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"Good morning witches and demons alike, it's another average day in the new boiling Isles, the sea is scorching hot as usual, as for any interesting news, we just found signs of a bright star heading in our direction, looks like the Collector might be paying us another visit today.... uh, yeah, that's it. Um... oh and it's nearly the 5 year anniversary of the day Luz Noceda, the human first stepped foot in the Boiling Isles, still trying to come up with a name for that day..."

"Can we end this stream now? I've run out of things to say."

Luz Noceda opened her window, the sun was rising above the boiling sea in the distance, she smiled as she said "Wow, every time I wake up I get to see this great view, they were nice to give us the best room in the entire building don't you think Amity?"

She turned to see her girlfriend Amity, who was also her college roomate, still fast asleep in bed. Luz smiled as she walked over to her and kissed her on the cheek. Amity slowly opened her eyes to look at the face of Luz. 

"Good morning Blight." Luz said with a grin. Amity smiled and said "Hey Luz... what time is it? I'm too tired right now." Luz hopped onto Amity's bed and wrapped her arms around her saying "Oh come on Ami, it's time to go and learn some wild magic that's what time it is." 

Amity groaned a little bit but then started to chuckle as she said "Oh I can never resist that face of yours, alright let's go."

Luz and Amity both got up and got themselves dressed. Luz got on her scroll to see some messages that were sent to her from Eda.

"Hey kid, you up yet? Remember that I'm the one in charge of this place now so I'll always know whenever your late for a class."

"I'm up Eda, don't worry about it. Me and Amity are on our way to class right now."

"Hehe, alright. Have a good time."

"By the way, what's King been up to lately?"

"Oh King? Heh, the little guy is still growing, his titan powers have been getting stronger as time goes on, who knows what he'll be able to do by then."

"Tell King I said hi."

Later, Luz and Amity got out of their dorm room and traveled down the hall together. They were met by several witches who greeted them. She soon heard the voice of someone familiar. "Hey Luz, hey Amity, how's it going?" Luz turned around to see Gus. 

"Gus! How's the whole human realm/demon realm exchange program been going so far?" Amity asked. Gus smiled and said "Oh it's going smoothly, I've been met by lots of witches who want to know everything about the world you're from Luz." Luz smiled and said "Yeah, they're probably incredibly curious about the world I came from after I defeated Belos." 

Gus nodded and said "Well, gotta go, see you girls later." As he left, Amity and Luz soon arrived at their first class, their first class was one they were taking together, abomination engineering, now while they don't take exactly the same classes together, they still spend the majority of the day together. 

Even though it had been 4 years since she had saved the boiling isles from Belos who had threatened to exterminate the witches off the face of the planet, Luz could still hardly believe she was here, it was hard to believe that she actually wasn't living in a fantasy and she was actually here, living in the demon realm studying wild magic alongside her amazing girlfriend Amity, yes she still does go to visit the human realm to meet her mother Camila and her sister Vee, for the most part Luz feels at home in the demon realm studying magic and making her own future.

Luz made sure to memorize every single glyph combination that she could, in order to make sure she was on track with everything, and whenever she had no work to catch up on she would spend her free time trying to create brand new glyph combinations, the possible glyph combinations that exist are unlimited, who knows what crazy spells she could discover?

And fairly recently, not long into the start of their first year of college, Alador was able to use his sigil remover glove to remove everyone's sigil that Belos had marked them all with when he established the coven system to weaken the witches so they wouldn't be powerful enough to stop him. The witches were finally free of everything Belos had tainted the boiling isles with. There hasn't been any danger every since Belos was defeated. Life couldn't be better for everyone.

During the curses 101 class, Luz looked over at Amity who was busy trying to figure out how to erase a curse from a small seed. She smiled and asked "You doing good Amity?" Amity then said "Luz, please don't try and distract me by flirting, this isn't the time for that." Luz replied "Oh don't worry about it, I've managed to create glyph that can lift curses." Amity looked at it and said "Luz, isn't this cheating?" Luz chuckled and said "Amity, there's a whole class here that is dedicated to learning new ancient glyphs and combos, I'm sure they'll be fine with this."

Amity smiled and took the glyph and activated it, it emitted a bright white glow as it enveloped the seed in its energy as the curse was lifted. "Wow, impressive Luz." Amity said. Luz put her hand on Amity's shoulder and asked with a grin "Oh were you doubting me Blight?" Amity smirked and replied "Oh not even for a second Luz." As she looked at Luz and kissed her.

Later, that day, the couple soon went to go have some lunch, but unfortunately none of what's on the menu is something Luz can actually eat, usually because some of the food has literal eyeballs on it, so whenever there's a lunch break, Luz and Amity go to meet with Gus as he hands Luz a meal that he picked up from the human realm. 

Both Luz and Amity sat together on a balcony on one of the upper levels where they quietly had lunch together. Suddenly, Luz got a notification on her scroll, she turned it on to see that she got a message from Hunter.

"LUZ! I NEED HELP! WILLOW JUST ASKED ME OUT ON A DATE!"

"Willow asked you out?! Way to go Hunter!!"

"NO THIS ISN'T THE TIME FOR CELEBRATIONS! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO??"

"Ok ok, calm down man. You're worrying to much, if you're worried about being around Willow, I'll just let you know that Willow is one of the kindest friends I've ever known, you don't have anything to worry about, she's a very patient witch, I'm sure you'll do just fine."

Amity looked over to Luz and said "Hey, Luz? I want to ask you something." Luz faced her and said "Sure, what is it babe?" Amity replied "Ever since Belos was defeated, everything has kind of been the same, with occasional visits from the Collector of course, but other than that though, that's it."

Luz gave Amity a puzzled look as she asked "What's your point?" Amity replied "My point is, I don't know what exactly it is that we're hoping to achieve, we got rid of the coven system, the boiling isles is back to the way it once was years ago, where do the witches go from here?" Luz remained silent as she thought for a moment.

"Well, there is the possibility of revealing this worlds existence to the humans, Gus has been trying to achieve that with his whole human/demon realm exchange program, maybe one day that might happen." Amity replied "I'd like to hope for that, but seeing what kind of horrible person Belos was, it has me worried about everyone else..."

Luz smiled and said "Oh don't worry Ami, Belos was literally a 400 year old boomer from the 1600's, humans have evolved way beyond that time, nobody is like him anymore, you'll find humans to be way more likable now than they were back then." Amity replied "Well, as long as the humans keep making good movies I'll believe that." 

Luz chuckled in response before saying "Oh speaking of movies, Gus managed to retrieve this from the human realm, guess what just got released on DVD!" She pulled out a DVD case of Christopher Nolan's latest film Oppenheimer. Amity was surprised to see it as she replied "No way! That movie?! We're totally watching that tonight!" Luz nodded in agreement and said "Glad we can since Gus managed to obtain a DVD player and a TV screen from the human realm for us as well. I'll be looking forward to tonight mi amor." 

Amity blushed slightly from that, every time Luz flirts with her in Spanish it gets her all flustered every time! Luz is literally her dream girl. And to think that she had actually tried to have Luz expelled when she first met her. "Ok hot stuff, flirt all you want, one day I'll find a way to overpower you." Luz laughed and said "Oh Ami, I love you." She then pulled Amity in for a kiss.

Later that day, Amity was busy doing some work in her room, she was trying to figure out the proper glyph combinations, she sighed after many failed attempts as she laid back in her chair. She looked up at all the memory photos of Luz as she looked at the only photo she had of when Luz had obtained the powers of the Titan himself to take on Belos.

Unfortunately the only image she could get was out of focus, so she really couldn't see Titan Luz clearly, but oh how she wished she could have been there to see her girlfriend flying through the sky and taking on Belos like a Goddess. Maybe some day if she ever stumbles upon one of those time travel ponds she'll get the chance.

Luz soon approached Amity and said "Well I've pretty much got all my homework wrapped up, how about you?" Amity sighed and said "Homework sucks Luz." Luz smirked and replied "Yeah, I can relate, I see your looking at some of those photos huh?" Amity nodded and said "Yeah, I really wish I could see that one more clearly, you know, the one where you became a Titan hybrid and fought Belos like a badass. It sucks that I missed out on that."

Luz blushed a bit as she remembered her time as a half-Titan, it was quite the experience having the power of a god inside her, and she could only imagine how Amity would have reacted if she had seen her then, but unfortunately as the Titan had told her, those powers were only temporary, and they were gone as soon as the Titan's spirit had completely faded, so she would never have the chance to show Amity.

Luz shook the feeling away as she said "Don't worry about it Ami bear. Besides, not like I was actually gonna need those Titan powers for anything else later, I already know how to do magic, I don't need a bile sack to do it. I've already got everything I want in life, sure, being a half-Titan is cool and all, and maybe I do miss being a Titan somewhat, but I'm totally fine with who I am right now."

Amity looked at Luz and asked "But if you could get those powers back somehow, would you take it?" Luz thought for a moment. "I guess, I mean... I would probably do it just to see how you'd react." She said with a flirtatious tone, which made Amity blush. "Gaah! Luz you can be such a goof sometimes you know that?!" Luz chuckled and said "I know, I'm your goof." 

Amity sighed and said "Oh you're to cute to be mad at, you know what? Homework can wait." She stood up to give Luz a passionate kiss on the lips, Luz smiled and happily kissed back, the two kept it going for a moment before looking into each other's eyes, Luz smiled and asked "So, you wanna watch Oppenheimer now?" Amity smiled and replied "I'd love too, mi amor." Luz chuckled and said "Heh, you're learning my tricks now I see."

The two girls sat together in bed as they watched the film, they spent all night enjoying the film, one of the things that blew them away was seeing how Christopher Nolan was actually able to recreate the first atomic explosion properly without using any CGI stuff. "I swear, how does this man do these kinds of things??" Amity asked. Luz shrugged and said "Well there's always behind the scenes content to explain it all." 

As the girls finished the movie, they decided that it was time for bed now. They both got changed as they got into their individual beds, but Amity chose to cuddle with Luz instead. Despite having separate beds, they always make sure to sleep in the same one. Amity wrapped her arms around Luz as she smiled and said "Good night mi amor." Amity purred in response as the couple fell asleep. Luz had another long day of learning more magic to look forward to tomorrow.

As the little one's strength grows, the Half-Titan will rise once again, and she will be ready for whatever dares to threaten her home. Luz, hear me, your brother has finally become powerful enough to provide you with the energy necessary to restore what you lost, the time has come, the Half-Titan rises again.

"Wh-what? What's going on? Who's there?"

Do not be afraid Luz, you've fought great evil with those gifts before, now you have the chance to do so once again now that your brother has at long last grown strong enough to provide the energy necessary to give it back its magic. Be strong Luz, for you can finally be the witch you've always wanted to become in life.

"What are you saying? I don't understand..."

The next morning was a rough one, Luz laid there on the bed, usually she feels incredibly energetic every morning, but this time she felt absolutely wasted. "Ugh... what kind of dream did I have last night? Did someone perform some sort of Inception on me or something?" She mumbled.

Luz slowly reached for the light glyph she had set on the counter next to her and pressed it to get some light on in her room, she instantly shielded her eyes for they hadn't adjusted to the light. She slowly stepped out of bed, her eyes feeling incredibly heavy. But that wasn't all, she looked towards the floor and couldn't help but noticed she seemed a little taller than usual, but she felt way to tired to pay it any mind.

"Why do I feel so weird?" She mumbled as she approached her drawer to get dressed, she grabbed a comb to brush her hair, but as she brushed, she felt something weird, her hair seemed longer. "What the..." She wondered as she reached for it, she was incredibly surprised to see that her hair was now way longer than before "How'd my hair suddenly grow so fast-"

Before she could finish that sentence, she noticed her hand as it moved through her long hair, there was something really different about it, it looked like she had white claws for fingers, now this definitely woke her up. "What the hell??" She wondered, she quickly looked at herself in the mirror and gasped at the sight of herself. Her body was all covered in fur, she had small fangs, She was Half-Titan again!

"AAAAAAHHH!!! WHAT THE HECK!!? I'M ALL FLUFFY!!!" She screamed. Her screams woke Amity up. "No no no no no NO!!! I don't understand!! Why are my Titan powers back?!!" She said as she examined herself in fear. When Luz heard Amity wake up, she started to freak out. "Oh shit... uh..." She mumbled as she tried to find a way to hide, she quickly grabbed an invisibility glyph and held her breath as she activated it, turning completely invisible.

Amity rubbed her eyes a bit as she sat up and looked around "Luz? What's going on? I heard screaming." Luz did not reply. "Luz? Come on, where are you?" Luz tried hard to hold her breath so the spell wouldn't wear off, but it was getting really hard, and Amity was still looking for her. "I don't understand, how is this happening?? This can't be happening to me! I can't possibly be a Titan again!" Luz thought to herself.

Soon her breath ran out as she let the air out, causing her to appear, she gasped as she quickly turned around and ran to the corner of the room. "Luz? Are you alright?" Amity asked, worried for her girlfriend. Luz remained silent, she only let out faint whimpers like she was scared. 

Amity slowly approached her and asked "Babe, please. If there's something wrong, you can tell me, just look at me, I'm right here." Luz opened her eyes as she heard Amity speaking to her, her voice bringing her some comfort despite the situation she was in. She wiped a small tear away and asked "Ami, I- I don't know what's happening to me... I know what I've become, but I don't know why." 

Amity raised out her hand and asked "Why don't you stand up and show me." Luz sighed and slowly got up from the floor and slowly turned around again to face Amity. As for Amity, she was faced with the sight of her girlfriend, who now looked different from before, oh Titan she was not as ready as she thought she was. 

Standing in front of her was the most beautiful girl she had ever seen. Long and fluffy purplish brown hair, similarly fluffy black fur running along Luz's body, gold eyes on black that shined like the sun. Large horns sprouted from her head and her fingertips ended in claws, and a fang protruded from her mouth.

As Amity saw what Luz had become, she began to blush, her face began to turn all crimson red, she felt like she might pass out in a moment. "Woah... uh- uh...." She stuttered. Luz then said "Yeah, I know I probably look weird don't I- wait, Amity are you ok? AMITY?!" She started to worry as she watched Amity nearly faint. She quickly ran over to her and caught her. Amity found herself in Luz's arms and looked up to see her slightly altered face due to the changes she now had.

"Woah.... p-pretty." She mumbled. Luz sighed as she smiled, knowing that Amity wasn't afraid, she shook away the fear as she decided to take advantage of this. "Heh, you like what you see Ami?" Amity was speechless, she felt like she might implode right now at the sight of Luz. She finally was able to form words as she said "Uh... so is this that Titan form you took when you fought Belos?" Luz nodded.

"Woah... uh, you look hot- AAAH! I- I meant to say you look... uh..." Luz smirked as she watched Amity struggle to form sentences because she couldn't stop looking at Luz's new look. She sighed as she said "Ok, I give up.'' Luz chuckled, she then said "Looks like I just exposed another weakness of yours Blight." Amity couldn't stop blushing. She was feeling way to enthusiastic about Luz's titan form, she'd always imagined what her girlfriend had looked like with her Titan powers, and now here that version of her was right in front of her. 

Luz then looked down at her claws and asked "I don't get it though, how have my Titan powers returned? The Titan told me the powers he gave me would only last as long as his soul would once he gave all his power to me, and once his soul faded, so did the powers, these powers can't exist without the presence of the Titan's spirit to maintain them! So how can I possibly have these powers?! It doesn't make sense!"

Amity quickly approached Luz and held her hands firmly as she said "Luz, calm down. Look at me, whatever it is that caused you to change into your titan form again, we'll figure it out together, alright?" Luz looked at Amity and nodded, she then gave Amity a tight hug as she said "Oh what would I do without you mi amor." Amity smiled and hugged back, and she was amazed at just how comfy Luz now felt with all the added fur she now had on her body. 

"Holy Titan, her fur is so soft!" She thought to herself. "Uh, Amity? You can let go now." Amity refused as she said "I can't help it Luz, your fur is too soft!" Luz sighed and said to herself "This may take a while..."

Soon Amity let go of Luz as Luz asked "Now what do we do?" Amity thought for a moment before saying "Maybe we should go talk to Eda in her office, I'm sure she'll know what to do." Luz nodded in agreement as she said "Sure, let's go." Luz quickly took another invisibility glyph so she'll be able to get through the halls without drawing too much attention to herself, she wouldn't want everyone in the building to freak out over her sudden transformation.

"Alright, let's go." Amity said as they exited the room.

To be continued....

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"Hang in there Luz, we're almost there." Amity said. Luz was trying her hardest to hold her breath as long as she could to keep the glyph spell active. Unfortunately they both would encounter an obstacle on the way there. "Hey Mittens." A voice said. "Oh, hey Edric." Amity said. Edric looked at her for a moment before asking "Where's Luz? You girls are usually always together." Luz realized she was unable to hold her breath any longer, so she quickly went to go hide somewhere so no one would see her as soon as the spell went away. 

Amity replied "Oh, um... Luz caught the common mold. She's gonna stay in the dorm room for the day until it passes." Edric remained silent before saying "Alright, see you around Mittens." As he walked away. Amity sighed in relief as Luz came out of hiding as she asked "Is he gone?" Amity nodded and said "The office isn't much further." Luz nodded as she quickly activated another invisibility glyph. 

The two of them soon arrived in the office. Amity knocked on the door. "Come in." Eda called out. Amity entered the room as she said "Hey Eda, sorry to bother you, but me and Luz have run into... well, an inconvenience." Eda looked at her and asked "What happened? Did you girls accidently perform a spell that got one of pregnant or something?" Amity groaned as she replied "Eda, now's not the time for jokes! This is serious! Maybe I should just have Luz show you." 

Luz soon spoke "Hey Eda." Which caused her invisibility spell to cease, exposing her in her Titan form to Eda. When Eda saw her, she was surprised to say the least. "Woah... Luz? Is that you??" Luz nodded. "Um, wow! This is bizarre, that's the form you took when you first got those Titan powers to defeat Belos with right?" Luz nodded again, she didn't really know what to say right now.

Eda stood up and approached Luz as she asked "But that doesn't make any sense, I thought those powers were only temporary. They could only thrive until the Titan's spirit faded! How did this happen?" She began to observe Luz's Titan form as Luz explained "I'm just as puzzled as you are! Everything was totally normal yesterday! But then, I woke up this morning to find out that my entire body has changed, I've literally got fur coving like, the majority of my body. And now Amity hasn't been able to take her eyes off me since I changed into this, I can imagine why. I don't know what's happening to me, but I'm scared Eda, can you help me?" 

Eda said to Luz "I understand your concern Luz, but we'll figure this out alright? I'm sure that there's a way we can get to the bottom of why this happened and hopefully figure out how to reverse this. If that's even possible." Luz nodded in agreement.

As Eda went to talk with Amity about when exactly this started, Luz entered the bathroom to examine herself to get a better understanding about what happened to her.

Luz looked at herself in the mirror, she removed the hat and placed it down. She looked at her body as she wondered just how much of what appeared as clothing was actually clothing, she appeared to have a furry coat of some kind on her, but how much of it was part of her and how much could be removed? Was it merged with her? Could she even remove it? If they are actually part of her body which would mean they aren't clothes, does that mean she's technically naked? Oh gosh. There were way to many thoughts going through her head. She sighed as she put her hands over her face as she mumbled "How in Titan's name am I supposed to explain all of 'this' to everyone else?" 

She looked at her new claws she had and tapped them against the sink, she felt them tapping against the material, maintaining their shape, confirming to Luz that they were indeed just as sharp as they appeared. Luz saw the two sharp teeth in her mouth, now this she had to admit was a pretty cool addition to her look, almost made her look like a vampire in a way. But the weirdest thing Luz now had was her new feet, she now had two sharp claws as toes that were literally as hard as bone, she could hear them click against the floor with every step she took.

She sighed as she reluctantly rubbed her hands over her arms as she felt all the fur. She felt incredibly weird doing this but she wanted to know how much of her has changed and how much was still the same. Luz could feel literally every strand of fur on her body, it was so weird having all this fur, was this how animals feel? "I... I guess its not that bad, I feel like maybe I could get used to this..." She mumbled to herself, Luz smirked a little bit as she started to think about just how much she'll be able to tease Amity with her new look, so at least there was something positive about all this. 

Really Luz had no idea what to think about all this, she kind of had mixed feelings really, as much as she enjoyed being part Titan when she was fighting Belos, she never really took the time to think about what exactly how big of a deal it was to be Half-Titan. Now Luz had to admit maybe she overreacted when her Titan form returned, there wasn't anything that was truly all that bad about being half-Titan, in fact she had to admit as she continued to examine herself that she looked pretty cool, she had a really cool hairstyle and a cool looking fur suit that was most likely fused with her body. It just felt strange, but she should hopefully get used to having fur covering at least 75% of her body.

Still, several questions lingered in her mind, was this just the beginning? What if over time she begins to develop more changes? Like a tail, or wings? What if she actually starts to grow into a full sized Titan until she's just as big as the island is? What if she literally turns into an actual Titan? Would this ruin her relationship with Amity? There were so many questions she had. Many of which she was afraid of what the answers were. "Damn it, this must be how those who go through puberty feel on a daily basis." She said to herself in frustration.

However, when Luz looked down at the bright glowing spot on her chest, she began to realize something, something she should have realized a while ago. Despite knowing exactly what she has become, the only thing she has been concerned about was just the physical changes her body underwent, but not the more important stuff, not only was she Half-Titan, but she also had the Titan's power coursing through her veins, giving her godlike energy. Luz's eyes widened in fear as the truth dawned on her, she wasn't human anymore. 

Luz now had the powers of a god inside her, she now had more strength and power than anyone else in the boilings isles ever could have. Luz couldn't bare to think of how much power one individual could possibly have. And now she had so much power that she didn't even ask for, yes she had asked for it when she first met the Titan but that was only because it was necessary, Luz never truly wanted unlimited power inside of her. 

Luz sighed as she said "This might just be the hardest year of my life.... Ugh why did this have to happen?!" She growled in frustration as she punched the wall behind her, much to her surprise, she punched the wall so hard her fist broke into it. Leaving a hole in the wall, Luz was shocked as she looked at her fist, amazed that there wasn't a single scratch on it. It seemed like the Titans power offered her enhanced strength. Luz sighed as she leaned against the wall and slid to the floor, she sat there all curled up, filled with a mix of overwhelming emotions, it was like going through puberty twice over. 

"I don't get it, why did this happen to me?" She mumbled to herself. Suddenly, she heard a knock on the door. "Luz? Are you alright in there?" It was Amity. Luz didn't respond, but then, Amity opened the door to see her girlfriend sitting there on the floor, Amity walked over to her and asked "What's wrong Luz?" Luz took a deep breath to calm herself as she looked up at Amity and said "What do you think?"

Amity sighed as she sat down with Luz as she said "I understand Luz, all this is quite a lot to adjust too. But we're all here for you." Luz replied "I- I'm scared Amity. What's gonna happen to me as the years go by? What if this ruins our relationship? What if I become corrupted by the power I now have and end up like Belos?" Amity instantly stopped her right there, she didn't like hearing stuff like that coming from Luz. She replied "Luz, please don't compare yourself to Belos like that, look, I don't know what exactly caused your titan powers to come back, but I know one thing, and it's that you'll always be the same Luz I know regardless of what happens to you."

Luz looked at her and asked "I know I shouldn't be comparing myself to Belos, heck I'm probably just overreacting to what has happened to me, I've literally been Half-Titan before and I loved it, but I never questioned any of what exactly happened to me then because I knew the powers were only temporary. But now they're back, and they might be here to stay this time. Because of that I can't help but worry about what might happen to me."

Amity wrapped her arm around Luz as she said "Look Luz, maybe it's best we ignore all that stuff you're so worried about and face it whenever it comes, for now try and look at the bright side." "Like what exactly?" Luz asked. Amity replied "Well first of all, for what it's worth, I like this new look of yours, it really suits you, it makes you look gorgeous, and hot." Luz let out a soft smile in response. 

"And your fur is so soft, I honestly cannot get over any of it. I'd say your new physical changes have a lot more positives than negatives." Luz replied "I don't know about that Ami, it just feels so strange having all this fur all over me, I feel like a furry." Amity looked at Luz with a shocked expression and said "A what now? Come on Luz, don't call yourself that you'll just make things weirder than they have to be." Luz replied "But still, all these changes I've got, none of it feels normal, you get what I'm saying?"

Amity nodded and said "Then we'll just have to try and get used to it all, and maybe it won't be so bad anymore. In time we should hopefully be able get it all under control and get it to more manageable state. Make it feel as normal as possible." Luz looked at Amity and asked "But what about my Titan powers? What should I do when they finally reveal themselves? If I even have powers at all that is." Amity replied "We don't have to worry about that yet, we'll make sure to cross that bridge when the time comes, alright Luz? Come on, let's get through this one step at a time, you and me."

Luz smiled at Amity and said "Oh what did I do to deserve someone like you." Amity smiled as they both leaned in for a kiss. Amity pulled Luz closer as she moved her hands through Luz's long hair. It felt kind of awkward to be kissing her girlfriend while she looked like a Titan hybrid, but she really didn't care, and neither did Luz. 

Suddenly, Eda came into the room to see them both. She smirked as she said "Ah, I see you like Luz's new look already don't you Amity?" Amity and Luz both stopped and looked back at Eda, both of them were blushing. "Seriously Eda?? Now?!" Luz asked embarrassingly. Eda simply chuckled in response and said "Anyway, Amity, I gave your father a call about the situation, he wants us to meet him in his laboratory so he can examine Luz to see what caused this."

Luz got up and said "Good, we should get going." But then Amity asked "Hey wait, what about all of our classes?" Eda replied "Amity, I'm the headmaster of this university, I have the authority to excuse both you and Luz for class." Luz then asked "What will you tell them?" Eda replied "Eh, probably something generic, anyway, we should get going now."

Amity and Luz got up from the floor as Amity said "Well, I guess we should get going now." Luz nodded and said "Yeah, and thanks for trying to help me, even though I'm clearly overreacting to my new look, I still appreciate it." Amity smiled and said "I'll always be here for you Luz." Luz smiled, she was about to leave, but then she saw the hat that was part of her titan from still sitting there, she picked it up and put it back on as she looked at her appearance once again in the mirror, she smiled softly as she said "You're right Ami, this new look really isn't that bad at all." 

They met up with Eda as she proceeded to open the window. "Wait, out the window??" Amity asked. Eda nodded and said "Well, yeah, can't have Luz leaving through the front door looking like that after all." Eda transformed into her harpy form and flew out the window. Luz and Amity got out their palisman staffs and followed her.

They later arrived at Blight Manor. Alador was waiting for them outside. As soon as he saw Luz he was quite surprised to say the least. "Woah, that's quite an interesting look for you Luz." He said. Luz replied "Please just help me figure out what caused this to happen in the first place." Alador nodded and said "Of course, come inside." 

They all entered Alador's basement as he asked Luz "So that was the form you took when you defeated Belos am I correct?" Luz nodded and said "Yeah, you should have seen it, Belos was all like 'raaaaahh!' And I was all like 'Now eat this sucka!!' It was pretty cool." Alador then asked "Why exactly were they only temporary though?" Luz continued "Oh well you see, the Titan powers could only thrive as long as the Titan's spirit is present to provide them with energy, the same way the Titan provided energy for the glyphs to work. However, when I met the Titan, his powers were literally all that were keeping his soul alive, and now that he had given it all to me, his soul only had moments left before it would fade away for good, it was my job to stop Belos before that happened. Because once his soul faded, so did my powers."

Eda then spoke up and said "Can we make this quick? I've got quite a bit of work to do back at the university of wild magic." 

Alador turned on the lights and said "Oh do not worry, this won't take long, all we need is a quick scan to see what's going on with Luz, and I should be able to trace the place where her titan powers are drawing energy from, if it's not being powered by the Titan, then it has to be something else. And then she can decide if she wants to go on her own to figure out what's happening to her." Luz followed Alador to a chair as she sat down and removed her hat. Alador set up the machine as he put a scanner over Luz's head. 

"Alright Luz, let's see what's going on with you." The scanner proceeded to examine Luz from head to toe, and then showed Alador all the data, and what he saw amazed him. "Holy Titan, this is unlike anything I've ever seen before, it turns out not only has Luz's Titan form returned, but she's also got an insane amount of the Titan's power inside of her as well, so it seems even that returned as well!"

Luz replied "I kind of already half expected that to be the case really." Alador then said "But Luz, don't you realize what this means? You, and you alone carry the lifeblood and power of the Titan, which in turn has just made you the most powerful being in the entire isles! These energy readings I've been getting here go off the charts!" Luz felt a little uneasy from what Alador was telling her. Amity then intervened and said "Dad stop it. She's already overwhelmed enough, just tell her what she wants to know." 

Alador nodded and said "Ah yes, my mistake. Let me see... Oh...." Everyone looked at him as Eda asked "What is it?" Alador then said "Luz, you said that the Titan powers you have could only thrive as long as the Titan's spirit is present to provide them with energy right?" Luz replied "Yeah, they basically work the same way as the glyphs do, as long as there's a titan to provide energy, the magic will work." 

Alador continued "The thing is Luz, I was right, your powers aren't being fueled by the Titan, not anymore at least. They seem to be obtaining energy from someone else now, King."

"What??!"

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"King?? Are you serious??" Luz asked. "Yes, look at this." Said Alador. Luz, Amity, and Eda looked at the readings to see that it was tracing the energy source that was allowing Luz's Titan powers to work again, and it was tracing it back to King. "I don't get it, King's just a little guy, how could he be capable of this?" Asked Amity. Luz then said "Well, his power has grown quite a bit as he gets older, he grew powerful enough that the glyphs returned."

"Which means his Titan power has grown to the point where it's now able to provide for your Titan powers Luz. I think when the Titan gave you his powers, I don't think his powers could only obtain power from just him." Amity looked at Luz and said "Do you know what that means Luz? It means your Titan powers never truly left at all, they've been inside you this whole time since the Titan gave it to you. They just stopped working for a while when the Titan's soul faded away. All they really needed was a power boost from another Titan. And now King is able to provide that." 

Luz replied "Yeah, when the Titan told me his powers won't last forever, he meant that his powers will only last for as long as his soul is still around to power them. And once his soul faded, my powers would stop working. The only question I have is if he knew that King would eventually grow powerful enough to provide for my titan powers and bring them back. And if he did, why didn't he tell me so I'd be able to prepare for this moment? Either way, we should probably go find King and tell him about this. Eda, do you know where King is?" Eda nodded and said "Yeah, he stays at the owl house and when I'm currently at work I leave Lilith to babysit him." Luz replied "Well, alright then. Let's go."

Meanwhile at the owl house, King was currently in his room talking with Hooty. "Alright Hooty. I'm trying to make sure I can control whatever Titan powers I may now have as they grow in strength, and I don't want any distractions alright?" Hooty gave a large smile and nodded his head as he said "Don't you worry King, you can trust me!" 

"I doubt it." King muttered under his breath. Hooty retracted away out the door as King closed it. "Alright... Finally some quiet time, free from Hooty-" Suddenly Hooty shouted "WE GOT VISITORS!!! HOOT HOOT!!!" King sighed as he looked out the window to see a few people riding on palismen heading towards the Owl house. 

Eda approached the front door and knocked on it. Lilith opened the door and was somewhat surprised to see Eda was back already. "Eda! You're certainly home early. What happened?" Eda replied "Oh, well you see, Luz and Amity have had a slight inconvenience." She then allowed Lilith to see what had happened to Luz. "Oh..." She mumbled. 

King went downstairs as Lilith approached him and said "King, so something happened to your sister." King was confused and asked "What? Is she alright?" Lilith replied "Oh she's fine, it's just... maybe go and see for yourself." King wondered what she was talking about as he went into the living room, he was quickly shocked to see that Luz was a hybrid Titan again. "What the- Luz??" He asked.

Luz replied "Hey King, at first glance someone would call this witch puberty, but you and I both know what this really is." King nodded and said "That's your Titan form! You're a Half-Titan again! How'd that happen?? Didn't they eventually wear off after you defeated Belos??" Luz replied "They did, but they never actually left me, turns out when your father's soul faded, his spirit could no longer provide energy for my Titan powers, so my powers sorta 'fell asleep' for a while. But then this morning they suddenly came back!"

King then asked "How though? It doesn't make any sense." But then Alador stepped in and said "Actually it does now. Earlier today we scanned Luz to trace the energy source that was powering her Titan powers, and it traced the source all the way to you King. Don't you see King? You've finally grown powerful enough to charge Luz's Titan powers and bring them back." King looked at Alador, he was silent for a brief moment, feeling unsure of what to say, but then he finally said "So... what you're telling me is, I somehow turned Luz into a demigod without even realizing it? Oh dear Luz I am so sorry."

Luz was quick to reply "Oh don't apologize King, we're not mad at you at all, in fact..." He then approached King and whispered "I think Amity is kind of glad your power turned me into this, she's gone kinda crazy over my new look." King chuckled a little from that remark. He then asked "So what happens now that you got it all figured out?" Eda then said "That's what we're trying to figure out." Luz sat back down with everyone as she said "A lot has happened since my Titan powers reawakened. I've been so full of questions on what this could mean for me, what do I do now?" 

Eda then said "I think it be best we keep this a secret from everyone else." Luz looked at her in shock and asked "What? Why?" Eda replied "Look kid, you've clearly been very overwhelmed by all that's happened to you today, the last thing we want is for this to go public and make it even worse for you." Luz was confused as she asked "What's so wrong with everyone finding out I'm a Half-Titan?"

Lilith stepped in and said "That should be obvious Luz, remember, the Titans are viewed as powerful beings that live for a very long time, and are usually worshipped as gods, remember how weird I got around King when I first found out he was a Titan? Yeah, that was worship right there. And since you're a titan yourself now, and probably now contain an insane amount of power, everyone may end up worshipping you as a god! I doubt you'd really want all that attention right?"

Luz replied "Of course not! But what about college?! Can I not go to college anymore? What if we used an illusion spell?" "Illusion spells aren't fool proof Luz. There's a big chance you'd be discovered. I'm sorry, I know you want to study magic and all that, but we need to make sure you don't have the entire fucking isles worshipping you like you're some sort of demigod." Eda said. Luz looked down and sighed, she put her hands over her face. Amity looked at Luz and pulled her into a hug, she said "Babe, it'll be ok. I'm here for you alright?" Luz looked at Amity and said "Ami, I wanted us to be able to graduate college together... But now you'll have to go through the rest of college without me..."

Amity kissed Luz on the forehead and said "I'll make sure to come see you as often as I can Luz, alright? We'll all do everything we can to help you during this." King stepped in and said "Yeah Luz, we'll help you get through this." Luz smiled and said "Thanks guys." She smiled as she began to calm down, feeling more secure and at peace, but as she did, something began to happen to her, her body shrunk in size, her hair got shorter, and all the fur on her body went away, her original clothes she was wearing before she changed appeared as well. 

Everyone looked at Luz in shock from what just happened. "Woah... Luz!" Said King. "Hmmm?" Luz muttered as she looked at them all. "You're back to normal again!" Said Lilith. Luz looked at her hands to see that the fur and the claws were gone. The only thing that remained was the hat since that was technically an accessory. "What?! How'd that suddenly happen?!" She asked in amazement. "Heh, I see you're in you pajamas right now." Eda said with a grin. Luz quickly realized that and said "Heh, yeah I should probably get changed shouldn't I."

"I don't get it, where'd your Titan powers go? Did they go back to sleep or something?" Asked Amity. King suddenly said "Wait Luz look, that symbol of yours is still there." Luz looked down at her chest to see the same symbol that she had in her Titan form was still there, it could be seen glowing underneath her shirt, showing that the powers didn't completely go away, they were actually still active. Alador was quick to make a conclusion. "Interesting, it seems like you have the ability to shift between forms Luz! Was that something you were able to do before?" 

Luz looked at him and said "I honestly don't know, I wasn't exactly able to use my Titan powers for that long when I fought Belos, they deactivated as soon as he was dead. I wasn't exactly able to get a good understanding of what I was able to do in the time I had with them." Eda smiled and said "Well, I guess we don't have to worry about dropping you out of college after all since you can change forms and all that." Luz smiled and said "Oh thank Titan." As she hugged Amity, filled with relief. 

Eda continued "But you're not off the hook yet kid, seeing you change your form like that shows that you do indeed have the power of a Titan, is there anything else you've managed to do other than shapeshift?" Luz thought for a moment before saying "Well, there was that time when I punched the wall, I may have punched it a little too hard, I think I left a hole in it." Eda and Alador looked at each other as Alador said "Well, she's got enhanced super strength now, why am I not surprised?" Eda then said "That could be a problem. Ok, before we send you back to college, we need to make sure you've got your Titan powers under control." 

Luz stood up and said "But I've already used them before! I should be able to control them just fine!" But Alador interrupted "Maybe, but here's the thing you should probably consider Luz, when you last used your powers, they were being given power by the spirit of the Titan, but now they're being powered by King instead. Remember when King became powerful enough that the glyphs all came back, but they were different from before?" Luz nodded. Alador continued "The same exact thing could apply to your powers, it's clear that King and his father are somewhat different when it comes to powering magic, so for all we know you may end up having totally different powers from the ones you had before Luz, meaning you'll most likely have no idea how to use them."

Luz sat back down and sighed. "I'm sorry, it's just that all of this is...." She went silent. Amity replied "It's quite a lot, I can tell, but hey, we don't have to start learning how to control your titan powers right away, if you need time to think about all of this then that's fine." Luz got up and said "Yeah, I- I need time to think about all this." She slowly walked outside.

Luz slowly walked outside the owl house and approached the cliff. She sighed as she sat down by the edge, never did she think things would end up this way, she started to question whether or not her decision to become Half-Titan was even a good idea anymore, wasn't being a human who figured out how to use magic enough? She wished that the Titan had told her that she'd actually still have her powers after the Titan's soul passed on, and that once King was powerful enough they would reactivate again. If he had told her then she'd probably have time to prepare for this situation, but he didn't. Now Luz had no idea what to do.

"God damnit Titan, if only you were here, you'd probably know what to do right now." She whispered.

"Heh, you called?" A voice said behind her. Luz turned around as her jaw dropped at the sight of the Titan. "WHAT?!!" She shouted in disbelief. The Titan chuckled a little bit and said "Weren't expecting me were you?" Luz then said to herself "It's just one plot twist after another isn't it." She got up and looked at the Titan and asked "I don't understand, how are you here? Your soul passed on! If it didn't then my powers you gave me wouldn't have gone to sleep to begin with!"

The Titan then said "Let me explain Luz, you see, I'm technically not the same Titan you met in the in between. When I gave you my powers, I also gave you a magic duplication of my own consciousness, which only you and you alone can see. I did that with the intent that should my powers return to you one day, I'll be able to help you." Luz frowned as she said "So you did know that King would eventually grow powerful enough to charge my Titan powers." The Titan sighed and nodded.

Frustrated, Luz asked "Why couldn't you just tell me?!" As she sat back down. "If you told me, I could have been able to prepare for this moment, have a plan ready to go, but no. Instead you had to keep it a secret and make me believe that my powers would just go away and never come back. And now they have, and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do now!" The Titan walked beside her and sat down next to her. He remained silent before saying "You know what Luz? You're right, I should have told you... I should have told you that by passing on my powers to you, my powers would forever change you for the rest of your life, I should have let you know that you would become part-Titan. While you'd still be Luz, everything else about you however would never be the same, I knew what I was about to do to you forever as I gave you my powers, but I chose not to tell you the full extent of it."

Luz looked at him and asked "So why didn't you?!" The Titan remained silent before letting out a sigh, he finally spoke "I guess I just wanted you to feel like you were still human, didn't want you to fear that I was turning you into some sort of monster forever. So I lied Luz, and I'm sorry. But I want you to know, that regardless of the physical changes you've had, regardless of all that power that flows through your veins now, you're still the same person you once were, always have been." 

Luz then asked "Why did you choose to let me keep my powers? Was it the only way to bring me back to life or something?" The Titan continued "Not really... I- I understand if keeping my powers wasn't exactly what you had in mind, but I promise you I had good intensions. I wanted to give you what the human realm denied you of, the chance to be who you've always wanted to be, as a Half-Titan you can finally be a true witch, you can finally follow your dreams, but not just that, but also so you can use your powers to fight for the ones you love, you said it yourself Luz, you're the warrior of peace. You defeated Belos and brought peace to this world, you've earned those powers I gave you, you deserve to own them."

Luz remained silent, she thought the Titan had a point perhaps. She then said "I guess so, but... but I didn't want to lose all my humanity in the process." The Titan replied "Oh Luz, I didn't take away your humanity, why would I do something like that? No, you see... you're as much a child of the demon realm as you are of the human realm now, you still are human, but you are also Titan as well, what you can do now is embody the best of both, and that way you can be the bridge between the two worlds. You will go on to be the greatest witch the world has ever known, just like you wanted, right?"

Luz looked down, thinking to herself, remembering her childhood how she had always talked about wanting to become a highly powerful witch, only to be laughed at and shunned for it. But now the Titan was offering her the chance to fully be that person she'd spoke of wanting to become by letting her keep the Titan's power. That was what the Titan's true intention was when he brought her back to life, when he first gave Luz her Titan powers to begin with, it was all with the intent of giving Luz everything she'd ever wanted! 

Luz smiled as she looked at the Titan, tears running down her face slightly. She finally said "Thank you... Thank you so much, for all of this. I never realized what you were actually trying to give me when you granted me all of your powers." The Titan smiled and said "Oh it's alright Luz, I should have told you to begin with. Maybe then all of this would have been way easier to understand. So now what are you going to do now?" Luz smiled and said "I know exactly what I'm going to do now..."

Luz went back inside the owl house and said "Hey guys. I'm back." Everyone noticed her as Amity said "Are you alright Luz? You seemed pretty upset earlier." Luz replied "Oh it was nothing Amity, I just needed to wrap my head around everything, which I have." Eda then asked "So what are you gonna do now?" Luz smiled as she picked up her Titan hat and said "I'm as much of a child of the demon realm as I am of the human realm now. These Titan powers of mine, the Titan chose to let me keep them, he wanted to give me the chance to finally be a true witch, that's exactly what I'm going to do, all I need to do first is try and see what exactly I can do with my Titan powers." 

Everyone smiled as Eda said "Wow, you've come pretty far now haven't you. First it seemed like you wouldn't last that long out in this world, but now you actually managed to become one of us. I'm impressed kid." Luz smirked as she asked "How long did you doubt me for?" Eda thought about it for a moment and asked "I'd say probably until you entered Hexside." Luz chuckled and said "Well hey, I doubt you were the only one I surprised."

King soon asked "Is there anything we can do to help you get used to all that power Luz? I feel like I owe that to you since it was my Titan energy that reactivated your powers in the first place" Luz replied "Sure, you can come along if you'd like, besides, the sooner I get it all under control, the sooner me and Amity can return to college." Amity smiled and asked "Please tell me I can snuggle with your Titan form every night from now on?" Her face turned crimson red as soon as she asked that, feeling embarrassed by it. Luz simply laughed in response before saying "Sure." Amity let out a sigh of relief that she didn't embarrass herself in front of everyone. 

Luz then willed her palisman Stringbean into a staff as she then began to transform back into her Titan form, as soon as she did, she put her hat back on and finally said "Let's get started then!"

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The group followed Luz as they all traveled across the island, they traveled for miles. "Ugh, Mom my legs are tired!" King complained. "Hey, you were the one who agreed to help Luz with this!" Eda said. Amity looked at Luz, seeing that she kept on walking despite how tired everyone else was. She then asked "Luz wait up! We're all tired! How are you not?" Luz replied "I don't know, guess it might be a perk to being a Half-Titan I suppose."

Luz walked to the top of the hill, getting a better view of her surroundings, she planted her palisman staff into the ground as she stood there, staring at everything, feeling a sense of connection somewhat. Suddenly the Titan appeared, which everyone could not see. "What is it Luz?" Luz replied "I- I don't know, I've been around the entire island before, I've seen all this before, and yet, this time it feels different... I can't quite describe it but I-" 

"Feel like you're one with all of it? Exactly Luz, that's one of the things about being a Titan, as a Titan, you are connected with not just all the magic, but the entire demon realm as a whole. You've become the strongest witch in the entire boiling isles, the only way to know how strong is to keep testing your limits." The Titan vanished as Eda asked "Who are you talking to?" Luz replied "Don't worry about it, I think this is the perfect spot to get started." As she looked around, seeing not a single witch in sight. 

"Oh thank goodness we can finally rest." Said King as he sat down. Alador pulled out and turned on a device that scans Luz's strength level to see just how powerful she truly is as a Half-Titan. He then asked "So where do you want to start Luz?" Luz replied "I think I'll start small..." She grabbed her palisman and said "Alright String Bean, this is it." She decided she would start by trying to generate a light using magic. 

Luz looked down at her hand, remembering how last time she had used magic in her Titan form she had access to every single glyph combination in existence, many of which she wasn't aware existed. She thought about the light glyph, hoping it would appear on her hand. Suddenly, the glowing symbol on her chest glowed even brighter as she suddenly felt a rush of pure magic inside her, and then a light glyph suddenly formed on the palm of her hand. Luz looked at it for a moment before tapping it with her fingers, causing it to suddenly change into a ball of pure light that floated into the air.

Luz looked at it in astonishment as she then shouted with excitement "Guys!! I JUST USED MAGIC WITH MY OWN HANDS!!" Amity smiled and said "That's great Luz!" Luz then looked around before seeing a large tree that was laying down on its side. She then asked "Hey Lilith? Isn't that the tree that collapsed due to the destruction Belos caused to this island? You know, the one tree nobody could move after it fell?" Lilith nodded and said "Yeah, still have no idea how we're gonna get rid of it. It just doesn't budge no matter what."

Luz looked at her hands, remembering that her Titan form provided her with enhanced metahuman strength. She smiled as she said "I've got an idea." She then ran over to the tree and stood right in front of it, it was way bigger up close. Luz took a deep breath as she said "Ok, here we go!" Luz then reached her claws underneath the tree and began to pull with all her might, everyone behind her watched in anticipation, Luz continued to pull nonstop, before suddenly, the tree began to move, Luz kept pulling until she began to lift the tree off the ground, everyone watched in amazement as Luz managed to lift the entire tree up above her head! "I- I GOT IT!" She shouted.

Everyone couldn't believe what they were seeing, Luz was lifting an entire huge tree with her own hands, and was able to easily hold it above her head! Amity's face had gone deep red seeing Luz do this. Luz then threw the tree forward with all her might, and was amazed to see that she threw the tree miles away as it crashed into the boiling sea. "Wow..." She mumbled. Alador quickly checked the device and was surprised, he shouted "Luz! Your strength meter just completely went off the charts! And I'm not exaggerating!"

