Summary: Some childhood fluff
Sugar had many regrets in life. Trying poison berry, doing that one plant palisman, sneaking on top of a Crystal Devil to grab ingredients. However, the greatest was what happened to her previous master. A mistake, one she could have avoided if she chose just a bit quicker.
She was meant to be smart, to give side and advice when it was needed. She could've never foreseen that her own nativity would get her partner killed. It kept Sugar up on most nights for the past forty years from guilt.
But this was a new opportunity, one that would allow her to guide a young soul to do what they needed to do, to help their indecisive nature. "Mmmm." And maybe she should have done better about preventing them from disobeying their mother.
"What's with the metal band?" Clover's owner asked as the master's friends began huddling around a campfire.
"Lucci jumped into a prototype portal against Eda's wishes, and this is his grounding punishment. No kissing Boscha or telling lies for a week." As the human explained, it was a rough punishment. "And she fed him no sweets the entire time whenever he was allowed to eat."
"Yeesh, I thought my parents were cruel when it came to corporal punishments." Ghost's owner winced. "How much longer does he have?"
"One minute." His master's mother said as she approached her boy from behind. "Now Lucci, did you learn your lesson?"
"Mhmhmhmhm."
"It doesn't matter if I would've done the same, me risking my life is not the same as risking your life." The mother chastised.
"Mmmmmmhh."
"I get to be hypocritical. I have children, you don't."
"Better to let it go while you still can Lucci, this is a fight no kid can win." Emelia's master sighed. "Believe me, I've tried dozens of times."
"Mmmm." Sugar's boy sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Alright, I'm going to take it off now, and the next time you do something this stupid again, I'm welding this to your mouth for a full year."
"Mmmm?"
"Crystal Devils can survive without food, we'll see if you can too." She retorted as she pulled it off.
"Bleggh, I'm gonna be tasting metal for the next month." Her master complained, grabbing his tongue and stretching it out to scrub.
"Don't worry, I got something better tasting for you later." Maya's owner pecked the boy on the face with a soft kiss. "But first..."
Smack
"Ow!" Lucci rubbed his head.
"That was for risking your life for the human of all people!" So many angry women in the boy's life. Sugar wondered if that was mentally healthy in the long run.
"I have a name you know." The human complained.
"And I refuse to remember it on principle!" The three eyed girl shouted.
"You know, I was fully prepared to have a nice relaxing night just sitting around the campfire with my friends and girlfriend. Silly me for thinking I could have that with Boscha around." Ghost's owner grumbled.
"Hey, so far it seems we're going back to the old LAW tradition of telling Lucci he's a moron." Clover's owner smirked. "Like the time with the cake incident."
"Last I remember, you weren't complaining about being covered in cake flavored abomination goo." Lucci retorted.
"No, I was complaining that after we finished eating about the fact you blew up my favorite shirt." The glasses girl deadpanned.
"Though to be fair, you were the one that had a bag of flour on you for some reason." Ghost's owner pointed to the plant girl.
"I-uh…confused flower and flour." Clover's owner blushed.
"Okay, can you guys not talk vaguely tonight? I'm in answer finding mode, and I'm not in the mood for deciphering cryptic speech." The human groaned.
"I thought after everything we've dealt with over the past month you'd be in 'I don't want to know' mode for a good while." Emelia's master noted.
"What can I say? A lot can change in a week." The human groaned. "I need as much clarity as possible at the moment. So many things I'm trying to figure out at the moment and not enough time." She looked down.
Ghost's owner looked at her mate, and placed a hand on the human's shoulder. "Well, we are around a campfire, why don't we talk about those incidents for Luz?"
"So we're going to go into oath breaking mode today, cool." Her boy smirked.
"You all took oaths?" Her boy's mate asked.
"It was for the Boiling Isles' own good." Clover's master stated, the fire shifted instinctually to cause lighting to fall onto her, darkening the area. "In order to protect what little sanity remained, and spare the innocence of mortals, we had an oath that all incidents never be spoken of again, and simply repressed into the cold dark abyss of our subconscious." She ominously spoke in a dark voice.
"Aka, we found life easier when we didn't think twice about what we did." Ghost's owner nodded. "Actually that's still pretty much the case today."
"Like with the mind incidents and how Luz never talks about what she's seen in my head whenever she went in there both times." Her master stated.
"There were two mind incidents?" Emelia's master questioned.
"Sleep deprivation nightmares." The human answered. "Side note, Lucci is NEVER allowed Oracle magic anymore, it causes worse after effects than plants."
"Yeah, on me." Lucci rolled his eyes. "Anyways, who's going first on this little dive into memory lane?"
"Well we already started with the cake incident, so we may as well finish." Ghost's owner went on. "So it started out like this …"
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Amity really hated her birthday. Watched closely and made to bond with kids she didn't like and got presents made to 'help her advance' instead of making her happy. It was the most miserable time of the year, and she's only ever had four of them. "Boo, that stinks. Birthdays should be the happiest time of your life!" Lucci exclaimed as they hung around Willow's house today. "They're the one time of year where your legally able to get away with whatever you want."
"Except, you know, not literally." Willow countered.
"Then why can mama and me rob candy stores without consequences?" Lucci asked with that adorable naivety that definitely improved the group.
"Trust me guys, I'd love to do nothing more than to rob a candy store, or a toy store, or file a restraining order against Ed and Em, but mom and dad always take over everything at my party. It's basically just another business meeting for them." It's why Amity didn't invite them to her last one.
"Then how about we throw you our own party?" Lucci questioned. "With cakes, gifts, balloons, creepy clowns you beat up until they die, all the stuff."
"That sounds amazing!" Amity's eyes lit up. "Except…how are we going to get that stuff?"
"Don't worry, mama prepared me for everything." He shook his head, and a bunch of supplies fell out of his hair.
"... So is the food packaged?" Willow asked. "Because I am not eating your hair."
"Also how did you store the clown?" Amity questioned.
"Let's just say it wasn't easy. Right little guy?" He turned to the clown.
" I shall dine on your flesh!"
"Hilarious stuff." Lucci chuckled. "Only problem is I don't know how to make cake. Oh, Willow, you're good at boring stuff when you're not beating people up with plants." A vine smacked Lucci into the floor. "Like that!"
