control of steering."
"You can lose control of steering!?" Half a witch shouted.
"Too late, we're off!"
BOOM
And then the wind was in Boscha's hair, a breeze as they soared through the sky. "Ahahahahahhahahahaha!" The fusion looked like they were actually enjoying this. "In just a second, you'll be toast sandstone!"
The castle looked like it rumbled, before producing two arms of sand and turned them to fists, launching them at the group. "It still doesn't like that!" The illusionist deadpanned.
"This is going to be rough!" The fusion created a giant drill covered in those weird symbols and lit in on fire. "Prepare for a bumpy landing!"
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Lucci pried his head from the wall and spat out a wave of sand from his mouth. That was rougher than he intended. "Boscha, honey, when we go on our next date to make up for this, can we please do something less … sandy?"
"When we go out for our next date… we are going to be completely alone and isolated from everyone else." Boscha grabbed him by the shoulders. "And when this is all over, I expected double the cuddle time to make up for getting that human floozy all over you!"
"Floozy!?" Luz shouted as she jumped out of the sand. "You don't get to call me that when you haven't experienced fusion yourself!"
"Hey there, Willow here." The girl raised her hand. "Remember the sandcastle trying to bury us alive, anyone?"
"I'm stuck!" King shouted from inside the sandy pile.
"Hold on King." Lucci pulled him out by the tail. "Well we made it, so where is it?"
Right there." Amity pointed to the center of the room, where the sandstone laid inside of some pillow casing, presented and shown off on a sandy pedestal.
"Aww, looks cute." Luz said. "Like a little prince showing off to the aha!" She pressed a plant glyph on the ground, sending a vine straight at the stone. Before it got even close, a giant ax overhead chopped it in half, followed by a giant boulder crushing the vines, and then by spikes shooting up from the ground. "... Well there was my attempt. Lucci, how's your long range bubbling coming along?"
"Two feet is my max range, and we're ten feet away." Lucci twisted his neck. "Guess I'm going to have to bulldoze right through it." He ran ahead, and was instantly hit with a cannonball to the face, followed by a punch to the gut and a kick in behind. "I am so glad I got my super durability back." He winced, continuing to move forward as he made two shields.
"Lucci!" Boscha yelled at him. "I just want you to know…,.I still hate your friends with a burning passion….!"
"I know.." Going into this relationship was always going to have its bumps. It was a miracle she didn't insult Willow more, but she compensated by targeting Amity and Luz.
"...And the fact you can keep moving while under all this pain is really hot!" But the pros more than outweigh the cons by a large…LARGE margin.
Lucci pushed his way closer and closer through the assault of sandy attacks. "Seven feet … six feet …" A wall of spikes almost crushed him, as he did his best to push back. "Five feet …"
"We would help you more, but we're low on attack and magic, and Boscha would kill us before we even think about another fusion." Amity called out to him.
"If you ever fuse with anyone and never tell me about it, I will get the leash and tie you to my arm!" His girlfriend was so caringly possessive. How sweet.
"It's fine, I'm getting closer!" He shouted, doing his best to push back. "Four feet … three feet …" One more and he'd be within bubble range.
"You got this Lucci!" Willow called out. "Your the L in LAW! Show us what that means!"
"Go, Lucci Go!" Gus cheered. He had so many supportive and caring friends. Why did he ever think they were a bad thing?
"Two feet, ready to go….!" He reached out his hands.
Shink
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggh!" Both his hands were impaled by spears of sand.
"LUCCI!" Everyone shouted.
"Don't worry …" He grinned. "It's gonna take more than that to-"
Shink shink shink shink shink
… He looked down at the multitude of spikes in his arms and legs. "... That'd do it." He fell off to the side.
"Lucci, don't worry, I'm coming!" Luz cried out, only for sand chains to pop up and secure her to the ground. "Eventually!"
King looked around at the multiple sandy arms coming around them. "Lucci, can you still throw!?" The guy shouted.
"Maybe once the sand leaks out of my wounds I'll get to it…also I can't feel my arms right now." He answered.