Luz smiled and said "I guess I'm a lot stronger than I thought then..." Suddenly, she smirked as an idea came across her mind, she approached Amity and lifted her up off the ground using her super strength, causing Amity to blush madly. 

"Hehe, who's got the weak nerd arms now hermosa?" She said.

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Amity remained silent as she felt her face start to heat up. Luz chuckled and said "I just had to do it." As she put Amity down. She then said "Alright, let's see what else I can do." Luz looked down at all the barely grown plants surrounding her, she smiled as she had an idea, she held her hand out as she thought of the plant glyph, eventually feeling the same rush of energy inside her as magic flowed into her hand, causing a plant glyph to appear on the palm of her hand.

Luz looked at it, and then all around the plants around her as she swung her arm around at them, a green blast of energy was emitted from her hand as it spread out around all the plants, causing them all to grow at a very rapid pace, before they suddenly turned into trees. Everyone watched in amazement as trees grew around them all. "Fascinating!" Alador said. Luz chuckled as she activated an ice spell and caused an ice block to grow out of the ground, elevating her into the air as she said "Turns out I can do all the magic spells naturally now!" She leaped to the ground as King asked "Does this mean you got a bile sack like everyone else now?" Luz replied "It's possible..." Alador approached her and said "Luz, everything that you've been able to do is incredible! But I'm still curious what else you can do!"

Luz replied "I'm sure there's a lot of things I can do, and I'm not gonna stop until I figure out what they are." Luz then looked at all the trees around her, she looked at her hands and clenched them into fists as she remembered that time she punched through a wall in her Titan form not to long ago, guess it was time to test even more just how strong she was. She quickly turned and ran at one of the trees and threw her fist towards it, she let out a scream as she punched straight into it, leaving a massive hole in it.

Luz smirked as she looked at the giant block of ice she grew out of the ground and ran towards it as well, she then punched it with all of her might as it instantly shattered into millions of pieces! "WOAH!" She shouted, amazed at how strong she was. Her Titan energy was so great it traveled through her palisman, which caused it to glow bright purple, the same way it did when she fought Belos. Luz smirked as she saw it as she then swung her staff forward, which dispersed several glyphs out at the surrounding area. They generated small explosions as they hit the ground. "HAHA!! THIS IS AWESOME!" She shouted.

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she then remembered how she was actually able to fly when she fought Belos, maybe she could still do that. Only one way to find out. Luz handed Stringbean over to Eda and said "Could you hold her for a moment?" "What are you doing kid?" Eda asked, Luz said nothing as knelt down a little bit before leaping high into the sky, surprising everyone. "Woah! Luz?" Wondered King. They all quickly ran out of the field of trees to see Luz land back down on the ground, before leaping up into the sky again! "I've never seen any witch do that before!" Said Lilith. 

"Well yeah, she's got Titan powers inside her!" Said King. Luz traveled higher into the sky as she threw her fists out, trying to keep herself in the sky as long as she could as she tried to fly. "Come on... come on!!" She said as she kept going higher, but then she looked down and saw just how far up she was, causing her to freak out as she began to fall. "Oh shit! Eda! Lilith! Help her!" Shouted Amity. Eda nodded as she and Lilith quickly transformed into their harpy forms and flew into the air to grab her, but they weren't fast enough as Luz crashed into the ground. "OH TITAN!! LUZ!!!" Amity shouted as she ran over to the crash sight.

They all arrived as soon as the smoke cleared, and were surprised to see that Luz was laying there completely fine! Not a scratch on her! She slowly got up and brushed off all the dust on her as she said "Don't worry... I'm fine, somehow." Alador quickly shouted "Luz, you fell from the sky at such great speed and crashed! No one could survive that!" Luz replied "I guess my Titan powers make me that strong I can survive almost anything! Hah! I really am really powerful!" Amity sighed in relief knowing Luz was alright as she hugged her. Luz hugged back saying "Hey, I'm fine Ami, don't worry about it."

Amity still hugged Luz tightly as she said "I don't care, you scared me Luz." Luz replied "Sorry about that." She then decided to try again, she just knew she had the ability to fly, she had too. Luz looked back into the sky and took another deep breath as she muttered to herself "The Titan wanted this for you Luz." Luz then knelt down as she planted her fist against the ground, as she began to take off, the ground started to shake around her, she then looked back up into the sky once more before hearing the Titan say to her "This was my final and only gift to you Luz, use it well." 

Luz then blasted right off the ground and traveled high into the sky. Everyone saw her take off as Alador looked at the device, seeing that the Titan energy reader was way off the charts, causing the device to malfunction. Luz kept on flying higher into the sky, she saw how high she was as she said to herself "WOAH!! Ok ok... don't panic Luz, you're actually doing this!" She raised her arms out as she flew forward at intense speed, generating a sonic boom behind her as she took off. 

Luz flew towards the giant hand of the Titan that was sticking out of the ground and flew around it in circles, feeling more free than ever. "WOOOHOOO!!! THIS IS AMAZING!!!" She shouted full of happiness, while Luz definitely had succeeded at being a witch before when she learned how to use glyphs, never had she actually felt like an actual witch that can actually do the things that she was doing now, but for the first time, Luz felt like a true witch.

Luz flew around the entire isles, soaring directly over fields of grass. She passed by the group that had followed her as she waved over to them shouting "HEY GUYS!! I'M FLYING!!" Eventually she flew towards the Knee and spun around it multiple times before blasting off higher and higher into the sky, way above the clouds. Eventually she flew so far up she left the planet's atmosphere. Yet she didn't die despite being in space, turns out her Titan powers protect her from the void of space too.

Luz hovered there in space, nothing but complete silence around her, she looked back down at the planet and was amazed by the glorious view she now had of the entire boiling isles, she could see Hexside from where she was. "Wow... it's beautiful." Luz said with a smile. She then flew back down into the planet. Back on the ground, Eda was looking around for Luz as she asked "Where do you think she went?" Lilith replied "I don't know, hopefully she'll be back soon."

Suddenly, Luz landed on the ground behind them, which instantly got their attention, they all turned around to see Luz as she looked at them all and shouted "GUYS! I JUST FLEW!!" King replied "Yeah, we noticed." Luz ran over to Amity and hugged her as she lifted her off the ground slightly as she shouted "I actually just flew!! BEING HALF-TITAN FREAKING RULES!!" Amity chuckled and said "Glad you're liking it!" Luz replied "I don't like it, I love it! I'm honestly kind of annoyed my Titan powers had to shut off for so long, but hey, at least the wait was worth it." 

Eda approached Luz and said "I'll be honest kid, you're way more powerful than I was expecting, now are you sure you've got all of it under control?" Luz nodded and said "I am positive, you've got nothing to worry about Eda." Eda looked back at both Lilith and Alador and said "Alright, you can go to college again tomorrow. But if anyone finds out that you've got Titan powers, you'll have me to answer too." Luz nodded and said "Thank you! I promise you that you won't regret this!" 

Eda replied "I sure hope I won't." Alador approached Luz and said "Luz, you've proven to be way more powerful than I ever imagined you could be, what's it like being the most powerful witch in the boiling isles?" But then Amity stepped in front of him and said "Dad, come on, give Luz a break alright? She just flew across the whole island!" Alador replied "Alright, sorry, it's just quite a lot seeing one person with so much power."

Later that night, Luz and Amity went to go relax by the grom tree, Luz was currently in her human form so that way she won't have to hide from everyone for the rest of the day. The couple sat down in front of the tree and laid on the grass. "Man, what a day." Luz said with a sigh. Amity nodded and said "Yeah, first you awoke to find you were a Half-Titan again, then we find out that King is basically the battery that's giving you those Titan powers, and then you flew across the entire island in under a minute! What's next?" Luz chuckled in response. "Did I mention I flew out into space?" She said.

Amity sighed and said "Not only do you look gorgeous as a Half-Titan, but you're also more powerful than well... everyone." Luz then asked "Even more powerful than the Collector?" Amity replied "I don't know, maybe the next time he visits you could challenge him to an arm wrestle or something." Both girls laughed, before giving each other a passionate kiss. Amity then looked up into the sky and asked "Hey, is it just me? Or does that star look like it's getting closer?"

Luz looked up at the sky to see the star that Amity was pointing at, she looked carefully at it for a moment before seeing it was getting closer, and it was heading straight for them! "Oh crap!!" She shouted as she quickly shifted into her Half-Titan form and scooped up Amity and ran out of the way as the star suddenly crashed into the ground right behind them, the blast from the explosion sent the girls collapsing to the ground. 

Luz and Amity got back up as Luz summoned glyphs onto her hands in self defense in case something were to attack them both, they slowly approached the crash site as the smoke cleared, Luz pointed her hands out as she prepared to shoot fire glyphs at whatever it was that had crashed, but when the smoke cleared, they were both shocked to see the Collector laying there on the floor. "Collector?!" Asked Amity.

The Collector slowly looked up at them both and said "Luz... Amity... P-please... help me. The archivists, t-they're coming..." Before falling unconscious.

To be continued....

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Back in the Owl House, Luz and Amity barged through the door, Luz was holding an injured Collector in her arms as she shouted "EDA!! HELP!!" Eda turned to see Luz carrying the Collector and shouted "Luz what happened?? Is that the Collector?!" Amity replied "It is! He came crashing down from out of the sky and when we found him, he was hurt really badly, get him some healing magic now!" King came in to see the situation the Collector was in as he gasped in horror at the sight of his friend having been harmed. 

They quickly laid the Collector down on the couch as Lilith came in with a healing potion and said "You're gonna need this little one." She then gave it to the Collector. They waited a while for him to wake up, but when he finally did he looked around a bit before asking "Where... where am I?" "You're in the owl house, you're safe." Said King. Luz looked at the Collector and asked "Hey, what exactly happened to you? You seemed pretty beat up. Wanna talk about it?"

The Collector remained silent, Eda looked at Luz and said "The kid seems pretty shaken up right now, let's give him some space for now." They all gave the Collector something to drink as he sat there covered in a blanket for warmth, he seemed to terrified to speak, it was like he had just witnessed something horrific. He finally looked up at them all and said "O-ok I- I'm ok now..." Luz sat down next to the Collector and said "So, when we found you, you told us that the Archivists are coming. Didn't you talk about the Archivists being your siblings?"

The Collector nodded as he said "Yeah... they were my brothers. And I met up with them earlier, I told them all about the witches, about King, I was hoping I could convince them not to harm King just because he's a Titan... but they became furious with me for becoming friends with him... they... they punished me for it... they did horrible things to me... I- I can't imagine going through it again... My brothers often treated me like I was the lowest of them, but I never thought that they would..."

Tears began to run down his face as his memories on what the Archivists did to him played in his mind. Luz wrapped her arms around him as she said "Don't freak out Collector, you're here, and you're safe, you don't have to worry about them hurting you again." The Collector then said "No, you don't understand, we should all be worried about them, they know the location of this planet, heck, they've been here before during the time they wiped out all the Titans! And now they want to come back! They're coming for you King." He looked at King and continued "They want to kill you, and they'll do whatever it takes to achieve that goal, even if it means destroying everyone on this island!" 

Luz and Amity looked at each other in fear as Amity asked "...How long do we have until they get here?" The Collector replied "I- I don't know, days, weeks, but the Archivists are fast, and we probably don't have long before they arrive, I'd estimate they'll be here in less than a week!" Luz looked down as she sighed saying "That's the worst possible timing for that! My Mom and Vee are gonna be visiting later tonight! I don't want them to get caught up in all of this!"

Lilith looked at Eda and said "Eda, we have to warn everyone about this!" Eda replied "No, that will cause a massive panic!" But Lilith replied "But we already have to keep Luz's Titan powers a secret. Why this too? This concerns everyone!" Eda replied "I know it does, but I don't want to send everyone into a panic. We need to make sure everyone is safe, when the Archivists get here, then we'll do something about it."

The Collector instantly shouted "What? No! You don't understand! The Archivists are the most powerful and deadly beings of the universe! Whenever they choose who lives or die, they become dead set on fulfilling that choice, nobody survives their wrath! Not even this world! We need to get everyone off this planet, somewhere safe! I can't let my brother's destroy you all! You're the only friends I've ever had!"

Luz then said "Collector, we're not just gonna abandon our home, how many Archivists are on their way." The Collector replied "Just my four siblings, Orion, Helix, Doradus, and Pismis. They are ruthless, cruel, I was lucky to escape them with my life after they found out I had befriended King. But I know for a fact that they're hunting for me, and King. Which is why we need to run Luz! Nobody here is safe anymore! You don't stand a chance against them!"

Luz replied "Well, the thing is, I have Titan powers again." She then shifted into her half-Titan form, which surprised the Collector. "What? But how?! I thought they were temporary!" He asked. "Eh, it's a long story." Said King. Luz continued "If you could see the things I've been able to do with my powers, you'd bet I could stop them." The Collector replied "Even with superpowers, the odds are still almost completely against you, it be wiser to get everyone off this planet, maybe we could take them to the human realm! The Archivists will never find us there!"

Luz then said "Look kid, I get that you're scared, but we are not just going to abandon this world, we're gonna fight for it, when those archivists get here, we shall show them who we are." The Collector sighed and said "Luz, you're making a huge mistake here!" Luz replied "It's better than running alright? Now please, just give me time to think about all this alright?" She then walked outside as Amity followed her. 

King looked at the Collector and said "Don't you worry bud, I know Luz, she's tougher than she seems, she defeated Belos with those powers, I'm sure she can handle your brothers." The Collector sighed, Eda then said to King "Maybe we should let the kid get some rest, he had a rough day."

Outside the owl house, Luz, now back to her human form, looked up at the sky, Amity joined her. "What's bothering you?" She asked. Luz sighed and said "Oh, well, I thought that figuring out I'm part Titan was all that was going to happen today, but now the Archivist are supposedly on their way right now to destroy us, and we've seen what the Collector can do, but the Archivists are older than him, they may have even more power... I- I don't know what to do..." 

Amity put her hand on Luz's shoulder, she gave a soft smile and said "Neither do I Luz, but let's not lose hope just yet, you used those powers of yours to defeat Belos, maybe you can do it again with the Archivists." Luz replied "Yeah, but he didn't have godlike powers like the Collector. Defeating him was easy, also because at the time I had more power than I do now since King isn't as powerful as his dad was, I don't know if I can stop them."

Amity replied "We'll find a way, we always do Luz, we found a way back to the demon realm after having been trapped in the human realm for months. We'll be fine." Luz nodded and said "I sure hope so... the only thing I'm worried about is having Vee and Mom get dragged into all of this, they're going to be arriving soon." Amity then asked "Will you tell them about your Titan powers?" Luz remained silent for a moment, she sighed and replied "....No." 

"What? Why?" Asked Amity. "Because I don't want them to worry about me, that's why." Said Luz. Amity replied "Luz, everything will be ok, how do I know? Because we always find our way through impossible situations, we can handle the Archivists when they arrive ok?" Luz nodded and said "I trust you mi amor." The two girls embraced with a passionate kiss.

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Later that night, the portal activated as the front door of the owl house opened up as a bright light could be seen behind it, and out came Camila and Vee. Luz and Amity were there waiting for them. "Hello Mija, how's college been going for you?" Asked Camila. Luz smiled and said "Oh it's been going great. Me and Amity have been living the dream life right now!" Vee then ran over to Luz and said "You're not gonna believe this Luz! Me and Masha are dating!" 

Luz gasped in excitement and hugged Vee as she said "Oh that's wonderful! I can't wait to hear all about it!" Vee then continued "I think this is finally it Luz, I think I'm finally going to tell them that I'm a shapeshifter from another universe. They seem to really be into the supernatural stuff so they might actually be totally chill with what I actually am." Luz smiled and said "Alright Vee, just don't get your hopes up alright?" Vee nodded.

Camila then asked Luz "So anything interesting happen lately?" Luz instantly shook her head saying "Nope! Nothing.... Everything's just the same as usual." Camila looked at her silently for a brief moment before saying "Alright then, good luck with college you two, I'm gonna go get me and Vee a hotel to stay at for the week, see you later." She and Vee then walked away as Luz sighed in relief. Amity looked at Luz and said "Luz, you're gonna have to tell them you're a Half-Titan eventually, they're your family." Luz sighed and said "I know... I just feel like telling them everything that's happening right now would put some stress on them, I'd rather wait until later once we got this whole Archivist situation dealt with." 

Eda soon showed up to them holding their palismen and said "Alright girls, shall we head back to college now?" Luz nodded and said "Yeah, I'm more than ready to go back." Eda handed both Luz and Amity their palismen as she changed into her harpy form, the three of them then flew back to the university of wild magic as Lilith and King waved goodbye to them.

Luz and Amity returned to their dorm room as Amity hopped on her bed saying "Ah! I missed this place!" Luz smiled and nodded saying "Me too! Glad my new/old Titan powers didn't prevent me from coming back here since I can change back into my human form at will." Amity smiled and replied "Well, it's pretty late, and we got a big day tomorrow so we might as well get some rest." Luz nodded, but then she remembered something. She slowly shifted into her Half-Titan form while Amity wasn't looking. She then got on the bed next to her, which caused Amity to blush madly.

"Gaah!!! Luz what are you doing?!" She asked, feeling flustered. Luz smirked and said "I promised you I would cuddle with my girlfriend like this." She then tackled Amity on the bed and held her close. Amity giggled slightly as Luz pulled her close. Amity replied "Ok Luz you got me!" She sighed as she wrapped her hands around Luz, rubbing against her soft fur on her back, doing so made Luz let out a soft purr in response.

Amity couldn't contain her happiness when she heard her girlfriend purr like that, she gasped and shouted "Your Titan form can make you purr Luz?!! That's so adorable!" Luz blushed a bit but smiled as she said "Another perk I guess. Hehe." Amity continued to lay there snuggled up with Luz like she was just a giant cat in her arms. Her Titan form made her very comfortable for Amity, literally everything about her new form was perfect in Amity's opinion. 

Amity saw the two horns that were sticking out of Luz's hair as she asked "What's it feel like having horns on your head Luz?" Luz replied "It feels kinda weird, but I should get used to all these new feelings soon. As long as I'm with you, I don't feel insecure about my new body. I love you Amity." Amity smiled and kissed Luz as she said "I love you too." As she continued to rub her hands through Luz's soft fur, making Luz purr some more.

"Mmmm... Amity, you're the best." Luz said. Amity chuckled softly as she replied "I can't help it Luz, you're too fluffy." She slowly moved her hands through Luz's long hair as Luz replied "You're not going to stop until you fall asleep won't you." Amity nodded and said "It's your fault you know, you're just too dang comfy! Maybe I should try belly rubs next." Luz chuckled and replied "In your dreams Blight." Amity laughed and replied "You're literally a dream come true Luz, your Titan form makes you to cute for your own good!" 

Luz grinned at Amity as she winked at her. She then felt tired as she let out a yawn, fangs on full display. She quietly mumbled "Love you, Batata." Amity replied "Love you too Luz." She left a small kiss on Luz's forehead as the couple fell asleep in each other's arms.

Outer Space....

"Orion, planet Titan is now within range. What shall we do?" 

"We shall make our presence known to all the residents of the boiling isles, and we shall find that little traitor, and kill his Titan friend!"

"And if all the witches there resist? What shall we do instead?"

"Well it's obvious, we kill them all!" 

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It was a brand new day in the Boiling Isles. In the university of wild magic, Luz and Amity were still snuggled up together, Luz had stayed in her Half-Titan form all night, just for Amity. Eventually, Amity woke up, feeling Luz right next to her. She chose not to move for a while, for the fur on Luz's body was just to soft for her to even want to move. Amity lost track of time as she held onto Luz, she could have been cuddling with her for hours by now. But eventually she slowly got up, she and Luz did have classes to attend after all. Amity looked down at the fluffy goddess sleeping peacefully next to her.

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Amity smiled as she thought to herself, she just couldn't get over Luz's gorgeous new form, it made her look highly attractive, and also hot which Amity was no longer afraid to admit anymore. Frankly, she honestly thought it would be impossible for Luz to get any more attractive, yet seeing her in her Titan form laying there peacefully in bed proved otherwise. That long curly hair that Amity just wanted to run her fingers through and that soft and comfy fur made her all too happy to make Luz into her own personal pillow.

While she'll always love Luz regardless of her looks, she did have to admit that Luz looked way better like this than she did before. In so many ways, it looked like Luz truly belonged in the Demon Realm now; something Amity could definitely appreciate. She smiled as she kissed Luz on the forehead, which woke her up. 

Luz opened her golden eyes as she looked at Amity with a smile and said "Good morning Blight." Amity replied "Heh, good morning furball." Luz chuckled at that remark. She decided to play along as she said "Heh, furball huh?" Luz didn't care if this form made her the most powerful being of the Demon Realm, she was gonna use her Titan form for seductive purposes now.

"So, I take it you’re liking my new look? You’ve been snuggling beside me all night. I can’t blame you. If only you could have seen me like this fighting Belos, you would have been in disbelief Sweet Potato." Amity smirked and replied "I see that your confidence level has also risen as a result of the new look, furball." 

Luz chuckled and asked "Do you wanna see how confident I can get mi amor?" Amity's face was as red as a tomato by this point, how did she get so lucky to have Luz, a now Half-Titan as her girlfriend? She then said to her "Luz I swear to the Titan if you don't kiss me right now I will EXPLODE!" Luz chucked and said "Well then Ami bear. Go ahead, the will of the Titan demands it." 

Both girls embraced each other for a passionate kiss. They both purred from affection, every time Amity heard Luz let out a purr it sent of rush of satisfaction through her. She started to rub Luz's soft belly which only made her purr even more. Eventually Luz managed to roll Amity over and pin her down on the bed. Amity soon found herself laying on the bed with Luz right over her. Now if she wasn't a blushing mess before, she certainly was now.

"Oh- Oh my Titan..." Amity mumbled. Luz chucked and replied "That's right, I'm your Titan." Amity's cheeks were burning hot. "Luz, how can you be this confident?" She mumbled. Luz smirked and said "You said it yourself that I look hot like this, remember?" Luz then dived down on Amity as she peppered her face with kisses. Amity was finally able to form words as she said "Luz... W- we're going to be late for class." Luz didn't stop her assault of kisses as she said "That can wait, come here." 

She held Amity down against the bed as she continued her assault, Amity wanted to make sure they were both on time for their first class but at the same time she didn't want to stop, there was just something so alluring about being kissed by her girlfriend while she was in her Half-Titan from. She soon sighed in defeat and said "Goodness Luz, you're so dorky and cute but I love it." Luz grinned and said "Heh, like you said, I'm your furball after all." Amity giggled slightly and said "Just kiss me already you dork." 

The two girls continued their assault on each other, Amity wrapped her arms around Luz's neck to hold her as close as possible while running her hands through her long hair. Getting a good feel of her soft fur, she was basically head over heals for Luz's gorgeous new look. She almost wanted Luz to just take her right there but if they were to go that route they would definitely miss their first class and be in a huge load of trouble.

They both continued their passionate, albeit somewhat animalistic make out session for a while before eventually deciding that they just had to get up so they could make it in time for their first class. Luz got up from the bed saying with a grin "Maybe we can continue some other time." Amity couldn't bring herself to form any words from that, Luz was definitely going to be the death of her one day. Luz shifted back into her human form, causing Amity to let out a small whine of disappointment knowing that she probably wasn't going to see Luz's Titan form until the end of the day.

They both quickly got dressed and prepared for their first class. Amity suddenly noticed Luz put on her hat from her Titan form, which is all that really stayed around whenever she was in her human form because the hat was just an accessory.

"Luz are you sure you should wear that?" Asked Amity. Luz replied "It'll be fine Amity, not like anyone's gonna notice, it's really just a hat, besides, it makes me look fashionable."

Later, Luz and Amity traveled through the halls of the building as they were on their way to their first class. But not without passing by Edric. "There you both are, you were no where to be seen yesterday, what happened?" He asked. "Oh, um, Luz's common mold got worse, we had to go somewhere else until it passed." Edric replied "Alright then, glad she's doing better, also, nice hat Luz." He then walked away. Luz looked at Amity with a smile and said "See? Told you this witch hat makes me look fashionable." 

The day went by like any other day, they both went to their classes, studied more wild magic, visited Gus during lunch. Nothing different really happened, despite Luz being part Titan, she did a pretty good job keeping it a secret from everyone else. Nobody questioned where she got the hat from, or where she was yesterday. It seemed like Luz was successfully able to get things back on track, hopefully nothing bad suddenly interrupts this day. 

Meanwhile at the owl house, Lilith and King were busy trying to take care of the Collector by giving him something to eat, he still seemed shaken up by what his brothers did to him. "Hey, buddy? Are you ok? Is the food to cold or something?" Asked King, the Collector looked at him and said "No, no.... it's just... I can't get these horrible memories out of my head. My brothers, when they found out that I had befriended you, they were outrageous. They did unspeakable things to me..."

"No... NO HELIX!! STOP!!!"

"You should know better than to make friends with one of our biggest threats in existence you little shit!!"

"PLEASE!!! STOP!!! NOOOOOO!!!"

"The pain... I- I had never ever experienced anything like it in my entire existence... And I thought I couldn't be hurt that easily." King put his hands on the Collector's shoulder and said "Oh Collector, I'm so sorry. But you're safe here with us now, those bastard brothers will never harm you again. I promise." The Collector smiled, but then, his head started to hurt. "Gaaah!!!" He screamed as he held his head tightly.

"What the- Collector?!" King asked in fear. "LILITH!! GET IN HERE! SOMETHING'S WRONG!!" Lilith came running in as she asked "What's wrong??!" King replied "I-I don't know! He seemed alright but now he's in pain!!" The Collector suddenly stopped as he said "Oh no... they... they're here." Confused, King asked "Who?" The Collector looked at him and said "The Archivists, my brothers. They've come for us both."

Back at the University of Wild Magic, the day was almost over, everyone was currently wrapping up their studies and heading back to their dorm rooms. Luz sighed as she said "Man it is great to have everything back to normal right?" Amity nodded and said "Yeah, with the exception of your Titan powers of course but as long as we keep them a secret, things should be fine." Luz smiled in response. They both returned to their dorm room as they laid all their work on the desk. As Amity got to work on all her assignments, Luz decided to get some fresh air as she opened her window, seeing the large view of the Boiling Isles ahead of her. 

Luz smiled, still filled with utter gratitude that she gets to live such an incredible life now that she moved here and left the human realm behind, the human realm kinda sucked anyway. 

Suddenly, Luz noticed something faint up in the sky, it looked like a large object was up in space just outside the planet. "What the?" She wondered, she looked closely at it to see that it resembled some sort of flying castle, similar to the one the Collector resided in. "Hey, Amity? You might wanna see this!" She said. Amity looked out the window with her to see the castle "What is that thing?" She wondered. 

Everyone else in Bonesborough would look up as well to see the giant castle floating there out in space just outside the planet, all of them completely silent, unsure of what to think at the moment, Luz and Amity continued to look at the castle before remembering the Collector's warning, which meant that this could only mean one thing, the Archivists have arrived.

Suddenly, all of the crystal balls used for TV were simultaneously hacked. Which caused them to go static. Everyone in the Boiling Isles would look at the crystal balls, including Luz and Amity as the static only got louder, but then suddenly, a face appeared on them all. The person on the image suddenly began to speak.

"My name is Orion, I am an Archivist. Me and my brothers have traveled a long way to reach you, the reason being, you probably know our youngest brother, the Collector. He has chosen to run from us and is currently hiding among you all. For those of you who know his current location, I request that you return him to our custody. Now, to the Collector I speak directly... Surrender to us now little brother, or watch this world suffer the consequences!" 

And just like that, the static went away. Everyone didn't know what to say after witnessing that. Camila, who had seen the whole thing too said "That's it, I'm calling Luz."

In the wake of the recent news, everyone began to panic, people began calling everyone, wondering where the Collector could be, if he even was on the Boiling Isles right now. As Eda was watching the news where people were talking about these events, she suddenly got a call from Raine on her scroll. 

"Hey Eda, you seeing this crap?! It's currently chaos outside where I am right now. Everyone's been running across the streets looking for the Collector, now have you seen him? Do you know where he could be?" Raine asked. Eda replied "No, even if I did I doubt I would say, the Collector has spoken about how much his brothers hurt him in the past, I doubt I would wanna send him back to them." Raine then said "Eda, the entire Boiling Isles is being threatened! This is no time for morality right now. We have to do what's best for everyone!" 

Before Eda could say anything back, Luz and Amity entered her office. "Hey Raine? I gotta go." She then hung up as she looked at Luz and Amity saying "Well, the Collector was right, the Archivists are here, and they supposedly want the Collector back, what do you think we should do?" Luz replied "We're not gonna let the Archivists have their way that easily, we should head back to the owl house to check up on him, there we can discuss what we should do next."

Eda, Luz, and Amity showed up at the owl house. Lilith looked at Eda as she came inside and said "See? I told you we should have warned everyone! The Archivists are here and have now just sent everyone into a panic!" King then added "And to make matters worse, some of them are actually considering turning the Collector in just to save everyone on this island!"

The Collector was terrified, he looked at King and asked "Why would they want to do that to me?!" King replied "It's because their scared Collector, the Archivists just showed up and are currently out there right outside of our planet in whatever that castle of theirs is, and they demanded that you be returned to them, or else everyone on this planet dies!" The Collector then said "There's no way they would spare everyone on this planet even if I did turn myself in, remember King it's not just me they want, it's you! And they'll stop at nothing to wipe out all the Titans!"

Luz then said "We're not gonna turn you in Collector, I promise." Amity then asked "So what should we do instead? We have no idea how to fight them." The Collector then said "You can't fight them if you tried, they're to powerful, not even I could hope to fight them off." Luz sat down as she thought about what to do, everything was happening so fast since the Archivists arrived. She looked out the window, still seeing that massive castle the Archivists reside in levitating there out in space just outside the planet. 

Luz sighed as she came up with an idea, one that probably might not be easy, but it was the only option. "I have a plan everyone, we'll negotiate with them." The Collector looked at her and asked "What?" Luz continued "Maybe we can figure out how to talk things out with the Archivists, maybe we can hope to understand why they hate Titans so much, and maybe we can convince them that King isn't all bad, and they'll leave us alone!"

The Collector then said "Luz, that's a terrible idea! My brothers cannot be reasoned with, they will not change their end goal, they will not stop until we are all dead! Besides, remember last time I tried to reason with Belos? That ended up costing you your life Luz! You were lucky the Titan revived you." Luz replied "I know, but I have to try, maybe we can't fight them, but we're not gonna run from them. So I'm going up there, and I'm going to figure out what exactly they want and maybe convince them that King isn't bad."

The Collector looked down for a moment before saying "Fine then, I'm coming with you then." Amity added "And so am I. Where you'll be going could be very dangerous, I wanna make sure you don't get killed." Luz looked back at them both and said "I can't ask you both to do this for me." The Collector replied "It's me they want, maybe you can act as if you're turning me in to gain their trust. That should hopefully give you a chance to convince them not to attack this world." 

Luz sighed and said "Alright then. So it's settled then. We have a plan, a risky one, but it's a plan." As the three of them were about to go outside, King looked at the them and said "Please, be careful." Luz nodded and said "We'll be back in no time King, we won't let the Archivists harm you." They then left the owl house.

Luz, Amity, and the Collector approached the edge of a cliff, they could see the massive castle way up in space. Before they could fly off, the Collector snapped his fingers which generated some kind of breather over Amity's head as the Collector said "The atmosphere on the castle is not breathable for your kind Amity, you'll probably need that. Amity nodded as she used magic to create a shield around herself to protect her from the void of space on the way there, Luz on the other hand didn't need any protection since she was Half-Titan.

"Alright, good luck everyone." She said as she shifted into her Half-Titan form, she and the Collector then blasted off the ground and proceeded to fly into the air while Amity got on her palisman and followed behind them.

They three of them flew higher and higher until they were outside of the planet. All forms of sound ceased as soon as they were in space. They could see the castle right ahead of them, and it looked more and more massive the closer they got to it. "That's a pretty big castle for just four guys." Luz mumbled. Soon, the Archivists caught sight of them as Pismis saw them approaching, he went to speak with Orion as he said "Orion, two of the residents of the Boiling Isles are here, the Collector is with them." Orion looked at him and said "Good, let them in." The main castle doors opened up as Luz, Amity, and the Collector levitated onto the castle grounds. They walked inside as the doors closed behind them.

Once inside, they were all met by one of the Archivists, Doradus. "Why hello there old brother, good to see you could join us once more." He said, the Collector did not smile back. Doradus then looked at Luz and Amity saying "You've made the right choice bringing our brother here, follow me please." They all followed him through the long and large corridors. Eventually they arrived in a massive room, Orion, Helix, and Pismis were waiting for them.

"Ah, there he is! Welcome home brother." Said Orion. He then looked at Luz and Amity and said "Greetings mortals, thank you for returning our lost brother to us." Luz then looked at Orion and said "Excuse me, my name is Luz Noceda, and I speak for the witches of the Boiling Isles-" Orion suddenly interrupted "Oh yes I know who you are, I know the names of all of your friends, the Collector told us all about you, I have a question for you, do you still feel connected to the Titan's energy up here?" Luz was about to say something, but then suddenly, her head started to hurt. "I- I feel strange..." She muttered.

Orion smiled and said "Did you seriously think we'd allow a Half-Titan to roam freely in this place? We despise Titans!!" Luz suddenly collapsed to her knees as she coughed up blood. Amity quickly tried to help her as she watched Luz collapse to the floor in pain. "What the hell are you doing to her??!!" Amity shouted in anger. Orion smiled sinisterly as he said "This castle has a dampening field that prevents any form of Titan magic on board, you clearly made a huge mistake coming here Luz." Luz then fell unconscious. 

Enraged, Amity formed abomination fists and tried to punch Orion, but Orion simply grabbed her by the throat and lifted her up. He then threw her to the floor and said "Take these two to the dungeon." The Collector tried to help but he was restrained by his brothers. "NOOO!!! LET THEM GO!!!" He shouted. "And you dear brother, you will spend the rest of your days facing punishment for betraying our very purpose in life." Said Orion.

Luz awoke to find herself back in her human form, she had a breather over her face so that way she could still breath here. She was strapped in glowing blue chains. She instantly tried to break loose, but it was no use, her Titan powers were not working anymore. Orion entered the cell and said "You're wasting your efforts Luz, your connection to the Titan's power has been neutralized on board our ship." 

Luz looked at Orion and shouted "WHERE'S AMITY?! WHERE'S THE COLLECTOR??!" Orion replied "Oh will you just relax for a moment Luz? Amity is in another cell, while the Collector is currently facing punishment for running from us." Luz looked at Orion with an angry look as she shouted "Listen here Orion, since you seem to know a lot about me, you should know that I will not allow you to harm King! I came here to negotiate and see if we can reach an agreement." Orion simply laughed and replied "You made a huge mistake in doing so Luz, there is no agreement to be made." 

Luz then asked "What do you mean?" Orion replied "Heck, we were never even going to just leave you alone once we had what we wanted, no. You and those witches you care deeply for, you have been sheltering a Titan! A monster that must be destroyed!" Luz shouted back "KING IS NOT EVIL!! NONE OF THE TITANS WERE EVER EVIL!!" Orion then shouted "Oh yeah?! Then why did King's father seal our brother away?!" Luz then shouted "BECAUSE YOU ATTACKED FIRST!!" 

Orion laughed and said "You wanna know what the Titan's truly are? They're freaks, freaks with too much power inside them. They do not deserve their power they have, they're too dangerous to be left alive! You've become too dangerous to be kept alive now that you have the Titan's energy coursing through you. And so are the witches!" Luz went silent from that and asked "What? You're not planning to kill the witches too are you?!"

Orion continued "All of the witches worshipped the Titans like they're gods, when they truly are not, the Titans were simply a mistake that was given too much powers, they were never meant to exist! And when me and my brothers killed them, we thought the planet would die, but no, instead a new race that inherited the magic the Titan's contained came to be, witches, they are just as deadly as the Titans are, pure magic does not belong in the hands of mortals, you all must die!"

Luz then shouted "Why do you get to decide who lives and who dies?! What gives you that right?!" Orion shouted "It is what I was created for, what my brothers were created for, we are the Archivists, we observe life forms, and we see which ones are deserving of life, and which ones are deserving of being erased and archived. You can not possibly hope to negotiate with us, all we needed from you was the Collector, and now that he is back with us, all of the witches of the Boiling Isles will die!" 

"NOOOOO!!!!!" Luz shouted. But Orion turned and left the room. Leaving Luz in her cell all alone, she looked down as tears ran down her face as she said "I- I shouldn't have left them. Now they're all in danger. And I can't do anything to stop them..."

"Orion, we have locked the Collector away. He won't be escaping this time." Orion smiled and said "Good, now that we have what is ours, prepare to attack, Pismis, stay here and watch over Luz and Amity, do not let them escape." Pismis nodded as he turned to walk away. Orion, Helix, and Doradus turned to go and attack the Boiling Isles. The end of days was now upon the witches.

To be continued....

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In the owl house, Eda, King, and Lilith were waiting patiently for Luz, Amity, and the Collector to return, hopefully with some good news. "Come on they're taking too long!" King said in fear. Lilith comforted him and said "Give them time, I'm sure they'll be alright." Eda sat down and sighed and said "Did I make the wrong choice Lilith? Was I wrong to keep the arrival of the Archivists a secret from everyone? We should have had time to prepare, but instead we chose to wait around for them to get here, and now everyone is panicking."

Lilith was about to say something, but then suddenly, Eda got a notification on her scroll. She looked at it and saw that it was text from Raine.

"EDA!! IT'S GETTING WORSE! THE ARCHIVISTS JUST LAUNCHED AN ATTACK ON BONESBOROUGH!!" 

"What?!" Eda shouted. She quickly turned on the crystal ball to see that it was broadcasting a massive emergency alert as it showed footage of the Archivists leveling the town of Boonsborough. Eda, King, and Lilith watched in shock as they saw the Archivists blow up houses and send people running for the streets. "Oh Titan... it's getting worse!" Said Eda. King then asked "Does... does this mean that Luz failed? What do you think could have happened to her?" Lilith replied "I don't know King, but hopefully she and her friends will find their way back."

Eda then said "In the meantime, we had better head over to Bonesborough and try to help as many people as we can, come on Lilith!" Both Eda and Lilith morphed into their harpy forms and walked outside, but then King asked "What can I do to help?" But Eda replied "King, the Archivists want to eradicate the Titans, it's probably you they want the most. It's best that you stay." As she and Lilith then spread out their wings and took off.

Meanwhile in Bonesborough, Camila was still trying to contact Luz to make sure she was ok, but she was still getting no response back from her. Suddenly she heard a loud explosion outside, she and Vee looked out the window to see smoke in the distance, they could hear people screaming. They then saw one of the Archivists levitate into the air as he fired laser beams from his eyes down upon the town, setting several buildings on fire. Camila gasped in horror and said "Come on Vee, we need to get out of here!"

Meanwhile in the castle of the Archivists, Amity was still locked in her cell, the blue chains her arms were restrained by prevented her from using magic, so there was nothing she could do to escape, nothing she could do to help the witches of the Boiling Isles. But then, the two Palismen, Stringbean and Ghost snuck into the cell. Amity saw them both and smiled as she said "Ghost! Stringbean! Thank goodness you're here, can you get me out of here?" 

Both palismen nodded as Stringbean morphed into a tiny dragon and flew towards the chains and used her sharp teeth to bit them apart, freeing Amity from them. Amity smiled as she was free. "Thanks, now let's get off this castle." She opened the door to her cell and walked through the hallway. She checked every cell trying to find Luz and the Collector. "Come on, you've gotta be in here somewhere." She said. 

In Luz's cell, Luz remained all chained up, looking down in despair knowing that all the witches were going to die. Suddenly she heard a knock on the cell door, along with a familiar voice. "Luz? You in there?!" Luz looked up and replied "Amity? Yes! I'm here!" Amity smiled and said "Hang in there, I'm busting you out of there!" But Luz replied "No, get the Collector out of here first, the Archivists are probably doing horrible things to him right now, help him!" Amity replied "But what about you?" Luz replied "The Archivists are using something that prevents me from using my Titan powers, figure out what it is and shut it off and get yourself out of here! With my Titan powers restored I'll be out of here in no time! But hurry!"

Amity nodded as she went to go find the Collector. She ran down the hallway that consisted of several jail cells, but suddenly, she was spotted by Pismis. "YOU!!!" He shouted. Amity gasped as she quickly formed abomination fists and ran at the Archivist in an attempt to punch him, but Pismis simply dodged the attack with ease. He then fired bright energy from his hand at Amity, Amity quickly ducked it and took off running as Pismis chased behind.

Amity kept on searching before she suddenly heard what sounded like screaming. "Collector?" She wondered. She followed the screaming which led her to a particular cell that had the Collector in it, he was all chained up and had several volts of electricity being zapped against him, it was like they had trapped him in some sort of torture chamber! "Holy shit! Collector!" Amity shouted as she quickly punched open the door using abomination fists and then quickly went to destroy the machine that was shocking the Collector by punching it as well.

The Collector's head fell forward as the shocking stopped. He took deep breaths as Amity checked on him. "Are you ok?" The Collector finally looked up at her and mumbled "Amity.... you got out. What about Luz?" Amity replied "There's a way we can free Luz, but I have to find the main control room to deactivate whatever it is that is preventing her from using her Titan powers, but we have to hurry, Pismis is following me!"

The Collector then said "You'll need my help, the control module requires only me or my brothers to operate it, only I can use it." Amity broke the Collector free of the chains and said "By all means lead the way, you know your way around this place better than I do."

Amity followed the Collector through the corridors of the castle, it was very big, but eventually they reached the main control room. The Collector approached a hand print and placed his hand over it, causing the module to light up as he said "I'm in. Now just give me the time I need to deactivate what's keeping Luz from using her Titan powers." Amity asked "How long will it take?" The Collector replied "Not long, I've used this thing before anyway."

Suddenly, Pismis entered the room. Amity saw him and shouted "Crap! Uh, you might wanna make it quick! I'll buy you some time!" Amity summoned lots of abomination goo and launched it at Pismis, but the goop didn't do anything to harm him, for his body was way to invulnerable to be harmed. He then fired lasers from his eyes at Amity. Amity quickly drew a shield spell and blocked it, but she struggled to hold it. In an attempt to fight back, she summoned an abomination creature that ran to attack Pismis. It grabbed the Archivist, but Pismis used his enhanced strength to break free of the creatures grip and punch it apart.

Pismis then levitated into the air and flew directly at Amity, tackling her and pinning her to the floor. Amity struggled to fight but Pismis held her by the throat, he was about to punch her in the face, but then the Collector swooped in and punched Pismis with intense strength, sending him crashing into the wall. Amity got up and said "Holy Titan! You just punched your own brother!" The Collector nodded and said "Yeah I did, I just disabled their dampening field, Luz's Titan powers should be returning soon."

"Good, now we need to get out of here, do you know a way off this ship?" Amity asked. The Collector replied "Oh yeah, we have escape pods that mortals can use, make your way to them now!" Amity then asked "What about you?" The Collector replied "Oh I can just punch my way out of here, I'll meet you and Luz back on the Boiling Isles ok?" Amity nodded and left the room, once she was out, the Collector punched through the wall as he allowed himself to get sucked out into the void of space and quickly flew back into the planet.

Amity kept on running through the halls, trying to find the escape pods, it took a while, but eventually she finally found it. "There they are!" She shouted as she quickly ran over to one of them and got inside, but as soon as she powered it on, Pismis caught up with her. She quickly closed the door and ejected the pod, but not before Pismis fired laser beams at the pod, damaging one of its thrusters which caused it to fly out of control, Amity was now set to crash land on the planet!

Meanwhile inside Luz's cell, Luz suddenly felt a powerful but familiar rush of magic flow through her, she smirked as she realized what it meant, she slowly transformed back into her Half-Titan form and broke free of the chains using her super strength, she approached the wall and said "I'm so out of here!" As she punched open the wall with her strength, creating an opening into outer space which sucked all the air in the room out. Before she could leave however, the Titan suddenly appeared next to her.

Luz looked at the Titan and asked "The Archivists, what can you tell me about them? Why are they so hellbent on destroying all the witches?" The Titan replied "Well Luz, you see, just like Belos, the Archivists are filled with delusions that they have the right to play god just because of the unlimited power they possess. And they believe any other mortals should not be given the power they have. And those who do have that kind of power must be eradicated instantly, which is what they did to me and all Titans when they found out how powerful we were. The Archivists believe that unlimited power such as magic for example should only belong in the hands of them because they believe themselves to be the only gods of the universe. Which is why they want to eradicate the witches now as well."

Luz replied "So they basically want all the power to themselves?" The Titan continued "Yes, well sort of, they think what they're doing is good when all they're doing is committing mass murder really. They think that by killing those with insane amounts of power or magic they'll be restoring balance to the universe, but that's not at all the case." Luz was silent before saying "So they wiped out your kind just because you had lots of power?" The Titan nodded. 

Luz then said "These Archivists think they're doing good, but all they've done is commit murder! And now they're about to do it again to the Boiling Isles!" The Titan replied "Not if you can stop them Luz." He then looked out through the hole and said "Look." Luz looked outside to see an escape pod flying out of control down onto the planet. "Ami..." Luz muttered.

"Luz, this is exactly why I gave you my powers to begin with, it wasn't just so you can finally become the true witch you've always wanted to become, but so you can protect those that you love from deadly threats such as this, and preserve the life force of the Titans that now exists within every single witch. That's what the symbol you carry means." The Titan said as he pointed at the glowing symbol on Luz's chest.

"That symbol represents the very life force of every Titan in existence, it's the very thing that gave the witches magic to begin with. The very essence of our culture, and the magic itself  now lives in you with that symbol. And is up to you to preserve it by keeping those who have inherited our magic safe. Because if all the witches die, our culture and the magic itself will die with them." Luz looked down at the glowing symbol and put her hand on it, she could feel raw energy radiating from it, like it contained the life blood of the Titans. 

The Titan looked back down at the planet and said "All of those witches down there are in danger, but you can save them Luz, you can save all of them. For you are the Half-Titan, child of the human realm, and student of the demon realm. This is your time to rise Luz, be that incredible witch that you've always wanted to be, and fight for your people. Defend the essence of the Titans, defend the magic." 