"First of all, it's not boring, it's calmly enthusiastic." Willow retorted. "And second of all, I have a bag of flower…but the only thing I've ever made for myself is cereal."
"That's practically half the meals mama makes for me everyday, so cooking must be super easy!" Lucci concluded. "We'll make the most delicious cake ever and give you your first truely happy birthday!"
"Sounds good to me." Amity grinned. "Oh, can it be abomination flavored?"
"Those things have a flavor?" Lucci questioned.
"I got some in my mouth once. It tasted like dying and the endless dark void." Willow brought up as they made their way into the kitchen.
"Oh, so the same flavor as black licorice! Why didn't you say so?" Lucci smirked.
"You know, I always thought black licorice was so foul that it could never be consumed by mortal man. That fact it originates from here makes too much sense."
"So should we add the evil clown to the mix?" Willow questioned as she pulled out a bowl.
"Nah, that would make the dish too funny. We need something a little more serious … oh, how about a cup of shadows?" Lucci jumped on the kitchen counter and dug through the cabinet, taking out a jar of the constantly screaming shrouds of darkness. "The yells of hopelessness and depression will give us the right amount of bitterness." He threw it into the bowl, .
"Hey, this is a cake, shouldn't it be partially sweet too?" Amity questioned.
"Sweet huh? What kind of sweets do we get to work with?" Luccin bag throwing down randoms jars on the floors, making a mess."
"Sweet like Amity." Willow stated.
"Like what?" Amity questioned.
"Sweet like Candy! Because we need to add that to the mix!" The girl chuckled nervously for some reason.
"Hm, not sure if I see candy here-Oh! Firebee honey!"
"So even back then everyone was oblivious?"
"In retrospect I was mostly just happy to have any friends at all. Romance never even crossed my mind."
"And I only had eyes for one lovely angel, so that might've narrowed my worldview a bit."
The bowl lit on fire the moment the honey interacted with it. "I think we made it too spicy!" Willow screamed. "Quick, the Ice scream should balance it out!"
"Wait, we're going to put Ice scream in it while we're baking it?" Amity wasn't a cook but that didn't seem right.
"I think it's already cooking." Lucci pointed out as smoke began to form, jumping to the freezer. "Might want to pour the flower in while I pick out the flavors. We have charco-late, Scream-lime, Boo Berry, Mud-pie, Vanilla…"
"Just pour it all, the fire's beginning to spread!" Willow pointed at the pillar of flames that had started to spread to most of the kitchen table.
"Okay then, everything is a go!" Lucci just shoved it all on. "Amity, help me grab the top of the pot, we're gonna need to elbow grease it inside."
"Abomination, raise!" She summoned her mighty creation … which was just a little guy at the moment. "Shove it all in!"
"Braa.' " It slowly made it way, grabbing the top of the pot….only for it to be assimilated by the bulky mass of batter and cake. "mAAWAAA ." It groaned in pain as it melted in the mix.
"No, my baby!" She cried out as the pot continued to boil and bubble.
"Willow, plant magic, I can't keep a hold!" Lucci shouted as he struggled to keep the lid on.
"Is that really a good idea? What if you accidentally make minions out of it?!"
"I'm struggling to keep this thing from exploding, I'm not going to stop and make an army out of your vines just to keep down a cake of all things!" He shouted as he tried bubbling the thing. "... Hey, that worked." He smiled.
"Um, Lucci?" Amity spoke up. "Remember what happens when you bubble my abominations?"
He blinked. "Well first nothing, then they glow pink, then …" He paused, looking at the glowing bubble. "... Ah nuts."
"I'LL PROTECT YOU AMITY!" Willow ran over and squeezed her tightly as they fell down on the floor. "BRACE FOR IMPACT!"
KAPPLLOOOOT
Light pink gooey batter exploded everywhere, covering everything single inch of the kitchen and themselves in the dessert.
"Mm obay." The muffled voice of Lucci spoke from a far corner of the room.
"Lucci, you destroyed the kitchen!" Willow complained. "How am I going to explain this to my parents!?"
"Me destroy the kitchen? You're the one that got too scared to use your plant magic!"
"Because I didn't want you to destroy the isles instead!"
"I don't do it on purpose!"
"So even as kids they used to do that."
"Eh, friendly ribbing. Things would be boring if we just agreed all the time."
"Yeah, and we had Amity to balance us out."
"If anything, I feel we have a healthier insulting banter between us now. At least now I'm not naive enough to think being hit in the skull is a love tap between friends."
"... Why did you use to think that?"
"When you can shrug off a tree being thrown at you, a lot of stuff is relative."
"Guy's, Guy's, shut up for a minute!" Amity raised her voice to stop the arguing, grabbing a scoop of the mixture, and taking a bit out of it. "It's delicious! It's the best cake I've ever had!"
Her two friends looked at each other and grabbed their own goop. "Whoa….it's like a black painbow covered in sugar crystals." Lucci was in awe of it. "A perfectly balanced ratio of bitterness and sweetness, with just enough of a savory aftertaste."
Willow slurped it down. "And I don't feel sick like the last time I ate abomination goo, so it's amazing!"
"Wait, if it's part abomination goo…abomination, rise!" Amity summoned her magic circles.
"Ca…waa….ca….waa."
"A cake that can be your best friend?" Lucci stared at it with sparkly eyes. "Miracles DO happen!"
"I'll praise to that." Willow nodded, taking another slurp of cake.
"Oh man, think of the possibilities with this!" Amity was getting giddy at the idea in her head. "Let's find Ed and Em and drown them in batter!!"
"And mom said cannibalism never paid!" Lucci laughed.
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"And that was the cake incident." Ghost's master finished.
"Hhhsss." A new story to tell, how charming.
"Mew." Amity's stress levels were being relieved greatly. They discussed in their last session she needed to be more open about her past if she were to continue her relationship with the human long term. That and talking with friends in general made her feel better.
"You were all so adorable as kids." Said human cooed as she squeezed the girl tightly
"Yeah, we were…too bad that didn't stop us from getting caught by Mom and Dad." Amity sighed. "Once we almost drowned the twins, Dad came in and put a stop to it. He was actually impressed by the cake abomination, but mom just went on the long rant about playing with hooligans. In fact…it's probably that incident that made them put their foot down about inviting Lucci and Willow to my fifth birthday."
"I'm telling you guys, operation burn the house is a bit much, but it will get the job done." Her master stated.