The little guy screamed. "Okay then, It's on me!" He pulled out the chaap bag, reaching inside. "... There's one left!"
"WHAT!?" Luz yelled. "But I've been careful, there should be at least half a bag left!"
"Yeah, Eda had to use a couple to fly Centi here without eating Owlbert." King answered sheepishly. "It's kind of our only choice now!"
Luz groaned out loud. "Fine, just make it worth it!"
"I will!" He waved it in the air. "Hey Centi! Wherever you are, know there's one Chaap left, and the sandstone doesn't want you to have it!" He tossed over the chip right at the pedestal.
"Nice arm." Willow commented.
"I've been practicing."
The ground broke apart, an enticed Centi rushing forward with a spray of acid. "KRAAAA!"
"That's still super disturbing." Amity commented.
"I know, but when life is one the line, who cares!" Luz yelled as her pet rushed forward.
Spike and saws were sent at the big gal. " Kraaaaawwaaaaaaaaaa!" Who melted every structure that came her way without issue or trouble.
"So what's the new plan?" Gus questioned.
"I'll grab the stone when Centi gets in close! Boscha, tend to Lucci until he heals!" Luz instucted.
"Just so you know, I'm not listening to you, I'm just concerned about my boyfriend right now so it conveniently matches our goals!" His three eyed angel ran to him.
Lucci watched as Centi got closer and closer, melting through the sand like a war maniac until they eventually got close enough to the stand … and at the chip along with the sandstone. "Luz, grab it now!"
"This is for ruining our beach episode!" Luz jumped over Centi and grabbed the stone from her maw.
"Technically the day was ruined before the sandstone came…" Gus corrected.
"Don't be pedantic, I don't have the patience!" Luz screamed.
The shifting sand stopped … then immediately fell to pieces. He created a small dome to act as an umbrealla, pushing away the sand until he was met with sunlight. "Great …" Lucci looked at his healing wounds. "Now there's sand in my body."
"I've been getting covered in sand all day in places I didn't want to know I had places." Willow groaned. "So welcome to my world."
"Worst. Beach day. Ever." Amity grunted, shaking sand out of her ears. "I think I hate the beach now too."
"Yeah …" Luz sighed. "Does anyone want to hold this? I need to comfort Centi now that we lost the last Chaap." Yeah, a wild Crystal Devil was …
"Wait a minute.." Lucci picked the discarded rock up. "Will of its own, enhances magic, needs another source to gain a form… Gus, you realize that this acts just like the crystal in the school and a gauldur stone?"
The illusionists' eyes widened. "Yeah, it does… which means… the sandstone is another Crystal Devil."
"Are Crystal Devils just magnetically attracted to each other or something?" Amity asked. "Because you have run into SO many within the last few months alone."
"I know, and I'm getting tired of it." Lucci grunted. "They're so out of control, yet when I talk to them… it's like I'm talking to other people. And I'm half of one, so… it's all just so confusing to deal with."
"Just don't." Boscha pointed out. "It's not your responsibility that they're all insane maniacs."
"You're probably right." It still didn't make it any easier. "Anyone, I'lll just bubble this…and poof." He tapped the bubble, and teleported it away. "Hopefully mom knows not to open that."
"Wait, since when can you teleport your bubbles?" Amity asked.
"Since the fair. I tried to upgrade them to teleport people, but so far it's just non living things …" He looked at his stomach. "Which actually makes me very existential about my own existence, and Palisman."
"Don't. Again, not your responsibility." Boscha grabbed him by the arms. "Now come on, you have cuddle time you need to make up to me after all that."
"Right…so you're still mad about that?"
"Furious." Boscha held him closer. "You're a moron, but you're MY moron, and no one else's." …Well that was a nice thought to end the day on if nothing else.
"Hey!" They turned to a lifeguard, looking at the area with horror. "Which of you kids is responsible for this mess!?"
"... That one guy over there sir!" Luz pointed to a direction, and started booking it, grabbing Amity. "SCRAM!"