Luz smiled and nodded as she spread out her arms and levitated through the hole and out into space. The Titan disappeared behind her as Luz looked towards the falling space craft Amity was inside and then blasted towards it at intense speed, generating a sonic boom behind her as she flew away. The space craft continued its rapid decent into the planet's atmosphere as it started to heat up, Amity screamed in terror from inside as the pod spun around rapidly as it fell, but chasing behind it was Luz, she flew as fast as she could to try and gain up with the pod and reach it before it crashed. 

As Luz flew closer towards it, she reached out her hand to try and grab it. "Come on... come on!" She said. Eventually, Luz was able to catch up to it and grab it. Luz held onto the pod as it continued to fall rapidly, Luz could already see the ground coming straight for her, she quickly punched the pod open with her super strength and quickly pulled Amity out and let the pod fall, it exploded as it hit the ground. Luz quickly held Amity tightly as she used herself as a shield for Amity to protect her from the blast of the explosion. 

Once the smoke cleared, Amity saw the face of Luz smiling at her as she slowly levitated to the ground while carrying her. Seeing that she was being carried by her girlfriend made Amity's face go red. “L-L-Luz… T-Titan…” Amity muttered. Luz smirked and replied "Yep, that's me." Luz landed on the ground and put Amity down as she asked "You ok?" Amity could only silently nod. Luz smiled and said "Good, where's the Collector?" Amity replied "The Collector is alright. I got him out." 

Soon, the Collector flew towards them both and shouted "WE GOT A PROBLEM, THE ARCHIVISTS ARE ATTACKING BONESBOROUGH!" The moment Luz heard him say that, she suddenly found that she could hear explosions and chaos in the distance. "Yeah, I can hear it from here." Said Luz. Amity on the other hand couldn't hear anything, she asked "You can hear all the destruction? How? Because I can't."

Luz remained silent as she thought about it before realizing something "Holy Titan! I think my powers offer me super hearing! That's pretty cool!" The Collector then interrupted "Hey, are you gonna do something about my brothers or not?" Luz replied "Oh yeah! Right!" She was about to take off into the sky again but then Amity stopped her as she said "Luz wait! You could die. The Archivists are very powerful." 

Luz nodded and said "I know, but I have to try." She put her claws over the symbol on her chest once again and said "This symbol represents all that the Titans stood for, I must protect the essence of their magic by putting a stop to this madness at once before the Archivists can kill everyone!" Amity quickly gave Luz a kiss on the cheek and said "Be careful babe." Luz smiled and said "I will, I'm the Half-Titan after all, I'll be fine. Now you might wanna stand back for this."

Amity took a few steps back as Luz blasted off the ground with a sonic boom. Amity and the Collector watched as she flew high into the sky at intense speed as she used her super hearing to find the Archivists. "Gotcha!" She said as she flew away towards Bonesborough.

Meanwhile in Bonesborough, Eda and Lilith were working hard to defend the citizens by getting as many of them to safety, but they didn't stand a chance against the Archivists, not even their harpy forms could do anything to stop them. Camila and Vee ran through the streets as fast as they could, desperate to escape the Archivists, but suddenly, they were both ambushed by Orion! Orion landed on the ground in front of them both and looked right at them.

Vee hid behind Camila as Camila shouted "WHAT DO YOU WANT?!" Orion approached her and lifted her up off the ground by the throat. "MOM!" Shouted Vee as she tried to help, but Orion kicked her to the floor as Helix and Doradus showed up and pinned her to the floor. "LET HER GO YOU BASTARD!!" She shouted as she tried to break free. Orion smirked as he looked directly at Camila, he prepared to fire laser beams from his eyes into her skull, but then suddenly, they all heard a sonic boom in the distance, before anyone could react, Luz suddenly flew out of nowhere and tackled Orion, screaming as she did so.

Luz held Orion out in front of her as she crashed him through several buildings, she then dragged him against the ground while maintaining her flight speed as she started punching him rapidly in the face as she shouted "YOU'LL THINK BEFORE YOU THREATEN MY MOTHER!!!" Luz then flew into the air and tossed Orion down at the ground with intense force, Orion crashed into the ground as Luz landed on the floor in front of him. "LEAVE THESE PEOPLE ALONE!" She shouted.

Original artwork link: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/12iroht/luzs_final_form_fanart/

Orion got up and saw Luz standing there ready to fight as he said "Huh, you really want to challenge us don't you? Go ahead if you must! Helix, Doradus!!" Orion's brothers showed up as he said "You can't possibly hope to win against gods Luz. Helix, Doradus, kill her!" He then blasted away as Helix and Doradus approached her. Luz smirked as she said "Oh bring it on then bastards!" She clenched her fists as she walked towards the two Archivists. Several witches ran past her, she looked at them and said "Get inside, it's not safe."

Meanwhile, several witches on palismen were flying towards Bonesborough in an attempt to stop the attack. They were led by Raine, they said to the others "Everyone, I have seen first hand the beings we're about to engage, they are extremely dangerous, use deadly force!" Everyone nodded as they flew towards the town. 

As Luz approached the Archivists, she got faster, before running at intense speed, she then levitated into the air as she attacked Helix, she maintained her flight speed as she slammed Helix into the ground, dragging him across the floor. They both then crashed into a building, which just so happened to be the one where Hunter and Willow were going on their first date! They both were startled as the wall came crashing down as both Luz and Helix crashed through it, Hunter and Willow went to go hide, before peaking out to see Luz get up, they both made eye contact with each other as Willow began to recognize the figure in front of her. "Luz?? Is... is that you?" 

Before Luz could say anything in response, Helix got up and punched her to the floor. But she quickly got up and then generated a glyph that fired a beam of energy at Helix, knocking him down. She then shouted "HUNTER! WILLOW! GET OUT OF HERE NOW!!" Hunter nodded as he took Willow by the hand as they both took off running. Helix got up and looked at Luz, he then charged towards her at intense speed and grabbed her by the throat, pinning her against the wall.

"Oh look at you, a simple little mortal with Titan energy inside of her, how disgraceful! Mortals like you do not deserve such power! And for that, you will die!" He then grabbed Luz with both hands and threw her outside. Luz got back up and saw Helix fly out of the building. Luz made an angry face as she clenched her fists. "GRAAAAAHHH!!" She shouted as she levitated into the air and pounced Helix once again, they crashed through the building and out the other side, Luz flew into the air and tossed Helix down onto the road and attempted to tackle him against the ground as she flew down towards him at swift speed, but Helix quickly dashed out of the way as Luz landed beside him.

Luz turned towards Helix and quickly flew at him with her fist ready to punch him, but then Doradus landed behind her and grabbed her by the leg, slamming her against the ground, he then kicked Luz towards Helix who punched Luz with intense strength, causing her to collapse to the floor. 

Meanwhile, Hunter and Willow kept on running as fast as they could. "Did you see that?!! I think that was Luz!!" Shouted Willow. Hunter replied "I know! What happened to her?!!" Willow then said "I just can't believe she stayed behind to fight those monsters on her own! She can't possibly hope to survive, she may need our help." Willow then quickly got out her scroll and called her friend Gus. "Hey, Gus? We need your help." She said.

Meanwhile, Luz slowly tried to get up, but then Doradus flew towards her and dragged her against the ground, she screamed in pain as her body was dragged against hard cement. Doradus eventually stopped and pinned Luz down against the ground as he attempted to punch Luz with super strength, but Luz reacted fast enough and generated a large forcefield around her using magic, just barely blocking the punch. Then Helix ran over to her and tried to kick her, but Luz managed to grab him by the leg and pull him down, Doradus then tried to stomp on Luz, but she was able to roll out of the way and get back up again.

Luz proceeded to harness her super strength as she started punching Doradus aggressively, she then swooped around and flew away before flying straight back to kick Helix directly in the face, knocking him down, but then Doradus grabbed her by the leg and pulled her to the ground. He pinned Luz against the ground and tried to choke her, but she was quickly able to form a plant glyph on her hand and grow a large vine and grab Doradus with it, she then got up and swung the vine with Doradus stuck to it around multiple times before throwing Doradus into a building. 

Suddenly, Helix swooped in and punched Luz to the ground, Luz quickly got back to her feet and fired an energy beam at Helix in an attempt to stun him as she quickly tried to fly away, she took off into the sky, only for both Doradus and Helix to catch up to her and pound her back down onto the ground, the three of them continued to wrestle around like wild animals against the ground as Doradus attempted to smash Luz's head open with his fists, Luz quickly rolled out of the way and avoided being crushed, but then Helix pinned her to the ground and put his hand over her face, preventing her from moving.

Luz squirmed around a bit as both Helix and Doradus held Luz against the ground firmly, suddenly, Luz's eyes began to heat up as they went bright gold, she then let out a powerful scream as golden laser beams suddenly shot out of her eyes, firing right through Helix's hand! Helix screamed as he let go of Luz instantly, Luz got up and was surprised by what she just did. "Woah! I have laser eyes?!! Nice!" She said with a smile. She then dashed towards the two Archivists as they continued to clash with each other.

Meanwhile, Orion watched the whole fight take place from a distance in the sky. He had to admit he was impressed that Luz has been able to hold her ground for this long, but he knew Luz wouldn't be able to last for much longer. Suddenly, a voice called up to him, "HEY! Jerkface!!" That voice was all to familiar to Orion. He turned around to see the Collector levitating there behind him. "Ah, Collector, come to join me as we watch your friend Luz die?" 

Angered, the Collector shouted "No, I've come here because I've got some unfinished business with you! I've had it with you treating me like I'm the lowest of you all! I may be small but I'm still family, and when I finally make a real friend, you four have the audacity to torture me for it?! This ends now!!" Before Orion could react, the Collector fired a massive star at him, which exploded upon impact, sending Orion flying out of control, he regained his composure and shouted "You're gonna regret that you little shit!!" He then blasted towards the Collector and tackled him, slamming him into the ground. The Collector quickly got up and tried using telekinesis to throw Orion back, but he was too slow as Orion punched him across the field.

The Collector slowly got up as Orion looked at him saying "Me and my brothers are going to make them suffer! These mortals that you call friends, we shall take them all from you one by one!" The Collector clenched his fists as he levitated into the air saying "You really are a monster!" The two brothers flew at each other and attacked.

Back in Bonesborough, Luz attacked Doradus as she flew towards him and started punching him rapidly in the face with intense strength, but Doradus didn't seem harmed whatsoever. Instead, he grabbed Luz's fist and then flew into the air, carrying her by her horns as he then threw her back into the ground and attempted to tackle her by flying straight towards her, but Luz quickly got out of the way as Doradus came crashing into the ground next to her. 

As the godlike beings continued to fight, all the witches riding their palismen showed up, many of them got down on the ground and quietly got ready to fire. One of them then asked Raine "Wait a second Raine, who's that female?" Raine replied "I don't know, but judging by her raw power, she's probably dangerous as well. Shoot all targets!" The witches nodded as they drew energy circles as they approached the three beings. 

The three of them stopped fighting as they saw the witches open fire on them all. Luz quickly formed a shield in front of her to block the attacks. She quickly shouted "EVERYONE STOP!! IT'S ME LUZ!!!" When Raine heard that, they stopped firing and asked "Wait... Luz?" Suddenly, Helix, who was angered by the witch's presence dashed towards them all and started attacking all of them one by one, he grabbed one of them and threw him towards another witch, before sprinting around from one witch to another, punching each of them with such a powerful force it easily broke every bone in their body.

Luz continued to fight Doradus, she flew towards him and fired laser eyes at him, he quickly shielded himself and tried to fire laser eyes back at Luz, but she dodged it with ease, before generating a powerful light glyph in her hand and activating it, which created a bright light that stunned Doradus for a moment, allowing Luz to fly behind him and grab him, she then flew into the air carrying him, and then punched him so hard it sent him flying off into the distance.

Helix continued to attack all the witches, he then looked at Raine, and when Raine realized that they've been spotted, they froze in fear, unsure of what to do. Helix made a sinister grin as he ran over to Raine to kill them, but then suddenly, a voice behind him shouted "HEY!!!" Helix turned around to see Luz landing towards him with her palisman staff all charged up with energy. "EAT THIS SUCKA!!!"

Original artwork link: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/12l1nlj/eat_this_sucker/

Luz swung her palisman staff into the ground as she landed in front of Helix, generating a powerful purple shockwave that sent Helix crashing into a wall. Luz turned to face Raine as she said "Get out of here as fast as you can! Hurry!" Raine nodded as they started running for it. Helix got back up as Doradus landed next to him. Luz clenched her fists as she started to breath heavily, all of this fighting was really starting to take its toll on her, she might not have been as prepared as she throught.

Before anyone could attack, two giant vines suddenly grew out of the ground and grabbed Helix and Doradus, swinging them around in circles. "What?" Luz wondered. She suddenly noticed two familiar witches riding palismen soaring through the sky. It was Willow and Gus! "Don't worry Luz! We got you!" Shouted Willow. "And when this is over, you got a whole lot of explaining to do!" Shouted Gus. 

Gus then drew an illusion spell that created two exact replicas of Luz next to her. She smiled as she said "Alright! Let's make the fight more fair then!" She then blasted up into the sky as the illusions of her attacked the Archivists, they both attacked the illusions as Helix fired laser eyes at one of them, only for the illusion to vanish in an instant, before Helix could question it, Luz landed over him and punched him in the face, knocking him down. Doradus was about to attack her, but then, Doradus got punched by an abomination fist, which sent him crashing into the wall.

Luz turned to see Amity standing there as Amity said "Couldn't leave my girlfriend to fight these bastards on her own!" Luz smiled as she and Amity confronted the two Archivists, who were more angry than ever. "This reminds me of that time we fought against Grom together." Luz said. Amity nodded and said "Let's go send these fuckers back into the stratosphere!"

Meanwhile, the Collector and his brother Orion continued to fight each other, the Collector punched Orion in the face multiple times, before Orion was able to grab his fists and slam him into the ground, he pinned the Collector to the ground and continued to punch him endlessly. "You were always the least of us brother! Always to weak to win!" He said as he slammed the Collector into a tree. He collapsed as Orion stood over him and said "But most importantly, you were always to soft to do what was necessary for the universe!" He was about to fire lasers from his eyes at the Collector, but then suddenly, someone showed up and shouted at the top of his lungs "WEEEEEHH!" Orion was suddenly hit by a powerful sonic blast which sent him flying.

The Collector got up to see King standing there, smoke was steaming out of his mouth due to the blast of energy he just fired. "KING!" He shouted as he ran over to him and hugged him. Orion got back up and looked at them both, angered he shouted "HOW DARE YOU MAKE FRIENDS WITH THIS TITAN! YOU ARE ONE OF US!! WHY WOULD YOU GIVE UP EVERYTHING FOR THIS CREATURE?!" The Collector replied "Because brother, King, and all the residents of this island were the first true friends I've ever had in life, this is the place where I finally feel accepted, and not judged by the raw amount of power I have. Here, I am loved and respected, which is something you and your brothers NEVER GAVE ME!!!"

Angered, Orion shouted "YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS COLLECTOR!!" He then dashed towards the Collector, but the Collector simply punched him into the sky and blasted after him, he then kicked Orion so hard it sent him flying out into space! "Who's the weak one now jerkface!?" The Collector shouted. He levitated to the ground and reunited with King as he said "You saved me!" As he gave King a hug. King smiled and said "Anytime buddy."

Back in BonesBorough, Luz and Amity attacked the Archivists as one, Luz formed an ice glyph on her hand and planted it against the ground, causing an ice block to rise out of the ground, launching Luz into the air, she came skydiving down on Doradus and used abomination magic to form a hammer as she smashed it on Doradus's head. She then kicked him across the ground, Amity leaped out of the way as Helix fired laser eyes at her, she quickly shot abomination goo at him, but only as a distraction, soon Willow showed up and tied Helix up in vines, allowing Amity to run over to him and punch him aggressively with abomination fists.

Helix was becoming furious, he then shouted "ENOUGH!!!" As he broke free of the vines, sending Amity and Willow flying. Amity collapsed to the floor as Helix walked over to her, hellbent on killing her. Luz soon noticed Amity was in danger and shouted "AMITY!!" As she sprinted towards her. Helix charged his fists with bright energy as he was about to fire upon Amity, but then Luz ran in front of him and generated a forcefield, blocking him. Amity looked up to see Luz standing there protecting her from the blast.

Original artwork link: https://mobile. /CcnyicalZ/status/1645871572589092870

"Uh.... um..." Amity mumbled, unable to form sentences as her face went all red. Something about this felt strangely familiar to her, but she couldn't exactly point her finger on it at the time. Luz looked at Helix and sprinted towards him, punching him into the air as she chased after him, she grabbed Helix by the leg and started swinging him around rapidly before throwing him towards the ground as he crashed.

She was about to fly down towards him to tackle him but before she could attack, Orion suddenly swooped in and punched her to the ground. She collapsed as Orion landed in front of her, he said "Enough of that Luz, you and your friends put up a fair fight, but now your time has come to die!" 

Soon, Helix and Doradus managed to grab her friends and suspend them in the air using telekinesis. "No!! Let me go!!" Shouted Gus. Luz saw her friends in danger, she looked at Orion and shouted "Don't you DARE hurt them!!" She then levitated into the air and blasted towards Orion to attack him, only for Orion to grab her by the throat and slam her into the ground. Orion walked away from her and said "You're gonna watch me kill everyone you love, right here, and right now!"

When Luz heard that, she was enraged, she managed to get up to her knees as she looked towards Orion, she made an angry face as she planted her claws into the ground, the glowing symbol on her chest glowed even brighter, and then, Luz let out a powerful Titan roar! The roar let out a powerful sonic blast the same way King does every time he shouts 'weh' Orion turned around to see the blast coming his way, and before he could react, he was sent flying away by the massive amount of Titan energy, along with Doradus and Helix, which caused them to drop Luz's friends.

Luz got up and slowly approached Orion, before Orion could get up, Luz fired an energy beam at him, keeping him down, she then grabbed him and picked him up as she shouted "I SAID, DON'T YOU DARE HURT MY FRIENDS!!" She then punched Orion so hard it sent him crashing into a building, Orion soon fell unconscious from the hit. Doradus and Helix were shocked to see Luz pull that off, turns out she was more powerful than they thought. Luz's friends all stood next to her as she looked at the two Archivists with a menacing face, showing that she won't hesitate to do the same thing to them.

"Get the hell off our planet! It's under my protection!" Luz shouted. Doradus and Helix then decided that the best option would be a tactical retreat. They ran over to Orion as Doradus picked him up, before they left, Helix looked back at Luz and said "This is far from over, Half-Titan." Helix and Doradus then flew away with Orion, generating a sonic boom behind them, a few moments later, the castle in the sky began to fly away.

Everyone watched as the castle flew away as Eda and Lilith smiled. "THEY'RE RETREATING! LUZ MUST HAVE DEFEATED THEM!!" Shouted Eda. Lilith smiled and said "Wow, four powerful gods, beaten by a human girl!" Eda then said "Well, Luz is part Titan now." Lilith nodded. 

Luz smiled as she watched the castle fly away, soon Amity ran over to her and gave her the biggest hug ever. She proceeded to kiss Luz's cheek as she said "You did it Luz!! You saved Bonesborough!" Luz smiled in response as she hugged Amity back. 

Original artwork link: https://www. /canibeunoriginal/714246647158374400/i-cant-believe-that-amity-missed-the-titan-luz

Willow, Gus, and Hunter then looked at Luz as Willow asked "Man Luz... what happened to you anyway? For a moment I almost didn't recognize you." Luz replied "Oh, it's a bit of a long story." Suddenly, Raine and several other witches showed up as Luz approached them all. She and Raine looked at each other for a moment before Raine finally said "Holy Titan... It really is you Luz. You- You've become part Titan!" 

Willow, Gus, and Hunter heard them say that as Hunter asked "Part Titan??" Luz then said to Raine "Yeah, I have." Raine was absolutely speechless, they had seen Luz as a Half-Titan before when she fought Belos, it was a wonder they didn't recognize her at first, but they never thought Luz's Titan powers would ever return. "How though? How did this happen??" They asked. Luz replied "It's, kind of complicated. But I'll make sure I tell you everything." 

Luz then found herself surrounded by several witches, all of them looked at her in amazement, there was a literal Titan among them all in the form of Luz. One of the witches slowly began to bow down to her. Eda and Lilith showed up as they saw the situation Luz was in. "Well, there goes her cover." Said Eda. All the witches soon began to cheer on for their Titan hero. Luz smiled as they all cheered for her, for the first time in a while she felt like a true superhero. The Titan soon spoke to her and said "Well done Luz, even by my standards I'm impressed."

But then Luz remembered something important she should probably focus on, she had to make sure Vee and her mother were alright. 

"Amity? I'll be right back, I just gotta do something real quick." Luz gave Amity a kiss before blasting off into the sky, generating a sonic boom behind her, everyone watched her take off in amazement as Luz flew away. "Damn! Did you know about this Amity?" Asked Gus. Amity remained silent before saying "Yes, I did." Gus was surprised as he asked "Tell us everything!! We'd love to know where Luz just got all that insane Titan power from!"

Amity smiled softly as she said "Alright, I'll tell you everything...." She then went on to explain to her friends how Luz got her Titan powers back. As for Luz, she continued to fly over the town, trying to find her family, oh boy did she sure have a lot of explaining to do.

Outer space....

Orion woke up, he found himself back in the flying castle. "What the- What happened?!" He asked. Pismis approached him and said "You were knocked out by Luz during a battle, your brothers had to carry you back here and retreat." When Orion heard that, he instantly looked out the window to see that they were no longer anywhere near planet Titan anymore, he screamed in anger. Helix showed up and said "Orion there was nothing we could do, Luz's Titan powers are more stronger than we thought."

Orion replied "Which is all the more reason why we have to kill her! We cannot allow there to be other gods in the universe besides us!" Doradus replied "Slow down brother, we're in no condition to fight anymore, we hade to retreat." Orion sighed and said "Fine! But we will not give up until we wipe that damn planet clean of all life! Understood?!" His three brothers nodded in response. Orion then looked out the window and said "This isn't the end Luz...."

To be continued....

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Camila and Vee watched as the giant castle in the sky slowly flew further away, before eventually disappearing out of sight. "Are- are they gone?" Asked Vee. "...I think so." Camila said. Several witches came out of hiding once they realized that the Archivists were gone. Camila and Vee walked through the streets to try and find Luz, but then suddenly, someone landed behind them both.

Camila and Vee turned around to see Luz standing there in her Half-Titan form, smiling at them. "Hey Mom, hey Vee." She said, neither Camila or Vee said anything in response. They all looked at each other for a moment before Camila finally asked "Luz? Is that you?" Luz nodded and said "I know this is quite surprising for you to see me looking like this-" But before she could continue, Camila ran over to her and hugged her.

Luz smiled and hugged back. "Oh thank god you're ok Luz! I was so worried, I've been trying to call you since those Archivists showed up but you never responded to any of my messages!" Camila said. She let go of Luz and examined her new look and finally asked "What- what happened to you? You look... well..." "Fluffy and somewhat taller? Yeah I know. I uh, I have no easier way to say this, but I've become a Half-Titan." 

"A Titan? Are you serious?!" Vee said, Luz nodded to her. Camila finally spoke "H-how? How did this happen? How long have you had this for? When were you planning on telling me?" Luz replied "I've had this since I came back from the dead and defeated Belos." Camila was shocked and asked "What?" Luz replied "Mom, remember when I told you about how I defeated Belos? How I met the Titan himself and inherited his power for a short amount of time to defeat Belos?" Camila nodded.

"Turns out, his powers were never temporary, I've still had them all along, they just 'fell asleep' when the Titan's soul faded, but they were always there, death truly has changed me in more ways than I thought, I was never fully human ever again since then." Camila remained silent, unsure of how to respond. Vee then asked "So this is that form you took when you fought Belos? Dang, you look a lot cooler now if I'm being honest." Luz chuckled in response.

Camila then asked "When did these powers of yours reawaken exactly?" Luz replied "About two days ago, when King's Titan powers grew strong enough to power them." Camila then asked "Two days ago... that was before I arrived, you... you chose to keep it a secret? Why?" Luz replied "Mom, look, I was going to tell you eventually, I just didn't want to put any stress on you by telling you that your own daughter has become a powerful demigod. Like, how do you even begin to tell your parent something like this?"

Camila put her hands on Luz's shoulders and said "Luz... I couldn't care less about what you've turned into, your still Luz, my daughter." She then hugged Luz. Luz smiled and hugged back. Vee then asked "Luz, did you defeat those Archivists?" Luz nodded and said "Yep that was me! Wish you could have seen it, I kicked their asses real good." 

Soon, all of Luz's friends showed up. Luz walked over to them all. She then said "I owe you all an explanation don't I." But then Gus said "Oh don't worry, we already know. Amity told us everything." But then Hunter asked "The only question we have left is why you kept this whole thing a secret to begin with?" Luz sighed as she said "It wasn't my choice to keep it a secret, Eda insisted I keep my Titan powers a secret, she believed that if everyone found out that I was a Half-Titan, they would start worshipping me like a god. And while I have the powers of a god in me, I'm still just Luz, it doesn't change anything about me. And I didn't want to be worshipped, so I chose to keep it a secret."

"Yeah well the secret is out now." Said Eda as she and Lilith showed up. "While it was pretty cool that you managed to defeat those Archivists, you did so at the expense of exposing yourself to everyone, too many people now know that you're part Titan now for us to keep your powers a secret." Luz looked at her and asked "Eda, you're not seriously mad at me for saving the Isles are you?"

Eda shook her head as she said "No, in fact I'm actually impressed, proud even! But I'm just making sure you are aware of what this means for you now. Now that everyone knows your secret, they'll most likely start worshipping you, making things way harder for you." Luz nodded and said "I understand that Eda, I'll go and talk to all of them, they're probably eager to know how I got these powers and what this could mean for me in the future." Luz levitated into the air as she went to go meet up with all the other witches.

"Look! There she is!!" Shouted a witch as she pointed up in the sky as everyone saw Luz levitating there in the sky, her 'cloak' was blowing in the wind. Everyone went completely silent as Luz levitated to the ground and looked at them all.

A familiar witch showed up, Viney, she looked at Luz in amazement and said "Luz! So all the recent talks about what happened to you are true! You've become part Titan!" Several other witches began to crowd Luz, desperate to ask her several questions, one of which was "Luz! What's it like being the most powerful being on the Boiling Isles now that you're part Titan?!"

Suddenly, Amity stepped in and said "Guys! Give her some room! She just fought against two godlike beings! I know you all have a lot of questions, but we need to try and focus on fixing up the destruction caused by the Archivists!" Luz then said to her "It's alright Amity, they should know where I got my powers."

Luz looked at everyone and said "Everyone, if you remember how I defeated Belos, you'll know I inherited Titan magic to defeat him, turns out all that Titan magic never actually left me when the Titan's spirit faded, and it has been dormant for the past four years, until two days ago where King's Titan powers grew strong enough to charge them, and just like that my powers were back." Just like that, everyone began to ask even more questions, Luz's friends tried to control the crowd as Willow shouted "That's enough! One at a time!"

Soon someone asked "So now that you're a Half-Titan, does... does that make you a god? If you are, we will gladly submit ourselves to your will!" The witch along with a few others began to kneel down to Luz like she was their god. Luz stepped back a little bit as she said "No... please don't worship me like that. I'd rather not have that kind of attention!" But then another witch said "But you're a Titan! You've literally become the most powerful being on the entire Isles! You can have anything you want now! And we'll gladly give it to you! You saved us after all."

Luz then shouted "Enough!! Guys, I know I may have changed, but who I am, who I always have been, that hasn't changed! I'm still just Luz, yes I'm a bit taller, and fluffier, but I'm still the same Luz you all remember! Having the powers of a Titan does not change who I am! Please, I don't want to be worshipped, I just want to be me." Suddenly, a voice spoke "And I second that." Luz turned around to see Eda show up as she said "Everyone, I have known Luz for a very long time, she's the one who changed so many people's lives for the better, including mine. The changes she has experienced won't ever change any of that."

But then one of the witches then said "How can you be so sure of that? She's part Titan now! She's a god!" Eda continued "Yeah she's Half-Titan now, so what? That doesn't make her more superior to any of us, and it doesn't make any of you inferior to her either! Luz has been studying wild magic in the university I currently run, I have seen her continue to pursue her dreams to become a witch just like the rest of us! In fact, seeing that she's Half-Titan now, I think she finally has fulfilled that dream. Luz, can you create a spell circle?"

Luz nodded as she used her finger to draw a massive spell circle, which changed into a bright light that levitated into the air. Everyone watched in awe as they saw Luz, who used to be a human, just perform magic naturally like the rest of them. Camila and Vee watched in amazement as well. Eda then said "You see everyone? Luz can do magic like us now! She isn't becoming something you all expect her to be, she's become the very thing she's wanted to become her whole life, a witch, just like all of us now. And we should accept her for that alone, and not treat her like she is an almighty being that is to be worshipped."

Everyone looked at each other in silence, Eda continued "So let's not view Luz for the kind of being she has become, let's view her for what she has just accomplished today, she became a witch just like all of us, and she managed to save us from being wiped out, those Archivists intended to destroy us all, but Luz, having embraced her new self stepped in and stopped them." She looked at Luz and said with a smile "I'm proud of you kid, really." She looked back at everyone and said "Let's not treat people based on what power they possess, but let's treat them for how they use that power and respect it!" 

Everyone smiled as they all applauded, but it wasn't for Eda, it was for Luz, for she had saved them from being exterminated, and she finally become the person she set out to be in life, a true witch. Luz looked at Eda and smiled and said "Thanks Eda." Eda smiled and said "Anytime Luz." Suddenly, everyone approached Luz and managed to lift her up into the air as they all cheered for her. Camila watched with pride as she saw her daughter finally being accepted as a true witch from all the residents of the Boiling Isles. "YEAH! That's my sister right there!!" Vee shouted in excitement.

Luz looked at all the witches, seeing how happy they were for her, seeing this brought her back to that time where she longed for those around her to accept her and not shun her out for her dreams of becoming a witch, and now here she was, being cheered for now that she had finally achieved that dream and used it to save the people of the Boiling Isles. There was no denying it at this point, the Boiling Isles was her home.

They all put Luz down as Amity approached her and hugged her. She looked at Luz and asked "So, now that you're a real witch like everyone else, does this technically count as an early graduation from college then?" Luz shook her head and said "Nah, it won't be fun not being able to spend every day with my awesome girlfriend." Amity blushed as Luz looked at Camila and asked "Hey Mom, can I borrow your phone real quick?" Camila handed Luz her phone as Luz turned on the camera and said "Just saved the Boiling Isles selfie time!"

Original artwork link: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/12gh1kx/fan_art_after_the_finale_watching_and_dreaming/

(I know Amity looks younger in this image but when I found it I just had to use it, it was just too good to ignore!)

 Later that evening, all the witches held a massive celebration in Bonesborough for Luz having saved them all from the Archivists. Luz stayed in her Titan form throughout the whole thing, she had to admit, it felt nice being able to be out in public not having to hide her Titan powers from everyone, now that they all knew about it. Tons of people went to ask her things that she could do now that she was Half-Titan. Even her friends were eager to know what she could do now!

"Show us what you can do Luz!" Someone said. Luz smiled and said "Alrighty then, first of all, I can fly." She proceeded to elevate off the ground and into the air slightly, everyone was amazed by seeing this "Dang! I don't think a single witch can do that, we usually use palismens for flight." Said Hunter. Luz continued "And, I can form glyphs on my own hands and activate them with ease." She generated a fire glyph on her hand and pointed it up at the sky, she tapped it with her claws as bright fire suddenly shot out of her hand, lighting up the night sky. 

Everyone watched in amazement as Luz said "I can also travel at incredible speeds, just watch..." Luz then harnessed the strength of her legs as she ran at intense speed around the witches, causing a small gust of wind as she ran, she appeared being the witches which caught them all of guard, one second Luz was in front of them, and now all of a sudden she was behind them!

"And not only that, I also have like, an insane amount of strength." Luz said as she looked towards a piece of debris from the destruction caused by the Archivists that no one was able to move, she approached it and then grabbed it with her claws as she lifted it off the ground, catching all the witches off guard, she smirked as she then threw the debris into the sky as it fell out of sight, surprising everyone even more. 

"Man I'm so jealous Luz! Your Titan powers are too damn cool!" Shouted Gus. Luz smiled and said "Hehe, thanks. I never thought I'd be this capable enough." Soon Camila showed up and said to Luz "Well look at you, a true witch now huh?" Luz looked at her and nodded. "Yep, good luck getting used to the new me Mom." Camila chuckled and said "I doubt that will be hard." She then gave Luz a hug as she said "I've never been more proud in my life. I'm so sorry I tried to keep you from following your dreams for such a long time."

Luz replied "Aw Mom. Don't worry about that, I'm just glad you've accepted this as the new me." Camila then said "Oh of course Luz, this incredible witch that you've turned into is wonderful. Your father would be so proud." Luz smiled as a tear ran down her face.

Soon, King and the Collector showed up. Luz was surprised to see the Collector wearing a different outfit, he was wearing a fancy uniform, the proper attire for the occasion. "Hey! Collector, I was wondering when you'd show up again. So now that the threat has been dealt with, I suppose this means you'll be returning to the stars again?" The Collector shook his head and said "No. I turned against my brothers, there's nothing for me out there anymore. This place is the only place where I have been accepted and loved. I'm staying." 

Luz smiled and said "Heh, glad to have you around Collector." The Collector then said "Actually... I prefer you call me Enzo. I think it's time I got myself a name for myself." Luz nodded and smiled.

Later, Luz approached Amity and said in a flirtatious manner "So mi amor, your Titan demands that we dance." She reached her hand out to Amity, Amity could simply blush in response as she took Luz's hand. The two of them held hands as they danced, Amity held Luz tightly so she could get a nice feel of her fur. Luz could tell as she smirked and said "Still can't get over this look can you Blight?" Amity blushed as she said "Oh you dork. You're gonna embarrass me in front of everyone!" Luz chuckled.

As they danced, Luz and Amity soon noticed Hunter and Willow dancing together as well. Luz could see that Hunter was visibly sweating being this close to Willow. "Jeez, when are those two just gonna kiss?" Luz asked. Amity replied "I know, they've been like this for so long now, just get on with it already!" Both girls chuckled lightly as Luz then gave Amity a kiss. Amity smiled in response. "How's it feel being kissed by a Titan hermosa?" Amity's face went red hot as she said "Please... don't make it weird Luz." Luz laughed lightly.

Later, Luz was called to the stage, she walked on stage and saw a whole crowd of witches in front of her. The announcer, who just so happened to be Raine spoke "Citizens of the Boiling Isles, today could have been a horrible disaster, but then Luz stepped in using her newfound Titan powers and prevented what could have been our extinction as we know it, and for that Luz, on behalf of the entire Isles, I thank you."

Luz nodded and said to everyone "Back on Earth, I was all alone, my dad died of cancer, and I began an obsession with witchcraft and magic as a way to cope, but that obsession later turned into a passion, one that everyone else refused to recognize, I had nothing... there were times where I almost felt like I was worthless, like I deserved to suffer, I came close to taking my own life at some point, but then I arrived here, and this world changed my life for the better. The Boiling Isles is my home, and I will not allow anyone, including the Archivists to cause harm to it. Those Archivists won't dare to harm you all again, your Titan promises that." 

Everyone clapped for a while, but before Luz could step off the stage, the Collector suddenly got on stage as he said "I don't mean to ruin the mood, but I feel like you all don't truly know the Archivists the way I do. If I know my brothers, they won't give up so easily, they never give up until they achieve their purpose, this isn't the last we've seen of the Archivists, they will be back, I just know it, they'll come back, and they will keep coming back until they destroy us all. But, after having seen the way Luz managed to fight them off, and win, I have a good feeling that maybe we do stand a chance against them."

Luz looked at him and said "If the Archivists do indeed return, I'll be waiting for them, I swear on my father's grave, I will not let them harm anyone ever again! And that's a promise!" Suddenly, a voice said "We're with you too Luz!" Luz looked down to see her friends, Amity, Willow, Gus, and Hunter. Willow said "We will fight by your side. The next time those Archivists show up, we'll give them a fight they'll never forget!"

Luz then said "Guys, I can't ask you to do this for me..." But then Hunter said "Come on Luz, we've all been through the craziest shit ever, I'm sure we can handle it." Gus then said "Yeah Luz, I don't want to sit around while the Archivists cause havoc on this island. We should be able to help you!" Amity then said "Luz, we'll always be here for you, and we'll make sure you can defeat the Archivists the next time they show up, and that's a promise."

Luz smiled and said "Oh you guys, what would I ever do without you." She got off the stage and gave her friends a hug as she said "When those Archivists return, we'll make sure to give em hell!" Her friends nodded. Luz looked at everyone else and said "Let's send those Archivists a message, they like to think they're gods, but they're not gods at all, they just murderers, and it's time for their chaos to end!"

Everyone applauded for Luz, all of them were filled with an ideal of hope, they felt reassured that they would survive, Luz would ensure that. Eda, Camila, and Vee watched from a distance as Vee said "Dang! I can't believe my own sister is that willing to fight now, how can she be so brave?" Eda smiled and said "Because she's the hero the Boiling Isles deserves. Luz is the child of the human realm, and the student of the demon realm, she's the Half-Titan."

Eventually, the party came to an end, Luz and Amity finally got to return to their dorm room in college. Luz sighed as she sat down on her bed saying "Dang, what a day this turned out to be am I right? I feel like every day just gets crazier and crazier now!" Amity nodded and said "I know, it really makes you look forward to tomorrow doesn't it." Luz nodded as she said "Totally, I can't wait to go back to studying wild magic again with my new Titan powers, the possibilities on what I can do are endless!"

Amity sat down with Luz as she asked "But Luz, are you sure you're ready to take on the Archivists?" Luz went silent, she then said as she looked at her claws "Maybe, maybe not, if I want to defeat the Archivists, I'll need to be as ready as possible, I'll need to make sure that I know every last ability my Titan powers offer me, it's the only way I'll truly be ready for what's coming." Amity replied "Well, me and our friends will be here to help, always."

She gave Luz a kiss on the cheek. Luz smiled and wrapped her arms around Amity and said "Oh I love you Ami bear." She then pulled Amity down onto the bed with her, the two of them stared at each other lovingly, hands intertwined. Luz took off her witch hat and put it down, allowing Amity to rub her hands through her long hair as she asked "So does this mean you're just going to stick with this new body of yours all day from now on?" Luz smirked and said "Well, if that's what you want, then of course." Amity smiled and said "I love you."

The couple then fell fast asleep all cuddled up with each other. Even though the battle had been won, the conflict was still not officially over, the Archivists are still out there, and they'll be wanting revenge, but when they do return, Luz and her friends will be ready to bring them down.

To be continued....

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Luz Noceda POV: 

It's been several weeks since the day the Archivists first attacked us, ever since then, lots has changed. Mainly for me, the entire Boiling Isles now knows that I've become Half-Titan, which has actually made things a whole lot easier now since I no longer have to hide it, I can literally go all day in my Titan form now! Eventually, over time, I actually started to prefer my Titan form over my human form, I felt a lot more open and a lot more like myself that way. Quite surprising to say the least.

Whenever I'm in my Half-Titan form, I feel so much more like a true witch, and being a witch was always my childhood dream, so over time I began to view my Half-Titan form as my true body, my true self, who I really am, not just some badass super form I can transform into. It's kind of like coming out in a metaphorical sense, I used to be human, but my Titan powers have made me feel a lot happier because they made me feel like a true witch, I then realized that I don't think I consider myself human anymore, yes I'm still me, but I feel a lot more like my true self when I'm in my Titan form. 

I spoke to my Mom about all of this, telling her that I'm starting to see myself as a Half-Titan now instead of a human, and she was honestly very supportive of it. So to put it simply, I came out as Half-Titan, and I feel a lot happier like this, I feel better this way. I feel like a real witch now like everyone else in the Boiling Isles. What's great about all this is now that I accepted my Titan form as my true body, it has helped me get used to all the weird feelings I had when my Titan powers first returned, like the horns, and all the fur, and my superhuman strength. Getting used to these feelings has only further made my Titan form feel like my true form and who I truly am. 

What's also great is that now that I'm a Half-Titan, I can finally eat the food they serve in the Boiling Isles without vomiting right after! No longer do I have to sneak away during lunch to get myself some Earth food! So yeah, my new life as a Half-Titan is great, it feels nice to finally feel like a true witch. And it has made college way more fun. Now do I still create glyphs on paper? Of course I do. Besides, I can't naturally preform a spell unless I know its glyph pattern, so I still make glyphs so I can learn them. But it's great finally being able to feel like a real witch and use magic naturally like everyone else can, I feel more like my true self now thanks to these Titan powers.

3rd person POV:

Luz awoke to a new morning in the Boiling Isles. She stretched her arms out as she let out a yawn, she looked down at her girlfriend Amity who was sleeping right beside her, she smiled as she knew she probably wouldn't have been able to declare herself as Half-Titan if Amity hadn't helped her feel more secure about having this body. She was so grateful to have Amity as her girlfriend. 

Luz crawled over Amity and began to stare at her directly in the face waiting for her to wake up, when she finally did, she saw the face of her girlfriend right in front of her, smiling. Amity blushed for a moment before smiling as she said "Heh, good morning babe." She gave Luz a kiss on the lips as she was about to get up, but then Luz said "Ami, we still have time before we have to get started for our first class. Let's just enjoy the time we've got to ourselves for now." 

Amity smiled and said "Ok mi amor." She pulled Luz down for another kiss as she gripped her long hair. Luz fell next to her as Amity held her close. She looked at Luz's fur and reluctantly asked "Um... can I uh..." Luz knew what she was asking and replied "Oh you're so cute when you're flustered, of course you can, you have your Titan's permission." Amity smiled as she began to rub Luz's belly, feeling all the soft fur on her stomach, Luz initially gasped from the feeling before letting out a soft sigh as she began to purr from the feeling. "Oh Ami... you're good at that." Amity chuckled and said "You really like that don't you furball? You really have turned into a cat haven't you." Luz only nodded in response.

Amity continued rubbing Luz's stomach, it was like Luz's Titan form was just one big cat. Man, were all Titans like this? Or did she just get really lucky? Luz put her hands over Amity's face as Amity sighed as she felt the fur of Luz's hands on her face. Luz pulled Amity down and kissed her once again as she said in a flirtatious tone "You have no idea how much I want you to just take me right here batata." Amity's face was burning red from that statement "Titan! Luz why??" She mumbled. Luz chuckled and replied "I just like seeing you all flustered." 

Both girls chuckled for a moment before Luz pulled Amity down and let her rest over her like she was her own personal pillow. Amity got comfortable as she rested against all of Luz's fur as she let out a soft sigh. Luz wrapped her cloak she had over Amity's back to make her feel even more comfortable as Amity let out a purr, she then quietly mumbled "You're so perfect Luz, I love you so much." Luz smiled and kissed her on the forehead, the couple remained all snuggled up in each others arms for several minutes, nearly losing track of time, eventually Luz said "Well, I think it's time we got up. Don't wanna be late." Amity nodded.

They both got up as Amity got dressed, Luz went to comb her long hair to get it straightened up, she chose not to shift into her human form since she felt more happier and open and more like she's expressing her true self as a Half-Titan, she honestly preferred going around like this more than as a human.

She had figured out at some point that her cloak that she wore was actually part of her body and could not be removed like her hat could be, it seemed kinda weird to her at first because that implied that she could be naked, even though it didn't look like she was, but it seemed like no one really cared all that much. And eventually she felt more secure about going around looking like this, before eventually accepting it as her true body. And when she did, all of her insecurities and weird feelings she had about her Half-Titan form went away, and she's felt so much more like a real witch since then.

Once they were both ready to go, they went out into the halls, and Luz instantly had all eyes on her, even though it has been weeks, she was still a very huge deal to everyone, she was a human, who managed to defy the odds and pull off the impossible by literally and physically becoming a witch just like everyone else, and not just any witch either, but a Titan witch, which made her the most powerful being of the Isles now, she faced off against the Archivists, who are very powerful gods, and yet she won. Now she was basically the center of attention. 

Although Eda had insisted everyone treat Luz like she was one of them, that didn't stop a few people from treating Luz like some sort of demigod. Luz and Amity passed by a large window that had a very detailed glass painting of Luz in her Titan form, portraying her as a goddess living among the witches.

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Luz looked at the glass painting with mixed feelings as she said "I mean, at least they made sure to make me look cool, I'm just not sure if I want this kind of attention." Amity replied "Just ignore those kinds of people Luz, there will always be those who will look to you like a demigod." 

Luz replied "Yeah, I wish there weren't though, I'm just a witch, just like everyone else in the boiling isles, yes I have Titan powers but that doesn't change who I am." Amity nodded and said "I know that Luz, come on, let's get to our first class."

Later, Luz and Amity began their classes, and it was a lot more interesting for Luz now that she could use magic naturally, she drew a spell circle with her finger and created an illusion that took the shape of a plushie of King. "Hey Amity! I just created my first illusion naturally!" Luz said in excitement. Amity smiled and asked "A King plushie?" Luz replied "You gotta admit it's cute right?" Amity nodded and said "Yeah, but there a way bigger things an illusion spell can do." 

Luz replied "Oh, such as making a clone of myself?" She drew a spell circle again and created an illusion of herself right next to Amity, causing her to gasp as she fell out of her chair, Luz chuckled lightly, clearly Luz was enjoying her newfound Titan powers a lot.

Later that day during lunch, pretty much every witch went to sit with Luz since she was Half-Titan, all of them were eager to know as much as they could about her and her powers and how she was able to defy the odds and physically become a witch just like them despite her human disadvantage. Looks like making friends won't be that hard anymore like it was for Luz back in the human realm.

"And then I unleashed acid rain down onto Belos, literally melting him right in front of me as Eda, King, and Raine finished him off!" Luz said, retelling the tale of how she fought Belos. Everyone was ecstatic over it. "Wow! That sounds brutal yet awesome at the same time Luz!" One of the witches said. Luz replied "I know, he tried to lie his way out by claiming I had freed him from some curse, it's basically just like all those Mewtube apology videos, and I knew he was lying. He then tried to compare me to him by saying we're both human, yeah right, that didn't age well considering the fact that I'm technically not a human anymore."

All the witches chuckled in response before someone soon asked "Luz, I have a question, what's that glyph do?" As she pointed towards the glowing symbol on Luz's chest. Luz looked at it and smiled as she said "Oh it's not a glyph actually, it's a symbol, and it represents the entire life-essence of the Isles, the life essence of the Titans themselves. The same essence used to give all the witches here their magic. It's there because it is there to remind me just how important my powers are and why the essence of the Titans must be preserved, so the magic doesn't die." 