"Lucci, we both know you don't have the will to go through with that after Eclipse Lake." Ghost's master called back. "Don't break your conscience for my sake."
"That was different, I actually had pity for that golden twerp for a brief second. The same does not apply to you mom."
"Come on Lucci. She's a bitch, not a genocidal maniac." The human argued.
"Fine then, second opinion. Sugar, your thoughts?"
"Hsssss." Only do so if there's a clear opportunity and she's trying to kill you. Otherwise, don't seek out revenge, it'll damn you in the long run.
"Alright, I'll stop thinking about murder for now." The boy relented.
"You know, knowing this story, it gives a lot of context for what you did with Mama." Maya's owner brought it. "Disaster in the making, but something sweet at the end of it."
"Pretty sure that sums up my baby in general." Owlbert's owner patted Sugar's on the head.
"Aww, thanks guys." The boy gave a grin that reminded Sugar so much of her previous life. "So, what should we tell them now? The plant incident?"
"We already did that one." Amity noted. "What about the sinkhole?"
"Save that for the end." Willow nodded. "It involves Boscha, and I don't want to talk about her."
"Screw you too, half a witch." Maya's owner flipped her off.
"There's actually one I wouldn't mind getting more context for right now." The human spoke up. "The mirror incident I believe it was?"
"Oh, please not that one." Lucci groaned. "Any story that doesn't bring up the twins."
"Was it really that bad?" Gus asked.
"We got grounded for three months because my dad's paid for all the damage and the twins took most of the brunt." Clover's owner lamented.
"And this was back when… i had a crush on them." Sugar's owner spoke in a low tone.
"What?" Maya's owner asked, making the fire in the cent flare up ten times hotter.
"Yeah, that was brutal." Amity nodded. "A heart broken in two by two jerks."
"Honestly surprised he didn't give up on romance altogether." Willow said, glaring at Boscha. "Don't know if it would've been better that way."
"Come one, please?" The human begged. "I won't ask about it again if you explain it just this once."
Lucci groaned. "Fiiiiine." Her boy relented. "It started when we got a tip."
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"Let me get this straight." Willow looked at Lucci. "Amity's parents, your parents, are making an evil army to take over the world?" The boy looked at Amity's siblings with a bit of a sparkly look that Willow gave to Amity from time to time. It was weird to witness, but it was a million times better than crushing on Boscha.
"That's right curly-top." The elder girl nodded. "Such a disaster in the making."
"If nothing is done, the Isles is doomed." The elder boy moved in close. "You're our only hope."
Amity stared at the twins blankly. "Part of me knows you're lying, the other part knows Mom and Dad would absolutely stoop that low." So many concerns.
"Hey, we'd do it ourselves, but illusion magic is more of our speed." Emera rubbed Lucci's head with a wink. "Plus I know you and Mittens are an adorable duo of destruction. No one else is better for the job."
"You can count on me!" The boy nodded quickly, saluting the twins. "I'll make sure the army is long gone."
"Aww, thanks little dude." Edric leaned in close, wrapping an arm around the boy. "Let us know if there's anything we can do to reward you afterwards."
"Wow, they were so unsubtle."
"The worst part was they did it knowing he was one of my friends and explicitly did it in front of us."
"Could we move this along please?" Willow questioned. "It is the fate of the world after all." Don't let the end of demonity be because these two morons were flirting.
"Of course, of course, head in through the back." Emera showed them to a door. "You'll get a bird's eye view of their plans, and the perfect vantage point for causing chaos."
"That is our specialty." Amity nodded. "Okay Lucci, you're in front like always. Willow will take the back and either go long range or pull us out if necessary, I'll deal with the rest."
"Even back then Amity was the talented leader of the group."
" Please Luz, I'm not that talented. Heck, I'm not even the leader anymore. That's more your territory now."
"What, me leader?! No, naw, that can't be right."
"Can you losers save flirting for after the story?"
Lucci walked inside of the room first, as the two of them prepared for anything. "Man, it's dark. I can't see anything." He noted.
"Just glow-up the room." Willow pointed out as they walked in, following to see what was inside.
"Right, my bad." The boy began glowing … showing an army of Luccis, Willows, and Amitys. "... CLONE ARMY!" Death by Amity … an alright way to go.
"AHHHHHHH!" Amity wasn't so enthralled by the idea. "No, no, no, no! This can't be happening, why…why would my parent's do something so horrible!?"
"Hey, it's not that bad." Lucci waved his hands in front of one of his clones.
How to motivate Lucci … how to motivate a lovesick moron … "They may try to steal a kiss from Ed and Em." Wave the right bait.
"Alright you handsome devils, you've breathed your last breath!"
"SERIOUSLY!? How could you be so driven by the thought of those creepy idiots!?"
"I was young and foolish back then, and I was still under the impression that you would never like me at all, given how many times you said 'I'll never even come close to tolerating you, Thrashthorne'."
"And dating a guy and a girl at the same time is the bisexual dream … except when they're both siblings, then incest makes it weird."
"Bisexu-what now?"
"Human term, it means liking guys and girls."
"Isn't that how everyone is?"
"I'm pretty sure I just like girls."
"Then your a lesbian."
"Why do humans have so many labels for this stuff? Can't they just stop at saying 'I like you'?"
"Oh poor, naive Gus. If that was the case, about twenty percent of the world's problems would've been solved from the lack of density."
"I'm feeling really conflicted about this!" Willow began tossing away as many of her own clones as possible.
"This actually feels really cathartic for me!" Amity twisted one of her clone's necks.
"I have so many questions." Lucci noted at that. "Hey, I've been punching these guys for a while now. They don't feel very … durable."
"Yeah, same…" Willow hurled a Lucci clone over her head. "I've tossed Lucci around dozens of times before. These guys aren't nearly as heavy as he is, and their shields break apart like glass."
"Glass." Amity chuckled. "Man, reminds me of my mom's glass sculpture room."
"Why does your mom have that?" Lucci questioned.
"To sell it for money once people start begging for it."
"Why would anyone want to own glass statues? They're so impractical to own." Willow questioned. "They practically shatter if you breathe on them too long."
"Yeah, mom says the only purpose they have is to be used as target practice…kind of like how these guys are." Lucci brought out, slowly releasing a shield that bisected a dozen more clones. "Hey…have you guys noticed that these clones don't really fight back either?"
"Now that you mention it … they just kinda do what we do …" Amity nodded along.
"What, are we fighting a mirror?" Willow rhetorically asked.
"Mirror's … one of an … illusionist's … greatest … tools …." Amity's face became that cute shade of red as her anger began to boil up so much steam came out of her ears. "ED AND EM, WHEN WE GET OUT OF HERE, YOU'RE BOTH SOOOO DEAD!" She smashed another clone. "This isn't the factory, the twins put us in one giant illusion!"
"Wait, have we been fighting illusions?" Lucci asked. "But what for?"
"And this over here you'll see my esteemed collection." Mrs Blight spoke as she walked in with a group of witches. "Worth billions in snails …"
"Oh … shoot ….." Amity winced. "Lucci … you wouldn't happen to know an instant disappearing spell, right?"
"Sorry, illusions aren't my thing." The boy responded.
"WHAT DID YOU MISCREANTS DO!?" Well, Amity's house was nice while it lasted.
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"You know, thinking back on it … that might have been what caused her to snap." Clover's master finished. "From then on out, Lucci and I were banned from going anywhere near Blight Manor or Blight Industries. I got stuck with a three month grounding afterwards from my dads."
"And I got off scott free because Mom hates the Blights even more than I do." Sugar's master add on.
"I'm really starting to reconsider the snarking only thing we have going on with the political freedom you hold." They grumbled.
"Free nothing, I have Coven heads chasing me now, I have to sleep with one eye open."
"Anyways, I had to fix the mess …" Ghost's master looked down at their hands. "And glue everything piece by piece."
"Aww, poor baby. Let me kiss them better." The human pressed her lips against the purple haired girl's hands.
"Aaaaahhhhh." Ghost's Master made a high pitched noise, before hitting the floor.
"Wow, so it's just anyone who gets kissed gets knocked right out." Emelia's master deadpanned. "Did that happen to you, Eda?"
"Na, I was the one doing the smooching back then. I knocked them right out. Didn't wake up for two days afterwards." Owlbert's owner shrugged. "I started digging up a grave and almost had them buried when they suddenly woke up."
"Being buried alive is never fun." Lucci nodded. "Not being able to breathe is just like the worst way to wake up."
"That's why I make it my finishing move to all that dare to cross me." Maya's owner smirked.
"You know, I'm starting to see that most of these incidents are mainly leads or plans involving getting back at the Blights." The human brought up.
"Why do you think we're so on board against hurting them?" Clover's master questioned. "Even before Amity broke us they were all rotten maniacs."
"For the longest time we couldn't convince Lucci about how terrible Ed and Em were." Amity groaned. "He admired how good they were at pranks, so every time they hit us hard, he'd just wave it off."
"Again, thick skin and shields. Hard for me to know what was actually painful back then." Lucci sighed. "I eventually learned…though the most painful way possible.
"Is this something that's gonna make me sneak in and torture them?" Owlbert's master pulled out a ball of flames.
"Probably. And had it been four months earlier, I would've been less reluctant to tell you." Amity nodded. "Oh well, guess being half decent now doesn't count for much."
"It's this level of heartlessness that used to make you so cool." Maya's owner said. "Oh how the mighty have fallen."
"Hey, I am not afraid to take you on." The human glared.
"Any time, anyplace, I will dominate and win just like I always do when you don't have my crystal backing you up."
"Can we focus on murdering one jerk at a time here?" Eda split the two apart. "Boots, continue."
"I remember it being a dark and cloudy day when it happened The crying babies, the screaming woman ….." Amity went on. "The day … my brother and sister … asked Lucci out."
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Edric turned to his sis. "Scroll ready?" He asked, already setting it to record.
"Pictures to match videos, we're good here." His partner in crime giggled. "I can't believe we're finally doing this. We're so evil."
"Evilly fun." Edric reminded her.
"Exactly, all fun and games." Emira gave her stunning grin. "Now come on, we gotta clear out the imperfections in the illusion. What happens if he notices your freckles?"
"Or your acne." He rolled his eyes.
"Hey, I only got those because I'm the one always cleaning out your greasy hair." Emira shot right back. "You gotta stop trying to catch bats all the time, the gander spreads everywhere."
"Oh, like collecting old syringes is any better?" Edric kept going. "That's how you get tetanus."
"What's a bit of disease when you get to play doctor on little creatures?" She asked. "Oh, here he comes. Stealth mode." She waved her finger, camouflaging herself, which he followed suit. "Aww, he came in a widdle suit. So fancy for his first date."
"Too bad they're not going to show." Edric snickered as he did the same. They didn't know exactly what brought this on. He was one of Mitten's friends, and once or twice they caught the curly-topped boy staring at them. It was probably just a little puppy crush, but in a few years…maybe something could happen. For now, he and Em were content with teasing him about it.
"Hey guys, sorry I'm late." Lucci waved to the illusions as he sat down. "I lost track of time and heat just felt nice. What about you guys?" The fakes stayed silent. "Right right, just enjoying each other's presence." The boy nodded with a small chuckle. "Yeah … this is cool, I'm really happy you asked me to come." More silence from the fakes.
"Think we should've added in some responses at least?" Em asked him.
"I thought you were going to do that." Ed asked her.
"I just thought…well….this is the first time anyone's actually shown me affection like this before." Lucci kept going. "If we're being honest, there was this other girl that I also like… but, it's pretty clear she doesn't like me like that. I still try to be nice to her, Amity and Willow think that's futile…in fact, they say the same thing about you guys." He laughed weakly. "But I like to think there has to be something more underneath people."
"Wow, talk about a 180. You never talk like this now."
"I do, just with people I care about and trust beyond all comprehension. Like King."
"Leave me out of your romance!"
"Wait, how long have you been here?"
" The whole tim-did you guys forget I was here!?"
"....No…."
"Heh, look at me, talking all sappy. You guys probably have more interesting things to talk about." The stand ins said nothing.
"Thanks a lot, Em, now we're stuck."
"This is your fault, you should know simple tricks like vocal recordings by now."
"What's your excuse for not knowing it?!"
"Wow, you really like my conversations?" Lucci questioned. "Usually it's just listening to mom's random stories of glory that are super cool, don't get me wrong. Or playing with King, or Hooty. Or just having an adventure with LAW. But with you guys I can let out all my darkest secrets without any repercussions."