"Huh, that's pretty interesting. Said one of the witches. Amity finally showed up and sat down with Luz as she brought in some lunch for them both. "Oh yes, fairies!" Said Luz, the fairy suddenly shouted "GIVE ME YOUR SKIN!!" At Luz, but she ignored it and ate it. And since she was Half-Titan, it actually didn't taste bad like it used to anymore. One of the witches then said "Dang Luz, you used to never eat Demon realm food!"

Luz nodded and said "Witch puberty does something to ya man." Which caused all the witches to laugh. Amity chuckled, seeing Luz this happy now that she was a witch just like everyone else made her heart flutter, she was so proud to be Luz's girlfriend.

Meanwhile, outside the planet, the Collector, or Enzo as he now likes to go by was orbiting around the planet, keeping a look out for the Archivists if they were to show up again. He circled around the planet several times trying to spot the flying castle, but then suddenly, much to his surprise, the flying castle did show up, it was them. "Oh no, they've returned!" Enzo shouted. He quickly flew down into the planet and flew over BonesBorough, shouting down to all the civilians "THE ARCHIVISTS ARE COMING!!" Everyone looked up at him as he soared overhead, they knew the dangers of this.

One of the witches then said "Alright everyone, you know the drill! Sound the alarm and get inside now!!" All the witches quickly ran for their homes to avoid the Archivists as best as possible. Enzo then flew into the university to go warn Luz and her friends. Inside the college, an emergency alarm suddenly went off, everyone knew exactly what it meant, the Archivists were here. Enzo suddenly entered the classroom and said "Luz! Amity, we need to go now!" 

"The Archivists are back again? That's the second time this week! I thought they were only attacking once per week!" Luz said.  "They must be trying to up their game aren't they." Said Amity. Luz looked at her as she pulled out her palisman "Amity, go let our friends know the Archivists are back for another round. It's time to assemble the Hex Squad!"

Amity nodded as she pulled out her scroll, she quickly texted Gus to tell him the Archivists were back, Gus then went to go and text Willow the same thing, who then went to text Hunter to let him know as well. 

Luz Noceda POV: 

Ah yes, the Archivists, ever since we beat them all those weeks ago, they've been constantly coming back nonstop trying to kill everyone on the Boiling Isles, they've already attacked several times now, causing lots of destruction whenever they're here. Luckily, me and my friends, which we now like to call ourselves the Hex Squad are always there to send them fleeing back into the stars where they came from.

In BonesBorough, the Archivists flew through the town, firing beams of energy out of their hands down onto the houses beneath them, causing loads of destruction behind them. People ran for their lives while others tried to fire back using magic to defend themselves, but it proved useless against the Archivists. Orion looked at his four brothers and said "Keep an eye out for that Half-Titan and her friends, they're bound to show up at some point."

As the Archivists continued their attack on Bonesborough, one of the Archivists, Pismis suddenly heard a sonic boom in the sky, he turned around to see Luz come flying through the smoke directly for him! "HEY THERE!! MISS ME??!" She shouted as she then punched him hard into the ground using her super strength, the other three Archivists showed up to confront Luz, she smirked as she supercharged her palisman with Titan energy before spinning it in a circle which dispersed several glyphs out into the air. "HAVE A TASTE OF TITAN POWER!!" She shouted.

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The glyphs exploded around the Archivists, surrounding them in smoke which prevented them from seeing, suddenly a golden beam of light suddenly warped past them, punching each of them, it was Hunter. Once the smoke cleared, the Archivists got up to see Luz, Amity, Hunter, Willow, and Gus standing there. "Well, we meet again Luz." Said Orion. Luz sighed as she said "Man Orion, you're getting kind of lame at this point, this ends the same way every time! You four show up, attack the island, and then me and my friends kick your asses and send you back into the stars." 

Orion looked at his brothers and shouted "Kill them!!" The Archivists and the Hex squad then ran at each other and prepared for battle. "Oh yeah come and get some!" Willow shouted as she grew several vines out of the ground behind her and sent them zooming towards the Archivists, they were able to fly around some of the vines before being hit by a massive amount of flames which were shot at them from Luz. 

Orion turned around to face Luz as he shouted "I won't waste my time killing you!" Luz sighed and replied "Dude, if you really meant that you would have done it a long time ago! But go ahead, I dare you!" As she clenched her fists, Orion and Luz then blasted towards each other at intense speed before tackling each other, the both of them crashed into the ground as Orion pinned Luz to the floor, slamming her against it a bit, but as he continued to punch Luz, Luz didn't seem hurt by it whatsoever, she didn't even flinch, she smirked as she kicked Orion off of her as she got back to her feet, she then leaped at Orion and tackled him before pinning him to the ground.

Luz got up to her feet and tried to punch Orion hard in the stomach, but Orion quickly shielded himself, blocking the punch, he then got up and tried to punch Luz right back, Luz however was ready for it and quickly blocked the punch, grabbing Orion's fist and then kicking him several meters away as he crashed against the hard cement. Luz then sprinted over to him in an instant and formed an ice glyph which boosted her into the air as she leaped into the sky, she then came crashing down onto Orion, pounding him against the ground. 

Before Orion could get up, Luz proceeded to punch him rapidly in the face, keeping him down on the ground. She then stepped off of him as he slowly tried to get up, but then Luz kicked him hard in the face which knocked him down once more. Luz then generated a plant glyph and formed a vine, she tossed it at Orion as it latched onto his leg, Luz then spun him around rapidly with the vine before throwing him into a building, he crashed through the wall before getting back up and charging right back at Luz, screaming in rage.

Meanwhile, all of Luz's friends fought off the other Archivists, suddenly, Willow noticed several witches who were in danger, she shouted "Hunter! Go and help those people! Me and Gus will make sure these bastards follow us!" Hunter nodded as he saw a chunk of debris that was about to collapse on some witches who were to afraid to make a run for it, he quickly ran over to them and used his powers as he began to glow bright gold, he then warped towards the civilians at intense speed and grabbed them just in time before they were crushed. He stopped as he asked them "Are you ok?" The witches silently nodded, Hunter let them run as he continued to help other survivors. 

Pismis and Doradus fired laser eyes down at Willow, Amity, and Gus, they quickly summoned a shield to block it, but the laser beams were powerful and they could not hold it forever, but then suddenly, there was another sonic boom heard in the sky before Enzo suddenly soared into the fight and punched both his brothers with intense strength. Willow smiled as she lowered the shield, little did she know, Helix was behind her and was about to fire an energy beam at her.

Hunter turned around in time to notice this as he shouted "WILLOW WATCH OUT!!" He began to glow gold as he warped over to Willow and tackled her out of the way in time as the Collector flew over to Helix and kicked him into the ground. Willow and Hunter both collapsed to the ground as Willow looked up to see Hunter above her. "Oh... uh..." Willow muttered as her face went all red, Hunter, feeling embarrassed enough, got up and helped Willow up as he asked "You alright?" Willow nodded, unable to form words.

Luz continued to attack Orion, she flew towards him and kicked him away a bit before aggressively punching him in the face repeatedly, but then Orion managed to stop her by grabbing her fist, he then flew into the air holding onto Luz before grabbing her by the shoulders, he then held her forward as he crashed Luz into the ground. Orion stood up over Luz, thinking he had defeated her, but Luz opened her eyes, she smirked as she let out a powerful Titan roar, which hit Orion so intensely it sent him crashing against the street. 

Luz got up as she clenched her fists, she formed a bright blue glyph on her hand which upon activating it, her fists were suddenly sparkling with electricity, she threw her hands out and fired a powerful burst of lighting towards Orion as he got up, Orion quickly shielded himself as he blocked the lightning, but then Luz levitated into the air and blasted towards him, trying to punch him with her supercharged fists, Orion was able to dodge each punch before Luz circled around him and punched him from behind, which sent Orion flying into the air. 

Orion crashed into the ground as he laid there for a while, Luz dashed towards him at intense speed as she prepared to kick him, but then Orion got up and grabbed her leg before she could kick him, he then tossed Luz with extreme force it sent her crashing through an entire building. Luz crashed out onto the other side as she saw Orion flying into the sky, ready to attack her. Orion fired lasers from his eyes at Luz, which Luz quickly shielded using a forcefield. 

The forcefield started to break as Luz struggled to hold on, Orion began to laugh maniacally as he continued to fire at Luz, but then suddenly, a witch, flying on a palisman flew towards him from behind "LEAVE MY GIRLFRIEND ALONE!" She shouted. Orion turned around to see Amity as she punched Orion in the face with her abomination fist. Luz got up and saw Amity attacking Orion, knowing that she wouldn't last long against him, she quickly leaped off the ground as she attacked Orion, punching him in the face which knocked him down onto the ground. 

Orion and Luz fell to the ground as they began to wrestle around on the floor, Luz quickly headbutted Orion to knock him off of her as she got back on her feet, she then fired lasers from her eyes at Orion, but Orion levitated into the air and dodged it, he then flew towards Luz at intense speed as he tried to punch Luz, but Luz created a forcefield to block it. She then punched Orion right back which sent him crashing against the wall. Luz dashed over to him with super speed and pinned him against the wall, punching him against the face repeatedly. But then Orion fired an energy beam at Luz with his hand, knocking Luz away as she collapsed to the floor.

Orion then leaped into the air as he came down over Luz to pounce her, but Luz quickly rolled out of the way and got back up, she levitated into the air and tried to attack Orion, but then suddenly, Pismis suddenly attacked her as he grabbed her by the leg and threw her across the ground. Luz slowly got up to see Orion and his other three brothers, they had managed to overpower Luz and her friends as they held them suspended in the air using telekinesis. 

"As you can see, your friends have failed you Luz." Orion said with a sinister smile. He then flew towards Luz and pounced her, crashing her into a wall as he pinned her against it. Orion smirked as he then punched Luz in the stomach, Luz screamed as she tried to fight back, but then Orion grabbed her by the throat, he then said "Any last words Half-Titan?" Luz replied "Y-yeah actually... Next time make sure your opponent is disarmed before you ask that!" 

Before Orion could react, Luz activated an electricity glyph on her hand and grabbed Orion's arm, shocking him, this allowed Luz to break free as she grabbed Orion by the throat as she blasted into the sky, she then threw Orion down into the road as her eyes glowed gold, she then fired lasers from her eyes down at Orion, Orion quickly shielded it as he shouted "If you try anything else, my brothers will murder your friends!!" Luz stopped as she looked towards her friends, but then she had an idea.

Luz quietly drew an illusion spell behind her back which created replicants of her right behind all the Archivists, which startled them, causing them to accidentally release Luz's friends. Amity smiled as she shouted "NICE ONE LUZ!" Luz nodded as her friends continued their attack against the Archivists. Luz charged her claws with magic as she shouted "GET OFF OUR PLANET ASSHOLE!!" 

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Luz sprinted towards Orion and punched him into the air, she then blasted after him as she grabbed him by the head and slammed it down against her knee, Orion began to fall as Luz pounced him mid-air, slamming him down onto the ground, she pinned him down as she rapidly punched him in the face endlessly. She then picked Orion up and headbutted him, before throwing him to the floor.

Orion tried to get up but Luz fired a beam of light from her hands at him, knocking him back down. Orion quickly fired lasers from his eyes at Luz, but Luz just shielded it. Orion continued to back away before eventually reaching a wall. He had nowhere to run. "Helix! Doradus! Pismis! Someone stop her!!" He shouted. He looked to see that Luz's friends, with the help of Enzo, were able to overpower his brothers and weaken them enough to the point where they could be beaten.

"You've lost Orion, just like you always do." Luz said. Angered, Orion leaped off the ground and attacked Luz, he tackled her and pinned her to the floor, he tried to punch her but Luz simply grabbed his fist, stopping him. Luz then placed her other hand on Orion's chest as she said in a deep tone "Eat this sucka!!" Before Orion could react, Luz fired a powerful beam of magic at him, which sent him up into the sky, and out of sight. 

Luz got back up, seeing that Orion didn't return, he must have given up on fighting. Luz turned around to go help her friends fight the other three. She dashed over to Doradus before he could strike against Gus and punched him, Gus smiled and said "Thanks Luz!" Luz nodded as she then let out a powerful Titan roar that sent Doradus, Helix, and Pismis flying away. They slowly got back up as they saw Luz standing there with her friends beside her. Angered, the Archivists chose to retreat once more, blasting off into the sky as they disappeared. 

Soon the castle flew away as well. Luz smiled as Hunter shouted "YEAH!! YOU BETTER RUN! UNLESS YOU WANT SOME MORE OF THAT!!" Luz looked at her friends and said "Great work everyone, the Archivists will certainly have to make one hell of a recovery before they can fight us again." 

Soon all the residents came out of hiding to see that the Hex Squad had defeated the Archivists again, they all began to cheer for them. Luz looked at them all as she said to her friends "Smile and wave everyone." The Hex Squad has just scored another victory against the Archivists, and hopefully many more to come after.

Luz Noceda POV: 

That's basically how things are for us now, the Archivists show up, we're always there to chase them away. And as a result the Boiling Isles gets to live to see another day. It's been nice being able to use my Titan powers to defend the home I care deeply about, this is my world, and I will do everything I can to keep it safe from those Archivists that wish to destroy it.

But still, this stalemate cannot go on forever, eventually one side will have to win, the only question; is who? 

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Earth....

In the human realm, Camila had just got home from work, she put down her laptop as she saw a note left from Vee. 

"Hey Mom, I've gone on a date with Masha, see you later!" -Vee.

Camila smiled as she sat down, things have gotten a lot quieter with Luz now living in the Demon realm. But Camila was still happy for Luz regardless for Luz was currently living her best life following her dreams. Suddenly, she heard a knock on her door. She approached the door and opened it to see Luz standing there, she was in her human form to avoid drawing attention to herself. "Hey Mom." She said with a smile.

Camila smiled and said "Oh hello mija. Great to see you! Come inside." Luz came inside and sat down as she asked "Does the world still think I've gone missing?" Camila replied "Yeah they do. Not surprised really." Luz chuckled and said "Well, too bad for them because they'll never find me, I live in another dimension now." They both laughed before Luz then asked "Hey, where's Vee?" Camila replied "Oh, she left a message when I got home, she's on a date with Masha right now." 

Luz smiled and said "Aw, good for her. I assume she still wants to tell Masha that she's a shapeshifter doesn't she?" Camila nodded. She remained silent before asking "Anyway Luz, what exactly brings you back here anyway?" Luz replied "Oh, well, the Archivists attacked again, that's the second time this week apparently. But me and my friends beat them like we always have." Camila smiled and said "That's great Luz!" 

Luz then looked at Camila and asked "Mom, ever since I first accepted my Half-Titan form as my true self instead of my human form, you haven't visited since, did I make you feel as if I'm not your daughter anymore? And you no longer visit because of that?" Camila shook her head no and said "Oh Luz that's not true at all. I don't mind that you consider yourself a witch instead of a human. In fact, I've told you before that I would respect your choices, and honestly, I'm happy you've chosen to be who you feel better off as. This new you that you've become is wonderful."

Luz smiled and said "Thanks Mom. So why haven't you visited since then?" Camila replied "Well, you're currently fighting to protect the people of the Boiling Isles from the Archivists, you've been through a lot lately and I don't want to get myself involved, or get Vee involved, she's got her own life here on Earth ahead of her and I don't want to put her in any danger." Luz nodded and said "I understand. I guess you just want what's best for her, but is it what she wants though?" Camila replied "She seems pretty happy, so I assume it is." 

Luz sighed before finally saying "Mom... the real reason I've come back is because there's something really important that I need to tell you... I want to marry Amity." Camila looked at her with a face full of surprise. "You're planning on marriage now?" She asked. Luz nodded and said "Yeah, Amity and I have been together for a while now, I love her and I finally feel like it's time we got married." Camila smiled as she gave Luz a big hug and said "Oh mija! I'm so happy for you!" 

Luz smiled and said "Thanks Mom." Camila then asked "So, when do you plan to get married?" Luz replied "That's the problem, I still haven't preposed to her yet. I don't even have a ring for her." Camila replied "Well, if there's any help you need. I'm just a dimension hop away." Luz chuckled and said "Ok, thanks."

The Demon Realm....

The Hex Squad arrived in the Collector's old castle that was laying on the skull of the Titan, Enzo had repurposed it as their base of operations. Luz entered the castle in her Titan form once again, she was met by Amity, Willow, Hunter, Gus, and Enzo. They arrived in a large room with a table in it as Enzo snapped his fingers, creating a large holographic map view of the entire island.

They all surrounded the map as Luz said "Yesterday something unexpected happened, the Archivists attacked a second time this week. They've only ever attacked once a week, it seems like they might be trying to attack more often as to give us less time to prepare for their next arrival. While we still beat them this time, we weren't as prepared as we usually are. I have a bad feeling that soon they're gonna hit us with endless attacks we won't even have any time to prepare at all."

Willow then suggested "Why don't we just, you know, bring the fight to them? Could that work?" Amity then said "We could but the problem with that is that the Archivists have some sort of dampening field in their castle that neutralizes the use of magic, we'd all be powerless up there." Hunter then asked "So what must we do then? Keep waiting for their next attack? I don't know if that's a good idea, it's only a matter of time before they overpower us, they've attacked so many parts of this island, leaving nothing but devastation behind. And soon they may start to attack us more often that we may not even have time to rebuild before they show up again."

"Hunter's right, this is a fight that is only going to get increasingly more difficult for all of us. We need to come up with some sort of plan to defeat the Archivists for good and fast." Said Luz, she looked towards Enzo and asked "Hey, Enzo, since you were their brother, do you happen to know any weaknesses of any kind?" Enzo remained silent before saying "Well, I do remember when the Titan trapped me inside that round... whatever it was called. Maybe we could find it and use it on the Archivists, sealing them away!"

Luz looked at them and said "Hmmm. That might actually work! Maybe we just need to find it, and then the next time the Archivists arrive, we seal them away within the glass circle thingy and that would be the end of it!" Enzo nodded before saying "The only problem is, only a Titan can use it." Luz smirked as she said "Well we've already got that taken care of, I literally am a Titan." Enzo replied "That's true, but the reason it was so easy for the Titan to conceal me is because I was the youngest one. The Archivists on the other hand might not be so easy to conceal."

"Then we might wanna find this concealment thingy or whatever it was called as fast as we can before the Archivists arrive don't you think?" Said Gus. Luz nodded and said "And hopefully I can use it to seal the Archivists away for good. The only question is what should we do with them after?" Amity looked at Enzo and asked "Enzo, if the concealment glass is destroyed while there is someone trapped inside, does it kill them?"

"I don't know everything about it, all I know is that once someone is trapped inside, they cannot be released ever unless a Titan were to free them, I know that all too well..." Enzo said as he slowly went silent, looking down. Luz sighed and said to them "Yeah, I'm sorry about what the Titan did to you, I honestly can't blame you if you feel resentment towards me for currently using the Titan's power right now."

Enzo looked at Luz and said "What? No of course not, I'm just glad you're not like the way he was... He was so unforgiving, treated me like I was the one to blame for the destruction of his race when it had all been done by my brothers, I was merely a puppet in my brother's game to study the Titans before wiping them all out." Luz nodded and said "And that is why we're going to seal the Archivists away instead, we're gonna make sure that the right people are sealed up this time." Enzo smiled.

Hunter then asked "So where do we begin to look for this device?" Enzo replied "Well, from what I remember, when King first pulled me out of that prison, we were deep within the skull of the Titan. So I think that is where we should look first." Amity looked at everyone and said "Then that's where we begin looking, let's go." 

As they all walked away, Luz stayed behind as the Titan formed next to her. "What's on your mind Luz?" He asked. Luz looked towards him and asked "Why, why did you lock Enzo away?" Confused, the Titan asked "Enzo? Who's that?" Luz sighed and said "The Collector! They go by the name Enzo now!" The Titan replied "Oh, the Collector. Wait, I thought you already knew why." Luz replied "Yeah I know you blamed them for the destruction of your kind, but why? What did he do? You should know by now that he had nothing to do with the downfall of the Titans, it was all his brother's doing, he was just a puppet! Why would you do such a thing to him? Enzo was just a confused kid!"  

The Titan remained silent, he sighed and said "I- I didn't blame him for the destruction of my race, I knew it was his brothers who wiped out my kind, but I by the time I had discovered it was them, I was too late, I arrived only to find every single Titan, dead, all of my friends, my neighbors. They were all gone. I was the last one left alive, just me, and my unborn son King. I- I then found the Collector, he was floating around aimlessly, he seemed confused, clearly they had no idea what death was at the time, but as for me, I knew all too well.

When I saw the Collector in front of me, I got so angry, even though he wasn't the one who did it, I wanted to give my fallen friends justice so badly that I put the blame on him myself, unleashed every ounce of magic that I had in me, sealing them away within a small piece of glass. They seemed so terrified, but I paid no mind to his fear, I sealed him up and took my unborn son somewhere safe where the Archivists would never find him, and I waited for the Archivists to come and finish me off, I had nothing left." 

Luz looked at the Titan in silence, she then said "You locked the kid away because of rage? How could you?? Do you have any idea how all the years of loneliness trapped in the dark did to him??! Do you not regret what you did?!" The Titan looked down and said "Of course I regret what I did. After having watched from the in-between seeing him turn the entire Boiling Isles into his playground, I knew he was doing it because of what I did, maybe if I hadn't been so angry at them, maybe they wouldn't have had to suffer such horrible scars. I was wrong Luz, I know that now."

Luz sighed before saying "Try and tell that to him yourself, you won't get anywhere, trust me. Enzo has been hurt by you in ways beyond belief, they'll never forgive you for it." The Titan nodded and said "I know that Luz, which is why I'm happy that you and your friends managed to help him. He deserves better." The Titan vanished as Luz turned around to go meet up with her friends as they began their search for the concealment glass.

"So, what exactly do you need our help with?" Asked Eda as she, Lilith and the Hex squad arrived inside the Titan's skull. Hunter looked at her and said "We need to find the device the Titan used to seal Enzo away, we're hoping we can use it on the Archivists when they return." Eda nodded as she said "Well glad you brought me, I was great at stealing objects from the human realm during my time as a fugitive." 

"I just don't understand why we had to bring him along." Said Amity, referring to Hooty who was currently strapped onto Lilith's back. Lilith looked at her and shouted "Amity! Hooty's my best friend! Isn't that right Hootcifer?" Hooty smiled and shouted "OF COURSE I AM! I CAN HELP IN SEVERAL WAYS!!" Amity made an uncomfortable look as she walked away. Luz approached an edge which led down into the depths of the Titan. Amity walked next to her and said "It looks really dark down there, are you sure about this?"

Luz looked into the darkness for a while, suddenly, she felt a rush of magic in her eyes, suddenly, the pitch darkness beneath her suddenly was gone. Luz looked at Amity and said "I... I can actually see down there, holy Titan! My powers give me night vision! Hah! Being a witch really does have plenty of perks!" Amity replied "Night vision? Why would the Titans even need that?" Luz replied "I have no idea but I also don't really care, come on everyone!"

Luz elevated into the air and levitated down into the darkness, the Hex Squad got out their palismen, while Eda and Lilith transformed into their harpy forms as they all followed Luz down into the depths. Once at the bottom, some of them activated some light spells to form a glowing sphere in their hands as they looked through the tunnels. Luz observed her entire surroundings, trying to find some sort of circular piece of glass.

As the group kept searching, Hunter suddenly slipped and fell into a pit. "HUNTER!!" Shouted Willow. Luckily it wasn't that long of a fall as Hunter hit the ground in an instant. He unfortunately couldn't preform magic naturally so he had to use glyphs that Luz had handed him earlier. He activated a light glyph which illuminated the area, and Hunter's face went cold as he found himself in a room full of skeletons and golden guard armor. He was in the room where Belos disposed of all the grimwalkers he created.

Hunter cried out in fear which got Luz's attention with her super hearing. She turned and dashed towards where the scream came from at intense speed as she looked down to see Hunter surrounded by dead skeletons. "Shit!! Hunter get out of there!" Hunter would totally use his palisman Waffles to just fly out of there, but seeing all these dead grimwalker bodies in front of him sent chills down his spine as he thought about the possibility of being added to this pile if he had continued to serve Belos. 

Luz saw that Hunter was not leaving the pit as she quickly flew down towards him and grabbed him, using barely an ounce of her super strength to lift him up and carry him out of the pit. Luz put Hunter down as he sat there on his knees. Luz and Willow sat down with him as Luz asked "What was all that?" Hunter finally looked at her and said "They were the former golden guards...." Luz went silent as she looked at the skeletons in the pit, seeing the old golden guard armor on them all. "Oh..." She muttered. 

"I- I don't want to be down here anymore... It gives me bad memories." Hunter stuttered. Willow held his hand and said "Hunter, look at me, we'll be out of here as soon as we find what it is we're looking for." But then Hunter shouted "No... I wanna leave, NOW!!" Luz could tell just how scared Hunter was right now, maybe bringing someone who had been manipulated by Belos all his life wasn't such a good idea after all.

"Willow, do what he wants, get him out of here, we'll manage on our own ok?" Willow sighed and nodded as she got on her palisman and said "Come on Hunter." Hunter quietly joined Willow and held her tightly as they both flew away. 

Luz joined up with everyone else as Enzo said "There you are Luz, I was about to come looking for you." Gus then asked "Where's Willow and Hunter?" Luz was silent for a moment before saying "Hunter.... Hunter found the remains of his older grimwalker clones, the ones Belos disposed of. He couldn't handle it, so Willow took him back outside." Gus replied "Gosh, poor fella, didn't think he was still trying to get over what Belos put him through." Luz nodded and said "Yeah, me too." 

Suddenly, Eda called over to them "Hey, we found something!" They met up with Lilith, Amity, and Hooty as Amity said "I think we may have found it." As she pointed towards a flat but circular piece of glass buried within the rocks. Enzo looked closely at it and said "Yep, that's it right there, the hellhole that the Titan trapped me inside." Luz replied "A hellhole that we'll be able to use to our advantage."

Luz approached the piece of glass and grabbed it with her claws, she then proceeded to pull on it using her superhuman strength as she removed it from the stone. She looked at it and smiled. "This is it everyone, the answer we need to end the conflict with the Archivists for good." Eda looked at it and asked "Seriously? That's the concealment thingy we've been looking for?" Luz replied "It is. This small little piece of glass will be the Archivists downfall." 

Lilith then asked "So, can we go home now?" Luz nodded and said "Yes, we got what we came for." They all retraced their steps as they returned to the way out, Luz then leaped off the ground and managed to reach the top of the cliff in just a single jump. "Woah, she can jump that high huh?" Asked Lilith. Amity nodded and said with a soft smile "I know, she's absolutely perfect!" Her face began to turn bright crimson red as she realized that she just said that out loud. 

"Ugh, simp." Eda mumbled. Lilith looked at Eda and shouted "Edalyn! Come on!" Eda replied "What? It's true." Amity sighed as she got on her palisman and took off. Everyone else soon arrived at the top where there was light.

Luz saw Willow sitting with Hunter, who was still in the process of coming to terms with what he saw. Luz approached Hunter and asked "Hey bro, you doing ok?" Hunter looked up at Luz and nodded his head. "Y- yeah... I'll be ok." He stuttered. Luz gave him a pat on the shoulder as she walked outside and looked directly up into the sky as she said "The Archivists will be in for a surprise the next time they show up." 

Suddenly, Luz's super hearing caught the sound of something falling from the sky, she looked off in the distance to see an asteroid falling into the planet from a distance, it was too far to crash onto the Isles, she watched as it crashed into the boiling sea. She paid it no mind as Amity approached her, she said to Luz "So now that we've got what we were looking for, what do we do now?" Luz looked at Amity and said "Well first, I gotta make sure this thing still works, and before you ask, no, I'm not testing it on Enzo, he's been trapped inside this little thing long enough already, I'm not gonna put him through that again, even if it were just for a couple seconds. Once we can confirm this thing works, we formulate a plan to seal the Archivists away, and use it to end this conflict for good."

Amity smiled as she wrapped her arm around Luz and said "I've got a good feeling everything will work out just fine babe." Luz smiled as she kissed Amity on the forehead.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the boiling sea, the asteroid that had crashed into the sea continued on a slow descent into the sea, but for some reason, it didn't burn up in the boiling temperatures of the water, suddenly, it began to open up. And out of it climbed some sort of giant mechanical scorpion, one that had sun and moon patterns across its body. It powered on and swam to the surface, it looked around for a while before catching sight of the Boiling Isles in the distance as it noticed the giant Titan arm that raised into the sky. The giant robot scorpion then began to swim towards the Isles at a very very fast pace.

To be continued....

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It was a nice afternoon in the Boiling Isles, the Archivists weren't attacking, everything was going well for everyone, but it all would go downhill from there.

"Luz, you're not going to believe what just got released in the human realm!" Said Gus as he sat down next to Luz and Amity during lunch. "What is it Gus?" Asked Luz. "It's Disney! They've gone and done it again! They released a trailer for their live action remake of Moana that they announced last year!" Gus shouted.

"Are you fucking kidding me?! They actually went through with that dumb idea?!" Asked Amity. Gus nodded and said "It's available on Mewtube back in the human realm right now!" Luz sighed as she said "Well there's no way in hell I'm watching it. I'd rather never go the human realm again instead of watch that stuff. I swear to the Titan they'll never learn, I mean, I guess I could use my powers to intimidate them a little bit and get them to stop." She smirked. Amity then asked "Uh Luz? Wouldn't that count as an abusement of the Titan's power?" They both looked at each other before laughing a little bit. 

Suddenly, Luz's super hearing kicked in as her smile faded, she heard the noise of a loud explosion in the distance, causing her to go silent. "Luz... are you alright?" Asked Amity. Luz turned to look at her as she said "I heard an explosion... something's wrong!" "Could it be that the Archivists are back?" Asked Gus. "Maybe, but I don't know, but based on where I heard it from, it's coming from Hexside!" Luz shouted.

Luz quickly got up as she ran towards the window and opened it, she then shouted "Gather up the Hex Squad and meet me at Hexside!" Luz then leaped out the window and blasted off with a sonic boom. Amity and Gus watched her fly away as they quickly got on their scrolls.

Meanwhile in Eda's office. Eda was busy trying to check on a bunch of student scores, she sighed as she said "Ugh if only something cool happened today..." but then suddenly, her scroll got a notification, she looked at it, she was surprised to see that it was a recorded voicemail from Lilith. She played it as she heard her sister in severe distress, there were explosions that could be heard in the background. 

"EDA!! WE NEED YOUR HELP OVER HERE! HEXSIDE IS UNDER ATTACK!!" Shouted Lilith, then Hooty shouted "LULU! LOOK OUT IT'S RIGHT THERE!!" And then the recorded message ended. Eda knew that this was bad. "Looks like those Archivists are back, and they chose to target my sister today!" She quickly shifted into her harpy form as she opened her window and flew outside.

Over at Hexside, children were running through the hidden stairwells behind all the paintings to hide from what was attacking them, Lilith and all the other teachers were trying to keep the school protected as they fought against what appeared to be a giant scorpion mech. "WHAT IN TITAN'S NAME IS THAT THING??" One of them shouted. 

Luckily, Luz was already well on her way, flying as fast as she could to get to Hexside, she soon saw the battle that was raging over at Hexside as she came in for a landing. All the teachers suddenly heard a distant sonic boom in the sky as one of them said "Did you guys hear that? It's her! The Half-Titan is here!!" Soon, everyone looked into the sky to see Luz hovering there in the sky, her cloak blowing in the wind.

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Luz looked down at the attacker and was surprised that it wasn't the Archivists, instead it was some sort of giant sized scorpion mech. Luz landed on the ground and asked "Where did that thing come from?" Lilith replied "I don't know! It just came out of the ground and attacked!" Luz nodded and said "Well, it's not the Archivists, so defeating this thing should be a piece of cake!"

Luz looked at the machine as she charged towards it, she spun her palisman around, drawing a spell circle with it, which caused an ice block to launch her off the ground, she skydived down towards the mech as it fired at her, she quickly created a forcefield to block it as she then tackled the machine, trying to punch into it with her super strength, but its material was way stronger than she thought, suddenly, the scorpion used its tail and grabbed her, it proceeded to spin her around before slamming her into the ground. 

Luz quickly got up and tried to fire back at it as she drew some spell circles, but the energy beams she fired out of her hands didn't seem to harm it. The machine then fired a powerful pulse of energy directly at her, she quickly leaped out of the way to dodge it. It then began to charge directly at her, Luz flew into the air and circled around it as she continued to fire beams of light at the machine, but the creature did not seem to take any damage, instead it pointed its tail at her and fired a powerful sonic blast similar to the one she could produce, it was so powerful it blasted her against the school walls.

"LUZ!" Shouted Hooty. The scorpion continued to run around as it fired at them all. "TAKE COVER!!" Shouted Lilith. They all began to take cover as the machine fired rapidly at them, Lilith morphed into her harpy mode and spread out her wings as she took off. "LILITH WHAT ARE YOU DOING??!" Shouted Hooty. "Trying to get its attention on me!" Lilith replied. The scorpion soon noticed her and began firing up at her, she flew around in all sorts of directions to avoid its attacks.

"Need a hand Lilith?" A familiar voice said. Lilith looked to see Eda flying next to her. "Eda you made it!" She shouted. Eda smiled and said "Yeah, wouldn't leave my sister to fight that thing on her own." Both Clawthorne sisters then flew down at the scorpion and began to attack it, Lilith kicked it on its back before retreating back into the air while Eda tried to cut into it with her hook, only for it to not leave a dent on it at all.

The scorpion grabbed her and threw her into the air, Eda regained composure as she looked down on it and asked "What the heck is that thing anyway?!" Lilith flew beside her and said "Well, I have noticed some night and day patterns all over it so the Archivists must have sent it." They continued their assault on the machine.

Luz was finally able to get up as she saw Eda and Lilith engaging the machine. She quickly flew into the air and joined them. "Luz you're here!" Shouted Eda. As Luz dodged an incoming laser attack she said "Yeah, I tried fighting this thing but it doesn't seem hurt by what I do, magic doesn't harm it either!" Eda then asked "Well there's gotta be something you can do! People are dying here!" Luz replied "Hang on! I'm gonna show it exactly what my claws can do!"

Luz clenched her fists as she flew towards the scorpion, she then began punching it in its face rapidly, she even summoned abomination fists in the air and had them start punching it aggressively as well. Luz then punched the mech so hard it was blown into the air before landing on its back. Luz smirked as she blasted high into the sky, she looked down at the machine and flew towards it at a very quick speed, but before she could attack, the scorpion quickly dug its way into the ground and disappeared!

Luz landed on the ground to see that it had escaped. "Where'd it go??" She wondered. Luz, Eda, and Lilith quickly stood side by side as they waited for it to eventually show up again, Luz's super hearing allowed her to hear it moving through the ground, she gripped her palisman staff tightly as she heard it moving beneath her feet. "Come on you sucker... show yourself." Eda whispered.

Suddenly, the scorpion suddenly emerged out of the ground behind all the other witches. It then jabbed its tail into one of them, killing him. "Holy shit!!!" Shouted one of the other witches as they quickly backed away. Luz, Eda, and Lilith soon saw this as Lilith shouted "IT'S GOING FOR EVERYONE INSIDE! HURRY!" The three of them quickly flew into the air as Luz spun her palisman around which drew a spell circle that fired a mega ton of energy down at the scorpion, the beam caused an explosion as it hit the machine, knocking it back. 

Luz then flew down to it and kicked it in its head, forcing its head onto the ground, Luz then landed on the floor and charged up her palisman, she then let out a powerful scream as she slammed it down onto the floor, creating a powerful shockwave that knocked it against the wall, the scorpion collapsed and laid there on the ground for a while, Luz began to assume that it was over, but then suddenly, the scorpion's eyes opened as it instantly got back up and continued its attack. "How's that thing still not down??" Eda asked. "I have no idea!" Said Luz.

Luz clenched her fists as she dashed over to the mech, she punched it with intense force as it was sent crashing across the ground, it crashed into a tree as Luz ran towards it to attack it, but the machine quickly got back up and ran at Luz at an even faster speed. Luz was about to draw a spell circle to attack before the scorpion suddenly jumped her! She screamed as the creature held her against the ground, she tried to break free as she began punching it in its face repeatedly, harnessing as much super strength she had. "GET THE HELL OFF ME!!!" She shouted.

The scorpion simply screeched at her as it opened its mouth, revealing a huge mouth with lots of very very sharp teeth inside. It tried to bite Luz's face off but Luz was quickly able to hold onto the head, pushing against it with her super strength, trying hard not to let it kill her. "GRAAAAAHHH!!" She screamed as she struggled to hold it. But before it could harm her, a green vine suddenly wrapped around its head and pulled against it, lifting it up and away from Luz. 

Luz looked up in the sky to see Amity, Hunter, Willow, and Gus riding their palismen, the rest of the Hex squad had arrived. She smiled as she got up and blasted into the air and joined them. "HAHA!! You guys made it!!" She shouted with happiness. "Looks like we were right on time too. Now what exactly is that thing??" Asked Hunter. "It appears to be some kind of mechanical scorpion. And it appears to be marked the same pattern that the Archivists have, there's no doubt that they sent this thing here!"

Soon Enzo showed up and said "I can definitely confirm that thing came from the Archivists, besides, our kind has the power to create just as much as we have the power to destroy." Luz looked at him and asked "Can you destroy it?" Enzo replied "I think I might be able too, but the Archivists are a lot stronger than I am so it may be difficult." Luz smiled and said "I'll take that chance, alright Hex Squad! LET'S SHOW THIS BASTARD WHAT WE CAN DO!!"

The six of them then flew around in unison as they engaged the giant scorpion, the scorpion snarled at them as it fired out of its tail, but the Hex Squad quickly formed forcefields around themselves as Luz's eyes began to turn bright gold, she then fired lasers from her eyes at the creature, stunning it for a moment, it tried to reach up to them as they flew right over it. They then circled around and went in for another attack.

Soon, Lilith shouted towards all the witches "NOW'S OUR CHANCE!! SHOOT THAT BEAST!!!" All the witches quickly drew spell circles as they began to shoot at the monster. As the Hex Squad flew over the scorpion, Gus drew a spell circle that shot fire down upon the creature while it didn't damage it, it did blind its sight as Luz and Enzo then fired energy beams from their hands down at the scorpion, which stunned it quite a bit. 

Hunter then landed on the ground as he began to glow bright gold, he then warped towards the creature without it seeing him and punched it hard in the head, he then turned around and punched it again. The scorpion soon caught sight of him and started to fire at him, but before Hunter got hit, Willow swooped in on her palisman and grabbed Hunter, saving him. "Don't worry bro I gotcha!" She said. Hunter smiled and nodded as he got back on his palisman.

Amity flew over the machine as she jumped off her palisman to attack it, forming two abomination fists on her arms as she landed on top of the creature's back, she then began punching it against its back aggressively, screaming as she did so. As Luz flew through the air alongside the others, she looked down to see Amity attacking the creature, she smiled and said "Wow... she's incredible." Gus sighed and asked "Really Luz? Now's not the time." Luz replied "Right, sorry... Come on Enzo, we've got it in one spot! Let's take it down now!"

Luz and Enzo flew in front of the creature hovered there as they both began firing lasers from their eyes, hitting the scorpion. "HIT IT WITH EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT!!" Shouted Luz. Lilith nodded and shouted "TAKE IT DOWN!!" As all the other witches began to shoot energy beams at the creature, meanwhile the rest of the Hex Squad continued to attack the creature from above. It tried firing at them, but they were flying around way to fast.

Soon Willow flew closer towards the scorpion as she drew a spell circle which grew several vines out of the ground, all of them instantly latched onto the scorpions legs, holding it in place, giving everyone the chance to destroy it. As Luz and Enzo continued to fire at it with laser eyes, Enzo formed a bright star in his hand and then threw it at the machine, which caused a massive explosion. 

As the smoke cleared, everyone stopped attacking, wondering if the creature was down, they were shocked to see that it was still alive somehow. It shook around on the floor for a while before quickly retreating into the ground. However, it turned out they did manage to damage it somewhat as its tail suddenly snapped off in the process of retreating. "How did that thing survive all that?!" Asked Amity. "And where did it go?" Asked Hunter.

Eda looked at Luz and asked "Luz can you still hear it?" Luz focused as she used her super hearing for anything beneath her, but it only ended with silence. She sighed and said "No, it's gone." But then Enzo said "But it will be back, it's only a matter of time. My brothers clearly made this thing and we need to find out how to destroy it now."

Soon, all the students who were still hiding saw the painting door open as Luz stepped through it and reached her hand out to them. "It's alright everyone, the monster is gone." She said with a smile. All of the kids looked at her with faces full of surprise. "No way... it's Luz, the Half-Titan is here!" One of them shouted. All the kids quickly ran over to her and crowded her as one of them asked "Did you defeat the monster?"

Luz replied "Well, not exactly, but I can assure you all me and the Hex Squad have made sure that it won't be attacking this place again." All the kids sighed in relief, but then they saw the damage that had been done to Hexside. "Oh my Titan! What did that thing do to this place?!" One of them shouted. Luz then said "It would have been a lot worse if me and my friends didn't show up to stop it in time." 

They all stepped outside as the children's families were there waiting for them, all of them were so relieved to see that their kids were safe. "Oh thank you Luz! My kid is alive thanks to you and your friends! You have no idea how grateful I am for you!" Luz smiled and said "Glad to have been able to help." 

Luz then noticed Enzo hovering there in the sky, staring at the damage caused by the scorpion. Luz began to levitate into the sky to join him. Enzo looked at her and said "I- I still can't wrap my head around this... my own brothers are that willing to cause this much destruction and death. I never thought of them to be so delusional..." Luz put her hand on Enzo's shoulder and said "They think that since they were born with unlimited power it gives them the right to play god, they now view themselves as the most powerful beings of the universe and believe that only they have the right to have all that power, anyone else seen using the same kind of power is considered a threat to the balance of the universe."

Enzo felt a tear run down their face as he said "I- I don't want to lose this world, it's been the only world that I could ever call home... I can't lose this place to my brothers." Luz smiled as she reassured him "Then let's fight to protect it, just like we've been doing in the past. Alright?" Enzo looked at her and nodded.

Later, Luz and the rest of the Hex Squad returned to the Collector's old castle as they placed the tail piece that had snapped off of the scorpion when it retreated down on the table. Amity looked at it and said "Well we can definitely confirm the Archivists sent this thing to attack us, the only thing we need to figure out is how in Titan's name are we supposed to take it down?" They all thought about it for a few minutes, but then Luz had an idea, she said "Wait a second, what if we used that concealment mirror to contain it?!" 

Everyone looked at Luz, feeling a little unsure of that. "Luz are you sure that could work?" Asked Gus. Luz nodded and asked "Enzo, this thing was made by the Archivists, can the concealment mirror also trap things that the Archivists made as well?" Enzo replied "I- I think so. It could be worth a try." Luz smiled and said "Then that's exactly what we're going to do!" Everyone looked at each other and nodded silently.

Luz then said "All we need is a plan on how we can keep this thing in one spot so I can activate the concealment device using my Titan powers, and then I will trap the machine inside of it." Everyone agreed as Hunter asked "Well what are we waiting for then?"

Earth....

Vee was currently out on her date with Masha, the two of them went to go have some fun at an amusement park, where they went on many fun rides. They just recently got off of a ride as they went to go sit down and get some snacks for the evening. Soon, Masha looked up at a large billboard that displayed an advertisement for the upcoming live action Moana movie from Disney. They sighed as they said "Damn Vee, can you believe Disney is rebooting Moana less than 10 years after the original film was released?"

Vee looked up at the billboard and said "Yeah, I'm honestly shocked they're doing that, I just don't get why Disney would do these remakes, this one is obviously gonna fail!" Masha nodded and said "Like, I don't think they've even made a single animated movie since Strange World! Can you believe that?" Vee replied "Yeah! The only reason why Strange World failed was because for some reason Disney wanted to make more live action remakes so badly that they willingly chose to advertise the film horribly that barely anyone saw it, they literally sabotaged their own movie and caused it to perform badly so they could use that as an excuse that everyone only wanted to see live action remakes from them now! They literally used Strange World as a loophole to make what only they wanted to make, which is just a bunch of remakes!"

Masha chuckled and replied "Damn, talk about a massive waste of money am I right?" They both began to laugh. Vee chuckled as she continued "Yeah I know right? It's like, their mindset is just so out of touch to the point where I can't even say I'm worried about Disney anymore, they can continue to burn themselves to the ground for all I care, besides, Dreamworks has been dethroning them lately."

Masha then noticed a nearby missing poster of Luz sitting there, they looked at Vee and asked "Vee, is your sister Luz still missing?" Vee looked at the poster, she went silent as she said "Yeah, she is." Masha sighed and said "I'm sorry about that, I think she's been missing for nearly a year now since you and her graduated high school."

Vee nodded, but then Masha continued "You know, I find it rather strange that you're actually Luz's sister, back in middle school she never mentioned anything about having a sister, then suddenly after summer ended, you showed up in school alongside her and introduced yourself as her sister. Which just seems odd you know?" Vee was about to say something, but then she looked down and thought to herself "Damn it... I should just tell them what I really am already, just like I said I would... I can't keep this a secret anymore, I have to do this..."

Vee finally looked up at Masha and said "Hey, Masha? Can we go somewhere else?" Masha replied "Oh sure, where too?" Vee continued "Somewhere no one will see us, there's something I need to tell you..."

They both soon arrived in a spot where they were hidden from everyone else. Vee then said "Look Masha, I haven't been completely honest with you, and I was meaning to tell you this since we started dating, but I just could never find the time to tell you this. What I'm about to tell you might sound insane, it might even sound supernatural, but hey, you're into the supernatural anyway, so I'm just gonna tell you right now..."

"Masha, I'm not human, I'm a basilisk, a shapeshifter, I came from another dimension called the Demon realm, one filled with witches and magic and all sorts of supernatural themes. I was a prisoner there for a long time, but I escaped and came here for a better life. That's why I suddenly appeared over the Summer." Masha remained silent before saying with a smile "Ok, come on Vee, I get that you're trying to make me like you more, I get it, I love supernatural stuff as much as anyone but come on, what are the chances of that being true anyway Vee? There's no need to make me like you more, it's fine."

Vee sighed and said "Maybe I should just show you." She then began to shapeshift into her true form as her legs suddenly changed into a tail. She then looked at Masha and said "You see?" Masha looked at her, their eyes widened for a while, they were finally able to say "W-woah... no kidding huh? Y-you're actually from another dimension?!" Vee nodded as she then said "Turns out I was actually the Luz that you met in summer camp." She then began to shapeshift into Luz, which surprised Masha quite a bit.

"Woah... wait, but if that's the case, where was the real Luz during that time??" They asked. "Oh, she was in the Demon realm during that time, she and I basically swapped places, although she didn't really know I took her place for a while, but when she did she didn't hold that big of a grudge against me, and eventually we both became sisters."  Vee said as she shifted back into her own human disguise. 

Masha still was amazed by all of this, they looked at Vee and said "Ok, you're definitely a lot cooler than I thought Vee." Vee smiled and said "Thanks, but that's not all I've been wanting to tell you, turns out me and Mom know where Luz actually is. We actually go visit her sometimes." Masha asked "Ok, where is she?" Vee replied "Oh, turns out she loved the Demon realm so much, she chose to go live there." Masha was surprised by this as they asked "Woah, for real?" 

Vee nodded and said "Yep, Luz managed to find acceptance in the Demon realm, something she could never find in the human realm, she learned how to use magic and all that, she even got herself a witch girlfriend over there! So far she's been living the dream life over there." Masha then said "Wow, Luz literally left her own world behind to pursue her fantasies huh. Good for her I guess." Vee smiled and nodded as she said "Yeah, I couldn't be more happier to see her fulfill her dreams and become who she's always wanted. Back in the human realm, there were times where all the constant rejection she faced due to her love for witchcraft and magic nearly brought her to the brink of suicide, the Demon realm essentially saved her life and offered her the chance to make herself a bright future."

"Well that's a nice ending I suppose." Said Masha. Vee nodded before saying "Hey Masha, you want to go and meet her?" Masha looked at Vee and asked "Wait, are you seriously asking me to visit your dimension?" Vee nodded and said "Of course, it'll be a much more proper date if you ask me." Masha began to feel excitement as they said "Oh my god oh my god oh my god! Am I actually about to travel to another universe right now?!" 

Vee smiled and said "Ok calm down Masha, I'll just take you there right now." Masha stopped her and asked "Wait... so your Mom knows about this I presume?" Vee nodded. "Why did she choose to keep this a secret?" Masha asked. Vee looked at them and said "Can you imagine how the world would react if they found out about this, if they found out the multiverse actually exists?" Masha thought about it and then said "Oh yeah, fair point. Alright, let's go! Sounds exciting!" 

As they both walked away, Vee looked at Masha and said "Oh and one more thing, when you first see Luz, she won't exactly be the same as how you remember her, she's changed quite a lot since she moved into the Demon realm, in more ways than you can possibly imagine." Masha then asked "Oh what happened? Did she 'come out' or something?" Vee remained silent before replying "Something like that." They both then got into Vee's new car and drove away to go find the portal to the Demon realm.

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Vee and Masha arrived at the small house in the forest. Masha looked at it and asked "So you and your Mom just so happen to have a portal to another dimension in the woods?" Vee nodded and said "We still have no idea who this house originally belonged too, but it works as our method of traveling between realms. Before we go through, I should probably let my Mom know where we'll be going." 

Vee pulled out her phone to text Camila as she typed:

"Hey Mom, so I won't be back for a while, I told Masha about what I truly am and now they want me to show them the Demon realm, and that's what I'm about to do, please don't be mad at me. See you later."

Vee looked at Masha as she said "Alright, you ready to go?" Masha nodded but then they asked "Hang on, anything I should know ahead of time before going through?" Vee thought about it before saying "Just don't get lost or sidetracked alright?" Masha nodded as Vee opened the door, a bright white light shined through. Vee held Masha's hand as they both stepped through.

The Boiling Isles....

"Alright, we have a plan?" Asked Willow. Luz nodded and said "Yes, we'll find that monster the moment it shows its ugly face again, and then we surround it, try to keep it in one spot so I can use this concealment mirror and trap it inside." Hunter then said "Let's hope we can find it before it causes too much damage." Luz looked at him and said "Then I suppose we'd better start searching am I right? All of you go and scout the Isles, I'll remain here until my super hearing picks something up, then I'll let you all know about it."

"Understood." Said Gus as he got on his palisman and took off. The others followed him as Luz watched them all spread out as they began to search for the scorpion.

At The Owl House, Vee and Masha soon stepped through the door as they arrived in the Boiling Isles. "So... is this it?" Asked Masha, Vee nodded and said "We're here, welcome to the Boiling Isles!" Masha approached the cliff and saw nothing but water off in the distance. "Huh, this isn't exactly what I was expecting really." They said. Vee replied "Yeah just don't think about going for a swim in that water because it is boiling hot."

Masha then looked at the owl house and asked "So what is this place?" Vee replied "Oh it's the owl house, this is where Luz stayed for a while when she first arrived here. So far King's the only one who stays around here since everyone else is very busy nowadays." "King?" Asked Masha. Vee went over to the front door and opened it as they both stepped inside. As soon as they entered, they found King who was currently getting himself some lunch.

"Hey King." Said Vee. King saw her and said "Oh, Vee! What brings you here?" Vee then said "Well King, I'd like you to meet someone. Their name is Masha." Masha came into the room to see King, the moment they saw him they gasped. "Aaaaw!! He's adorable!" They approached King to hug him. "No no no no no no NO!!" King shouted as Masha picked him up and hugged him tightly. "Let me go!! Do you have any idea what kind of being you're putting your hands on?! I'm a Titan! One day I'll be as big as the entire island we're standing on!"

Masha replied "Heh, I don't care. You're so fluffy!" King squirmed in Masha's grip as he shouted "Vee! Help me! This newcomer you brought here is going to be the death of me!" Vee chuckled and said "Ok Masha put him down." Masha sighed and said "Oh alright." They put King down as King asked "Why'd you even bring her here anyway??" "Them, you mean." Masha corrected. King looked at them and said "Oh, sorry my bad." 

Vee then said "Oh, well, remember when I told you I was going out on a date with someone, Masha was that person, and I may have told them everything about myself and the Demon realm, so I brought them here to show them around." King then asked "Vee are you sure that's a good idea?" Vee replied "Don't worry, Masha's pretty chill with the supernatural stuff, I'm pretty sure they'll keep this a secret, right Masha?"

Masha looked at Vee and said "Well, I'll try..." Vee smiled and said "Great, anyway, we should be going now, see you later King." They both walked away and left the house. "So where to now Vee?" Asked Masha. Vee replied "Oh, well I guess I could take you into town, just follow me." Masha nodded as Vee took them through the woods to arrive at Bonesborough. 

Once they were out of the forest, Masha soon saw a large town up ahead, it was populated with several witches. "Welcome to Bonesborough." Said Vee. Masha looked around at all the buildings and said "Well, to be honest I was expecting a more high tech advanced city rather than a village." Vee smirked as she said "Oh don't worry Masha, the witches have some far more advanced stuff here than the humans do, just look."

Masha was shocked to see many of the witches draw these glowing circles with their fingers which would cause this bizarre thing to occur. "What's that thing they're doing with their hands?" Masha asked. Vee replied "Oh that's how the witches use magic, it's powered by a bile sack connected to their heart." Masha then asked "Can you do magic?" Vee sighed and said "Sadly no, however, I do have the power to literally inhale energy." Masha was intrigued by that and said "Ok definitely make sure to show me that later."

They both went to sit down as Masha asked "So, what kind of meals does your kind got here? Because I'm starving." Vee replied "Masha, I doubt you'll wanna try any of the food they got here." Confused, Masha asked "What do you mean?" Vee replied "Some of the foods they got here have eyeballs in them." Masha went silent, they then said "Well, that's creepy, but cool as well!" Vee was surprised by how chill Masha was with all this."

"Dang Masha, how are you so chill with all of this? Like, any other human would be freaking out right now." Masha shrugged and said "Eh, I guess the supernatural just doesn't scare me all that much." Vee smiled and said "Well, that's certainly a relief, there were times where I was worried about telling you about my secret because I was worried you'd be frightened by it, so seeing you totally fine about it makes me glad."

Masha smiled, what they didn't notice was that they were currently holding Vee's hand. Soon the both of them noticed as they quickly let go as their faces started to turn red. Vee was about to say something else, but then suddenly, the ground started to shake. "Um... what's going on?" Asked Masha. Vee looked at the ground and saw that it was starting to crack open. "Oh Titan! MASHA RUN!!!" They both got out of their seat as the ground suddenly broke open, causing Vee and Masha to collapse to the floor. Out of the ground came the giant robot scorpion.

Everyone caught sight of the creature as they quickly started running for their lives. The scorpion began to fire at all the buildings, blowing them apart. Masha looked at the creature as they shouted "HOLY SHIT! WHAT IS THAT THING?!" Vee quickly got up and said "I actually don't know! We gotta run right now!" They both took off running and hid as Masha asked "Uh, do you guys have these kind of creatures in the Demon realm?" Vee shook her head no.

"Great, what do we do??" Masha asked. Vee remained silent as the creature walked through the town, firing at all the buildings. "This way, try and stay quiet." Said Vee. Masha took Vee by the hand as Vee led her around the creature, staying as quiet as possible. The scorpion continued its rampage on the town, killing everyone it caught sight of. Suddenly, Masha foot accidently bumped into a tiny piece of debris, its sound was audible enough for the scorpion to hear, it quickly turned around and saw them.

"RUN!!!" Shouted Vee. Both Masha and Vee ran as fast as they could as the scorpion pursued them, it suddenly fired a powerful energy blast from its claw, causing an explosion right behind Masha and Vee as they both collapsed to the floor. "Masha are you alright?" Asked Vee. Masha replied "Y- yeah, I'm fine..." The Scorpion approached them as it prepared to attack them. Vee and Masha closed their eyes as the scorpion opened its mouth, revealing all its sharp teeth as it then lunged at them both.

Vee and Masha laid there on the ground, expecting to be eaten, but instead, nothing happened, they both opened their eyes and were shocked to see a figure standing there, holding the scorpion back with extreme amounts of strength, it was Luz!

Luz made an angry stare at the scorpion before unleashing a powerful Titan roar that sent the creature falling back. "LUZ!!" Shouted Vee in excitement. Luz looked back at her and Masha and said "Get somewhere safe now!" Luz then looked at the creature and clenched her fists as she levitated into the air and blasted towards it, ready to attack. Vee looked at Masha to see that they were in an element of shock, never had they ever been so surprised in their life before.

"Tha- THAT'S LUZ??!!" They shouted. Vee nodded and said "Yeah, I told you she wasn't the same Luz you remember anymore, come on, let's go!" As they got up and took cover, Masha looked closely at Luz and asked "What the heck happened to her? She's much taller now and... fluffy?" Vee nodded and said "It's a bit of a long story as to what happened to her, but as you can see, throughout all the time Luz has spent living in the Demon realm, she has managed to make herself into a true witch more and more as time went on, that's technically what you're seeing with her new look there." "Huh, interesting!" Said Masha. 

Luz punched the creature in the face before it grabbed Luz with its claw, it then tossed her to the floor, but she got up with ease as she drew out her claws and shouted "Alright insect! BRING IT!!"

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Luz generated a glyph on her hands, she then slammed her fists into the ground which created a powerful shockwave that hit the scorpion, which sent it crashing into a house, but it got back up in an instant. "Come on guys, I can't hold this beast off for long, stick to the plan!" Luz said. The Scorpion ran at her as it fired energy beams at her. Luz quickly leaped into the sky to avoid an incoming blast as she fired lasers down at the creature.

"WHAT THE- Luz has laser eyes now?!! Where'd that come from?!" Masha shouted. Vee shrugged and said "Eh, the Titan powers are unpredictable." Luz continued to fire lasers from her eyes as she flew around the scorpion at intense speed so it wouldn't be able to hit her. She landed on top of a building as she fired down at the creature, it then fired back at her as she quickly leaped off the building before the energy blast could hit her. 

Luz landed on another rooftop and began sprinting across it as she formed an abomination glyph on her hand and tapped it, which formed a bunch of abomination monsters around the scorpion, trapping it, they all converged on the machine, but it easily blew them all apart. But that was just a distraction as Luz swiftly flew towards the scorpion and punched it with all her might, she flew behind it and kicked it in the leg, causing it to stumble, then Luz flew on top of it and slammed her supercharged palisman onto its back, causing a bright purple force to be emitted from it.

The scorpion shook around to get Luz to fall off of it as it smacked her hard with its claws, sending her crashing into the ground. She slowly got up as the creature attacked her. But then suddenly, before it could reach her, it began to glow bright blue as it started to get pulled back. Luz looked to see that it was Vee, she inhaled sharply as she began to pull the creature towards her, weakening it of its energy.

"Woah! Vee, are you doing that thing you were telling me about?! Wow, you really are cool!" Said Masha. Luz smirked as she levitated into the air and charged at the scorpion, she punched it aggressively, each punch so forceful it generated a shockwave, she then punched it into the air and then chased after it, before punching it so hard it was sent crashing into a building! Luz levitated to the floor as she looked at Vee and said "Thanks sis." Vee smiled, but then suddenly, the scorpion crawled out of the wreckage and began to fire at them. Luz quickly formed a forcefield as she shouted get away from here now!"

Vee nodded and ran off with Masha. They both ran to where it was safe as they watched the fight from a distance. "Damn, you weren't kidding when you said your sister has changed a lot, is... is she even human anymore? She's kinda giving me Superman vibes if I'm being honest." 

Luz continued to attack the scorpion as she waited for the rest of the Hex Squad to show up. "COME ON! IS THAT THEY BEST YOU CAN DO??!" She shouted as she circled around the creature at intense speed, firing a rapid amount of energy from her hands. She then formed an electricity glyph on her hand and tapped it, causing lots of electricity to travel around her arms, she then blasted the electricity at the machine, which seemed to do the trick for a while, before the scorpion finally managed to shoot her down! 

Luz screamed as she collapsed to the floor, she dropped her palisman in the process, the scorpion ran towards her in an instant and pinned her down before she could move. She struggled against it as she tried shooting it in the head with laser eyes. The creature's head squirmed as it was hit by two golden energy beams from Luz's eyes, causing it to fall back. Luz quickly got back up as she raised her hand out to Stringbean, causing her to fly over to her and form into a staff again. She held her palisman tightly as she took deep breaths, she couldn't fight this thing for much longer.

She braced herself for another attack as the scorpion began to charge at her, letting out a menacing snarl. But before it could attack Luz, it got hit by a huge blast of fire from above, Luz looked up to see her friends show up. "There you are! I was waiting for you to show up!" Luz said with a smile. "Sorry we're late!" Amity shouted as she flew to the ground to join Luz, soon the others stood next to Luz as Hunter said "Alright, let's take this thing down!" Luz nodded and shouted "HEX SQUAD GO!!" They all spread out at they charged at the scorpion.

"Woah, who are they?" Asked Masha. "Oh, those are Luz's friends, they're called the Hex Squad." Vee replied. "Wow, Luz certainly has made quite the life for herself here then hasn't she." Said Masha. Vee nodded in response. 

Hunter warped past the creature, running around it in endless circles, blinding its sight, it tried to shoot at Hunter, but he was moving way to fast for it. Soon, Enzo soared over the machine as he dropped a giant red star over it, causing an explosion that made the creature let out a menacing screech. It tried to fire back at the attackers, but then Amity formed a sword out of abomination goo and slashed against its claws. It tried to slam her away but Luz swooped in and grabbed her, while also firing a powerful energy beam at it, which knocked it back. 

Luz put Amity down as she saw the creature run towards her, she then shouted "GUS NOW!!" Gus nodded as he formed an illusion that made walls appear around the scorpion, the scorpion looked at the walls surrounding it, thinking that it was trapped. Enzo flew towards Luz and shouted "HERE!" As he tossed Luz the concealment mirror. Luz smirked and said "This is it everyone! Let's end this creature's rein of terror once and for all! Willow, I'm gonna need your help here."

Willow nodded and said "Don't even need to ask me twice!" As her eyes started to glow green, she got on her palisman as she and Luz flew towards the creature, the moment they flew through the walls, they disappeared, before the scorpion could react, Willow and Luz drew a spell glyph which caused vines to grow from the ground and wrap around its legs, it tried to break free, but everyone else continued to attack it as Enzo fired energy beams from their hands at the machine. The creature let out a deadly screech as it started firing rapidly from its claws, but its claws were all tied up it couldn't hit anything.

Willow flew over the creature and quickly formed another green vine as she wrapped it all around the scorpion, jumping off her palisman while maintaining her grip on the vine, she started to pull against it as the creature struggled to break free, they now had it completely trapped. "NOW LUZ!! DO IT NOW!! I CAN'T HOLD THIS THING FOR LONG!!" Shouted Willow. She struggled to maintain her grip on it but then Hunter dashed over and grabbed onto the vine beside her to help out. Enzo quickly tried to help out by firing lasers from their eyes at the scorpion to stun it.

Luz looked down at the concealment device in her hands as she mumbled "Ok come on Titan powers..." She closed her eyes as she harnessed her Titan magic inside her. Soon, she felt a powerful rush of energy travel through her body as the symbol on her chest glowed brighter, soon, the glass circle in her hand began to glow as well! "Ha!! It worked!!" She shouted. Luz levitated into the air as she approached the scorpion as it continued to try and break free of its constraints. 

"Alright Archivists, I have a good feeling you're probably seeing everything this monster you sent here sees, so I've got a couple things to say to you, we're more prepared than you think we are. You should know not to underestimate me, because I am the child of the human realm, student of the Demon realm, inheritor of the Titan's power, and the warrior of peace!" The scorpion snarled at her as Luz looked directly at it in the eyes and said "I'm Luz Noceda, the Half-Titan. And you my friend, picked the wrong planet to mess with!" 

Luz then raised the concealment mirror out at the creature as it began to shake, it then began to grab hold of the scorpion as it started to get pulled from its constraints and into the mirror. "YEAH!! IT'S WORKING!!!" Shouted Gus. But then suddenly, the scorpion was able to resist the pull of the mirror as it began running the other way. "Shit... No no no no NO!!!" Shouted Luz. Amity saw this and acted fast as she ran towards the machine and formed abomination fists on her hands, she ran at the machine and punched it hard before pushing against it with the extreme strength of her abomination fists, preventing it from escaping.

"THAT'S RIGHT!! OFF TO YOUR CAGE WITH YOU YA WILD ANIMAL!!!" She shouted. The scorpion let out a violent snarl before it was instantly pulled into the mirror. And as soon as it was, the mirror stopped glowing as Luz dropped it onto the floor, she looked down at it, seeing smoke emitting from it. She sighed as fell to her knees, feeling relieved that they were successful at containing the monster. 

"Is that it? Is it gone?" Asked Hunter. Luz smiled and nodded. "HAH! We did it guys!!" Shouted Enzo. Soon, everyone came out of hiding and cheered for the Hex Squad. Luz smiled and waved at them all. Willow and Hunter looked at each other. "Heh, thanks for the help." Willow said with a smile. Hunter blushed a bit and said "Oh it was no big deal really." Willow held Hunter's hand and said "Oh who cares, thank you." Before Hunter could say anything in response, Willow pulled him in for a kiss on the lips

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Willow pulled away, leaving Hunter completely stunned. "Uh..." He muttered. Willow smiled as she blushed a bit before saying "We should hang out again some time." As she walked away. Hunter just stood there, unable to form words, but then Gus approached him and gave him a pat on the back as he said "Finally! Congrats bro!"

Soon Vee and Masha approached them all, Masha noticed Luz and Amity exchange a kiss with each other as they said "I assume that's the girlfriend Luz made in this realm over there?" Vee nodded. Luz soon looked towards them as Masha said "Woah.... THAT WAS TOTALLY AWESOME!!!" Vee chuckled as Masha ran over to Luz. Luz saw them and asked "Wait... Masha?" 

Masha approached Luz and nodded. "Yep, that's me. Vee told me everything, and while she told me that you've changed, I never could have imagined this!" Luz chuckled before looking at Vee. She sighed as she looked at Enzo and handed him the mirror. "Take this back to your castle, make sure it is secure, I gotta have a talk with my sister real quick." Amity looked at Luz and asked "You not gonna stay and celebrate?" Luz replied "I will, but there's something personal I gotta handle first."

Luz approached Vee and asked "Vee, what were you thinking bringing Masha here? This was like, the worst possible timing for you to tell them about the Demon realm, about me!" Vee nodded and replied "I- I know you guys are currently dealing with the Archivists threat, but I didn't think there were any Archivists here, what even was that thing you faced anyway?" "Woah woah wait... Archivists?" Asked Masha. "That machine was created and sent here by the Archivists, the Boiling Isles has been getting way less safer as they continue to up their game, you shouldn't have brought Masha here, you both could have been killed!"

Vee replied "I know that, but I couldn't just keep lying to Masha's face. I had to tell them eventually." Masha soon interrupted "Hey! I'm still here you know!" Vee and Luz looked towards them as Luz sighed and said "Sorry... where are my manners? You probably want a huge explanation don't you." Masha replied "Indeed, first off, what the heck even happened to you Luz?? You're so much taller now, and fluffier too! And what was all that crazy godlike shit I saw you doing just a moment ago?! I've never seen anything like that! Especially from you Luz. Vee was right, you really have changed, can I even call you a human anymore?"

Luz chuckled and said "Not really, heck I don't even view myself as a human myself anymore either, I'm actually part Titan now." Masha replied "Yeah no shit, but how though?! Because somehow you've managed to physically and literally turn yourself into, well... all of the people living here in a way!" Luz nodded and said "Exactly, I became a true witch, like I always wanted. Now if you wanna know how all this happened to me, or where I've been in the past year, you need to promise not to tell anyone back in the human realm, got it? The humans cannot be made aware of this world's existence, not yet at least." Masha looked at both Luz and Vee before nodding "Sure." They said. 

Luz smiled and said “Well then, buckle up with some snacks and drinks Masha! Cuz it’s one heck of a story!” she began to swirl her arms around, leaving whisps of magic forming illusionary images to go along with the story.

“It all started with Summer Camp, a book, and the cutest tiny owl I ever saw...”

Castle of the Archivists....

"We've lost all contact with the machine we sent down to the Boiling Isles." Said Helix. Orion heard him and made a frustrated face. He then asked "What happened?" Helix replied "Well, the last footage we received from it was it being restrained before Luz trapped it inside a concealment mirror, the same one the Titan had trapped our younger brother away in all those years ago, we can only assume she'll want to do the same to us."

Orion thought for a moment before he said "Hmmm... that could be an issue, if we want to complete our goal, we must destroy that damn mirror first, but tell me Helix, how successful was the machine?" Helix replied "It proved efficient enough at causing lots of destruction, it was even able to hold its own against the Hex Squad and a massive army of witches for a while. It has clearly shown to be a powerful weapon." 

Orion smiled and said "Good, I want you and the others to create more of these, create a whole army of them! Then we shall go back to the Boiling Isles, and once that mirror has been destroyed, we launch every single one of them on the Isles, the Hex Squad will not stand a chance against an army of them! And every single witch will finally perish!" Helix nodded as he walked away. Orion then said to himself "In the meantime, I had better prepare something special for Luz and that little traitorous brother of mine...."

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Luz explained to Masha about her entire adventure in the Boiling Isles, starting with the day she first arrived, to the point where she managed to get into Hexside to start learning magic, to the day where she discovered that Belos was actually a former human named Philip who was hellbent on wiping out all the witches. She explained everything, while also forming illusions to go along with the story, allowing Masha to see exactly how it all went down for her.

The part that shocked Masha the most was how Luz became Half-Titan, Belos had contaminated her body with his fungus which caused her body to wither away as her spirit awoke in the in-between where she met the Titan himself. The Titan offered to bring her back to life while also giving away his powers to her which would eventually cause his soul to fade away. Luz then explained to Masha that her Titan powers unfortunately didn't last forever when she fought Belos. 

"And then that's when I summoned acid rain on Belos, causing him to slowly melt before my very eyes! Eventually Eda, King, and Raine finished him off!" Luz said. "Ok that sounds pretty cool and all but I've still got one question, you said that the Titan's power wouldn't last forever, yet you still have them, how is that possible?" Asked Masha. "I was going to get to that." Said Luz.

Luz continued to explain everything that had happened to her after, after saving the Boiling Isles, Luz continued to visit the Boiling Isles more and more, she had decided that she wanted to go and move there as soon as she graduated high school, and once she graduated, she attended the university of wild magic so she could continue to pursue her dreams to become a witch. 

"Now, how did my Titan powers return you ask? Well, turns out they never actually left, they really just 'fell asleep'. It was actually the spirit of the Titan that was fueling them with energy, unfortunately these powers were the only thing keeping his soul alive so once he gave them to me his soul only had moments left before it faded, which was also how long my powers would last for. For four years my powers remained asleep since the Titan's soul faded, but then, King's Titan energy began to grow more and more, before it finally grew strong enough to charge my Titan powers, and just like that, my powers were back." 

Masha was silent, they then asked "Man Luz, how hard was it to get used to having god powers again after 4 years?" Luz smiled and said "Oh, yeah it was challenging for sure, I had lots of doubts, I wasn't even sure if I was still myself anymore. But my girlfriend Amity, and all the friends I made here continued to support me, and they helped me feel a lot more secure about this new me. And with their help, I got use to all of it with ease. In fact, I actually began to like being Half-Titan more than being a human!"

Masha was surprised by this as they asked "Wow really?" Luz nodded and continued "Yeah, now of course I can shift between both forms at will." As she quickly changed back into her human form, taking an appearance that Masha recognized a bit more. But then Luz shifted back into her Half-Titan form as she continued "But whenever I'm in my Half-Titan form, I feel so much more like a true witch, and being a witch was always my childhood dream, so over time I began to view my Half-Titan form as my true body, my true self, who I really am, not just some badass super form I can transform into." 

Masha smirked and said "So I guess you kinda did come out like I guessed." Luz chuckled and said "Yeah pretty much! Being Half-Titan is way more fun than being a human. It makes me feel more like my true self, a real witch, probably because it gives me a bile sack that allows me to perform magic naturally. Yes I'm still me, but I feel a lot more like my true self when I'm in my Titan form." She then drew a spell circle with her finger as it formed a bright light as she said "See? I can do this at will now, it's basically just as easy as taking a breath of air."

Masha smiled and said "But still, I'm surprised, you actually let go of your human heritage to become a witch like everyone else here! I didn't think you would actually leave Earth behind with zero reluctance!" Luz nodded and said "Yeah, there was never anything in the human realm for me anyway. I just never belonged there to begin with, my true home was always here in the Boiling Isles from the start."

"Huh, reminds me of that movie Avatar. Remember how that film ended?" Luz nodded and said "Yeah, it does." Masha then asked "So what did your mother think of this world?" Luz replied "Oh she didn't really take it to lightly at first, she already knew that I would most likely want to stay in the Boiling Isles and begged me not to, she was afraid that it was her fault I wanted to stay here, but then she soon figured out it was never her that was the problem, she then realized that maybe it was best that I stay here. So I could pursue my dreams and be who I want." 

"Vee had told me that you nearly tried to take your own life because of the constant rejection you faced back in the human realm." Masha asked reluctantly. Luz sighed and said "Yeah, and that's true. After my Dad died I formed a passion with witchcraft as a means of coping. However, everyone else in school did not approve, they were constantly telling me I can't spend the rest of my life trying to be a witch. I was so lonely for so many years, and my Mom failed to understand for a while. I came close to wanting to end myself... But then I stumbled into this realm, and my life only got better from there."

"Heh, good for you then. I guess you could say you proved all the humans wrong, especially since you were actually able to physically become a witch as well." Said Masha. Luz smiled and nodded as she said "Hey, you wanna take a tour of the Boiling Isles? I bet you have lots of questions about this world don't you." Masha nodded and replied "Vee already showed me some of it, but sure. I'd love to check this place out." 

Luz smiled and said "Alright then, now I think the first thing I should do is introduce you to my girlfriend Amity." She and Masha then made their way through the crowd. Eventually Luz caught sight of Amity and shouted "Hey! Amity, I've got someone I'd like you to meet!" Amity turned to face her and asked "Oh who is it Luz?" Luz replied "Amity, this is Masha, they're new to the Boiling Isles." Amity looked at Masha and said "Oh hello Masha, sorry that your first time in the Boiling Isles had to go down that way with that whole scorpion attack." 

Masha replied "Oh don't worry about it, it's all good, besides, I got to see you, Luz, and those other guys kick some ass which was pretty cool. So you're Luz's girlfriend?" Amity nodded and said "Yep, she and I currently attend the university of wild magic together, we've been going strong since the age of 14." Luz then muttered to Masha "Fun fact, on the day we both first met, Amity tried to get me expelled from Hexside." Masha looked at Luz in surprise and asked "What? Why?" 

Amity sighed and said "Oh, well, at the time I was still under the influence of my mother, Odalia Blight, she was the worst, but Luz helped free me from her manipulation, and well... I fell in love as a result. As for my Mom though, well, my Dad filed the divorce papers and then we banished her to the human realm." "Woah what? You banished her to Earth? How cruel was she to deserve a punishment like that?" Masha asked.

"Oh she was way worse than me or Luz could have imagined, did Luz tell you about Belos and his plan to destroy us all?" Amity replied. Masha nodded as they said "Yeah, Luz told me about her entire time here." Amity replied "Turns out Odalia knew about Belos's plan, but despite that, she was actually ok with it!" Masha's eyes widened as they asked "Your own mother was ok with genocide?!" Luz stepped in and said "She had supposedly struck a deal with Belos, I doubt that would have worked out for her considering how much Belos hated the witches. But regardless, Odalia was pretty evil and she got what she deserved. Anyway, wanna see the rest of the Isles?" 

Masha looked at Luz and nodded. Vee approached them and said "There's lots of cool places around here that I simply cannot wait to show you!" The four of them traveled through Bonesborough as Luz showed Masha around, to help them get familiar with how things work here. "So instead of money, people trade with snails." Said Luz. "Snails?" Asked Masha. As they passed by everyone, lots of witches went silent as they saw Luz passing by. "Oh my... the Half-Titan is here..." One of them muttered.

Some of the witches quickly bowed down to Luz, Masha noticed the way they were acting and asked "Uh, Luz? Why are they bowing?" Luz sighed and said "Ugh... of course they're still doing that!" Masha was confused as they asked "What are you talking about?" Luz continued "You see, before I came here, most witches viewed the Titan as a god. After all it is the Titan's corpse we live on." Masha instantly looked down at the ground feeling somewhat creeped out from knowing that.

"And because of that, some people believe that because I inherited the Titan's power, that makes me some sort of demigod living among the witches! They have a whole church, holy book and rituals and everything! Yes I may have godlike powers, but I don’t want to be worshipped, I just want to be viewed as a witch like everyone else, but no matter how much I tell them, it leads to that person being treated like a heretic for ‘angering the Titaness’ so I just let them be. Accept their gifts once in a while until they eventually come to their senses that I'm not a god."

They soon came across a large statue of Luz in her Titan form that had been constructed recently. "Damn Luz, your basically a celebrity here now aren't you! You weren't kidding when you said you changed this world just as much as it changed you." Luz nodded and said "Yeah, this world changed my life, and I don't just mean physically since I'm a Half-Titan now. Anyway, I think it's time to go and start the tour of the Isles!"

Luz looked at Amity and said "Hey Ami? Could you be so kind and give these two a lift?" Amity nodded and got out her palisman staff, she sat down on it and said "Come aboard!" Vee quickly climbed onto her palisman and said "Come on Masha." Masha however was a little reluctant to sit down on it as they said "I uh... I don't know, that doesn't look very safe." 

"Just hang on to me Masha, you'll be ok." Said Vee. Masha gulped silently as they carefully sat down on the floating staff, holding onto Vee as they sat down. Luz smiled as she levitated into the air. She then said enthusiastically "Well, let the tour begin!" She then flew into the sky as Amity flew behind, Masha screamed as the palisman suddenly raised higher into the air. They've never been so high up before. "OH GOD OH GOD!! I DIDN'T AGREE TO THIS!!" They shouted as they held Vee tightly.

Soon, Luz flew beside them as she said "Take a look around Masha." Masha carefully opened their eyes, and they were met with a sight of a gorgeous landscape. "W-woah... it looks pretty nice from up here... But what the heck is that thing?!" As they pointed towards the large Titan head up north. "Oh that? That's the skull of the Titan." Said Vee.

Masha remained silent after hearing that. "Well I know that since you told me this entire island is basically a corpse, I was asking what that crown like castle sitting on it was." Masha corrected. Luz then said "Oh that castle you see on top? That's where Enzo lives, he's basically a god in the form of a child, but don't worry, he's a pretty good lad. He's part of the Hex Squad now." They began to soar over the entire island as Luz described many locations to Masha. "Over there you can see the university of wild magic, the college that me and Amity currently attend. Oh and down there you can see Hexside, the school that I attended." Said Luz.

Amity looked at Masha and said "Turns out they have a full section in Hexside dedicated to telling the story of Luz since she made quite a difference here for everyone." Masha was surprised and said "Man, you really are quite the celebrity here aren't you Luz." Luz nodded in response. "Yeah, despite being human, I was still able to pull of learning magic, and then I took it a step further by literally becoming a witch myself, albeit not in the way I was expecting since my Titan powers returned literally out of the blue, but the story about how I managed to defy the odds and become a true witch like everyone else has already gone to inspire many other people to hold onto their dreams despite how impossible they might seem." 

They eventually arrived at the giant hand of the Titan that reached up high into the sky. "And this right here is the arm of the Titan, it used to lay in the boiling sea, but then Belos tried to possess the island itself and managed to raise this arm directly upward before I was able to disconnect Belos from the heart." Masha looked up at the arm and asked "Jeez, how high does it go?" "All the way out into space." Said Vee. Masha remained silent before saying "Holy... Titan's were that massive huh."

Luz nodded and said "Yep, one day King's gonna grow to become as giant as the island, it still baffles me to this day." Masha looked at Luz and asked "And what about you? Will you get as big as this island one day?" Luz remained silent before saying "I doubt that, after all I am both part Titan and part human, so I doubt I'd be able to get any taller really." Masha asked "I thought you didn't consider yourself as human anymore." Luz looked at them and corrected "I meant that as in 'genetically' part-human still. Anyway, time for our next stop!"

The group then flew closer towards the skull of the Titan as they arrived at a large castle down on the ground. "And our next stop is the former Emperor’s castle! Now repurposed to a combination of a town hall/council headquarters! All the coven heads, or should I say former coven heads since we don't really use covens anymore; that was Belos's thing, but all the coven heads currently run the council to be in charge of the Boiling Isles, what Belos had was an empire, we change it into something better once he was finally defeated." 

"Interesting." Said Masha. Luz then said "And now for my favorite part of the entire Isles!" They all turned around and started heading down south. They eventually arrived at a large mountain as Luz said "Welcome to the knee, the tallest, and should I say only mountain of the Boiling Isles, this is where we make our landing." The group soon levitated to the ground as Masha quickly got off of Amity's palisman and said "Oh thank god I'm back on solid ground again!" 

Masha looked up to see Luz standing there by a cliff, they, along with Vee and Amity approached her, Luz looked at Masha and put her hand on their shoulder and said "Feast your eyes Masha." Masha looked ahead of them to see a massive and absolutely breathtaking view of the entire Boiling Isles.

Original artwork link: https://www.deviantart.com/kipowickart/art/welcome-to-the-boiling-isles-899255842

"Wow.... Luz this is amazing!" Masha said in awe. Luz nodded and said "I know right? You wanna know something interesting about this very spot we're standing on? It was this spot where I stood 4 years ago, where the moment I saw this view, I reflected on everything I had already managed to achieve at the time, and it was right here where one look upon all of this beauty right in front of me and I already knew, that I wanted to spend the rest of my life in this world." She looked at Amity and wrapped her arm around her and held her close.

"Gosh, Vee wasn't kidding, you truly have been living the dream life here Luz." Luz smiled and nodded as she said "Yeah, I've got everything I could ever want here, I've got a bright future ahead of me, a loving family, and an amazing girlfriend to share that future with." As she gave Amity a kiss on the cheek. She then said "In the human realm, I was rejected by everyone, but here in the Boiling Isles, I was accepted, it took some time, but I was finally able to feel like I was where I belonged. And I was more than happy to spend the rest of my days here, in this world I was free of all the isolation and rejections of the human realm, here I was free to finally be who I wanted to be."

Vee looked at Masha and said "And to add onto that, turns out once you get used to this world, you'll find out it's actually somewhat better than the human realm. First of all, there's no racism, homophobia, none of that stuff exists here!" Masha smiled and said "Well I'll be, you certainly had no trouble finding your way here then if that's the case right Luz?" Luz replied "Well it wasn't exactly easy, mainly because since I was human I couldn't use magic the way everyone else could, but not anymore!" As she drew a spell circle that generated a flower out of the ground, she plucked it off the ground and handed it to Amity, which made her blush."

Masha looked at what Luz just did and asked "Speaking of magic, where does it all come from? You did mention that the witches have a thing called a bile sack that powers the magic right?" Luz nodded, she then said to Masha "That is true, but that's not where the magic first originated from, you see, when the Titans were still alive, they were beings of extraordinary power, more specifically; magic. But when they all died out, the witches came to be, and they inherited the very life essence of the Titans gifting them with the Titan's magic. And that Masha is what this symbol you see glowing on me right here represents."

Masha looked at the glowing symbol on Luz's chest as she continued "Ever since I inherited the Titan's power, this symbol appeared on me, turns out it represents the very life essence of the Isles, I basically carry the very essence of magic itself inside of me with this very symbol since I'm Half-Titan. This power has allowed me to feel more connected to the not just the Isles, but all of the magic itself, I can feel it all, that's where I get my power from apparently." 

Masha chuckled and said "Well, this was certainly not how I was expecting to spend my day today, I think that was obvious. Thanks for bringing me here Vee." Vee smiled and said "Your welcome, if you want to visit this place again just let me know." Masha's smile slowly faded as they asked Luz "But there's still one thing you haven't told me yet. That giant robot creature that attacked earlier, I think I remember hearing you mention something about it being sent to destroy us by these beings called Archivists? Who are the Archivists?"

Luz sighed as her smile faded. She looked at Masha and said "The Archivists are cruel and violent godlike beings, they observe and judge all life forms across the universe, they're Enzo's older brothers, and they are not a force to be messed with so recklessly. You see, the Archivists are filled with these delusions that they have the right to play god since they were born with the powers they possess, these delusions make them think they should be the only gods that should be allowed to exist in the universe, and whenever they see other races that have powers like them, whether its magic or anything else, they view those races as a threat to the balance of the universe and threaten to wipe them all out!"

Masha went silent as Luz told them everything about the Archivists. "So they want to destroy the Boiling Isles now because the witches here can use magic? That just doesn't seem fair!" Luz nodded and said "Of course it isn't, I was lucky my Titan powers returned before they showed up, otherwise I doubt we'd still be alive, ever since they started attacking, me and the Hex Squad have been doing everything in our power to stop them from killing everyone. Even Enzo doesn't like what his brothers are doing!" Masha sighed and said "Do you have a plan to get rid of them for good?" Luz nodded and said "We do, but the Archivists are extremely powerful, defeating them for good would be a massive challenge, but as long as me and my friends work together, we can hopefully end this conflict and save the Boiling Isles."

"Well, good luck on that then I guess, Half-Titan." Masha said with a smile. Luz smiled lightly in response. She then said "Anyway, that concludes the tour of the Boiling Isles! Now what do you wanna do?!" Masha thought about it before asking "Well, you did mention you figured out how to use magic for the first time using these things called Glyphs, can I see how they work? I'd like to try some of it out myself." Luz nodded and said "Sure thing!"

Camila came rushing through the portal door, she just recently read the text sent by Vee and quickly tried to go and find her. She came running through the portal door of the owl house, only to find Vee and Masha chilling alongside Luz and all her friends. Luz was showing Masha all of the glyphs. "And this one right here is the plant glyph! It can grow all sorts of nature, give it a tap." Said Luz. Masha looked at the glyph in front of them and pressed on it, it began to glow green before suddenly growing into a giant plant before their very eyes! "Wow! Cool!" They shouted.

Luz then noticed Camila standing there as she waved to her saying "Oh hey Mom! I was just showing Masha all the glyphs." Camila sighed as Vee got up and approached her. "Hey Mom, you're not mad at me are you?" Camila put her hands on her and said "Sweetie, no, I'm just disappointed that you had to be so reckless and bring Masha here while your sister and her friends are currently fighting against the Archivists! You both could have been killed." 

Vee sighed and said "I know that... I just didn't want to keep lying to them. I did say that I wanted to tell them everything at some point." Camila replied "I understand that, but bringing them here?! What were you thinking?!" Suddenly, Masha stood up and said "Don't get mad at her, I insisted that she show me this place after she told me where she really came from. I'm sorry I put your daughter in danger Camila."

"Masha what are you doing? Are you trying to put the blame on yourself?" Asked Vee. But Masha quickly shushed her. "I'm doing you a favor." They whispered.

Camila looked at Masha and sighed and said "Ok... but please, remember that Luz is currently fighting against the Archivists right now, they could attack at anytime! And you both could be in danger. Come on, it's time to go home alright?" Masha nodded as they looked back at Luz, they said "Luz, I'm glad you managed to find your calling here in this world, and while this world is pretty neat and all, I on the other hand still have my own calling back on Earth." Luz nodded as she said "I understand that Masha, besides I was never trying to make you choose to stay in this realm, I'm not like that after all." 

Masha nodded and said "Well, it was nice seeing you again, or well, seeing this 'new' you anyway, good luck with your girlfriend." Masha was about back through the portal to return to Earth. But then Vee remembered something. She looked at Camila and said "Mom... I can't go." Camila was shocked by this and said "Vee, do not argue with me, we are going home now!" Luz approached Vee and said "Come on sis, listen to your mother."

Vee looked at Luz and said "Luz, you need my help! You saw what that giant scorpion creature was doing, the Archivists have the power to create deadly weapons that not even you are powerful enough to defeat! What if they made more huh? You could have died if I didn't step in and start draining it of its energy! You need my help! If more of those things were to show up, you'd need me to drain them of energy so they won't be as much of a problem anymore!" 

Luz looked at Vee in silence before saying "Vee, please don't put yourself in danger, please." Vee looked at Luz directly and said "Luz, please, you've been defending the Isles with your life, let me do something to help out in the family." Camila approached Vee and said "Vee, it's dangerous! You could be severely hurt! Or even worse, killed! It's my job to keep you safe from harm's way!" Vee looked back at her and shouted "Mom, I don't want to just be kept safe! I want to help my sister protect the world she cares so much about!" 

Camila went silent as Vee continued "Mom, you were ok with allowing Luz to choose for herself when she said she wanted to stay here, when she told you that she no longer considered herself a human anymore and came out as Half-Titan, can't I have that same freedom too?" Camila looked down and sighed, a tear ran down her face as she approached Vee and gave her a hug, she finally spoke "Very well then Vee.... Y-you can stay to fight, just... please be careful, I'm begging you." Vee hugged back and said "I'll be ok Mom, I'll be with Luz the whole time." Camila gave a weak smile as she slowly turned around and traveled through the portal.

Vee then looked at Masha who was looking at her with wide eyes. "So now you're staying in this realm now too huh?" They asked. Vee replied "Well, kinda, just for now so I can help Luz stop the Archivists, as soon as the threat is dealt with I'll be right back in the human realm again." Masha smiled and said "Ok good. Besides, I look forward to our next date." They quickly gave Vee a little kiss on the cheek before leaving through the portal, which left Vee completely dazed for a moment, her face began to turn crimson red.

As soon as Masha was gone, Luz approached her sister and hugged her tightly saying "WOOHOO! WAY TO GO VEE!! MY OWN SISTER JUST GOT HER FIRST KISS!!" This only made Vee feel even more embarrassed. She finally was able to form words as she asked "Anyway... where exactly should I stay while I'm here?" King approached her and said "Oh, you can totally stay in the owl house if you'd like, it's open for all guests after all." Vee smiled and said "That sounds nice. Well, I'll see you all later I suppose." She then entered the owl house alongside King.

Luz smiled as Amity approached her as she said "So, now that all that is over, now what do we do?" Luz thought for a moment before asking "Wait a second! Later tonight the university is hosting a celebration for me since tomorrow marks the day when I first arrived in the Boiling Isles, which is a day everyone now celebrates since it was the day that marked the beginning of the Boiling Isles' rise to freedom! We should head back to the university while we still have time!" 

Amity nodded and said "Oh most definitely. Gus will probably be waiting for us there." Luz nodded before asking "So, would you like to go on a ride with your girlfriend?" Amity blushed before saying "Oh definitely!" Luz smiled as she picked Amity up using a small ounce of her super strength and then blasted off into the sky as they both returned to college.

Castle of the Archivists....

"We have successfully completed the creation of the army Orion." Said Doradus. Orion smiled sinisterly as he said "Let me see it." Doradus led him into a giant room, in there he was greeted by a whole armada of machines, such as scorpions, but there were also other types of machines as well, some that were even shaped as stars. Orion looked at this massive army in front of him and said "At last, the final stand is about to begin, but first I need to go make my own visit to the Boiling Isles to go and destroy that concealment mirror, once it is destroyed, there will be nothing that the Hex Squad can do to stop us now!"

To be continued....

Chapter Text

At the university of wild magic, a huge celebration was being hosted, tomorrow is the 5 year anniversary which marks the day when Luz first stepped foot upon the Boiling Isles, it was the day that marked the moment where the Boiling Isles was about to change forever. And everyone at the university decided to spend the night before that day, celebrating all that Luz has accomplished since she got here, and Luz herself would be there.

Luz and Amity arrived in their dorm room so they could quickly get ready for this. Luz shifted into her human form so she could go take a quick shower; since it really isn't a good idea to get fur all that wet, while Amity tried to find a fancy dress to put on. Once Luz was out of the shower, she shifted back into her Half-Titan form, she soon noticed Amity who looked back at her and asked "So Luz, how do I look?" Amity was wearing a fancy dress similar to the one that wore when wearing the concealment stone. Luz smiled and said "You look great mi amor." 

Luz quickly went to brush her long hair as Amity checked the time. "We might wanna hurry babe, we don't want to be late." She said. Luz nodded and said "Don't worry, I'm all ready to go." They both proceeded down the hall as they approached the entrance towards the large auditorium. Luz could hear lots of voices from the other side, knowing that a lot of them were definitely waiting for her. "Showtime." She whispered before opening the door, she was instantly met by several other witches who greeted her as she entered.