"Huh, this is easier than I would've thought it would've been." Ed stated.
"Duh, of course, he's just a kid. Shouldn't have over-thought it this much." Emira slapped her own forehead. "Maybe we could've just tricked Curly-top with just one of us."
"And let you hog all the fun. As if." Ed smirked. "Besides, I'm clearly the more attractive twin here."
"About as attractive as a trashcan is to a swarm of flies." Emira argued. "Obviously I'm the cuter twin. Without me this plan would fail automatically."
"You think it's too late to ask the question?" He asked. "Get a third party to see the truth of my beauty?"
"So … the night is nice, right?" The boy asked, getting more silence. "Um … are you two okay?" Curly-top gently reached his hand forward, which went right through the illusions. "What?"
"Yeah, i'd say it's too late." She agreed.
"I…I don't understand … what … what just happened." Lucci looked around. "Ed … Em … they wouldn't do this … right … I mean … they're pranksters … but … they wouldn't … I just … we were … and they…." The kid was starting to circle around, getting teary eyed.
"Aww, poor kids gonna cry." Em chuckled.
"Ten snails says he'll take out his anger on a bystander." Ed questioned with a smirk.
"Twenty says he has no anger at all." Em returned his expression. "Not like he'll-"
"GAAAA!!!!" They both watched as the child punched a tree so hard it split clean in half … along with the tree after that … and the one after that. "BLIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTSSSSSS!"
"And that started my utter hatred of the Blight name."
"You hated it a lot later than I did. I pretty much despised it the day I was born."
The twins watched the trees kepting getting smashed one after another, the ground shaking with every step the little guy took. "...I'm not going to lie, that was a little hot." Em admitted as they held onto each other in sheer fear and terror.
"I agree." Ed nodded. "However, I believe our cue to leave was after he destroyed that boulder by screaming it to dust."
"Yep…." Em agreed. "So … go back to teasing him tomorrow?"
"Pretty much. He'll cool off by then, right?"
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"And now can we avoid any more Blight stories?" Her master asked. "My brain breaks a vessel pretty much everytime I think about any of them that aren't Amity."
"Don't think about them anymore, my little crystal, just think about me and only me." Lucci's mate hugged him from the side possessively.
"How did we ever reach a point in our lives where Boscha is a good date candidate?" Cover's master lamented.
"Blight's have a knack for making the world worse." Ghost's owner answered sadly. "I can hope to be halfway decent by comparison to make up for everything they've done."
"You're more than decent, my lovely purple cotton candy gal." The human hugged the girl. "You're the best girlfriend in the world."
"I'm starting to think these stories were just an excuse for Amity to cuddle with Luz publicly." Emelia's owner stated bluntly. "Can we diversify the next story a little?"
"Oh, you want a non romance story, then I got the perfect one to tell." Lucci brought up. "The Ghost incident."
"What about the egg incident?" Willow asked.
"I already saw that." Luz shivered. "So many griffons … why do they have to have real spiders breathe … why must I have been right about that?"
"I could have sworn we had something else … maze incident?" Amity suggested.
"Let's be honest, does anyone remember that?" The group looked at each other before shrugging. Then the boy looked confused. "Although I am curious about the 'locker incident' everyone keeps bringing u-"
"So the ghost incident." The Owl Lady interrupted. "It's actually one of the few Law misadventures I was there for from the beginning."
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Eda watched as the two girls played with King. "Come on, sit still! We gotta make you Demon Queen!"
"Demon King! Get that dress away from me!" The little tyke was going fast, and Eda needed him to get use to people if he was ever going to join her on one of her jobs, so the quickest was to do that was to expose his adorable self to the most convenient people she could get on short notice. That being Lucci's two friends. "Lucci, save me from my frilly fate!"
"Have no fear, little bro, Lucci is here to save the day!" Lucci shouted from a tree branch, holding onto a vine. "I'll swoop in and get you out of reach!"
"Lucci, what have I told you about copying moves you see in movies?"
"Always make sure to do it with explosions so people don't sneak up on you?"
"Well, that, and to always be sure you can't hurt yourself doing it!" Eda exclaimed. "You can't fly…as far as I know…and your shield's can only take so much force."
"Don't worry about it mom, I heal fast, remember? That's why Cuttie can't poison me."
"Cuttie?"
"That's what Lucci started calling Hettie Cutburn when he couldn't remember her name."
"Wouldn't that just piss her off even more?"
"Unbelievably so."
"You shouldn't push it." Eda sighed. "You don't know what kind of trouble that will bring in."
"Relax mom! I totally got this-!"
Snap
The branch broke off and her son immediately plummeted to the ground. "Oowwww."
"I told you to not push it." She rolled her eyes.
"Mmmm." The boy stood up- with a stick located straight through his chest!
"Dude, how do you function?"
"Heck if I know. Skara said that Belfy once told her the gemstones are the core for Crystal devils. My current theory is that it's basically a second heart/brain rolled into one for me."
"AAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Park and Boots screamed at the same time.
"Ap?" The boy looked down at his chest. He gently tried tugging it. "Aaahhhh."
"Hold still, hold still, you'll rupture a lung if you keep pulling on it." Eda had to keep her internal panic quiet as she inspected it.
"Is … is he going to die?" Park asked worriedly.
"Not on my watch, four eyes, so help me titan." She sternly steeled her gaze. "Okay, I don't want to pull on something important, so I'm going to cast a small heat spell and burn the branch to ash. It'll sting for a minute, but the second it's gone, you plug up the hole, got it?"
"Haw." The boy nodded.
"One.." She readied her spell. "Two." She prayed to the titan that this would work. "Three!" And she burned the branch to ash in seconds.
The boy held his chest as blood leaked out- so much blood -before her baby took in a breath. "Thanks mama, it was hard to talk with that thing inside of me." The bleeding boy responded, before the flow instantly stopped. "So, who wants to see if we can try turning branches into weapons?"
"Lucci, I say this with the most sincerity and concern I could ever muster for another living being." Boots looked at her boy in the eye. "Stay away from nature. It's either going to get all of us killed or just you if you go near it."
"Yeah, I guess it did sting a bit." He complained-A BIT?!
"HOW DID THAT ONLY STING YOU!?"