The announcer noticed both Luz and Amity step through the doors and said through the microphone "And there she is everyone! The Half-Titan herself, Luz Noceda!" Luz smiled and waved at everyone as she passed by everyone. Luz and Amity walked by the large crowds before Luz eventually spotted Eda having a drink of apple blood. "Hey Eda!" Luz said to get her attention. Eda turned around and noticed her. "Luz, you actually made it on time!" Luz replied with a smile "Of course I would, this whole event is literally made to celebrate my accomplishments." 

"Yeah, do you want some apple blood? I can get you a drink." Luz politely declined as she said "Nah, still not sure if my human half is ready for a drink that is basically the alcohol of the Boiling Isles." "Alright." Eda said, she then reached for something and said "Oh by the way, Vee stopped by earlier, she told me Camila had given this to her and wanted her to deliver it here for you. There's a letter from Camila on it." Eda handed Luz the box as Luz looked at the letter on it.

"Hey mija, earlier you told me you wanted to marry Amity, so I decided to assist you with that by giving you a little something for you to give to Amity. The only problem is that I'm not sure if wedding proposals are done the same way in the Demon realm as they're done here on Earth, so correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway, hope you have a pleasant evening!" 

Luz began to open the box as she saw what was inside, a wedding ring for Amity. She went silent as she looked at it, she then gave a soft smile and whispered "Thanks Mom." Eda looked at it and said "Huh, a wedding ring for Amity huh? Kids these days grow so fast don't they."

As Amity passed through the crowd, she was soon met by her twin siblings Emira and Edric Blight. "Hey Mittens!" Said Emira. "Oh, hey Emira." Said Amity. Edric smiled and asked "So things going well with your Titan girlfriend?" Amity nodded. "Have you both ever tried taking your relationship to the next level yet?" Edric continued with a smirk. When Amity realized what he was implying, her face turned red as she shouted "Titan! You both just never know when to stop do you!"

The twins chuckled lightly before Emira said "Anyway have a good time." Before they both walked away. Amity sighed as she went to go find Luz.

Luz looked at Eda and asked "What am I gonna do Eda? Should I just walk over to her and ask her 'will you marry me?' I don't know if I have it in me." Eda smiled and said "Oh relax Luz, just go and tell her, I'm sure you'll be so happy you proposed to her once you actually do. Oh, there she comes now!" Luz saw Amity approaching as she quickly put the ring away. She looked at Amity and said with a smile "Oh hey Ami! What's up?" 

"Just had a run in with my siblings, they still can't seem to stop messing with me." Luz replied "Oh, well that's not that surprising." Suddenly, all of their friends showed up. "Luz! Amity! You both made it!" Said Willow. Luz turned to see the rest of the Hex Squad in front of them, all of them were dressed for the occasion, even Enzo was here as well and even he was dressed up nicely. "Hey Enzo! You're here as well?" 

Enzo smiled and nodded as they said "Yeah of course! After all, it is your special night where they celebrate all of your accomplishments, I don't want to miss out on that." Luz smiled and said "Glad that you're here!"

The Hex Squad sat down at a table as they began having some meals, telling some funny stories to each other. "Then I managed to creep everyone out during the school play by using hot dogs as fake organs that I ripped right out of me and pretended to be dead! You should have seen it even the parents were freaked out!" Luz said. All of her friends laughed in response as Gus said "I could make it even more convincing with illusion magic you know?"

Luz chuckled and said "I bet you could, oh man that just got me thinking of some cool ideas we could pull off! Hehe." Enzo took a drink of some apple blood and instantly spat it out "Ugh!! Goodness how do you even stand this?!" He asked. Hunter put his hand on Enzo's shoulder and said "Despite being several years old, clearly you're still not old enough for apple blood." Enzo looked at it and asked "What? That's what this stuff is? Gross." 

Luz looked at him and said "Yeah I would stay away from it if I were you." Soon, everyone got up and started to dance with the music. Luz looked at Amity and raised her hand out towards her saying "Hey mi batata, your Titaness request that you and I dance." Amity gave the widest smile possible as she began to blush, she got up and held Luz by her hands "Well if the Titaness demands it, then by all means, I gladly accept." She said in a flirtatious tone. 

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Both girls held hands as they danced, Amity held Luz tightly so she could get a nice feel of her fur. Luz smiled and said "You still can't get over this look Blight?" Amity blushed lightly and said "I just can't help it Luz, your fur is just too damn soft!" Luz grinned as she said "Is that a complement I hear? Why thank you, maybe I should see if the fur can grow longer like hair. Then I can see what you think." Amity sighed as she looked down smiling. "I swear to the Titan Luz you're going to be the death of me."

Luz smirked and said "What's the matter Ami? You look like you've seen a goddess." Amity looked up at Luz and asked "Just kiss me already, I can't take another flirt." Luz chuckled and kissed Amity on the forehead. "Better?" She asked. Amity smiled and nodded. 

Hunter and Willow danced together, both of them couldn't seem to form words because none of them could get over that kiss that happened earlier, now both of them were too afraid to make the first move. Hunter looked towards all his friends, hoping for them to help him. But Gus simply looked at him and gave him the thumbs up, telling him that he should just kiss Willow already and stop trying to hide his feelings.

Hunter sighed and looked at Willow. "Hey uh, Willow?" Willow was slightly startled since Hunter hadn't said a word since they started dancing. "Uh, what is it Hunter?" She replied, her face slightly turning red. Hunter took a deep breath before continuing "Throughout all the dates we've been on, I've been kind of a coward during every single one, but... not this time." He inhaled sharply before giving Willow a kiss on the cheek, even though he had intended to go for the lips, he gasped as he shouted "Gaah! Uh... sorry I uh... I meant to-" Willow smiled and said "You just missed, that's all." Before pulling Hunter in for a kiss on the lips.

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Luz and Amity noticed the two kiss each other as Luz said "Finally! I've been waiting for those two to finally hook up!" Amity chuckled and said "I know right? There's been nothing but pure chemistry between them the whole time they've known each other! I'm actually quite surprised they've only just now admitted their feelings for each other!" Luz chuckled before going silent, she remembered the ring that Camila had given her so she could propose to Amity, since Willow and Hunter were finally together, it was only fitting that Luz might as well try and propose to Amity now.

Luz sighed as she mustered up the courage, she then looked directly at Amity in the eyes and said "So, Amity? There's something I'd like to tell you-" Unfortunately, before Luz could finish that sentence, the announcer spoke through a microphone and said "Everyone, we'd now like to give a warm welcome to the stage; Luz Noceda the Half-Titan!" Luz looked towards the stage and sighed as Amity said "Go on up there Luz, it's your big night after all."

Luz smiled and nodded, she turned around and levitated into the air as all the witches applauded. Luz came in for a landing on the stage as she stepped in front of the microphone, waving towards all the witches as she said "Thank you, thank you all! It's nice to be here." The audience went silent as they allowed the Titaness standing on the stage to speak to them.

"I'm honestly quite flattered that all of you took the time to put all of this together just for me, like, seriously, you guys are too kind." Luz said, earning a chuckle from the audience. Amity sat down with her friends as Luz spoke. 

"You all just have no idea how much gratitude I have, and how much of an honor it is for me to be in this position I am in today, because I share the same love as all of you, the love for magic, and this passion of mine has given me this extraordinary life, I don't know what I'd be without it. Like, just imagine me as a child right now, and I found out at a young age that I was gonna become an exceptional and powerful witch when I get older, would I have believed it then? Yeah, I probably would have, I was like that at the time."

Everyone laughed in response, Luz continued "But I don't think I would have been able to imagine it exactly like this, because the fact that I've actually managed to become a real witch like all of you, it shows me that dreams are not impossible, I used to always dream of being a witch at a young age, and while everyone thought it was childish of me to want that, I never stopped dreaming for it, and it makes me so happy knowing that this dream has been fulfilled." 

"Of course I didn't fulfill that dream on my own of course, I had lots of help trying to reach it from many people, and I'd just like to take the time to thank them. I'd like to thank my mentor, Eda Clawthorne, she was the first witch I met when I first arrived here, and while she was somewhat doubtful at first, she gave me a chance and worked to teach me how to be a witch. I doubt I would have made it far if Eda hadn't given me that chance, so thank you Eda." Eda smiled as people clapped for her. 

"I'd also like to thank my beautiful girlfriend Amity Blight, she's probably one of the greatest things that happened to me when I got here. Now when we first met, I was certain we were gonna be lifelong rivals, oh how things certainly have changed since then." Luz said, earning a laugh from the audience. She continued "Amity, you helped me realize that my life was still worth living, even after all the rejection I faced in the human realm, you ensured that I didn't give up on myself, and I'm so happy to have someone as incredible as you in my life." Everyone clapped as Amity gave a wide smile in response.

Luz continued "I'd also like to thank my good friends over there." As she pointed towards Gus and Willow. "They were the first real friends I ever made, period. They helped me get into Hexside which was something that seemed impossible for the human that I was at the time. And it contributed greatly to helping me become a true witch, so thank you both." Willow and Gus could only let out a smile.

"And of course, someone else I'd like to thank most of all, is the Titan himself, he offered me that chance to finally become the true witch I've been working towards becoming since I got here, he was willing to give up his own soul and existence to give me that opportunity to become who I've always wanted to be. I met him in the In-Between, and in an act of selflessness and respect for all I had accomplished at the time, he gave me his gifts, turning me into the very person I am today, I accepted his power, completely unaware of just how much his gifts would forever change me for the rest of my life, and if he were still alive today I would be giving him the biggest hug possible right now. He has given me the most highest honor I could ever ask for by making me into a Half-Titan, thanks to him, I finally get to be a true witch like everyone else here."

"Heck, honestly, thank you all! All of you have contributed in so many ways to help me become the person I am today. While the human realm rejected me for my love of witchcraft, all of you on the other hand accepted me and gave me that chance to prove that I could do it, to prove that I could be a witch just like all of you despite my human heritage. The fact that you accepted someone who at the time couldn't even preform magic yet, just shows me just how enlightened this world is compared to the human realm."

"The human realm has quite a lot of problems, but not a single one of them exist here, everyone here is different in some way, but that's what makes us all special in our own way, none of us are exactly the same, but we don't have to be, and that's something that the people of the human realm have failed to recognize so many times, which is why they rejected me for my passions. We're all different in our own way, especially me, heck I probably still am different in many ways!"

"You see I was a human, yet I was trying to learn how to be a witch, yet despite my biological differences, you all still chose to accept me regardless of where I came from. Which makes me so grateful that you did because that's when we're at our best. Where we are there to support each other and give each other the chance to prove ourselves, that is how we can accomplish anything! I discovered all of that the very moment I drew my first glyph. It was there where I knew that despite my human heritage, despite how different I was, my dreams were not impossible. So thank you all for giving me that chance to be a witch, I would not be who I am today without all of you!"

The entire crowd applauded and cheered in response. Luz smiled at them all before finally saying "And lastly... I'd like to thank my father. My father who is currently up there right now looking down upon me, I bet he's got his favorite graphic novels right beside him and he's looking down to see where I am today and I'll betcha that he's dancing right now!" The audience laughed lightly in response. Luz smiled and continued as she looked up slightly "Dad, it was your Good Witch Azura book that you left me with that first got me into witchcraft and magic in the first place, it was your final gift that sparked this passion inside of me that would eventually define who I am today, and for that... thank you." 

Luz then looked at everyone else once again and said "And to all of you listening, for those of you who are struggling with trying to achieve a lifelong goal of yours, hold it close, don't give up on it, no matter how impossible it seems, as long as you have those around you who support you and are there for you, you will never be alone with achieving your dreams!" Everyone cheered and clapped. Luz smiled as she stepped off the stage. 

Luz walked through the crowd of witches as they all clapped for her. She was met by Amity who gave her the biggest hug she could give. "Wow Luz! You were absolutely stunning up there!" Luz smiled and said "Thanks Ami." Eda approached Luz and said "You really have grown faster than I thought. I've never seen you with so much confidence!" Luz smirked and said "Heh, I think that might be a perk that my Titan powers offer me." Eda smiled and said "I'm proud of you kid, truly proud." Luz approached Eda and gave her a hug. Eda smiled and hugged back.

The celebration continued for hours, everyone had a great time, Luz got to interact with several good fans of hers, she gave some witches some autographs, she even challenged Enzo to an arm wrestle to see who exactly the most powerful being on the Boiling Isles really was! The party kept going until midnight. By that time, the party started to wrap up as everyone started to go back to their rooms. Eventually, Luz and Amity were the only two witches left in the auditorium.

Amity kneeled against the wall as she finished up her drink, it was awfully quiet now that everyone was gone, she knew she should be heading back to her room soon as well. But then suddenly, Luz snuck up on her before appearing right in front of her as her invisibility spell wore off, Amity gasped as she saw Luz standing right in front of her, keeping her against the wall. "Hey Ami." She said in a flirtatious tone.

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Amity blushed as she muttered "Holy Titan! Luz don't sneak up on me like that! You know how hard it is to resist your flirts!" Luz smirked and asked "Why bother trying too mi amor?" Amity sighed and asked "Anyway Luz, should we head back to our dorm room now? There's like, nobody here anymore." Luz replied "Yeah, we probably should, but I think it's a good idea we left last, because now that we're alone, I won't have to worry about any interruptions this time."

Amity was confused and asked "Interruptions? For what?" Luz grabbed onto the small box with the wedding ring inside of it as she said "Amity, since the anniversary of my arrival to the Boiling Isles just began, I think it's only fitting that I told you this now. I'm not sure if this is how they do it here in the Demon realm, but I'm just gonna get on with it anyway... Amity, you and I have been together since we were 14, you made my life so much more meaningful since you and I met, you're one of the main reasons I chose to stay and live in the Boiling Isles in the first place, and... I'd like to spend my whole future alongside you." 

Luz opened the box, revealing the ring to Amity, which caused her to gasp. "Oh my-" She muttered. "Will you marry me?" Asked Luz. Amity could not contain her happiness and joy, she gave Luz a massive hug and shouted "Of course I will!" She and Luz gave each other a passionate kiss as Amity took the ring and put it on, as soon as she did, they both were startled by a group of people cheering for them. "YEAH!!! WAY TO GO LUZ!!!"

Luz and Amity turned to see Eda, Willow, Hunter, Gus, and Enzo there cheering for them. "What the- How long were you all there?!" Asked Luz. Gus replied "Oh we always were here, we just made sure to hide because we just knew you were gonna propose to Amity as soon as everyone was gone!" Eda approached Luz and said "If you're gonna get mad at anyone, get mad at me, it was all my idea." Luz sighed before saying "You guys... you'll never change, but that's what I like about you." 

Soon Enzo levitated over to Luz and said "So, when's the wedding exactly?" Luz thought about it before saying "Once we finally defeat the Archivists, we can get married." Amity held Luz's fluffy clawed hands as she said "I'd like that."

Later, the couple returned to their dorm room. It had been quite the night for all of them lately, and now Luz and Amity were finally planning on getting married. Amity collapsed onto the bed as she said "Titan... what a day. I'm totally spent." Luz stretched her arms out as she took off her hat and said "Me too Blight." Luz laid down on the bed next to Amity, they both stared lovingly into each others eyes for a while.

Amity smiled as she began rubbing her Titaness's scalp affectionately and pressing a kiss to the top of Luz's head. Earning a audible purr from her girlfriend. "I love you." She whispered. Amity smiled and pulled Luz closer right up against her as she whispered "I'm so lucky to be yours. You're the greatest thing that's ever happened to me." Luz smiled, she then quickly pulled Amity in for a deep and passionate kiss, not wanting it to stop. Both girls pulled apart for some air as Luz could see Amity wanting more as she said "Wow, you're quite the needy one aren't you hermosa."

"I'm sorry It's just that you're just so good at riling me up with that gorgeous look of yours." Amity replied. Luz smirked as she asked "Well since you're so riled up, would you like me to give you the best night of your life mi amor?" Amity smiled and said "Anything for my soon to be wife." Luz smiled as she pinned Amity down onto the bed as they continued to kiss each other, which later evolved into a burning passion and desire for each other as it became something that was albeit passionate and romantic but at the same time animalistic. Soon the couple would fall asleep the moment they finished expressing their love for each other, and drifted off into a peaceful sleep.

Castle of the Archivists....

As Orion prepared to leave for the Boiling Isles, his brothers approached him. "Orion, are you sure that this is wise? What if they overpower you and seal you within that mirror?" Asked Pismis. Orion looked at him and said "I will not allow them to use that device on all of us, it must be destroyed so we can carry out our goals." Doradus quickly said "But Orion, you'll be going up against the Hex Squad on your own, you won't win against them all." Orion replied "And I don't exactly plan too, all I intend to do is destroy that mirror, with it destroyed, the rest of you can come down to the planet and prepare for our final attack."

"You're expecting us to hope you will succeed with this? What if something goes wrong?" Asked Helix. Orion replied "I am asking you all to trust me here. Remember that this is what we were made for! We were born to ensure that balance in the universe is preserved, those mortals living on the Boiling Isles have inherited powers from gods! As long as there are mortals who have powers like us that exist, the balance is threatened! We cannot allow mortals to harness powers of gods, it defies everything that we are, we are the only gods of this universe, we are the supreme beings of all worlds. The Boiling Isles must fall like all the other worlds that defied us. This was what our parents failed to understand about us, and they suffered for it! We must end this threat to the balance at once!"

Orion's brothers nodded as Helix said "Just please be ready for them alright? The Hex Squad has proven to be very powerful." Orion nodded and said "Once the mirror is destroyed, the final attack can finally commence. And Luz won't be able to do anything to stop it." Orion then opened the main castle entrance as he flew out into the void of space, on his way to the Boiling Isles.

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The next morning, Amity awoke in her bed, the first thing that she saw the moment she opened her eyes was the sight of her beautiful girlfriend Luz, she smiled as she then took another look at the ring Luz gave her last night, she simply couldn't describe how happy she was to know that Luz was now officially her fiancé, and how could she not be? Everything about Luz was perfect. She watched as Luz slept peacefully beside her, not wanting to wake her up because seeing her girlfriend like this always made her heart flutter. 

Eventually the moment came where Luz eventually woke up on her own, she could feel Amity in her arms as she woke up as the events that occurred last night all started to come back to her. She remembered how she proposed to Amity, which ultimately ended with them both spending the last of the night making love for who knows how long. The thought of that made her blush slightly as she remembered that moment, but then Amity looked at her with a smile as she said "Happy anniversary hermosa. Don't mind me, I was just admiring my beautiful Titan next to me." 

Amity pulled Luz right next to her as she got a good feel of Luz's fur, sighing as she got comfortable. Luz smiled and said "Ami, if you continue to hold me like this we'll be here all day." Amity replied "Just... A few more minutes please? Your fur is so soft, so warm." Luz smiled and wrapped Amity into a hug. She gasped slightly as she felt Amity begin to rub her soft stomach as she let out a purr in satisfaction. Her stomach was basically her weak spot at this point and Amity had complete access to it. 

Luz smiled as she remembered that today was officially the day when Luz first stepped foot into the Boiling Isles. Which also meant it was now the first day of summer, meaning they both could now do whatever they wanted for the next three months. She looked at Amity and said in a flirtatious tone "So, did you enjoy yourself last night? You certainly sounded like you did." Referring to the 'physical activities' that they both engaged in last night, which made Amity's face heat up until it was as red as a tomato. She was finally able to form words as she said "How is it you’re always able to leave me looking like my face is all sunburned, no matter what you do?” 

Luz chuckled and said "Heh, I guess some things never change." Amity smiled and said "Well, to answer that question, of course I did." Luz smiled and said "Well, that is one of the benefits of my Titan form, it works to get you all riled up." If Amity's face was not burning hot before, it certainly was now. "Luz I swear if you say one more flirt..."

Luz smirked and said "What? Will it make you so riled up you'll want to go for another round?" She began to gently rub Amity's ears with her claws while making sure to be gentle enough so her claws don't accidentally scratch into Amity's ears, but also made sure to add enough pressure to make it feel nice. Amity inhaled sharply from the nice feeling as she started to purr with satisfaction, her girlfriend was just too good at what she does.

Amity snapped out of her trance and groaned as she was reduced to a blushing mess, for a while she thought she won't ever be like this whenever she was around Luz again once they finally started dating, but then Luz's Titan powers just had to return and double Luz's confidence level. "Titan! Just kiss me already before I pass out from your tricks!" Amity shouted. Luz grinned and said "I'll take that as a yes then." As she gave Amity the deepest kiss that she could offer. "O-oh wow… Physical activities…" Amity managed to mutter as they pulled apart. 

"Satisfied yet?" Luz asked. Amity smiled and said "Not even close." As she wrapped her arms around Luz's neck, she could no longer contain just how badly she wanted Luz to take her anymore. Luz smiled and said "Wow, you're more needy than I thought." Amity gave a demanding smile to Luz as she said "Just shut up and make love to me already damnit!"

Luz was quite surprised by the newfound confidence her girlfriend had as a result of Luz's constant flirting, it was like she just exposed a new side of Amity that had never been seen before. Nevertheless she wasted no time at all to satisfy her fiancé.

Later that day, Luz and Amity both left the university as Amity said "I have to go tell my Dad that we're planning on getting married soon! I bet he'll be super overjoyed!" Luz nodded and replied "And I gotta go tell Vee and King about this as well! They'll be so excited when they hear about this! So should we meet in town later?" Amity replied "Sure thing! See you later!" She then got on her palisman and flew home as Luz blasted into the sky and traveled towards the owl house.

Luz flew all the way back to the Owl House at intense speed, she landed on the floor and walked inside, where she saw Vee and King were busy socializing. "Hey guys." Said Luz. Both Vee and King looked over to her as Vee said "Oh Luz, you're back, what brings you here?" Luz smiled as she said with much enthusiasm "I've got great news! I just proposed to Amity! And she said yes!!" Vee and King's reactions were exactly how Luz expected them to be, they got up and quickly ran over to her smiling with their arms open wide.

"She said yes?!! Congrats Luz!!" Shouted Vee. "Ha!! My Titan sister is about to get married!" King shouted with joy. Luz hugged back and said "I can't wait to tell Mom about this, she'll be overjoyed to hear about this news!" King then said "Why don't you go ahead and tell her now?" Luz looked back at the door and nodded as she approached it, she opened it up to reveal a bright light as she traveled back to the human realm.

Meanwhile with Amity, she arrived at Blight Manor. She went inside and met up with her father, she was surprised to see that her siblings were already home before her. "Oh, Amity, congrats on making it through your first year at college!" Said Alador. Amity approached him and said with a smile "Dad, I've got some incredible news!" She lifted her hand out to him, allowing him to catch sight of the ring on her finger.

Alador could not contain his happiness when he saw the ring "You and Luz are getting married?!! Oh that's amazing!!" He shouted. It got the attention of the twins as Edric asked "Amity, you and Luz are going to get married?! That's amazing!" "When's the wedding?" Emira asked. Amity replied "As soon as the Archivist threat has been dealt with, we'll make it official." Amity replied, her siblings ran over to her and give her a tight hug. "We're so happy for you mittens!" Said Emira. 

Amity smiled and said "Thank... but I swear if any of you gossip about this, you can expect a beating from me real soon!" Edric and Emira quickly nodded as Edric said "Oh don't worry mittens, we won't make any jokes about it to other people." Little did Amity know, both Edric and Emira had their fingers crossed behind their backs. Amity sighed as she said "Anyway, I was gonna go meet Luz over at Bonesborough later today, so see you all later." As she turned around and left.

Earth....

Luz, now in her human form approached Camila's house, she approached the door and knocked on it, Camila opened it, surprised to see Luz was back. "Luz, you're back again? What's going on?" Luz simply smiled and said "I... I got that ring you sent me." Camila went silent for a brief moment, she then asked "Ok, and?" Luz smiled widely as she said "I proposed to Amity, and she said YES!!" Camila practically squealed in excitement as she hugged Luz tightly.

"Oh mija!! That's amazing! I'm so happy for you!!!" Luz chuckled and hugged back. "When do you plan to get married?" Camila asked. Luz replied "We'll get married as soon as the Archivists have been defeated. We want to start our new lives as wives peacefully after all." Camila smiled as both she and Luz sat down on the doorstep. Camila went silent as Luz looked at her and asked "What is it?"

Camila wiped some of her tears away as she said "Oh, it's nothing. I was just remembering when you told me you wanted to move to the Demon realm once you graduated high school. It was actually quite hard for me, having to let you go like that, I wish I could have been there for you more often after your Dad died, I wish I could have understood your passions better. Even though you did eventually find a home where you could follow your dreams, I wish I could have helped you more." Luz smiled and said "It's alright Mom. I'm just glad you supported me when I decided to move there to begin with. And remember, no matter what I become, even though I'm not human anymore, that doesn't mean I'm not still your daughter." 

Camila smiled and nodded as she said "I'm very proud of you. I hope you and Amity get to live your best life together." Luz could only hug Camila. She then said "Anyway, I promised Amity I would meet her in Bonesborough, so I'll see you later then." She turned and walked away. Camila smiled as she watched Luz leave.

The Boiling Isles....

Amity walked through Bonesborough, waiting for Luz to show up. But as she walked through town, she was greeted by several other witches who were saying things to her like "Hey! Congratulations Amity!" Amity seemed confused at first, but then she saw what was on the news, turns out word spread rather quickly about her and Luz having plans to get married. Soon Edric and Emira showed up and said "Hey mittens!"

Amity looked at them with a face full of anger, she shouted towards them "DID YOU GOSSIP ABOUT ME AND LUZ?!!" Edric replied "Woah, slow down, yes we did tell everyone, but we didn't gossip about it though, otherwise people would probably be acting a lot differently, so... you're welcome." Emira replied "Yeah mittens, we're not as mean as you think." Amity simply sighed as she calmed down. 

Soon, everyone heard a distant sonic boom in the sky, Amity looked up to see Luz come flying in for a landing. Luz landed on the ground and looked at Amity. Amity smiled and said "Well, see you both later." As she walked away with Luz. 

The couple walked through Bonesborough as they were greeted by several other witches. They passed by the giant statue of Luz, seeing several witches surrounding it, turns out there were a bunch of children who were very interested in Luz's journey and there was another witch who was telling them all about the tale. Luz could already tell all those kids were most likely fans so she decided that she might as well make their day.

Luz looked at Amity and said "Just give me a moment, I wanna try something." Luz activated an invisibility spell as she held her breath, she then snuck towards all the kids, all of them completely unaware of her presence. Luz smirked as she quietly but casually sat down next to them all. After a couple of seconds, she breathed out, exposing her to all the kids sitting beside her. All the kids instantly looked towards her in utter shock and disbelief. "Oh, hey guys." She said in a casual tone. 

All the children geeked out in excitement as they all got up and approached Luz, Luz stood up and said "Ok ok, one at a time please." Amity watched how the kids reacted to seeing Luz, she chuckled a little bit as she said "Oh Luz, you really know how to make a person's day." 

Later, the couple sat down to have some lunch, enjoying the nice warm weather that summer offered. Soon, Amity looked at Luz and asked "So, since its your anniversary, how do you want to spend it?" Luz thought for a moment before saying "You know, as much as how boring the human realm can be, I think it would be pretty nice to go take a visit there together. Of course that means no Half-Titan form and I know how much you love my Half-Titan form so I'll only take us there if you want too." 

Amity smiled and said "I honestly don't mind that much if you can't use your Titan form, even though that's the one you prefer going around as yourself. I'd love to go on a date in the human realm." Luz smiled and nodded as she said "Well, I suppose we should probably-"

Suddenly, the Hex Squad suddenly showed up, even Vee was with them. "Guys? What is it?" Asked Luz. Willow looked at them both and shouted "We've been looking all over for you! There's been a situation! One of the Archivist brothers Orion was just spotted somewhere in the Isles!" Luz stood up and asked "What? Orion? Here?!" All the other witches nearby went silent in fear as they listened to what Willow said. 

"Yes! He was spotted deep in the woods! I don't know what he's up to but he's up to something bad! We need to stop him!" Said Hunter. Luz nodded and said "Well then, what the hell are we waiting for? Let's go get that son of a bitch! Vee, wait here, I'll make sure to bring Orion to you so you can weaken him of his powers, then we trap him in the concealment mirror!" Amity got up and pulled out her palisman as they all blasted off into the sky. They flew away from Bonesborough and arrived at the woods, "Do you see him anywhere?" Asked Amity as she looked down towards all the trees. 

Luz used her night vision to see into the darkness under the trees, hoping to see some sort of movement. Suddenly, she spotted a faint outline of a person down in the woods. "There!" She said. Everyone flew down into the forest as they looked around for a moment, but there wasn't any sign of Orion anywhere. "Luz you said he was here..." Said Gus. "I know, and I swear I saw him-" Before Luz could finish her sentence. A figure suddenly approached them from the darkness, his eyes slowly starting to heat up. 

"HOLY SHIT!! WATCH OUT!!" Shouted Hunter. They all quickly dodged an incoming laser fire. Out of the darkness came Orion. "I've been waiting for you all to show up!" He said menacingly. Luz got out her palisman staff as she formed a glyph on her hand as she shouted "What in the Titan's name are you doing here all on your own?? Where's your brothers?! It's unlike you to show up by yourself!" Orion smirked as he said "Oh I just decided that I would drop in, pay you all a little visit!" 

Willow pointed at Orion as she shouted "Well hate to spoil your day but we don't accept visits from monsters like you!" Orion made a sinister smile as he clenched his fist, he then shouted "I was hoping you would say that!" He then formed a bright star in his hands as he tossed it at them all. Luz quickly formed a forcefield to shield everyone from it as she said "Hex Squad! We need to restrain him now!!!"

Luz clenched her fists as she leaped into the air and lunged at Orion, but Orion was ready for her and easily punched her away towards the ground. Amity then sprinted towards him with her abomination fists ready, she managed to throw a single punch at Orion in the face, but Orion was easily able to kick her with extreme force, sending her crashing into the ground. Enzo quickly passed by her to attack Orion himself, firing a powerful beam of energy from his hand, it stunned Orion initially, but he quickly regained his composure and kept fighting.

Willow drew a plant spell as she formed a large vine and threw it at Orion, managing to get it to wrap around him, restraining him. She tried to hold Orion within the restraints with all her might, but Orion was easily able to break loose as he snapped the vine apart. He then fired laser eyes towards Willow, but Luz quickly flew in and shielded her. She and Enzo then flew towards Orion to attack him, but as they tried to attack, Orion dodged their punches and then punched them into the ground, he grabbed them both by the throats and lifted them up into the air, slowly tightening his grip.

Hunter quickly tried to intervene as he began to glow bright gold, he then ran at intense light speed, causing everything around him to slow down, he looked at Orion and began running towards him, but little did he know, Orion's powers allowed him to travel just as fast as Hunter could. Hunter would find that out the hard way as he noticed Orion suddenly look towards him. "Oh, well this is quite a fancy surprise!" He said in a menacing tone.

Before Hunter could react, Orion tossed both Luz and Enzo to the side as he began sprinting towards Hunter, he swung his arm at Hunter with powerful force, but Hunter was quickly able to duck under it, but he tripped in the process as he collapsed to the floor, he then looked up to see as Orion leaped into the air and clenched his fists as he prepared to slam his fists down on Hunter, but he was quickly able to roll out of the way before Orion could attack.

Hunter quickly got up as Orion began trying to punch him repeatedly, Hunter panicked as he started frantically dodging all of Orion's attacks, trying hard not to die. However, he was not fast enough as Orion managed to punch him hard in the chin, causing him to collapse to the floor as the golden glow around him faded. Orion levitated into the air as he prepared to fire energy at Hunter, but before he could attack, Luz levitated into the air and kicked Orion away. She turned around and shouted "I'll keep him busy! I need the rest of you to go and get that concealment mirror device so we can stop him!"

Luz then flew after Orion as Enzo shouted "Come on guys! There's no time to waste!" As he blasted off the ground and flew towards the castle.

Luz flew at Orion at intense speed, she tackled him and held him forward, crashing him through several trees in the process. Luz then dragged Orion across the ground while maintaining her flight speed, she started punching Orion repeatedly. Orion quickly grabbed Luz by the shoulders and slammed her into the ground, she crashed across the ground for a while before collapsing. Enzo walked over to her and was about to attack her, but Luz opened her eyes and smirked as she let out a powerful Titan roar! Blasting Orion away.

Luz got up to her feet and pulled out her palisman staff, she then formed a fire glyph onto that same hand she was holding her palisman with, allowing the glyph magic to be fused with it, the same way she was able to fuse her Titan magic with it, she raised her palisman into the air as it soon ignited on fire, she smirked as she shouted "BRING IT!!" Luz then spun her staff around and fired a powerful burst of flame at Orion, Orion smirked as he flew around it and attacked Luz, but Luz dodged his attack and shot fire at him from behind, while the fire didn't burn him, it definitely restrained him. 

Luz then sprinted towards Orion at a powerful speed and pounced him, the two of them flew into the air as they wrestled around in the sky, throwing several powerful punches at each other, eventually they came crashing down into Bonesborough, crashing right in the middle of the road, startling all of the witches. Luz pinned Orion down against the ground as she shouted "EVERYONE!!! GET AWAY FROM HERE!!!" All the witches began to panic as they began to run for it.

Luz continued to struggle with Orion against the ground as she tried to pin him down, but Orion was able to headbutt her, knocking her down, allowing Orion to get up, Orion tried to stomp on Luz, but she quickly was able to roll out of the way as she got back on her feet, she drew a spell circle with her hand using her Titan energy, firing a powerful blast of energy at Orion, but Orion was able to shield himself from it. 

Once the energy beam ceased, Luz levitated into the air and pounced Orion, crashing him through a building, she then threw Orion down onto the ground and fired laser eyes at him, but he quickly flew out of the way and formed a giant star in his hand as he quickly threw it towards Luz. Luckily Luz quickly supercharged her palisman with Titan energy as she sliced right through it. She then blasted towards Orion and slammed him into the ground, he crashed against the hard floor as Luz came flying straight down towards him, but he quickly rolled out of the way and got back to his feet.

Luz turned to face him as she formed an electricity glyph on her hand. She smirked as she supercharged her palisman with that energy, causing pure volts of lighting to emit out of it, she then swung her palisman around, firing a powerful blast of lighting from her palisman directly at Orion. "EAT THIS SUCKA!!!" She shouted.

Original artwork link: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/12pyvs3/oc_titan_luz/

He quickly dodged it and fired laser eyes at Luz, but she leaped to the side to dodge it and quickly returned fire right after, shooting another bolt of lighting from her palisman, which actually managed to hit its target as Orion was zapped by a powerful blast of electricity, he was stunned for a moment but kept on fighting.

Luz continued to fire more electricity from her palisman at Orion, more and more she was able to land more hits, but soon Orion became enraged as he started running towards Luz at an aggressive speed. Luckily Luz was ready for it as she leaped right over Orion, she landed behind him and then slammed her electrically charged palisman into the ground, generating an electric shockwave that blasted towards Orion, knocking him into a building. 

Luz stood up and smiled as she planted her palisman against the ground, all of the witches came out of hiding and began to cheer for her, however, Orion was not finished just yet as he came running right back at her. Luz smirked as she charged at Orion as the two began to wrestle with each other. Soon Vee finally arrived on the scene to see her sister Luz engaging in battle with Orion, already she knew Luz would need her help. 

Luz soon noticed Vee, knowing how useful Vee could be in this fight, she nodded towards her, Vee nodded back. Luz then looked back at Orion and smirked as she drew another spell circle, causing her to turn invisible on the spot. Orion was confused as everything went silent, he looked around, wondering where Luz could have possibly went. Suddenly, he felt a powerful fist punch against him in the face, knocking him against a building.

He quickly got back up again and tried to keep fighting, only to be kicked in the back from an enemy he could not see, he collapsed to the ground as he screamed in rage, he got up and fired lasers from eyes all around him, trying desperately to hit Luz, all the civilians took cover as Orion fired everywhere. He soon stopped as he took a look around, he smiled as the dust from all the destruction suddenly exposed Luz's position. 

"There you are!" He shouted as he fired an energy beam at Luz, Luz reappeared as she quickly formed a forcefield to shield herself from the blast. Orion laughed menacingly as he shouted "YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO FACE ME ALL ON YOUR OWN!!" Luz looked directly at Orion and smirked as she said "Jokes on you though, because I'm not actually alone in this fight, NOW VEE!!" 

Before Orion could react, Vee ran towards him from behind and quickly inhaled sharply as she began to drain Orion of his energy, a blue glow surrounded Orion as he collapsed to his knees, suddenly feeling incredibly weak. He looked behind him to see Vee as he tried to fire an energy beam at him, but he found that he couldn't. "Wh- what have you done to me?!" He shouted. 

Luz smirked as she approached Orion, she said "Allow me to introduce you to my sister Vee, she's a basilisk, she has the power to weaken people of their power, including you!" Orion let out a scream of anger in response as he tried to break free. Suddenly, the rest of the Hex Squad showed up as Amity tossed Luz the concealment mirror. "USE IT NOW!!!" Shouted Enzo.

Luz nodded as she harnessed her Titan powers to activate the mirror, meanwhile the Hex Squad tried to help Vee by restraining Orion even further as Amity formed abomination goo out of the ground, trapping Orion inside of it as Willow wrapped a large vine around him, Orion soon found that he physically couldn't move anymore, nor did he have the strength to break out. He watched as Luz began to power on the mirror as it began to glow.

Luz approached Orion and said with a smile "I told you not to underestimate me Orion, I am the most powerful witch of the Boiling Isles after all!" Orion let out a scream of rage as Luz held out the mirror in front of him, it began to shake in her hands as it started to grab hold of Orion, who continued to scream within his constraints. Everyone watched in anticipation as Luz began to contain Orion within the device. "Come on, just hold the restraints a little longer!" Said Gus, knowing if any of them were to accidentally loosen up the restraints, Orion could break loose.

Vee continued with all her might to weaken Orion's energy, but she'd been holding her breath for so long trying to do that and she needed to breath out now, or else she might just collapse, but she knew she couldn't, or else Orion's strength would return to him. Unfortunately, she couldn't hold it forever, her face began to turn red as she began to feel light headed, it all proved to much for her as she breathed out and fell to her knees, breaking the connection. 

Suddenly, Orion suddenly felt all his strength return to him as he smiled sinisterly. He then unleashed his super strength to burst free of the vines and abomination goo. "NO!!!" Shouted Amity. Before Luz could react, Orion looked at the concealment mirror in her hands and fired lasers from his eyes directly at it! The lasers began to heat up the mirror as it started to crack apart within Luz's hands, before finally shattering into several tiny pieces!

Luz gasped as the concealment mirror was destroyed in her hands, she collapsed to her knees as she mumbled "No...." Orion levitated into the air and laughed maniacally. "HAHAHAHA!!! THERE GOES YOUR PRECIOUS LITTLE MIRICALE WEAPON!! WITHOUT THE CONCEALMENT MIRROR, THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP US NOW!! YOUR HOME IS GONNA BURN!!!" Amity looked up at Orion and shouted "NO!!!! YOU BASTARD!!!" As the Hex Squad charged at him. 

Orion looked at the attackers and simply used telekinesis to suspend them all into the air and throw them aside. Orion turned around and looked at Vee who was standing there completely helpless. "Since you told me this little one here is your sister, why don't I exterminate her first!" Before Vee could run, Orion flew down towards her and picked her up by the throat, levitating into the air. Vee struggled within his grip, she began to cry out of fear for her life.

Orion made a menacing smile as he prepared to fire lasers from his eyes directly through Vee's skull, but Luz looked up at Orion, making a face of pure anger, she got to her feet and unleashed a powerful Titan roar, sending Orion flying, Luz caught Vee as she fell and put her down. "You ok?" She asked. Vee could only silently nod. Luz looked up at Orion and attacked him with all her might, there was no way she was going to allow him to win this one. 

Luz punched Orion a massive distance away, before flying directly under him and punching him high into the sky, way above the clouds, she quickly flew after him, generating a sonic boom behind her, she confronted him above the clouds as several glyphs began to form around her, she smirked as she fired several charges of Titan energy directly at Orion.

Original artwork link: https://www.deviantart.com/outcastcomix/art/The-Good-Witch-Luz-957942045

Orion flew around frantically to avoid being hit, but then Luz flew towards him and punched him miles away, she then blasted towards him again and punched him even further! Orion quickly regained his composure and tried to fly away, but Luz shouted "Oh you're not getting away this time you son of a bitch!!!" As she pursued him, generating a sonic boom behind her. She flew around through the clouds, wondering where Orion might be, but then suddenly, Orion attacked her from behind as he pounced her.

The two godlike beings wrestled around with each other in the sky, throwing as many hits as possible, Orion managed to kick Luz several meters away as she started to fall, but she was able to pick herself back up again and flew back into the sky. Suddenly, Luz noticed the giant arm of the Titan, which gave her an idea, she looked back at Orion and fired lasers from her eyes at him, but he dodged it and began to fly towards her at rapid speed.

Luz smirked as she turned around and flew towards the arm of the Titan, getting Orion to chase him. The rest of the Hex Squad soon noticed them as Amity said "Come on! We have to follow them!" As she got on her palisman and took off into the air.

Orion tried firing energy beams at Luz, but she was easily able to dodge them, eventually she reached the arm of the Titan and began to circle around it at intense speed, while also traveling closer and closer to the top of the arm, Orion was confused by what she was doing and continued to pursue her, chasing her all the way around the arm, traveling higher and higher, all the way past the clouds, the air slowly became more thinner before Orion chased Luz all the way to the very top, all the way out in space.

Orion was surprised to see Luz was no where in sight, he looked around for a few seconds before Luz shouted from above "UP HERE ASSHOLE!!!" Orion looked up to see Luz come soaring down at him with her fist all charged up with Titan energy, before he could react, Luz punched him with a brutal amount of strength, so much strength it sent him skyrocketing back into the planet. Turns out Luz's plan was to get Orion to chase her all the way out into space so she could then send him crashing back down into the planet with her superhuman strength.

Luz blasted towards Orion as he fell into the planet's atmosphere, before he could do anything, Luz pounced him, sending him down towards the surface at an even faster rate! Orion screamed as Luz held him forward as they came closer and closer towards the ground. Finally, both beings crashed against the ground, generating a massive explosion. 

Once the smoke cleared, Luz could be seen standing on top of Orion, pinning him against the ground as she started to punch him aggressively in the face multiple times, each punch was so forceful it generated a shockwave. She continued to punch Orion until he was to tired to fight on as he eventually fell unconscious. As soon as Luz saw that, she kicked him against the ground one final time to ensure he won't be getting up anytime soon, the force at which she kicked him was so powerful it caused the ground beneath Orion to crack apart a little bit.

Soon, the Hex Squad showed up as they landed on the ground next to her, Luz took several deep breaths due to the insane battle she just fought with Orion. Her friends looked at both her and Orion before Hunter finally asked "Now what do we do?" Luz looked at him as he continued "Orion destroyed the concealment mirror, that was our only way to defeat them." Enzo nodded and said "He's right, without a method to contain the Archivists forever, we're all doomed..."

Luz looked at them and shook her head no as she said "No, it's not all over just yet..." She then looked down at Orion, who still laid unconscious beneath her as she continued "Because it turns out, we now have ourselves a prisoner...."

To be continued....

Chapter Text

Inside the large castle, the Hex Squad had Orion imprisoned within a small cell, Enzo had used his own powers to form a strong forcefield that was capable of containing Orion.  He stood there inside his cell as the Hex Squad all stood outside and looked at him. "Are you sure that will hold him?" Asked Hunter. Enzo nodded and said "It will, it cannot be disabled by the one trapped inside it, only by those outside."

Luz approached Orion as she said "Good, now that we have Orion as a hostage, this should give us a fighting chance." Willow looked at Luz and asked "Why are we keeping him alive though? He and the Archivists want nothing more than to exterminate us, now's our chance to finally kill one of them." Luz looked back at her and said "I understand that, and I want the Archivists dead just as much as you all do, but how exactly do we even kill these guys? They're powerful beings, killing them won't be that easy. That's why we're holding him prisoner, so we can figure out how we can properly defeat the Archivists without the concealment mirror."

Suddenly, King entered the castle, which surprised everyone. "King? What are you doing here?" Asked Vee. King looked at them all and said "I heard you took one of the Archivists hostage, I wanna see him." Enzo approached King and asked "Why? What's the point?" King looked at him and said "He's an Archivist, one of the very beings that wiped out my kind, I wanna know why." 

Luz looked at him and said "I told you before King, the Archivists are delusional." But King looked at her and said "Let me hear it from him." As he approached the forcefield. He looked directly at Orion and said "Hey, I'm talking to you!" Orion turned around and looked down at King, he made a sinister smile and said "Well, what a surprise. A Titan is here." King nodded and said "That's right, I'm a Titan, you murdered my whole entire race, including my father."

Orion smirked as he approached King and said "Yeah me and my brothers, we killed all those freaks, and we'd do it again too!" Before laughing menacingly. King kept his anger to himself as he asked "Why would you do such a thing? Committing mass genocide?" Orion looked directly at King making a sinister smile as he said "Because King, the Titans were creatures of power, power that doesn't belong to mortals! Me and my brothers could not allow them to live on! They were a threat to the balance of the universe itself!" 

King then asked "I don't understand! What gives you the right to choose on which species live and which ones die?!" Orion replied "We are gods! We're the most powerful beings in the entire universe. As gods, it is our sacred duty to observe all life, and make sure they play by our rules, but if we find any mortals harnessing unlimited power, they defy our will, mortals cannot be allowed to have unlimited power! The Titans were mortal beings, yet they had the powers of gods, me and the Archivists are the only ones who have the right to have that power, we are the gods of this universe! The Titans meddled with our ways, they had to be exterminated before they threatened the flow of life by becoming immortal!"

King shouted back at Orion "Why do you believe yourselves to be the gods of the universe? What gives you the freedom to decide that?!" Orion shouted back "Because we were born with this power! It's who we are! It has been our calling since birth! Our parents failed to understand that calling, and tried to keep us from our destiny, so me and my brothers had no choice but to destroy them." 

King, along with everyone else were shocked to hear that, even Enzo was surprised. "Enzo, did you know about this?" Asked Gus. Enzo looked down in terror as they muttered "No... I didn't. I- I never knew what happened to my parents..." He then looked up at Orion and shouted "You... YOU AND YOUR BROTHERS MURDERED MY PARENTS!!!" Orion looked at him and said "It had to be done so we could fulfill our destiny, and it could have been yours too Collector, but your childish nature made you soft! And you ended up befriending the very beings we've been working to destroy, you betrayed us Collector!" 