"Hey, I got my flesh melted off by being flung into the boiling sea, compared to that, a stick in my chest is the equivalent of a splinter to me."
"Kid, one of these days you're going to send me to an early grave." So this was the concern for mental health that her mom alway felt for her. "Until that happens however, I'm not going to let you out of my sight." She picked her baby up and headed for inside…where something floaty and ethereal was right by her door. "Uh, what's the big idea?"
"Hello mam, is this the residence of one 'Lucifer Clawthorne'?" A ghost asked.
"Who's asking?" She summoned Owlbert to her left hand, ready to fight for her life if it came to it.
"I'm with the afterlife agency. I'm double checking a false positive on their death."He answered. "Apparently he's been through fifteen deadly incidents alone this year."
"So what?" Eda held her baby tighter. "He ain't dead, so there's nothing to think about anymore, end of story."
"Look, I don't make the rules." The spectral bastard went on. "But when your son survives a tree branch going straight through his lungs, we have to investigate if he cheated death."
"Oh, that's why breathing felt weird."
"I honestly can't tell if you got more or less durable than we were kids. It seems everyone we fight just kinda rag dolls you."
" I don't get ragdolled, I just end up fighting people more experienced than me. It takes at least two of us to go head to head with a coven head."
"Alright … says here you got a piece of your arm bit off by a crocidrike?"
"I tried to pet it, but it just got angry for some reason." When was this!?
"And last week you ate five cups of cockatrice poison?"
" It was super tangy."
"Then you drowned in a pool of lime jello?"
"I didn't know you had to hold your breath in desserts."
" Then just yesterday your friend Willow Park whacked you in the head so hard you went unconscious for a whole day."
Everyone turned to the girl in question. "He opened the door while I was in the bath! Self defense!"
"You did what now?! "
"I was four! I bathed with Mom and King back then, I didn't understand the concept of privacy!"
" That reminds me, I still need to murder Park for that. And Boots for the memory incident."
"Come on Eda, they've clearly put the past behind them? Isn't it time to put away those old grudges?"
"I'll do that the moment A and W stop hating tri-eyes."
"So never?"
"Pretty much."
"Mam, you wouldn't happen to be using souls to extend his lifeline?" The specter asked her.
"Of course not!" There were better ways to use souls other than immortality. The night market sold those for a fortune.
"And he hasn't been to the healing coven once … an oddity." He looked at the child. "Have you touched any cursed artifacts?"
"Just the stuff mom brings home." Lucci listed off. "That screaming knife, that glowing glove with a skull on it, the mask that turns you into a cartoon character-"
"Threw that one into a deep, deep pit when we pried it off." Eda admitted.
"I see. " The ghost looked over a checkerboard he was marking off. " Well it's obvious that something fishy is going on here, so I'm gonna have to confiscate your child's soul for a few days."
"Your what!?"
"If he's clean, I'll bring him right back. Until then you can have the corpse." The ghost reached into the child, pulling as Eda prepared every spell she knew … only for a pink chain to extend as well. "… The hell?"
"Your soul is chained to your body?!"
"I guess? Like I said, that's oracle magic territory, and I don't mess with it."
"Heheheh, that tickles." Lucci laughed as his soul was pulled back into its body.
"Okay, I guess we'll have to do this the hard way." The ghost took out a FREAKING CHAINSAW and aimed it at her child.
"Over my dead body!" Eda shouted, blasting the ghost back with everything she had.
" That's sort of the idea."
"Boots, Park, get my baby out of here!" She tossed over Lucci to them, who was caught by a mesh of plants and abomination goo. "Tonight I'm ghost-bustin!"
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"And that's how I learned how to kill souls." The woman grinned. "It was not a pretty death too, I ripped that sucker apart molecule by molecule. His screams have echoed through my head for the past ten years, and they've served to remind me of just how much of a threat I am to be feared." Sugar was learning many things tonight. The main lesson here being that her master was surrounded by people that were constantly getting him nearly killed.
"So Lucci is genuinely immortal, Eda can torture ghosts to death, and we have pictures of King in a dress." The human noted. "… Can I see them?"
"Never!" King exclaimed. "I've buried them in the deepest, darkest, dankest, and most depraved spot ever conceived! No mortal mind can ever dare to find even a single shred of them-!"
"Haack! Here you go!" That disturbing house demon her master was attached to spat up a bunch of photos. "Finally got rid of the scratch in my throat!"
"Why does everyone in this family betray me!?" Her boy's little brother exclaimed. "First Eda prevents me from B plots, Lucci flirts in front of me, Luz is Luz, and now this!"
"Hey, you can't just say my name in context of something terrible!"
"Oh, so it's totally alright to say 'pull a Lucci', but suddenly it's bad when it's your name?" Her master rolled his eyes.
"I thought pulling a Luz was just code for dragging everyone into a situation with raw positivity?" Clover's master questioned.
"More like a code for running people's lives." Maya's master grumbled under their breath.
"So if we're going with backstories today … I think I have a more predominant question." The human waved her hand in Boscha's general direction. "How did Lucci ever conceive … this as … datatable?"
"Oh, you want to know how I first met my lovely angel?" Her boy sighed contently.
"More like the devil." Willow grumbled.
"Speaking of, is that term even alright at this point with everything we know about Crystal Devils?" Gus questioned.
"I know I hate it whenever the Golden shrimp and the coven scouts call me that." Lucci rubbed his chin. "What was it that Vee and that mean girl called them?"
"Corrupted Gems." Luz stated. "It's kinda-Wait … Eda, why do you call the Rainbow devil Bizy?"
"It's a nickname for Bismuth."
"Who names themselves after a rock?" Ghost's owner questioned.
"Bismuth … My Diamond … Quartz …" The human groaned. "There's an entire alien race where each individual is named after a gem."
"But that's so….lazy." Emelia's owner pointed out. "What, are you saying that there's like hundreds of the same kind of rocks all called by the same name?"
"Yeah, even Luz's attempts at fusion names aren't that bad." Her master stated.
"Come on, two names combined together would be great! I mean, would Lucsha fit you and Boscha?"
"No, that sounds awful." Maya's owner bluntly responded.
"Exactly, I want to go for a name that fits a theme, one that truly makes each one stand out." Lucci continued. "Like, a fusion between me and Skara wouldn't be named Lukara, it would be something like … Bohemian."