Enzo approached the forcefield and looked at Orion with a face full of anger. He said to him "Don't refer to me as that, my name is Enzo! I never agreed to your ways to begin with! And when I tried to convince you to stop, you manipulated me and used me as a tool to study the Titans so you could murder them all! You turned me into a murder weapon! I can't believe my own brothers would do such a thing, we were family, yet you used me as a tool so you could get away with genocide, as a result I was condemned within a mirror for life! I wouldn't be free today if King hadn't freed me, do you know what it was like being trapped in there for so long? Inside the concealment mirror, time moved way slower, so it felt like I was in there way longer than I actually was!"

Orion simply looked at them and said "It had to be done in order to preserve the balance of the universe." Hearing their brother say that infuriated Enzo, he shouted "Balance?! Are you insane?! Do you four always put the balance before literally everything else? Do you not value anything else? And to think that I used to consider you and your brothers family."

"I... Even after spending years trapped in a mirror, after having found out that you four manipulated and used me, I still wanted to call you four my brothers, that's why I came back to you in the first place, I wanted to give you a second chance, I wanted us to be able to start over and be a family again... But it seems clear you're not capable of changing, YOU ARE A HORRIBLE HORRIBLE EXCUSE OF A BROTHER! YOU CARE FOR NOTHING EXCEPT FOR YOUR OWN RIDICULOUS MOTIVES! I HATE YOU!!"

Enzo stormed off in anger. Orion didn't say anything in response. Luz had listened to it all, seeing the way Orion was acting definitely reminded her a lot about Belos, how he'll stop at nothing to achieve his goals, even if he has to murder a member of his family to achieve that. Luz approached Orion and said "You think you're protecting the universe? No... All you're doing is committing mass genocide. And I won't allow you to do the same to this world! When your brothers show up, we'll stop them."

Orion looked at Luz, seeing the Titan form that she was in, he then said "Luz, oh what in gods name has the Titan done to you? His powers have infected you like a cancer!" Amity approached Orion and shouted "Hey! How dare you compare my girlfriend's power to cancer! Cancer killed Luz's father when she was a kid!" Luz raised her hand out to her to calm her down as she approached Orion. She then said "A cancer huh? In what way?"

Orion looked directly at Luz and said "What you've turned yourself into is unnatural, unholy, a freak against nature!" Luz didn't sound surprised by Orion's choice of words as she said "I don't see how I'm doing any harm, all I'm doing is following my dreams." Orion nearly chucked as he said "Following your dreams, ha! How childish of you Luz, to think that you can actually make yourself into something you aren't. You try to make yourself a witch, but you're forgetting that you were born on Earth, Earth is where you belong, not in this.... 'fantasy' of yours!"

Luz felt a surge of rage inside her as she made a menacing look towards Orion. "You did not just compare this new and happy life I've made for myself here in the Boiling Isles a 'fantasy!' You know, not only do you remind me of Belos, but you're also reminding me of the humans of Earth, mainly the ones who rejected me due to my love for witchcraft that I made after my father died." Luz said. Orion replied "Well, those humans were certainly right considering what happened to you as a result of embracing your fantasies. Just look at what your obsession has made you into! You've become a freak against nature! This hybrid you've become, it upsets the cosmic balance, trying to become something that you can't and never will be! Luz, you are human for crying out loud! You are not a witch! Just come back to the reality that you truly belong in! Not this damn fantasy of yours! Doing so will fix the cosmic balance and set things back to how they should be!"

Luz couldn't believe what she was hearing from the genocidal god in front of her. "Wow, you're more delusional than I thought you were. You actually think you can just dictate who I am, what I am, and what I can and can't do?! You don't have the right to choose my life for me, I do. And this life I'm living right now is the life I want to be living, I'm where I belong, and I am exactly who I want to be as I am right now, I'm not a human anymore, Orion... I'm a witch. I was always meant to be a witch, this is who I am, and who I always will be. And you can't change that about me. Just because I was born in the human realm doesn't make it where I belong!" She said.

Orion made an angry face and said "It seems clear you're more far gone than I thought you were, if only you knew the downsides of your Titan powers. You like to think that this new and 'happy' life of yours is eternal don't you Luz, but the truth is that it isn't. Soon, this life as a witch you made will eventually fade away, and you will be all alone again just like before." Luz looked at him in confusion and asked "What are you talking about?"

Orion made a sinister smile as he said "Oh wow Luz, you truly have not even the slightest clue just how much your Titan powers have changed you." Luz replied "Oh I know exactly how they changed me! They made me into a true witch, allowing me to truly become part of the Isles!" Orion shook his head as he said "No Luz, you see, as the hybrid that you are, the Titan has infected you with eternal life." 

Luz simply laughed in response as she said "Hah! Fat chance at that!" But Orion replied "Luz, I'm not deceiving you on this, I know this more than anyone does, you of all people should know how long a Titan can live for. Let me think... oh right, several billion years." Luz went silent as her smile faded. "...There's no way my Titan powers would make me immortal." She said, feeling slightly unsure.

Orion smirked as he said "Oh deep down Luz you know I'm right, this was literally one of the main reasons me and my brothers murdered the Titans in the first place, their insane amount of power also offered them unnaturally long life spans. No mortal being should ever be allowed to acquire something like that. Don't you see Luz? The Titan's magic that flows through your veins has made you immortal now. Which means sooner or later, this entire 'fantasy' of yours will slowly begin to fade away as each of your friends die one by one."

"But you Luz, you on the other hand will continue to live on for several billion years as everyone you care about dies around you. You will then go on to become a sad shadow from the past, alone in the future, filled with regret, alone for all eternity. You'll be so alone you'll eventually wish that you never tried to pursue your fantasies to begin with, because maybe if you hadn't, you wouldn't be so alone, it was your obsession with witchcraft that made you so lonely in the human realm after all, and now your obsessions will once again cause you to be all alone once again in the Demon realm. This fantasy of yours will not last, because at some point, everyone you love will die out except for you, and you will be all alone once again as the cycle of loneliness repeats itself." 

Luz remained quiet as all the pieces fell painfully together for her as the dark truth of what Orion was telling her eventually dawned on her. "N-no... that's not true... it can't be!" Orion grinned menacingly as he said "Enjoy your fantasy while you can Half-Titan, because as the years go by, you'll be all alone once more, just like before. You Luz, are always destined to be forever alone." 

Luz let out a scream of terror as she shouted "NOOO!!!!" As she collapsed to her knees. As a Half-Titan, Luz was immortal now, the Titan's magic that flowed through her veins would give her the lifespan of a literal god, allowing her to live for several billion years perhaps, she would continue to live out her days as everyone else around her passes on, leaving her all alone once more, like she was always destined to suffer.

Orion looked down at her as she let Orion's words flood her mind. "And you wanna know what the worst part of it is? All of it will be your fault for choosing to embrace your fantasies to begin with, for accepting the Titan's powers to make yourself into a witch despite how unnatural it would be. Now do you see what you've done to yourself? Your Titan powers are not a gift, they are a curse." 

Luz felt tears begin to run down her face as she looked back at everyone else, she looked at Amity, realizing that she will actually outlive her own girlfriend by many many years. She looked down at her claws, realizing Orion was right, the Titans lived for a long long time, and since she was Half-Titan, she too would live for a very long time as well. Everyone she knew and loved would eventually be gone, and she'd be the only one left. She put her hands over her face as she began to breath in deeply, the thought of outliving her friends terrified her so much. 

"Now you see Luz? This is exactly why we cannot allow mortals to obtain the power of a god, because it only brings them nothing but suffering. It never brings them anything good, it only works to take everything they love away from them, me and my brothers are just trying to rid the universe of this kind of pain, by eradicating all powerful beings out there. And we won't stop at you!" Said Orion.

Amity soon approached Orion and shouted "THAT'S ENOUGH!!!" She looked at Luz and asked "Babe, are you ok??" Luz looked at her girlfriend, knowing that in time Amity will be gone and Luz will still have a very long life ahead of her by then. The thought horrified her, she didn't want to outlive her girlfriend, as much as she loved being a true witch now, she never had immortality in mind. She finally said "I- I need a moment." She then walked away. "Luz wait!" Shouted King. 

King looked at Amity and said "Amity, we need to follow her, I think what Orion told her just upset her in ways I can actually understand, we need to go and talk to her." Amity nodded and said "The rest of you, keep an eye on him." Willow nodded as Amity left with King.

Luz flew out of the castle and took off with a sonic boom, she kept on flying until she arrived at the Grom tree, she collapsed to her knees as the tears kept on running down her face. Luz was feeling a mix of sadness and anger, she looked at her claws once more, seeing the hands of the person that for a while she was sure was who she truly was, but now, after being told that her Titan powers make her immortal now, she wasn't so sure about that anymore.

Luz wanted to see herself as a true witch, and she was more sure than ever that her Titan powers made her into one, but now that she knew her powers also granted her immortality, what did that make her? A freak? A goddess? Was she actually the goddess those who liked to worship her called her? Luz had always wanted to be a witch, but becoming immortal was not what she had in mind, but because of that she was now doomed to live forever as everyone she loved dies around her, leaving her to be all alone again just like she was back in the human realm.

Luz screamed in rage as she slammed her fist against the Grom tree. Her superhuman strength leaving a mark on it. All Luz had ever wanted was to not be alone, to find a place to feel at home in, to find where she belonged and where she'd be accepted and understood. And even though she had finally found that, it wouldn't last forever, eventually everyone she loves will die and she will be just as alone as she was before, as she continues to live on for another several billion years as all Titans do, it just wasn't fair, she just wanted a happy life.

"Why the fuck didn't you tell me that your powers would make me immortal??" She asked, hoping that the Titan would show up to answer her, but unfortunately for her, she got no response, she clenched her fists in frustration as she shouted at the top of her lungs "TELL ME!!!!!" But still, her cries remained unanswered as the Titan was still nowhere to be seen. Luz let out a huff of frustration before screaming in rage as she pulled off her hat and tossed it to the side. 

Luz then collapsed to her knees once again as she began to cry, and as a result, she shifted back into her human form, hoping that maybe in her human form the immortality that her Titan powers gave her won't apply, and she can still continue to live a normal lifespan like everyone else. The fact that she was choosing to go as her human form just showed that Orion's words were actually starting to take their toll on her, echoing in the back of her mind telling her to give up this fantasy if she wants to be mortal again, and to come back to reality. Luz wasn't so sure what she wanted anymore, it was all just too much for her, if only there was an easy way out for her.

Suddenly, Amity came in for a landing on her palisman, King was with her. "Luz! There you are!" She said, she was shocked to see Luz in her human form, she almost never goes as her human form anymore since she came out as Half-Titan, something was clearly different about this. Amity approached Luz and sat down with her. "Hey love, what's the matter?" Luz looked at her and said "You know exactly what's wrong Amity, as a Half-Titan, I'm going to outlive all of you, I'll be alone again, just like I was back when I was still living in the human realm... I- I can't live like that again!"

Amity pulled Luz into a hug and said "Luz, come on, there's no way to prove what Orion said to you was true or not, besides, even if it is true, we still have plenty of time before it becomes a real concern! Please don't hate yourself for this, it wasn't something you could have controlled anyway." Luz looked at Amity and said "Please, stop it, I know what you’re trying to do. It doesn’t change the fact that... that someday, I... that King and I will..."

Amity replied "What, that you're going to outlive me and everyone else? So what if you're immortal now Luz? I don't care, that doesn't change who or what you are, you're still the same and incredible witch that I love Luz." Luz looked at her and said "But... what if this ruins our relationship? I- I don't want to lose you Amity!" Amity hugged Luz even tighter and said "Luz, this doesn't change anything about our relationship, I still love you just as much as I did before! I always will love you! And I still want to spend the rest of my life by your side!"

Amity showed Luz the ring and said " I want you to listen to me carefully Luz. You gave me this, you said you wanted us to spend the rest of our lives together. I want us to be able to live that life, Luz. I know that losing the people we love can hurt a lot, and if you truly are immortal now because of your Titan powers, then this might truly be unavoidable. The best advice I can give you is to cherish every moment spent with those you love, make them all count, so that way, when they're gone, you will have made your time with them meaningful. Besides, you still have plenty of time with everybody here before that’s even a real concern, so try and spend all that time by making as many great memories as you can with them. Alright?"

Luz looked at Amity and said "I know I've still got plenty of time, it's just that... I'm scared Amity, I'm scared of that day coming where I lose all of you, I just wanna have people I care for by my side." Amity nodded and said "I'll make sure I am there for you the whole time then Luz, I promise. Please... just take a deep breath ok? Try not to hyperventilate over this." Luz sighed as she closed her eyes, trying her hardest to get her mind off the idea of living forever, but it was far too challenging.

Soon, King approached Luz and said "Luz, When I first discovered who I was... what I really was... one of the first things I realized was that I'm gonna lose you all. I'm gonna live a really, really long time, maybe even become another island corpse myself someday... I thought I was gonna be all alone. But I'm not going to be alone, am I? You'll still be here. Centuries, millennia from now, You'll still be here."

Luz looked down at him and asked "King, what are you saying?" King replied "What I'm trying to say is that I'm just glad I'm not the last Titan left anymore. Since you inherited the Titan's power, it makes me feel so much better knowing I'm not the last of my kind. I'm glad you inherited those powers, and I think everyone else is too. So please Luz, don't throw it away because you'll live a lot longer than most people do."

Amity nodded and said "He's right Luz, your Titan powers have helped you find yourself in many incredible ways, you were able to express yourself better, you accepted your Titan form as your true body, you literally came out as Half-Titan and I've seen you act so much happier since then, you're clearly a lot happier as a Half-Titan than as a human, and it seems everyone else loves this new you just as much! But definitely not as much as I do though." 

"Maybe just look at it this way Luz, you becoming a Titan, was always meant to happen to you, like this was who you were meant to become from the start, you always had a huge love for witchcraft at a young age, it was only a matter of time before that love would define you and make you this incredibly powerful and albeit gorgeous witch that you are today Luz, don't throw that away because you can live forever, if you give it all up, then Orion will win, and the Archivists will destroy us all, I don't think I can come to terms with that. Please Luz, don't throw this incredible person you've become away, it's who you are, and have always been. You're the Half-Titan, our hero, my hero." 

Amity leaned in and gave Luz a kiss, causing all the voices in the back of her mind to stop as she happily kissed back.

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As Luz hugged her girlfriend tightly, her mind started to think on the positive side of things, she began to realize that her becoming a witch, a goddess, a Titan felt inevitable almost, like this was the natural culmination of her journey, as if everything in her life up to this point had been building towards this outcome. After all, Luz always seemed like she was born in the wrong realm, so of course she would eventually gain a body perfectly suited for her magic-lovin' soul.

She looked at Amity and smiled as she said "I'm so glad to have you in my life mi amor." Amity smiled and said "You've changed all of our lives, we'll always be here for you." Luz nodded as she got up and looked at the hat she threw on the floor, she approached it and picked it up and put it back on. She then shifted back into her Half-Titan form and said "Orion thinks he can break me, but I'll show that bastard that I'm tougher than he thinks!" 

Amity smiled as she approached Luz, Luz looked at her and said "Still, knowing that I'm immortal though... it's definitely going to create lots of problems for me going forward." Amity replied "Then we can face it together. Also, there's still some time left in the day, how about taking me on that Earth date you promised?" Luz replied "But what about Orion? What if the Archivists show up to rescue him?" 

"We can deal with all that tomorrow, right now this is you we're concerned about, and I want to do everything that I can to ease your mind. Alright? So, what do you say Luz, wanna go on another date?" Luz looked at Amity as she raised her hand out towards her, looking just as gorgeous as ever. She smiled and said "Of course I would mi amor." As she took Amity by the hand as they both walked away. Luz looked back at King and said "Tell the rest of the Hex Squad we'll be back later alright? Make sure Orion doesn't break out alright?" King nodded as he turned to walk away.

In Orion's cell, Orion simply stood there unable to go anywhere, he continued to stand there silently before Enzo barged into the room, he looked at Orion and shouted "I heard what you said to Luz, and I swear if you try to break anyone else's spirits I swear!! I'll take that forcefield down and come in there so I can give you a good beating for what you have done you hear me??!!" Orion simply laughed as he said "Oh Collector, you don't have the guts to face me like a man!"

Enzo made a face of pure hatred and anger towards their brother, he then said "I already told you, my name is ENZO!!!" He turned around and walked away, leaving Orion alone in his cell. Orion saw the pure anger in his brother's eyes as, seeing how badly his brother wanted to kill him gave him an idea. "Hmmm... I think I know the perfect way out of here." He said with a sinister smile.

To be continued....

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Castle of the Archivists....

"He still hasn't returned." Said Doradus. The other three Archivists were waiting patiently for their brother Orion to return, but there was still no sign of him. "What if they managed to conceal him inside that mirror? What if he was unsuccessful?" Pismis asked worriedly. Helix could already tell something was off. He looked at his brothers and ordered "That is it, we are traveling to the Boiling Isles at once! Ready the armada, we're beginning the attack now!" 

Doradus and Pismis nodded as they began to move the entire floating castle with a mere thought. It began to make its way towards the Boiling Isles. Helix looked at the entire army that had been created and snapped his fingers, causing them all to power on in an instant.

Earth....

Luz and Amity arrived in Gravesfield so they could go on their date. They held hands as they strolled through the town, now of course Luz had to travel around in her human form so she'd blend in with all the other humans. She even had to go as far as to wear a hood to try and keep anyone from noticing her, everyone on Earth thinks she is missing after all since she moved to the Boiling Isles.

They had plenty of places that they felt like going to today, they started by visiting the amusement park, with the first ride they got on being the Ferris wheel. They waited as it lifted them all the way to the top, giving them a great view of the city off in the distance, it was late in the evening which allowed the city to stand out with all its lights.

"Man Luz, now I really gotta admit that while this realm certainly wasn't all that nice to you during your childhood, it definitely has some of the best sights." Luz smiled and replied "I know right? It's pretty cool being up here and getting to see all of this. And you know what? Since we're the only ones up here, I feel like there's no reason for me to hide right now." Amity looked at Luz all confused and asked "What do you-" 

She went silent as Luz shifted into her Half-Titan form again, causing her to blush slightly. "Oh... huh, ok then." She muttered, her face turning slightly red. Luz sat down and smirked and said "What, you didn't think we were gonna go on this date without me using my Titan form to get you all flustered at least once did you?" Amity sighed and said "No, of course not." She approached Luz and sat down right beside her, getting herself comfortable against her fur. 

As Luz looked up at the sky, her smile soon faded as she looked at one of her clawed hands, remembering what Orion had said to her, telling her that she could be immortal now because of her powers, the thought still frightened her and could easily be true, the silence of the Titan was somewhat confirming it for Luz as well. But there was really no way to know for sure. Luz stopped herself right there as she snapped out of her train of thought, refusing to allow it to ruin this peaceful moment she had with her girlfriend right now.

Luz looked at Amity who was laying beside her, seems like she got a little to comfortable laying against the fur on Luz's shoulder that she ended up falling asleep. "Dang, is my fur really that soft?" Luz thought to herself. She looked down at Amity and quietly kissed her on the forehead, waking her up.

Soon they had arrived at the bottom, which meant Luz had to change back into her human form, which caused Amity to let out a small whine in disappointment since she was feeling quite comfortable laying against the fur of hers, Luz chuckled and said "Don't worry mi amor, we can head back eventually and you'll have your Titaness back in no time." Receiving a small little laugh from Amity.

The girls soon arrived at a restaurant for some dinner. After sitting down and ordering, Luz looked at Amity and asked "So what do you think our friends have been up to lately?" Amity replied "I don't know, I feel slightly bad about leaving them to guard Orion on their own, after all, he is quite powerful." Luz nodded and said "Because of that I feel like we should probably head back soon so we can make sure everything's going well over there."

Amity nodded with a smile before saying "But first we let's just spend the night enjoying ourselves, we don't usually get to go on many dates like this anymore since the Archivists first started attacking." Luz let out a smile as the food arrived. "Oh man it's been a while since I've had human food, ever since I became Half-Titan I've been getting used to having Demon realm meals." Amity smiled and said "I see there are still some things you did at least like about the human realm then."

Luz looked at Amity and said "Yeah, totally. Yes I had it rough here throughout my childhood, but it wasn't all that bad. Well, that might not be entirely true considering the fact that I was nearly brought to taking my own life due to the constant rejection I faced here." Amity replied "Maybe we shouldn't talk about that... Oh! Luz! Did you hear the news? Final Space is finally being concluded in the form of a comic book, remember that show that got cancelled? Well, the creator is finally getting the chance to finish it in the form of a graphic novel!"

Luz gasped in amazement and shouted "You're kidding! That's a miracle because I loved that show and I was so mad when it got cancelled! Don't you just hate when shows get cancelled and the reasoning behind their cancellation is actually very stupid?" Amity nodded and said "Exactly, it sucks that Netflix has been doing that a lot lately." Luz chuckled and said "And this is why I stick to web series, they're literally the only good media out there that doesn't have to worry about studio interference." "Agreed." Said Amity.

As the girls enjoyed each others company, there was a shady figure watching them, it just so happened to be Jacob Hawkins, the over paranoid resident of Gravesfield. "No way! One of those vampires are back! And she's sitting with a human! I have to save her before the vampire turns her into one of her!" He said.

Later that night, the girls left the restaurant as Luz said to Amity "Ok, we'll head back soon, but I want to take you someplace first, but to get there I may have to go as my Half-Titan form, it's quite the distance away." They were about to go hide somewhere so nobody would see Luz in her Titan form, but before they could, Jacob showed up and shouted "Get away from the human vampire scum!" Luz and Amity saw him as Amity groaned saying "Ugh, not you! I thought you were sent to prison after you assaulted Gus over four years ago!"

Jacob ran over to Luz and pushed her aside "Get away from her! You don't know who this person truly is! She's a vampire from Mars sent to suck our blood out!" Luz collapsed and shouted "Dude come on! How annoying can you get?!" But much to her surprise, Jacob had actually brought a weapon with him, a crowbar. "Amity look out!" She shouted. Jacob attacked Amity with it, Amity tried to fight back without abomination magic since they were out in the open, but Jacob managed to hit her in the face with it, she screamed as she fell to the floor. Jacob smirked and dragged Amity into an alley, he pinned her down as he shouted "I shall banish you and your whole race from this planet! Vampire scum!"

Amity made an angry face as she shouted "First of all, ow. Second of all, what makes you think I'm a vampire?!" Jacob laughed and said "Don't try to deceive me! I see through the lies you inflict upon the residents of Gravesfield, I saw exactly what you were about to do to that woman over there! You were about to suck her blood and turn her into one of your kind! I won't allow you vampires to take over our planet!" He was about to smack Amity again with the crowbar, but as Luz saw what was happening, she felt lots of anger towards Jacob, her Titan powers slowly seeping their way out.

Luz's eyes began to glow gold as she got up and ran over to him as she shouted "You let her go right now you over paranoid jerk!" Jacob looked back at Luz and shouted "What are you doing? You're not actually defending this creature now are you? Look at her! She's from Mars! She's a vampire! Why are you trying to defend her? You're a human like us!" Luz grinned at Jacob as she said "Oh, am I though?" As her eyes began to glow even further.

Luz smirked as she shifted into her Half-Titan form, growing slightly taller than she was before as her fingers turned into claws, causing Jacob to gasp in horror as he shouted "No... SHE ALREADY HAS MANAGED TO TURN YOU!!" Before he could go on bantering, Luz approached him and grabbed him by the shirt, lifting him up into the air using her superhuman strength, she then pinned him against the wall as she let out a little Titan growl.

"First of all, get yourself a life already. Second, if you dare threaten my girlfriend again, you'll be in for it! You understand?!!" She shouted in a threatening tone. Jacob could only nod out of fear for his life, Luz then released him as he wasted no time running for it. Luz watched him run away before he was out of sight, she then looked down at Amity and smiled as she lifted her up off the ground using her Titan strength. "You ok sweet potato?" She asked. Amity on the other hand couldn't seem to form words as she found herself being carried by her girlfriend. "Oh, w-wow... Superhuman strength." She muttered.

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Luz smiled as she said "Ok good. Anyway, I suggest we'd better get moving to our next destination, hold on!" Amity nodded as she held onto Luz tightly as Luz blasted off into the sky at intense speed, generating a sonic boom behind her. She flew for several miles before eventually arriving at the beach. She landed on a spot where there were no humans in sight as she said "Well, we're here Blight." As she put Amity down.

Amity looked around and smiled as she said "Oh wow! You brought us all the way here?!" Luz smiled and said "Of course! It's the first day of summer after all, that's the perfect time to go to the beach!" She then shifted back into her human form and took off her shoes as she said "Come on Ami!" As she ran for the water. Amity smiled as she took off her shoes as well and joined her girlfriend in the water. 

Both girls continued to play around in the water for a while, they eventually started to lose track of time. They kept on swimming around, taking deep dives underwater to explore a little bit, eventually Luz resurfaced as she looked for Amity. "Amity? Where are you?" She asked. Suddenly Amity suddenly charged at her from under the water and gave her a big hug, they both laughed together as they continued to have fun, not even worrying about any of the dangers that still had yet to be faced.

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Eventually, the girls laid down against the sand, Luz reverted into her Half-Titan form as she said "Golly, this sure was fun right Ami?" Amity nodded as she said "I always missed being able to do stuff like this in the human realm." Luz scooted closer to Amity and said "I so cannot wait for us to get married, we could live in a nice little house somewhere on the Knee." Amity looked towards Luz next to her and said "I'd love that mi amor."

Luz and Amity embraced each other for a passionate kiss, as they did, Luz moved her claws up to rub Amity's ears again, causing her to let out a sigh of satisfaction as she began to purr. Luz smiled and pulled Amity over her, allowing her to lay herself down over all the fur on Luz's body to get herself more comfortable. "I love you so much batata." Said Luz. Amity could only smile in response as she wrapped her hands around Luz's fluffy back.

Eventually Luz said "Now I'd like to stay here longer, but I'm kinda nervous about leaving our friends to guard Orion all on their own, we should probably hurry back by now to make sure everything's going fine there. As they both got up off the sand, Amity said "Oh I'm sure everything will be just fine when we return."

Luz smiled as she approached Amity and said "Aaaaand, scoop!" As she lifted Amity off the ground using her Titan strength, causing Amity to blush lightly. Luz chuckled a bit before blasting off the ground as she took off into the sky. And while Amity had said everything would be just fine when they return to the Boiling Isles, little did they know, it wouldn't be....

The Boiling Isles....

Since everyone else had things to take care of, Enzo was left to keep an eye on Orion, however, it seemed clear that this is exactly what Orion wanted. "So brother, what's it like living amongst these mortals?" He asked. Enzo looked at him with an angry face as they said "Why do you care? You never gave a crap about my life anyway, what difference does it make if I tell you?" Orion made a creepy smile and said "I was just curious if you feel alienated by them. You've got god powers after all, you could literally wipe them all out in an instant if you really wanted too, how does it make you feel knowing you could have destroyed them all?"

Enzo stood up and said "Hey, why don't you just shut up alright?! You're starting to drive me crazy!" Orion grinned and said "You still mad at me huh?" Enzo nodded and shouted "Of course I am! You murdered my parents! You used me for your evil ways! You're no brother of mine!" Orion still retained his composure and said "When will you learn that you cannot put things before the cosmic balance?! It is our sworn duty as Archivists to protect it by archiving those that dare to threaten it!"

Enzo stepped closer to the cell as he said "I swear to the Titan if you bring up the cosmic balance again-" Orion interrupted "Oh what? You gonna come in here and beat me to death? Fat chance at that!" Enzo was growing angrier by the second as he started to clench his fists in rage. Orion smiled as he saw his plan was working, all he had to do now was push the limit.

"You wanna know something Enzo? When it came to killing our parents, you wanna know what exactly we did when me and my brothers killed them? With the snap of our fingers, we put stars on their foreheads, turning them into dolls. We could hear their thoughts in our heads, they seemed so scared, but we couldn't care less. We had to do what we had to do! So we petrified them! Turned them into stone, before dropping them off a long fall, and we watched as their bodies shattered to pieces!" Orion gave the creepiest smile to Enzo ever as he looked at them in the eye.

Enzo couldn't take it anymore, Orion has officially crossed the line. He screamed in rage as he disabled the forcefield and stepped inside, he then sprinted towards Orion and pinned him against the wall and shouted "I'LL MAKE YOU EAT THOSE WORDS!!!" As he started punching his brother in the face as hard as possible. However, Orion didn't seem hurt by it whatsoever. He smirked and kicked Enzo back, they collapsed to the floor as Orion floated out of his cell and said "Finally, I am free! And you dear brother, are coming with me!"

Enzo got up and looked at him and shouted "If you think you can just take me back to your castle, you're so wrong!!" He then levitated into the air as he clenched his fists. They then blasted towards Orion and tackled him, but Orion was able to shove Enzo off of him as he threw them against the wall. He then fired a powerful energy beam at Enzo, luckily he got out of the way, but the blast shot through the wall and outside the castle.

Meanwhile, Hunter and Willow were out on another date, they finally admitted their feelings for one another and were now officially a couple. Suddenly, they heard an explosion. "What was that?" Asked Willow. Hunter remained silent for a brief moment before saying "That came from the castle! Something is wrong! Come on!!" 

Back inside the castle, Enzo and Orion continued to beat the hell out of each other, they had essentially become two out of control beings of power fighting endlessly. Orion shot lasers from his eyes at Enzo, he quickly leaped out of the way and tossed a giant star at him, Orion stood there as the star exploded against him, but it did absolutely nothing to harm him. He smiled menacingly as he approached Enzo.

Enzo backed against the wall in fear as Orion dashed towards them, he grabbed him and lifted him up by the shirt. But then suddenly, he got hit by a big powerful charge of lighting, stunning him. He turned to see Willow, Hunter, Gus, and Vee standing there, all of them ready to fight. "You're not going anywhere Orion!" Shouted Willow. Orion smirked as he dropped Enzo to the floor and said "This should be fun, especially since the Half-Titan isn't here to save you all!"

Orion laughed menacingly as he fired lasers from his eyes at them. Gus quickly formed a shield to protect them all as Hunter and Willow got on their palismen and flew towards Orion at top speed, they circled around him as he tried to shoot energy beams at them, Gus quickly formed illusionary duplicates of them to trick Orion, causing him to attack the wrong ones as they disappeared in a puff of smoke, giving Vee the time to run over to him and try and weaken him of his energy once again, she took in a deep breath as she started to pull Orion towards her.

Orion struggled for a bit before managing to fire lasers from his eyes at Vee. "VEE WATCH OUT!" Shouted Willow as she swooped in on her palisman and grabbed her, saving her life. They all continued to attack Orion with all their might, but as he was busy fighting them, Enzo took the chance to get up and attack, he got up and charged at Orion, they grabbed him by the shoulders and punched him in the head before slamming him against the wall with their super strength. Enzo began to wrestle around with Orion on the floor, trying to knock him down somehow.

Orion was able to overpower Enzo however by headbutting him, he then grabbed him and raised him up into the air a bit before slamming them down against the ground. Enzo however did not back down easily as they managed to thrust themself off the ground and attack Orion, grabbed him by the head and slamming him through the wall! Orion collapsed as Enzo and the rest of the Hex Squad approached him, he got back up and formed a star in his hand, tossing it at them as it exploded in between them all, causing them all to collapse to the floor.

Hunter however began to glow gold as he warped towards Orion and punched him across the room, he then went to help Willow up as they all got back into action. Enzo levitated into the air and pounced Orion, crashing him through the wall as they both flew out of the castle and wrestled around in the sky. The rest of the Hex Squad joined in on their palismen as Willow shot a fire spell at Orion, trying to stun him, Enzo then tackled Orion from above as he held him forward, crashing him into the ground.

As the smoke cleared, Enzo stood up and pinned Orion down against the ground with his foot. "Game over brother." He said as the rest of the Hex Squad landed beside him. Now for a moment there, Orion thought he had lost, but then suddenly, a bright light suddenly shined down on all of them, they all looked up at it as Orion smiled sinisterly. "Heh, looks like the cavalry is here." He said in a menacing tone. The Hex Squad looked up in fear to see the castle of the Archivists hovering there above them, the other three brothers have arrived.

A while later, Luz and Amity returned to the Boiling Isles as they traveled through the portal door. "Man, that certainly was nice wasn't it, thanks for being there for me when I was all sad earlier." Said Luz. Amity smiled and nodded and said "Anything for my soon to be wife."

They both were about to head home, but then suddenly, right in front of them were the Archivists, but not just that, but along with the Hex Squad, Eda, King, Lilith, and Raine, sitting there on their knees in front of the Archivists, as prisoners. "I- I'm sorry Luz, they overpowered us." Said Hunter. 

Luz's smile instantly faded as she saw this, the giant castle could be seen hovering overhead behind them all. "Ah, welcome back Luz, glad you could join us, now are you going to cooperate with us? Or will we have to force you to watch as we murder your friends right before your very eyes?!" Orion said in a menacing tone.

To be continued....

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Luz and Amity stood there in silence as they were faced by the Archivists, holding their friends as prisoners. Amity looked at Luz and asked "Luz, what do we do?" Luz whispered back "I'll stall em, you try and get our friends free." Amity nodded as she quietly began to draw an abomination spell behind her back. 

Luz approached the Archivists and asked "How exactly do you want me to cooperate exactly?" Orion replied "It's simple Luz, we're giving you one last chance to live, but to earn that chance to live, you'll have to make a choice, we demand that you renounce your Titan powers, strip all of its magic away from you, and then return back to your world, leave this one behind, this is not your world, Earth is. And you belong there with your own species, not here. Go back to where you belong and abide by the rules of your own species from now on!"

Luz could only stare at Orion with utter confusion. She made an angry face at him and said "Are you seriously that stupid enough to think that I would just abandon this world? Yeah right!" Amity soon finished drawing the spell circle, causing giant abomination monsters to grow out of the ground, surrounding the Archivists. "WHAT??" Shouted Orion.

Eda took this opportunity to shift into her harpy form as she punched one of the Archivists away. Soon the rest of the Hex Squad got up and started attacking the Archivists. Lilith shifted into her harpy form and stood next to Eda and Raine. They were faced by Doradus who quicky fired energy beams at them, luckily Luz got in the way and formed a forcefield to block it. She looked back at the three behind her and asked "Are you all ok?" 

Raine nodded and said "Yeah, these guys just showed up and took me along with them, what exactly do they want this time?" Luz replied "I'm not sure, but we're not gonna wait around to find out!" Luz then flew towards Doradus and punched him into a tree. She then levitated higher into the sky and tried to slam down onto him, only for Pismis to tackle her to the floor. They wrestled around on the floor for a while, Pismis tried to punch Luz, but she formed a forcefield around her just in time to block the punch.

Just then, Enzo tackled Pismis from behind, literally picking him up and throwing him far away. Luz got up and asked "What happened while we were away?" Enzo looked down and said "Sorry Luz, Orion tricked me." Luz could already tell what he meant, she sighed and said "Don't worry about it, just help us bring these guys down alright?" The two of them both flew into action and attacked the Archivists. 

As Orion destroyed all the abomination creatures, he suddenly got punched to the floor by Hunter who warped right passed him. He got up and looked at Hunter, blasting beams of energy at him, Hunter however was fast enough to warp past every single beam, he then warped behind Orion and kicked him to the floor. He to find himself surrounded by the Hex Squad. "Alright sucker, you're not getting away this time!" Shouted Willow.

Orion smirked as he slammed his fists against the ground, forming a shockwave that blasted them to the floor. Luz however leaped out of the way and pulled out her Palisman, she looked at Orion and formed an abomination glyph on her hand and fused it with her palisman, allowing Stringbean to shapeshift into a scythe made of abomination goo.

Luz then sprinted towards Orion and swung the scythe at him, he quickly dodged it but Luz circled around him and swung it at him, sending him flying up into the air, Luz then blasted up into the sky after and formed a fire glyph on her hand, fusing her palisman with it as it ignited into flames, causing Stringbean to shapeshift into a tiny dragon as she blasted fire right out of her mouth at Orion, Orion quickly shielded himself from the flames, before Luz flew above him and punched her with powerful force, sending him crashing down through the roof of the owl house.

Orion crashed into the main living room as Luz landed on top of him, pinning him down against the floor as she started rapidly punching him. However, Orion snapped his fingers, and with a mere thought, Luz was suddenly slammed against the ceiling and collapsed to the floor. Orion smiled sinisterly as he got up grabbed Luz, picking her up by the throat, but then Eda and King came inside just in time.

"Luz!!" Shouted Eda as she spread our her wings and sprinted towards Orion, slashing against him with her hook, but it didn't harm Orion at all, he smirked as he was about fire laser eyes, but then King shouted a powerful "WEEEEH!!!" That sent Orion crashing into the wall, and the surprising part of it was that it actually hurt. Luz saw this and thought to herself "Oh of course, Titan magic is the only powerful source of magic capable of defeating an Archivist, no wonder they often seemed to be easily defeated every time I did the same thing to them." Luz then got up and joined King as she let out a powerful Titan roar as well.

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They both let out powerful Titan roars at Orion, sending him crashing through the wall as he collapsed against the grass. "Woah, chill down kids, we don't want to accidentally bring the whole house down." Eda remarked as she saw the hole left in the wall. Luz approached Orion and pinned him down. Suddenly, the rest of the Archivists showed up. One of them punched her into a tree, she collapsed as the rest of the Hex Squad showed up to help her. 

"Hang on Luz!" Shouted Amity as she used abomination magic to form a large sword, she attacked the Archivists with it, but she was only lifted up into the air with telekinesis from Helix. But then Enzo attacked Helix, throwing a large red star at him which exploded, knocking him down. Amity was joined by the rest of the Hex Squad as they attacked as one, but none of them were truly match for four powerful beings, Willow tried wrapping vines around one of them to restrain them, but it was no use, not even abomination goo could trap them.

Eda, Lilith, and Raine tried to help as they attacked from above, Raine flew around on their palisman and fired magic beams of energy down at the Archivists, but the Archivists were not hurt at all, one of them fired lasers from their eyes at Raine, causing them to fall off their palisman, Eda noticed it and quickly flew down to catch them in mid air. "Are you ok?" She asked, Raine went silent as they nodded, blushing internally.

Enzo quickly ran to go check on Luz as they helped her up. "Are you alright?" He asked worriedly. Luz replied "Yep... never better." She looked at the Archivists, seeing them slowly overpowering all her friends. She was about to go back into battle, but then Orion flew over to them and said "Where do you two think you're going?! You're not going anywhere!" Luz smirked and said "Oh, bring it!" As she clenched her fists, she and Enzo then attacked Orion, the three beings attacked each other in the sky, Luz punched Orion towards Enzo who in turn kicked him to the floor.

Orion crashed as Luz landed on top of him and picked him up, she then fired a powerful energy beam at Orion, sending him crashing into the forest. However, he got back up really fast and sprinted towards Luz, he swung his fist at Luz, but she smirked as she dodged it and flew to the side, she then punched Orion down to the floor as Enzo pinned him down. Luz then said "Keep him down, I gotta go help the others." Enzo nodded as Luz blasted into the sky.

The Hex Squad kept on fighting the other three brothers as best as they could, Gus tried using illusions to throw them off, but it was no longer working to fool them as they saw right through it. Helix attacked Gus and punched him up against the wall of the owl house. He approached Gus and was about to punch him again as he raised his fist, only for a vine to wrap around it and restrain it. Willow pulled on the vine, pulling Helix back, but then Pismis grabbed Willow and tossed her to the side.

Amity quickly flew overhead on her palisman, firing energy beams from her hands as she tried to help out, but then Doradus tackled her mid air and pinned her to the floor. She struggled around, trying to get up, but Doradus grabbed her arm and began to twist it with his super strength, Amity began to cry out in pain, but before Doradus could inflict more harm, Luz flew behind him and picked him up, throwing him to the side. She helped Amity up and said "Don't worry Ami, I'll take these bastards down." She then sprinted into action.

Luz charged her palisman up with Titan energy and slammed it against the ground, forming a shockwave that blasted Helix away from Willow. She then spun her palisman around as she drew a spell circle, which fired a powerful energy beam from it, knocking Pismis away before he could kill Hunter. Luz looked at the three Archivists who were down on the ground and approached them, but then suddenly, she felt herself being lifted up against her will.

She squirmed around for a bit as Orion approached her, with Enzo also suspended in the air as well next to him. Suddenly, all of Luz's friends were overpowered by the other brothers, Helix snapped his fingers as he suddenly wrapped all of the Hex Squad in bright purple ropes. "Hey!! Let us go!!" Shouted Lilith. Orion looked at Luz and said "Nice try Luz, but you should know better than to challenge us, and since you clearly refuse to cooperate with us, I guess that gives us no other choice but to unleash the little surprise I had created for both you and the Collector." 

Suddenly, Doradus pulled out some sort of music box as Orion continued "Since you intended to use a concealment mirror on us, we decided it was only fair that we make one of our own!" Luz was shocked by this as she looked at the music box. "W-what?" She asked worriedly. Doradus suddenly opened the box, a bright light emitted from within, he pointed it at Luz and Enzo as it suddenly grabbed hold of them. "No... NO!!!!!" Shouted Enzo as they slowly felt themself get sucked in. "ENZO!!!" Shouted Luz.

Everyone watched in horror as Enzo was sucked inside. Orion looked at Luz and made a sinister smile and said "It's over Luz, you can't save this world anymore." As the music box suddenly began to pull Luz in as well, Luz found she was powerless to do anything in this situation as she was slowly pulled inside. Amity got up screaming as she shouted "NO!! LUZ!!!" She managed to burst free of her restraints and ran over to Luz and grabbed her by the hand, hoping to save her.

"What's this? It looks like we've got someone else who wants to join you both inside, very well then." Said Orion as he flew behind Amity and slapped her in the back, causing her and Luz to both be sucked into the box. "NO!!!!" Shouted Eda. She tried to do something, but Helix and Pismis continued to restrain her, along with the others. Doradus closed it and said "It's done, they're trapped." Orion smiled and said "Excellent, give it to me." 

Doradus handed Orion the concealment box as Orion said "All I have to do is destroy this box, and the friends you care deeply for will no longer exist! Say goodbye to your Half-Titan." He was about to fire laser eyes at the box to destroy it, but then King, out of desperation and madness, let out the biggest "WEEEEEHH!!!" He could muster, causing a powerful sonic blast to hit Orion as he dropped the box. Eda then broke free herself using her hook to break the constraints as she flew over to the box, grabbing it in mid air.

"I got it!" She shouted. Orion made an angry face and shouted "I've had it with these witches, KILL THEM ALL!" The other three brothers suddenly fired energy beams at them, but Raine quickly formed a forcefield around them all and shouted "Get out of here! I'll be right behind you!!!" Eda nodded as she and all the others quickly ran for the forest. Meanwhile Raine pulled out a flask and threw it at the Archivists, the flask hit the ground and exploded, leaving nothing but smoke that blocked everyone's sight, giving Raine the chance to get away.

Once the smoke cleared, Orion looked for the Hex Squad, only to see that they had escaped. Enraged, he shouted "FIND THEM!! Do not allow them to escape, they still have the concealment box with them, we cannot allow Luz and the Collector to get out of that box!" He looked at Doradus and asked "You made sure to trap our brother within the deepest part of the box right?" Doradus nodded and said "Of course, it would take Luz and Amity forever to find him." Orion smiled and nodded as he said "Good, that gives us plenty of time to find the box and destroy it before they find him. In the meantime, I think it is time we initiated our plan. Helix, unleash the army!" 

Helix nodded as he flew over to the large castle in the sky, and with the snap of his fingers, several doors opened up on it, suddenly, a massive robot armada came flying outside, scorpions, humanoid mechanical beings, giant robotic stars, all sorts of machines. They turned and began heading for Bonesborough. Orion laughed maniacally as he witnessed all of the chaos begin to unfold from there. The Boiling Isles was now being invaded, and without Luz to stop it, everyone was doomed.

Somewhere deep in the woods, the Hex Squad came to a stop as they sat down to catch their breath. "Do you think we got away?" Asked Hunter. "I- I don't know." Said Gus. Eda looked down at the box in her hands as Lilith asked her "Those bastards trapped Luz, Amity, and Enzo in that thing, how do we get them out of it?!" Eda thought for a moment before looking at King as she asked "Hey, King, can you do the same thing you did when you freed the Collector from his concealment device? This might work the same way as it."

"I can try." King replied. He took the box and put his hand over it, harnessing his Titan magic, but to no avail. "I- I can't guys. I'm sorry." "What do you mean you can't get them out?!" Asked Raine. "Well, unlike the last concealment device, this one wasn't made by the Titans. It was made by the Archivists, I fear only they may be able to open this thing again." Said Lilith. "So what then? Are they just trapped in there forever now?!" Willow asked in fear. 

Hunter hugged Willow and said "It'll be alright Willow, I'm sure they'll be ok in there, I hope... Let's just hope they're doing ok in whatever it is that they might see in there..."

Luz opened her eyes, finding herself trapped inside a cage in a dimly lit room, she slowly got up to find herself in her human form again, she found herself wearing clothes that look like they would suit a survivalist. She grabbed onto the bars of the cage as she shouted "Hey!! Let me out of here!!" Suddenly, a light turned on, revealing Odalia Blight standing there, along with two emperor's coven guards.

"...Odalia?" Luz wondered. Odalia looked at a sheet of paper and said "Luz Noceda, you've been charged with crimes of terrorism, rebelling against the coven system, practicing forms of wild magic, and even trying to assassinate Emperor Belos himself! For that, your sentence will be petrification, the same exact fate as Eda and King. Guards, keep an eye on her, I must go and check on my daughter." She then walked up the stairs and left the room. 

Luz had listened to all the things that Odalia had just said, all of it filled her with dread, she heard Odalia mention things like Eda and King having been petrified, and that Emperor Belos still being around somehow. Luz already knew one thing right away, wherever the concealment box had taken her wasn't somewhere she'd want to stick around in for long.

"Where in the Titan's name am I??" She asked herself.

To be continued....

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The Nightmare....

Luz sat there in her cage, still trying to understand where exactly she was, she knew she had to get out of here, but she still didn't fully know where 'here' even was. She noticed the two guards standing there as she thought to herself "I have to get out of this cage first of all if I wanna get out of this place, let's see if my Titan powers still work here..." Luz focused as she channeled her Titan energy, much to her relief, her body shifted into her Half-Titan form with ease. 

"There, that's better." She mumbled as she looked at her claws on her hands. The guards noticed her transformation and both of them were completely stunned. "What in the name of the Titan???" One of them said. Luz smirked as she then grabbed onto the bars and pulled on them with her super strength, bending them open, allowing her to escape. One of the guards shouted "The prisoner has escaped! Grab her!" As they both ran towards Luz with their magic staffs.