"You are not fusing with anyone unless it's life or death, isn't that right, my crystal?" Maya's master spoke in a dangerously sweet tone.
"Of course my angel, I wouldn't dream of it." He held the girl's hand gently like he didn't notice the threat.
"Ugh, this is like watching a mini-version of my parents flirt." Ghost's owner gagged.
"I was there to see it first hand, it was somehow even worse than this." Her master's mother nodded.
"So … the origin story?" The human questioned.
"Right, the day I met my lovely angel." Lucci looked off wistfully. "Believe it or not, I was young and naive once. I didn't truly see the beauty inside when I first met her."
"Weird, it's usually cynicism proceeding optimism, not the other way around." Luz noted.
"Yep, it still remains as one of our biggest failures as Law." Clover's owner sighed. "It started as any typical encounter with Boscha goes … horrible."
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"Why won't you leave me alone already!?" The half a witch cried as Boscha continued to pelt her with bottles of vinegar. She wasn't old enough to handle explosive potions yet, so this was a close second.
"Because mom says that the weak and the strong need to be weeded out, and I want you to admit I'm better than you!" She'd either get told she was strong, or get beat up and admit they were strong.
"Yes, back then I didn't have the self confidence I do now, and needed others to validate me."
"You just needed a little push in the right direction. We all did. And back then, we had a big source of that."
"Hey, leave her alone! That's not nice!" Some weird looking giant frisbee thing landed on the ground, getting in the way of her bottles.
She turned to see some boy with a glare and mangey hair. "And who do you think you are to tell me what to do?" She asked, readying her bottles.
"Lucifer Clawthorne, agent of chaos, and child of the greatest witch ever!"
"So a delusional homeless kid. Just one out of hundreds I've pelted." She proceeded to throw them, the kid making another frisbee thing and blocking them.
"Your bottles of horrible smelling potions have nothing on my shields! They're unbreakable, so don't you dare hurt my friends!"
"And you still thought I would abandon you Willow?"
"What happened at the end of this tale made think yes for ten years."
"You think just because you have a magic trash can lid that I'll stop? NEVER! Because I'm not a homeless loser or half a witch!" She prepared to throw more, only to get stopped by something goopy holding her hand.
"That's enough Boscha." That Blight girl her parents made her hang out with stopped her with an abomination hand.
"Oh great, if it isn't you." She rolled her eyes. "When are you going to stop being weak like those two and start fighting for top place like you should be?"
"When will you stop saying rude things about everyone you meet?"
"I don't say rude things, I only speak the truth!" Boscha yelled, feeling her hands heat up. "And the truth is that you three losers are nothing compared to me!" With a fiery fist, she threw her slime covered bottle right at the homeless loser.
"Not today!" The boy pushed his hands out and surrounded the bottle in some kind of bubble. "Hah, now it's useless! I have the power of bubbles, which takes on any small object!"
"You don't use it very often." Half a witch noted.
"With Amity around there's a good chance I'll cause an explosion."
"Pfft, as if you losers are strong enough to make something that strong."
"Ah Lucci…that bottle is covered in abomination goo." Blight pointed out. "And you just put it in a bubble."
"..." The boy stared at the glowing bubble. "I see … float away float away float away!" He repeated quickly as he aimed his hands at the bubble.
The bubble itself just sort of ended up sinking downwards on the ground, rolling seemingly harmless on the dirt.
Kabloooosh
The next thing Boscha knew, dirt was flying into the air as a giant hole appeared on the ground, on that seemed to get bigger as the ground itself felt like it was pulling them into it.
"That is the exact opposite of floating away Lucci!" Half a witch shouted, pulling out vines as she attached herself to a tree.
"Sorry my powers aren't very cooperative!" He shouted back. "I'll try and work on them some other time!"
"And that is why we have test fest."
"Wi-Willow! Lucci!" The Blight girl began getting pulled back as Boscha was running as fast as she could to avoid sinking into it.
"Willow, toss her a vine, I'll pull!" The boy shouted.
"On it!" The half a witch shouted as she grew more of her dumb plants.
"Hey, what about me!?"
"What about you ?" Half a witch retorted. "You literally tried to brutally maim me a few seconds ago."
Well then, screw them, she'd claw her own way out. She dug into the ground with her nails, pulling herself out of the falling pit as best as she could.
"Wow, she's pretty strong." The homeless kid observed as she pulled up the Blight girl.
"Strong but bone-headed." The Blight girl muttered.
"Oh, you are so going to get it once I get out of here Blight! My mom will sue your family! "
" Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" The kid questioned.
"Unfortunately we later found out that the Blights and Herionymous's made a pact to not sue each other, something about some cursed blood pact mom made with Boscha's."
"Now that I think about it, why were you even friends if your moms hated each other?"
"It's all about power with Mom. Only the smartest, richest, and strongest friends who can survive natural disasters are worthy to hang around me, and all other gutter trash is to be removed and eradicated from my premise. Don't worry, you're strong enough to ignore the money Lucci."
"I'll make it your worst nightmare!"
"If it's bad then she shouldn't get to her mom before we give her amnesia." The homeless child nodded. "Willow, hold onto Amity's rope, I'm gonna go punch that girl in the head."
"Why could we have more of that Lucci?"
"Oh I'd like to see you try, Trashthorne!" She may have only been able to use one arm at the moment, but that was still more than she needed to take out this idiot.
"Allyoooop!" The boy punched the ground as his arm extended like it was rubber as he fell, meeting her at the halfway point she was in the pit.
"You should really get back into using your stretching powers. I can think of about ten different times that would've been useful to have.
"Meh, come and go moments. Me and Sugar will try it next test fest."
"What are you, some kind of freak!?" Boscha yelled as she and him began trading blows!
"Yes, yes I am!" He swung at her. "I'm the freak that'll become the most infamous criminal in boiling isles!"
"That's a dumb dream to have!"
"Dumb or not, it's my dream alone!" He shouted, hitting her side. "Hey Amity, how many hits to the head knocks out memories?"
"Go for three hundred small hits or one massive punch at full power!" Blight called out.
"Alright! Here I go!" He realed his hand back for what looked like one massive powerful blow.
"I don't think so!" Boscha jumped from the wall and landed on the guy's head as he punched the other side of the wall.
Smaaaaaaaccccccckkk!
And the entirety of the wall came down on them. "Nice going, genius! Now we're both going to die for the rockslide!"
"No we're not!" He shouted, holding up his hands as a massive pink bubble formed on top of them. "I can blow us back up to the surface, I just need more goo."
"Goo, shmooo, I don't need no stinking abomination magic!" Boscha helped the massive bubble over her head. "I'm going to be a professional Grudgby player, and which means I can throw balls really, really, hard!" She threw it down below them at just the right angle and speed, setting the bubble on fire as it collided down below.
Kaaaabbbloooooshhh
For the second time today, she was close to ground zero of a giant explosion as she and the homeless moron were blown upwards. They were heading up, up, up…they were slowing down, they weren't going to make it-!
"Gotcha!" Half a witch shouted as what looked like vines covered in purple sludge wrapped them before they could fall back down. "Dang it, I caught Boscha too. Mind if we do a recast, Lucci?" She got no response. "Lucci?"
Boscha turned to the Trashthrone boy, who stared at her with sparkling eyes. "Lucci?" Blight snapped her fingers.
"What's up?" The boy snapped into existence.
"Are you alright? Did Boscha knock a piece of your brain out?" Half a witch asked.
"No, she was amazing! She made my bubble explode just by throwing it! She's so strong and cool!" He answered.
"And that was the moment I regret Lucci helping me with Boscha, because that's where it all went downhill."
" Oh come on, I wasn't that bad."
"One, yes you were. Two, I was more referring to the fact that this was when I began to fear my friends would just abandon me, and we all know what happened afterwards."
The child ran up to her. "You can call me Lucci, nice to meet you." He smiled with a gross dopey grin.
"Can't say the same, Trashthorne. I'm never going to see you again." Boscha marches off, wanting to forget this whole day ever happened.
"Wait, how petty are you when they save you from being devoured by a ground vagina and you still hate them years later?"
"One act of kindness doesn't mean I have to devote my life to being best buddies with them."
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Luz grimanced. "Well, starting to see why you never talk about them."
"So many repressed thoughts and emotions …" Willow shivered.
"So many regrets." Amity sighed.
"So many things we wish we could take back." Lucci looked down on the ground.
"Hey, like I said earlier, you guys are past that stuff." Luz brought up. "In fact, it's because of the memory incident, aka, the day you guys actually talked about the past, that you became friends again. Sure, one or two dozen mistakes happen along the way, but I say you guys are all the better for it." She gestured to the whole group. "You can't say none of us are not having a good time right now."
"I beg to differ." King growled, tearing up the last of the pictures.
"I don't know, she had a pretty good point." Lucci smirked. "We said we would be stronger than the last generation, and we've beaten multiple coven heads."
"Beaten is a strong word." Eda stated. "The closest you got to beating them directly was Ebberwolf, and I'm not entirely sure he was really trying …"
"Well I've beaten Vitimir fair and square, so I got that going for me." Boscha snickered.
"Fair nothing, You got one lucky hit in while the rest of us were doing the hard work." Willow argued. "And need I remind you, you're the reason we needed to fight him in the first place."
"The point is every step is a step to a better future. And the past helps us learn from mistakes and grow." Luz grinned. "Like Pipper here." She scratched the Echo mouse … who once more began to play a message. "Everyone quiet!"
"Wha-" Boscha tried to speak up.
"Zip it." Luz spoke seriously.
"There was once a woman, with a pink shield and a stone inside her stomach, who would wish to resurrect the Titan as a servant to dominate the world." It showed off images of a crazed cackling witch, dancing around as vines grew from her body and controlled things like a marionette. "Her name was Thorn Quartz, and I've done all I can to stop her from this goal, but witches should be wary upon finding anyone resembling the vile soul."
"... You see, this is why I have no interest in looking into my womb holder." Lucci sighed. "This entry is a dud Luz.
"However, in spite of my efforts, she still managed to hide away one artifact I'd gladly give away my life for. A artifact so powerful it could very well be the key to the Boiling Ises itself, perhaps even crafting a way home."
"Dud my ass!" Luz shouted out. "Whoever your mom is.."
"That's Eda, you're talking about my womb holder…"
"Whatever! She's important, so we're going to find whatever she left behind and grab that artifact!" She screamed.
"Nope." Lucci stated. "You all can have your adventure into the past, but this time I'm keeping out of whatever messed up history that woman had."
"Try as I might, without the gemstone of this vile thorn, I can't even enter the temple she placed the harmony core within."
Luz continued staring at him. "Do not give me puppytooth eyes, I've lived with King my whole life and we both know you can't outmatch him."
"Come on! This could be a sure fire guarantee way for me to craft a way home-"
"Wait, if we get this thing, it'll get rid of your faster?" Boscha stopped her, having genuine interest in her eyes.
"That's the bitchiest way to describe it, but yes." Luz nodded.
"Lucci, you're going to that temple." Boscha grasped his hands.
"… If this ends in no benefits and just more problems for everyone, I want compensation." The boy complained. "Also you're coming with me, no questions asked."
"Backbone against Boscha, always a win." Willow grinned vindictively.
Eda groaned. "This group could not get more unstable if we tried."
"Hey Edalyn, I was going through the basement and found some amazing-"
"Oh, Lilith! Perfect!" Luz pounded her fists. "You're all about researching old stuff, right? Wanna come with us to a temple made by Lucci's alien mom?"
"What?" Amity asked in a voice that sounded pre-LAW reunion whenever Luz tried to meddle in things. Right, Amity still hated Lilith.
Lilth stared at her, before giving a squeal of excitement. "I'll go pack my things!" The woman exclaimed before she ran off.
"... Congrats Mom, you ticked off the universe, and now the group is even more unstable." Lucci groaned. "This is going to be our most annoying adventure yet."
"Aka, the perfect misadventure for LAW." Willow mumbled.
"Come on, it won't be that terrible. I'm sure we can all have some kind of fun along the way." Luz tried to affirm.
"Luz." Amity looked at her. "Lilith is the reason I have such a deep seated distrust of adults that I refuse for us to have kids in the future due a lack of trust in myself."
"Wait, you don't want a family?" Okay, NOW she was starting to see how bad everything was going.
"Well on the plus side, I don't need to worry about the human spreading their moronic blood to the next generation." Why…. why did Lucci have to be in love with such a bitch?