One of them fired an energy beam at Luz, but she generated a forcefield which block it, she then sprinted towards one of the guards, grabbing him as she lifted him up and slammed him back down against the ground head first. Suddenly the other guard smacked her in the back with his staff, but Luz remained unharmed, she turned around and faced the other guard, before punching him so hard it sent him crashing into the wall.

With both guards down, Luz could finally leave, but then she noticed her palisman Stringbean trapped inside of a cage. "Stringbean! Hang on! I'll get you out of there!" She approached the cage and looked directly at the lock, before firing lasers from her eyes at it, which broke the lock clean off. Stringbean flew out of the tiny cage as Luz held her in her arms and smiled as she said "Glad to see you're ok, now we just need to figure out where exactly we are."

Luz's questions would suddenly be answered as a crystal ball suddenly turned on, Luz approached it as it projected a news report of some kind.

"Good morning Boiling Isles! Today is a very special day for the day of unity commences in just another 7 hours! Join us as we celebrate the end of wild magic and begin a new age of peaceful magic! An age that our lord and master Emperor Belos has promised us all! Also, just recently, Odalia Blight, the head of the Abomination coven has just passed down Blight Industries over to her daughter Amity Blight, making her the new owner while Odalia goes to participate in the day of unity ceremony. Thankfully, with the human terrorist Luz Noceda now finally locked behind bars and set to be petrified alongside her other two outlaw friends Eda Clawthorne and King, we can safely say that the Boiling Isles can finally move forward with a bright future! Bless the emperor, he has made the Boiling Isles a better place."  

Luz couldn't believe her eyes, she was basically trapped in a world where everything bad that could have happened, did happen. Amity was still under the influence of her mother, Belos is still in charge, Eda and King were petrified and Luz is now a wanted criminal fighting against Belos. It was like a true nightmare. "I gotta get the fuck out of here!" Luz said in fear. The only problem was, she had no idea how to get out, she'd been trapped in a nightmare before but this one was different, it would take a lot more than a simple light glyph to get out of this one, because now she was literally trapped inside of a concealment device, the same kind of device Enzo had been trapped in by the Titan for years! If only she had some help.

Luz sat down in a chair as she asked "What the hell do I do?? There's gotta be a way out of here, but how?!" Suddenly, her prayers were answered as the Titan suddenly appeared beside her. "Don't you worry Luz, I'm here." He said. Luz looked at the Titan and asked "Do you know how I could get out of here??" The Titan smiled and replied "Of course, I've worked with the exact same type of magic myself after all when I created the concealment mirror for Enzo, I can even tell you what exactly it is you're trapped in. You see, all of this you see around you, none of it is real, it is a simulated version of the real world created within the concealment device, anyone who gets trapped inside the device gets trapped in here. You see the box creates the world based on what a person's worst fear is, and then traps that person inside of it."

Luz then asked "So what about all the people here? The only ones who are trapped in here are me, Amity, and Enzo, yet I saw people like Odalia not too long ago!" The Titan replied "Oh now those aren't real people either, they're just projected versions of people from the real world, placed within this world to populate it and make it feel more real, they work to make the simulated world inside the concealment device as real as possible for the one trapped inside, they're main goal is to work to maintain the illusion that this simulation is real, however, if the one trapped inside were to find out that the world they're trapped in isn't real, then they'll all hunt that person down and not stop until they have them contained, once contained, the simulation resets and everything starts all over again."

"So basically all these people here are simply projections then, man, reminds me of the movie Inception. The concealment device creates a simulated world that only the one trapped inside it could be familiar with, and then populates it with projections to give it life and make it feel more real. It's just like that film Inception!" Luz said. "Inception?" Asked the Titan. "Oh, it's a great movie from the Human Realm, I should show you it one day, movies made by Christopher Nolan are like one of the very few things I actually enjoyed in the human realm."

"Huh, interesting. Anyway, in terms of getting out of here, you see, only a Titan could power the last concealment device, but since this device was not made by a Titan, I fear that my son King may not be able to get you and your friends out of here, only an Archivists can power this thing." Luz gulped silently as she asked "Well that's no good, how do we escape instead?" The Titan continued "Luckily, Enzo is a brother of the Archivist, they're the only one who's able to power this device now, even though he's trapped in here with you and Amity, that doesn't matter, he'll still be able to access it and get themself, you, and Amity out of here safely. Go and find him, he's your ticket out of here." 

Luz then said "Ok, but I gotta be quick, who knows what the Archivists are up too right now, they're probably causing loads of destruction right now on the Boiling Isles! A-and I'm not there to help them!" The Titan replied "Calm down luz, don't worry, there is a way for you to communicate with the real world, Enzo did it himself before, you'll be able to interact with the real world in the form of a shadow reflection." 

Luz looked at the Titan and asked "Can I actually do that?" The Titan nodded. Luz decided she should give it a try to let her friends know she's ok. "Ok, here we go..." She whispered as she looked towards her own shadow reflection, she slowly took a step on it, but much to her surprise, rather than step on the ground, she stepped through it, she gasped as she fell into darkness before finding herself in the form of a shadow reflection that was attached to the concealment box she was trapped within, she looked around to find herself in the woods, and right there next to the box was all her friends.

"Hey! Guys!" She shouted. "Luz?" Wondered Vee. She looked down towards the box to see Luz in the form of shadow reflection smiling at her. "Guys! It's Luz!" She shouted. "What??" Asked Gus, they all looked at the box to see Luz's shadow. "Luz!! W-what happened to you??" Asked Willow. Luz replied "I've been trapped within some sort of Inception like nightmare realm created as a prison for me, Amity, and Enzo, so far this is the only way I can communicate." King looked at her and said "Luz, I'm sorry, I can't pull you or your friends out of there." Luz replied "I already know King. How much has happened since I've been trapped in here? The Archivists haven't destroyed anything yet have they?"

Eda looked at Luz in confusion and said "Kid, it's only been a few seconds since we ran into the woods, we're still in the process of catching our breaths." Luz was surprised to hear that and said "What?! But it feels like I've been trapped in here for 7 minutes now-" She went silent as she remembered something Enzo had said about their time being trapped in the concealment mirror.

"Do you know what it was like being trapped in there for so long? Inside the concealment mirror, time moved way slower, so it felt like I was in there way longer than I actually was!"

"Damn, Enzo wasn't kidding when he said time moved slower in here, but hey, that's good news I guess because that gives me plenty of time to try and escape before the Archivists even begin their attack." Lilith looked at Luz and asked "How do we get you out of there Luz?" Luz replied "Oh don't worry, I have a plan, and if it works, we should all hopefully be able to get out of here safely! Turns out Enzo has the power to use this device we're trapped in, I just have to find him first so they can get me and Amity safely out of here!" 

Willow then said to Luz "Ok, but you may not have forever though because the Archivists were just about to destroy the box they trapped you and your friends in, doing so would have erased you for good, we were lucky to save you in time, but there's no doubt that the Archivists will be hunting for this box to destroy it, so whatever plan you have to get out of there, might wanna hurry." 

"We'll try to keep the box you're trapped in safe for as long as we can, hopefully that will give you, Amity, and Enzo the time to escape it and make it back here." Said Hunter. Luz nodded and said "Thanks guys. And don't worry, getting out of here won't take long, well, for you all at least since time moves faster for you than it will for me in here." Luz then faded back into the box as Eda said "Alright everyone, we got a job to do, protecting this box should be our top priority until Luz, Amity, and Enzo are safely out of there." Raine smiled and said "You can count on us Eda."

Luz reemerged inside the simulated world and said to the Titan "I think I may have more time than I thought." The Titan nodded and said "Good, now, go find your friends and return to reality, the Boiling Isles needs you." Luz nodded and said "I'll go look for Amity, the things I've discovered about this simulated world so far have me worried about her, like as if the simulation has corrupted her and put her back under the manipulation of Odalia, I gotta find her so I can free her."

The Titan nodded and was about to leave, but then Luz remembered something that had been lingering in her mind. "Hey, wait! I have a question, you see, Orion had told me earlier that being Half-Titan makes me immortal, he said that I'll probably live to be several billion years old or so. That wasn't true was it?"

The Titan approached Luz and said "Oh Luz, of course not, why would I ever do such a thing to you? Remember, you're neither fully human, or fully Titan either, you're a mix of both, you're a hybrid, and that makes you unique. So of course you're not going to live as long as an actual Titan ever could, besides, that just wouldn't be fair. Orion was probably trying to gaslight you into thinking of your Titan powers as a curse rather than a gift. Now yes, maybe you might still live somewhat longer than an average human ever could, but certainly nowhere near to the extent of an average Titan."

Luz went silent before asking "How long would you estimate I'll probably live for?" The Titan sighed and said "I do not know for certain..." Luz looked down and said "That's not very promising, even if I don't end up living to be several billion years old, what if I still end up outliving everyone I care about?" The Titan put his hand on Luz's shoulder and said "Yes, that may happen, but if you think about it Luz, what makes you watching people you care about die any different from them watching you die? Luz, the best I can tell you is to try and cherish every moment spent with those you care for before they pass, they're willing to do the same with you as well, it's how people live out their lives before dying, they make their lives meaningful with those they care about. That's essentially how the cycle of life goes for many species, it's how it goes for everyone, even you and your friends. But the Archivists want to destroy that life cycle by killing all the witches, which is why it is important that you and your friends escape this place as fast as you can to go and stop them." 

Luz looked down, knowing that the Titan was right, she looked up at the Titan and nodded. The Titan smiled and said "Great, now go." Before fading away. Luz knew she would be caught instantly the moment she were to try and leave, so she needed a disguise, luckily there were two knocked out emperor's coven guards beside her. She soon shifted into her human form and put on one of the guard's outfit as a disguise, before walking upstairs.

When Luz got upstairs, she noticed something was familiar about where she was. "Wait a second, I recognize this place... this is Blight manor!" She said.

Reality.... 

At first, everything was peaceful in the town of Bonesborough. All the witches were going about their days, there was not a single thing to be worried about, but all of that suddenly changed the moment the Archivists unleashed their army on the town.

Loud noises could suddenly be heard in the sky as the witches looked up to see a whole armada of mechanical beings in the sky, along with the Archivists themselves. "All witches of the Boiling Isles, your Half-Titan cannot save you now! You all have defied our will by inheriting Titan magic, and for that, it is time for you all to burn!!!" Orion shouted menacingly. Just like that, the entire robot armada suddenly attacked the town! In a matter of moments, buildings were being destroyed, people were running and screaming in terror.

Giant stars flew over houses as they fired down at them all, tearing them down. A whole army of machines stomped through the city as they fired lasers from their foreheads. Nobody was safe. Eventually the high council would catch sight of this as Darius came running outside of the castle to see the destruction that was now occurring in Bonesborough. "Holy Titan. The Archivists have launched a full scale attack!" He said.

"What should we do??" Steve asked worriedly. Darius replied "Send in reinforcements, we have to stop this as soon as possible, people are dying right now!" Steve nodded and went to go and assemble the troops. "Where's Luz and the Hex Squad when you need her?" Darius asked.

Deep inside the forest, the small group hiding from the Archivists suddenly heard explosions in the distance. Lilith and Hooty went to go check it out, following the sounds of the explosions, as they reached the edge of the forest, they were met with a grim sight, Bonesborough was under attack! The Archivists and their army of machines were overrunning it all. "WHAT'S HAPPENING??!" Hooty asked. Lilith replied "I think this could be the end of our species..." Lilith muttered.

She quickly ran back to tell everyone about this. "It's horrible! The Archivists have just launched an attack unlike any other onto Bonesborough!" Eda looked at her and said "How big of an attack?" Lilith replied "Just see for yourself!" She then brought Eda and everyone else to the edge of the forest to show them. "Holy... I knew they were making more machines..." Said Hunter. Willow gasped in fear as she said "My... my Dads are over there... what if they-" She began to break down in fear before she could finish that statement.

Hunter quickly comforted his girlfriend as he said "Don't you worry Willow, your parents will be fine... Shouldn't we go in there and help them?" Eda replied "I- I don't know... even if we tried, what chance would we stand? We could barely stand our own against the Archivists themselves, but a whole army of machines? I don't know." "But out of all the things the Archivists could have created to do the job at wiping us out, why use machines?" Asked Raine.

"I don't know exactly how they plan this stuff, but what they're doing has been working too well for them, if we want a fighting chance we need Luz and Enzo out of this box, they're the strongest beings on this entire island, without them we don't stand a chance." Said Eda. Gus looked at the box and said "Well, at least Luz will have Amity in there with her." Vee then took the box and held it in fear, tears were running down her face. "Please Luz... please get out of there... We need you."

The Nightmare....

Luz walked through the halls, seeing that the house was densely populated. "Damn, that's a lot of projections in one spot, it's like they're celebrating the day of unity or something, man, none of them have any idea what it actually is, and unfortunately never will...." Luz thought to herself, she felt kind of bad deciding to let things run their course rather than try and help them by putting a stop to the day of unity, but she remembered that none of this was real, the day of unity had already been stopped, all of this was just a simulated world, all she could really do was find a way out. 

As she continued walking down the halls, she suddenly felt a strange force begin to pull on her towards the right side of the hall as the ground suddenly felt somewhat steeper, she along with everything suddenly began to fall towards the right, as everything around her started shaking. She managed to balance herself as she shouted "WOAH! What the hell was that?!!"

Turns out in reality, the group hiding out in the woods was suddenly spotted by a giant star. "SHIT!!! THEY FOUND US!! RUN!!!" Shouted Hunter. Eda and Lilith shifted into their harpy forms as Eda shouted "King! Grab the box! Don't let them get it!" King grabbed the box and took off running with it as the rest of the Hex Squad protected him, however, the star managed to fire a laser down right next to King, causing him to trip and drop the box as it fell on its right side, which was the root cause of the sudden gravity shift inside the simulated world.

Inside the simulated world, Luz was shocked to find that gravity had suddenly shifted over to the right, for she was now standing on the wall, even some of the objects had fallen to the wall with her. "Ok, what is this?!" She said in confusion. Suddenly, gravity shifted back to normal as Luz suddenly felt herself being pulled back down to the floor, she collapsed against the ground as everything else did too. 

Luz got up and asked "What just happened?!!" She soon heard the voice of the Titan as he said to her "I should probably mention that despite how convincing the simulated world tries to be, it does not have its own independent source of gravity, the direction of gravity in this world relies entirely on the gravity from the real world, so let's say if the concealment device suddenly were to fall upside down, the simulated world inside of it would flip upside down with it, but the gravity would remain the same which is what caused you and all the objects around you to fall the moment the device fell on its side, basically the direction of gravity is completely based on which direction the box is facing towards the ground."

"Damn... the more I learn about this simulated world the more it feels like Inception. But if this thing just fell sideways, then that has to mean something bad is happening up there, I hope they're alright." Luz said.

Back in reality, the group continued to run from the giant star pursuing them. "Someone bring that thing down!!!" Shouted Raine as they tried shooting at it. Eda and Lilith tried to attack it in the air but it shook them off with ease. Suddenly, Vee had an idea, she turned around and inhaled sharply, causing the giant star to get drained of its energy as it started to get pulled down toward Vee. "Now!! Shoot it!!" Shouted Raine.

Gus nodded as he drew a large spell circle and fired a blast of electricity at the star, blowing it up. "That was close." Said Eda. However, the noise that they made attracted even more mechanical beings. Willow noticed them and shouted "Oh Titan! RUN!!!!" They all saw the machines as they began to open fire on them, chasing them all the way into Bonesborough, where the heart of all the chaos was taking place in right now.

In the simulated world, Luz kept on searching for Amity, hoping that she would be somewhere. She couldn't help but feel as if Blight Manor was a lot bigger in this version of the Boiling Isles than in reality, then again, in this simulated world, Odalia is now the head of the Abomination coven so it would make sense that she was able to afford an even bigger house than before. Luz continued to pass by all the other witches, trying her hardest not to make eye contact with any of them underneath her emperor's coven guard disguise. 

She eventually arrived in a large room, and was shocked to find that this place had a giant bar. "Woah, this place has a bar?! How rich is the Blight family in this fake world?" She asked herself. Luz passed by several witches, making her way through large crowds of people, before finally, she found her. Sitting there by the bartender was Amity, but something was completely different about her, it seems like the simulation has truly corrupted her and made her think this world was her reality, for she now had green hair again, she was wearing the same dark attire, along with the necklace that Odalia had used to speak with her. 

There was no doubting that in this reality, Amity was still under the influence of Odalia, which complicated things, if Luz wanted to get Amity out of this simulated world, she would have to find some way to set her mind free. She was about to approach Amity, but then Odalia approached her first, forcing Luz to have to back away. Odalia sat down with Amity and said "Ami dear, could you be a good girl and go redye your hair please? I'm starting to see that the green hair color is starting to fade.

Amity looked at her mother and said "What? But Mom, I just dyed it last week, I should at least have another two weeks before I have to dye it again. Odalia put her hand on Amity's shoulder and said "Come now Blight, that's no way to talk to your mother right?" Amity sighed and said "Yes mother." She stood up and left, leaving her palisman Ghost behind. Luz watched as she whispered "Oh Amity, what has Odalia done to you?" 

She waited for Amity to leave the room before proceeding to follow her, she continued to follow her all the way to her room. As she did, she morphed her hand into her clawed Half-Titan hand and formed an invisibility glyph on it, she pressed it and turned invisible, allowing her to easily sneak into Amity's room as she followed her through the door. Amity was completely unaware of her pressense.

Luz stood there for a moment, watching as Amity started to apply green hair dye to her hair. As soon as she was done and was about to get up, Luz disabled her invisibility spell, revealing herself to Amity. Amity was shocked to be seeing an emperor's coven guard standing in her room. "What is the meaning of this?!" She asked. Luz instantly took off her disguise, revealing herself to Amity, who gasped at the sight of her.

"No... it can't be! Luz Noceda! The human terrorist!! How did you escape!!??" She shouted in fear. In a panic, Amity tried to run for the door, only for Luz to shift into her Half-Titan form and draw a spell circle that caused several vines to grow in front of the door, blocking it. "I'd rather not do that if I were you." She said. Amity looked over at Luz and gasped in horror at the sight of her, all of a sudden, Luz was slightly taller now, she had two horns on her head, fur running across almost her entire body, and sharp claws as well. 

"W-WHAT?!! WHAT IN THE TITAN'S NAME HAVE YOU BECOME?!!" She shouted in fear as she backed away from her. Luz sighed and said "Honestly I would have preferred a more flustered reaction from you at the sight of my Half-Titan form, but alright." Luz approached Amity and said "Amity, this might sound crazy for you, I'm willing to bet that the simulation that runs this fake world has planted entirely new memories of a life you've never actually lived into that head of yours. But I'm going to tell you anyway. Amity, this world isn't real, it's a simulated version of our reality where all the bad things that could happen have happened, but none of it is real! It's all just a simulation! You have to believe me!"

Amity shouted back "Why would I ever believe a terrorist like you?!! I don't even know what you are anymore! Like, what is this 'thing' that you turned into?!" Luz replied "Oh, I'm Half-Titan." Amity shouted "Half-Titan?! Impossible!! Only Belos has the power to speak with the Titan!!" Luz sighed, remembering the huge lie Belos had made about being able to speak to the Titan. Suddenly, Amity formed abomination fists on her hands and charged at Luz.

Luz on the other hand simply formed a forcefield and blocked her punch. She then drew a spell circle that caused vines to grow out of the ground around Amity, trapping her within, which startled her. "What? Y-you can do magic naturally?! But that's impossible!! You're a human!" Amity shouted. Luz replied "Did I not just say I'm a Half-Titan now? Anyway, now that I've got you restrained for now, I can finally be able to explain better to you. Amity, in the real world, you and I united to defeat Belos, he was secretly planning to destroy the witches, but you, me, and all of our friends, we beat him, and we made the Boiling Isles better. And you broke free of your mother's manipulation, forging your own future."

Amity replied "What kind of nonsense is that?! Why would Belos seek to destroy us?! He's done nothing but help us find salvation by eradicating wild magic!" Luz put her hands on Amity's face as she said "Come on Ami, you gotta remember. You, me, and Enzo were sucked inside a concealment device by the Archivists, which is how we ended up in this world in the first place, it's all fake, none of it is real, please come back Amity, I need you."

"Need me?? Why?? What's so special about me?" Amity asked. Luz replied "Amity, you have to be able to remember me, I'm your girlfriend! We're supposed to be together in the real world! You have to remember Amity, please!!" Amity remained silent before saying "You? My girlfriend? That's impossible! Why would I ever date a terrorist like you?! Besides, Mom's already set me up to be married to someone else!"

Luz gasped hearing that as she said "What?! Odalia seriously did that?! That's just not fair-" Suddenly, Amity broke free of her constraints and attacked Luz as she shouted "You're going back to your cell, where you will then be sent to be petrified for your crimes against the throne!!" Amity tried to punch Luz as Luz struggled against her, she tried blocking all of Amity's attacks without attacking back. She had to think of something to free Amity from the simulations control, but she didn't know how. 

As Amity tried to punch her, Luz quickly grabbed her fist, causing Amity to struggle, Luz looked at Amity for a moment, before noticing something on her finger, it was a ring, but not just any ring, it was the same ring Luz had given her when she proposed to her, Luz smiled as she had an idea. She grabbed Amity's hand and faced it towards her, she then said "Amity, look at this ring on you! Do you remember this??!"

Amity stopped as she suddenly noticed the ring on her finger. "W-what?? Where'd this come from??" Luz smiled, realizing she now had a chance. She approached Amity, causing her to back away feeling worried. "That ring you're wearing, I gave it to you... do you remember the day when I asked you to marry me? I gave you that same ring, I told you that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you, in the Boiling Isles together."

Amity kept backing up before she made contact with the wall, Luz stepped in front of her as she held Amity's hand once again as she said "Please try and remember Amity. I gave you this, I asked you if you wanted to marry me, and you wanna know what your answer was? You said yes! Please try and remember Amity, let us leave this fake reality and return back to the real world together. Amity, please, come back with me, so we can get married together.... I love you." 

Amity looked closely at the ring, seeing it began to trigger something in her, she didn't know exactly what it was at first, but as it began to make its way into her mind, it started to feel familiar. She then began to look at Luz in the eyes for a moment, she wasn't sure what exactly was happening, but now, all of a sudden, looking at Luz was causing her to feel some sort of happiness. Luz knew it was working, but clearly the simulation was trying to fight back, luckily Luz knew exactly what to do to help with that.

Luz then pinned Amity against the wall, and gave her a kiss on the lips. Amity was startled at first, she had thought about trying to push Luz away, but then suddenly, in a single moment, all of her original memories from the real world suddenly came flowing back into her mind, the day she first met Luz, the day Luz helped her choose for herself for the first time, the day they danced together during Grom. The day Luz and Amity went on their first date, the day they shared their first kiss, every single memory, even the one where Luz asked Amity to marry her. 

"Amity, you and I have been together since we were 14, you made my life so much more meaningful since you and I met, you're one of the main reasons I chose to stay and live in the Boiling Isles in the first place, and... I'd like to spend my whole future alongside you." 

Luz opened the box, revealing the ring to Amity, which caused her to gasp. "Oh my-" She muttered. "Will you marry me?" Asked Luz. Amity could not contain her happiness and joy, she gave Luz a massive hug and shouted "Of course I will!" She and Luz gave each other a passionate kiss as Amity took the ring and put it on.

Luz soon broke the kiss, as soon as she did, Amity's memories had now fully returned to her. She slowly opened her eyes and saw the face of her girlfriend in front of her. "L-Luz..." She muttered. Luz gave the happiest smile in response, knowing that her girlfriend was back to normal again. Amity soon had tears in her eyes as she shouted "Oh Luz! It's you!!!" Before hugging her tightly. Luz smiled and said "I'm glad you're ok mi amor. I was so worried about you."

Luz and Amity gave each other one long look into each others eyes before embracing each other in another passionate kiss, Luz wrapped her arms around Amity, deepening the kiss, which Amity obliged to as she wrapped her arms around Luz's back, feeling her soft fur, both girls had been separated for far too long now, all they wanted right now more than anything else was each other, they both continued to kiss each other as it got even more passionate. Luz soon lifted Amity up with her super strength and pinned her against the wall as she continued to kiss her, eventually they broke apart as Amity said "I- I missed you Luz."

Luz smiled and said "I missed you too." As she kissed her once more. Both girls didn't care about anything else at that moment, all they could care about at that moment was each other.

Eventually, Luz put Amity down as Amity saw herself in the mirror. "What the fuck?!" She wondered as she saw the green hair, she approached the mirror and saw what she looked like. "Are you kidding me right now?! Did Mom seriously make me look like this in this reality?! Son of a bitch!" She shouted, Amity then noticed a bracelet on her arm and asked "What is this? Is... is that a concealment stone!? Seriously?! This is absurd!"

Amity removed the concealment stone bracelet on her arm, causing her appearance to suddenly change back into how she looked in the real world. "Ah, that's better." She said with a smile. Luz approached Amity and said "There's the awesome girlfriend that I remember." As she gave Amity a hug. Amity smiled for a brief moment before remembering that they were still trapped in a simulated world. 

"Oh my Titan! Luz! What are we still doing here?! The Boiling Isles is in danger! We have to get out of this nightmare before the Archivists destroy the Boiling Isles!" Luz nodded and said "Don't worry, I have a plan on how to escape, turns out only an Archivist can power the concealment device we're inside, what we need to do is find Enzo, he's trapped in this simulation somewhere, once we find them, he can get us out of here and back to reality."

Amity nodded and said "Sounds like a plan, but what about all the people here?" Luz replied "All the people here? Oh they're just projections, if I could properly sum up what exactly we're trapped inside, well, just think of it like Inception alright?" Amity nodded and said "Sounds simple enough." Both girls soon exited the room as Luz said "Now I have a feeling on where Enzo might be located, the only thing I'm worried about is what we might find when we get there..." Amity replied "What do you mean?" 

Luz sighed and said "I fear that I may have to confront an old rival of mine if we want to go find Enzo and get out of this simulated world." The moment Amity realized what she was talking about she replied "Oh no... your not referring to Belos now are you?"

To be continued....

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Reality....

The entire group ran through the streets of Bonesborough, surrounded by nothing but chaos as several mechanical beings reigned havoc and terror on the entire town, destroying everything in their path. Nobody was safe. "THIS IS LITERALLY THE WORST POSSIBLE PLACE FOR US TO BE RIGHT NOW!!!" Shouted Hunter. "We need to find someplace to hide now!" Shouted Raine. They quickly ran inside of a building and hid inside, Eda blocked all the doors and windows as they all sat down together. Gus activated a light glyph to light up the room, they could still hear all the destruction going on outside.

"What do we do now?" Asked King. "We wait..." Said Eda. King placed the concealment box down on the floor and said "They'd better hurry, because I don't know how long we can stay hidden before they find us.

The Nightmare....

Luz and Amity walked through the halls, trying to find the way out of the manor since it was much bigger now in this fake reality. "So, if I'm getting this right, time moves slower here, and also the gravity in here is completely dependent on the gravity of the real world?" Amity asked. Luz nodded and said "Yep, just like in Inception." Amity replied "Well, at least that gives us plenty of time to escape before the Archivists cause any serious damage." 

They turned a corner, only to be confronted by Odalia. "Oh shit..." Luz muttered. Odalia looked at them both in utter shock. "Amity! What are you doing with this terrorist?! And how did you get out of your cell?! Why are you all covered in fur?!" Amity looked at Odalia and replied "Me and Luz, we're leaving!" Odalia made a strict face towards Amity and said "Going? No, you're not going anywhere! Go back to your room and put your concealment stone back on now! We can't have you going around looking like that!"

Amity made an angry face towards Odalia and said "No Mom, not this time. I'm not going to let you choose how I look, or who I am for me anymore!" Odalia was shocked by Amity's tone and asked "What?! I don't know where this attitude of yours came from, but I do not like it!" She grabbed hold of Amity's arm but Amity resisted even more as she shouted "I'm not going anywhere with you ever again! I'm going to leave with my true girlfriend Luz, I want to get married to her and you aren't allowed to make that choice for me!" 

Odalia looked at Amity and said "Girlfriend?! No, we've already gotten you another girlfriend who's not a terrorist like Luz!" Amity replied "I'm not going to do a damn thing you tell me anymore! You are a horrible mother, always were from the beginning! Luz has helped me find myself, and I love her for that! And I want to spend the rest of my life beside her, she and I are leaving and we are returning back to our reality! Now do me a favor and get out of my life!!!!"

In an instant, Amity formed an abomination fist on her hand and grabbed Odalia, slamming her against the wall with an intense force! Luz watched Amity do that in complete surprise. Amity looked towards her and said "Man, I always wanted to do that." Luz replied "Holy crap Blight! You just assaulted your own mother! Cool!" Amity chuckled and said "We might wanna get out of here fast." 

Suddenly, Odalia's eyes opened, but something was different, her eyes were glowing bright blue, she got up and looked at them and said in a menacing tone "The prisoners of the simulation are attempting to escape! All projections converge!" 

Suddenly, all the projections inside Blight Manor stopped what they were doing in an instant, all their eyes began to glow bright blue as they turned and started heading towards Luz and Amity. Luz and Amity could already tell this was a bad sign. "We might wanna run..." She said. Luz nodded as the two of them began running as fast as they could. 

"What was up with that? My Mom suddenly acted out of character!" Said Amity. "The simulation knows that we've discovered that it's fake and has now sent all the projections out to kill us! We have to get out of here!" Said Luz. Both girls ran into a large room, only to be confronted by a large group of projections. "Oh crap..." Said Luz. Amity made an angry face as she formed abomination fists on her hands and charged at the projections, punching each of them down, not holding back whatsoever. 

"Woah! Amity what are you doing?!" Luz shouted. As Amity fought the projections, she said "We don't have to worry about hurting these people, they aren't even real people!" Luz replied "Oh good point. A few projections surrounded her, she smirked as she pulled out her palisman and spun it around, drawing a powerful light spell that stunned all the projections, allowing Luz to charge at them all, punching each of them with all her superhuman strength.

As Amity continued to fight off the projections, one of them suddenly grabbed her from behind. She struggled against its grip as the projections began to overpower her, but Amity wasn't messing around, she let out a powerful scream as a huge burst of abomination magic hit all the projections, knocking them against the wall. Luz and Amity stood together and continued to fight all the witches that attacked them, Luz literally shot laser eyes directly at them, there was no need to hold back despite the fact that they all looked like witches, because none of them were actually real and were simply fake projected versions of real people. 

Soon, all the projections were down, Luz and Amity breathed heavily for a moment before Amity said "That was quite the rush wasn't it Luz..." Luz nodded as she said "We should really find a way out of here..." But then she remembered that her Titan powers gave hersuperhuman strength, she could literally punch the wall open if she wanted too. "Hang on, what are we even doing trying to find the exit??" Luz approached the wall and harnessed her super strength, clenching her fist as she punched the wall, causing the whole wall to collapse, giving them a way out.

"We should hurry, more projections are bound to show up soon." Said Luz. Amity was about to follow her, but then she realized something important. "Oh shit... Ghost!! I left Ghost down in the bar! I have a feeling she was also sucked in here with us, I have to go get her!" Luz nodded and said "Ok, should I go with you?" Amity replied "Don't worry, it won't take long. I'll be right back alright?" Luz nodded and said "Ok... just, be careful, Odalia might still be here." Amity replied "Oh don't worry about her, if I see her, I'll make her wish she had been a better Mom." She turned and left the room.

Reality....

The small group continued to hide inside of the shelter they took from all the chaos that was still going on outside, waiting for Luz, Amity, and Enzo to escape from the concealment box. "It's been 2 minutes so far, how long do you think it's been for them inside?" Asked Gus. "I don't know... Who knows how long a single person could remain trapped in there before losing their mind." Said King. 

Suddenly, they all heard loud mechanical footsteps outside. "Quiet." Eda whispered. They all stayed deathly silent, waiting for the noises to stop, but they didn't, instead, the roof above them suddenly got blown open! "LOOK OUT!!!!" Shouted Hooty. They all looked up to see a giant tripod machine looking down at them. "RUN!!!" Shouted Vee. The group quickly ran for the door as the tripod opened fire at them, Willow quickly drew a forcefield to block the incoming lasers as they all made a run for it, emerging outside back where all the chaos was, they could see even more tripods showing up as well.

"Holy Titan!! How many types of machines do these Archivists have?!!" Asked Hunter. King held the concealment box tightly as they all kept running, they could no longer see anyone else in sight, that could either mean two things, the Archivists killed everyone, or the entire townspeople took off running for their lives. Suddenly, several more machines showed up and blocked their way, along with the Archivists, who levitated high in the sky. 

"There you are!" Shouted Pismis, looking down upon them. "King, hold that box tightly, we can't let them get it." Said Eda. Doradus raised his hand out and shouted "KILL THEM!!" All the machines soon targeted them, but before they could fire, they were suddenly blasted by energy beams from behind!

"What?!" Orion shouted, they all looked to see a whole army of witches marching into the battle, it was the royal guard! Their commander, Steve, came driving into battle on his motorcycle as he shouted "CHARGE!!!" As he started firing beams of energy at some of the machines, which actually proved effective at destroying them. "YEAH!! THE ARMY IS HERE!!" Shouted Raine. Orion pointed at the army and shouted "DESTROY THEM ALL!!"

The witch army and all of the Archivists' machines engaged in battle, firing everything they had on each other. Soon Steve drove over to the group and asked "You guys ok??" They all nodded. "Good, I think some of you might wanna take these to protect yourselves, a little gift from Alador." He handed them some gauntlets. "What are these?" Asked Lilith. "Magic gauntlets, they were designed for those who can't use magic, I feel like some of you might need those to protect yourselves." 

Eda put it on her hand as it powered on, and so did Lilith and Hunter, since they were the only ones who couldn't actually perform magic naturally. "Can we help you guys in the fight in any way?" Asked Raine. Steve replied "No, get yourselves out of here, we got this!!" He got back on his motorcycle and drove off into battle "BRING IT SUCKERS!!!" He shouted.

They all watched him drive into battle as Willow said "Well, we should do what he says I suppose, we gotta protect that box after all." They all turned and ran, but then a few robots began firing at them from a distance. But then Eda looked at the gauntlet Steve had given her and said "Hang on! I got this!" She pointed her hand out as the gauntlet displayed the glyph that Eda wanted to use, causing a powerful volt of electricity to get fired out of the palm of the gauntlet. It hit the machine, causing it to explode on the spot.

Eda gasped in amazement at what she just saw, she then said with a smile "Oh I'm keeping this alright!" She then spread out her wings and flew into the air, firing at several incoming stars, blowing them up one by one. Vee looked up at her and chuckled as she said "Heh, she looks like Iron Man." 

Eda flew back down to them and said "Let's keep going! At least now we have a chance to fight back now." King picked up the box as they kept going, with several more machines hot in pursuit.

Meanwhile inside the simulated world, Amity walked through the long corridors of the manor, trying to make her way back to the bar so she could go retrieve Ghost, as soon as she found the bar she went inside, searching for Ghost. "Ghost? You in here??" She called out for Ghost, and in an instant, Ghost came out of hiding and walked towards her. "Oh there you are!" Amity said with a smile and knelt down before her. "Come on, let's get out of this simulated nightmare." She said as she willed Ghost into a staff. 

She quietly walked outside of the bar, so far the place seemed completely empty, not a single witch in sight, however, that would soon change when she saw another projection turn the corner, it saw her and started chasing her, Amity quickly turned around and began to run, she kept running down the corridor before hiding behind a corner, pulling out her palisman, she had a plan to surprise attack the projection once it turned this corner. 

As soon as the projection arrived, Amity quickly smacked it in the stomach with her palisman, before grabbing it by the throat. The two of them wrestled around for a while. However, things wouldn't be so easy, back in reality, the group of witches kept running as fast as they could from the attacking robot armada, Eda, Lilith, and Hunter tried shooting at them, but more and more kept coming. Suddenly, as King ran ahead, a giant tripod suddenly stepped in front of him, causing him to scream as he dropped the box down on its side.

As a result, gravity suddenly shifted as the simulated world began to flip on its side. Causing both the projection and Amity to fall towards the wall. Amity was quick to get back on her feet however as she then kicked the projection, causing him to fall down an endless hallway that was now facing down due to the gravity shift. Amity sighed as she turned around, only to see her mother Odalia standing there. "There you are, I can't believe you're willing to throw your entire life away for a criminal! And for that, you are no daughter of mine!" Amity sighed as she formed abomination fists on her hands, before charging towards Odalia.

Back in the real world however, the amount of attacking robots began to overwhelm them all, King picked up the box but didn't turn it right side up, so the gravity inside of the simulated world remained sideways, several robot stars continued to fire down upon him, Eda soon noticed the huge amount of robot stars that were shooting at him as she shouted "KING LOOK OUT!!" King looked up to see a star fire at him, he managed to turn away from it just in time to avoid being shot at, but he slipped in the process, causing him to drop the box again "NO!!" He shouted as he watched the box begin to roll down a hill.

Due to the rolling, gravity inside the simulated world literally began to slowly rotate in a complete circle! As Amity hurried down the corridor to attack Odalia, she suddenly felt the corridor begin to tilt as gravity began turning towards the ceiling, and Amity and Odalia were forced to literally step onto the ceiling to avoid falling.

Amity and Odalia began to fight each other on the ceiling while gravity continued to slowly rotate around in circles, Odalia tried to punch Amity but Amity was able to grab the fist as she headbutted Odalia, then, using the strength of her abomination fist, she slammed her towards the right wall, but then gravity shifted towards that side due to the rotation which caused Amity to lose her balance as she fell towards that wall, giving Odalia the upper hand as she got to her feet and tackled Amity.

The two of them wrestled with each other on the wall for a moment, but everything was still rotating around as they continued fighting, the gravity soon shifted towards the ground more which caused them both to slide down towards it, Amity was able to get back up to her feet however as she kicked Odalia before she could get up, she then tried to balance herself against the other wall as the gravity started to shift towards it.

Odalia got back up and landed on the wall next to her as she drew a spell circle and fired a beam of energy at Amity, but she dodged it and leaped towards the ceiling as soon as she felt the tilt begin to get steeper. It was quite difficult, fighting for her life while also trying to keep up with the constant gravity rotation that was occurring due to the concealment box rolling down a hill. And it would take a long time for it to get to the bottom of the hill due to time being slower inside of it. 

Amity and Odalia continued to wrestle around with each other in the rotating corridor, Amity punched Odalia towards the wall and then landed down on it to attack her some more, but Odalia grabbed her by the foot and managed to get her to fall, she fell down towards the floor as gravity faced down in that direction, she tried to get up, but then Odalia tackled her, the gravity shifted towards the wall as they both began falling in that direction, but rather than hit the wall beneath them, they fell through a door, entering the bar, they both hit the hard wall with a thud but fought on regardless.

All the furniture in the room was literally rolling around across every side of it due to the constant rotation of gravity that was going on, Amity had to avoid stuff like chairs and class cups while she fought the projection of her mother. They both soon fell towards the wall but Amity grabbed onto one of the tables, she grabbed a glass bottle as it fell and then leaped towards the ceiling where Odalia now was, she landed beside her and smacked her in the head with the glass bottle in her hand, causing her to collapse towards the left wall. Amity managed to land on that wall next to her and draw a spell circle that fired energy beams at her, but Odalia shielded herself. 

Amity quickly stepped onto the floor to maintain her balance as gravity shifted once more, she grabbed one of the chairs, slamming it against Odalia, she collapsed to the floor as Amity got on top of her and wrestled with her, but Odalia headbutted her, causing her to fall towards the right wall as Odalia landed down onto it next to her, she kicked Amity against the floor shouting "YOU COULD HAVE LIVED UP TO THE FAMILY NAME!! HOW DARE YOU STRIKE AGAINST YOUR OWN MOTHER!!" 

Amity was truly angered by this, she suddenly felt gravity rotate back to the ceiling as she let herself fall towards it to dodge another kick from Odalia. Odalia gasped as she lost her balance and fell towards the wall, Amity got up and quickly grabbed Odalia  with her abomination fists, picking her up and pinning her against the wall before gravity could shift towards it. 

Amity started to punch her in the face aggressively. "YOU REALLY ARE THE WORST MOTHER EVER!!" She shouted, before landing down on the wall as gravity shifted towards it, landing right on top of Odalia as she pinned her down against it, punching her in the face even more with abomination fists.

Suddenly, Odalia managed to punch Amity off of her, she collapsed next to her as gravity began to shift towards the floor, causing them both to slide down towards it, Amity hit the floor first, she looked up to see Odalia falling down towards her, but then she had an idea as she quickly drew an ice spell. "This is for all the shit you put me through!" She said as she summoned a giant ice shard out of the floor, causing Odalia to fall right onto it as it impaled her, killing her in an instant!

The moment she was dead, the concealment box finally settled as it reached the bottom of the hill, causing the gravity rotations to finally stop as everything returned to normal.

Amity sighed in relief as she got back to he feet, looking at the dead body of Odalia right next to her, while it wasn't the real Odalia, it sure as hell felt like it though. She and her palisman soon left the room in the complete mess that it was now in as a result of the rotations. 

Amity soon met up with Luz, who was seen holding onto something as she said "There you are Amity! Thank Titan you're ok, one moment I was just standing here waiting, and then next thing I knew, everything around me started rotating in circles! I had to hold on for dear life just a few moments ago!"

"Yeah, the same thing happened for me too. I got into a fight with Odalia while that whole thing was happening!" Luz looked up at the sky and asked "What the hell is going on up there?"

Reality....

King quickly ran down the hill and picked up the concealment box before anyone else could get it. He then looked up to see that the robots were still on him! One of them fired at him, but then Hunter warped towards King and rescued him before firing energy beams from his gauntlet, blowing the robots up. "We have to keep going!!" He shouted. Eda and Lilith fired energy beams from their gauntlets as Lilith shouted "WE'LL HOLD THEM OFF!! GET OUT OF BONESBOROUGH NOW!!! WE'LL BE RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!!"

King nodded as he and the rest of the group ran for the edge of town. "Come on, any time now Luz, I don't know how long we can hold out for!" Willow said worriedly.

The Nightmare....

Back in the simulated world, Luz and Amity walked outside the manor to find themselves in Bonesborough. "Alright, where to next?" Asked Amity. Luz replied "We need to go and find Enzo, he's just gotta be at the emperor's castle, I just have a feeling that he's there." Suddenly, before any words could be said from there, they suddenly heard loud speakers go off as the voice of Kikimora spoke through them. 

"Attention citizens of the Boiling Isles, the human terrorist Luz Noceda has escaped custody and is now at large as we speak, and to make matters worse, Amity Blight has turned and joined her cause! I need every member of the emperor's coven to hunt these two fugitives down at once!!"

"Oh shit. We need to go now!" Amity shouted. Luz nodded in agreement as they took off running through the streets. However, before they knew it, the entire emperor's coven was searching for them, and they weren't able to stay hidden for long, because eventually, they were ambushed by several guards. "Great! Now what?" Asked Amity. Luz replied "Looks like we're fighting our way to the castle!!" As she charged her Titan claws with magic.

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Luz fired beams of energy at the guards, knocking them down, Amity formed abomination fists on her hands as she punched against several of the guards, forming a shield to block their attacks, Luz let out a powerful Titan roar, sending out a sonic blast that sent many of the guards flying, one of them tried to hit her in the head with his staff, but Luz grabbed the staff and pulled it from his hand, before punching the guard away with her super strength.

Luz then saw several more guards running towards her and Amity, she quickly fired lasers from her eyes at them, which fired clean through them. But even still, more and more guards kept showing up, the girls were surrounded! Luz formed a plant glyph on her hand as she slammed her hand against the ground, causing vines to grow out of the ground and grab several of the guards, swinging them around rapidly.

Amity suddenly got overwhelmed by the amount of guards there were as one of them suddenly shocked her in the back with his staff. Amity screamed as she fell to her knees. "AMI!!!" Shouted Luz as she quickly levitated into the air and punched that guard away, she then looked down at Amity and helped her up as she said "You make your way to the castle! I'll make sure all these projections follow me!!" Amity nodded and said "Good luck Luz." Before kissing her on the cheek. She pulled out her palisman and flew into the air.

Luz soon saw that both ways next to her were being blocked by more emperor's coven guards. All of them were pointing their staffs at her as one of them shouted "GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES HUMAN! WE HAVE YOU SURROUNDED!" Luz smirked as she said "Ok let me stop you right there, first of all, I'm a Half-Titan, remember that. And second, I can fly dumbass." Before leaping into the air and into the sky.

"WHAT!??" One of the guards shouted. Luz landed on top of a roof and began sprinting across it. All the guards quickly pursued her as they began to fly on their staffs. One of them flew behind Luz in the air and attempted a sneak attack, but Luz's super hearing allowed her to hear him approaching she pointed her hand behind her and drew a powerful spell circle that fired a large burst of flame at the guard, the guard screamed as he jumped off his staff in a panic to avoid the flames, only to hit the floor.

Luz kept running forward at intense speed, leaping over the edge of the roof and landing on another one, one of the guards suddenly flew right next to her as he tried to shoot at her, but Luz formed a forcefield around herself to block it, she then looked towards the guard and shouted "Hey! Heads up!!" As she leaped off of the roof and punched the guard off his staff, she then leaped off the staff while it was still in the air, giving her a boost to land on the rooftops on the other side of the road.

More and more guards continued to pursue Luz across the rooftops, but Luz wasn't giving up so easily, she fired laser eyes at a couple that tried to engage her head on. She then reached the edge of a roof, almost out of running space, but then she had an idea, she smiled as she formed an ice glyph on her hand and formed an ice bridge right in front of her. She slid across it while continuing to add more to the bridge. "WOOOHOOO!" She shouted.

The guards kept trying to shoot at her, but Luz was moving too fast. "I DON'T GET IT!! NO HUMAN SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THE THINGS SHE IS DOING!!" Shouted one of the guards. Luz soon pointed the ice glyph on her hand upwards a bit, forming a ramp that she slid off of as she traveled high into the sky, grabbing onto on of the guards' staff in the process, causing the guard to fly out of control. Luz let go as the guard fell to the floor. 

Luz kept on running before disappearing into an alleyway. "Where'd she go??" Asked one of the guards. However, as they flew overhead, Luz blasted into the sky right next to them all, which startled them all, she then supercharged her palisman with Titan magic as she spun it in a circle shouting "I think it's time you all knew who I really am, I'm Luz Noceda, human of Earth, Titan of the Boiling Isles!! NOW EAT THIS SUCKAS!!!!" She then spun her palisman around, drawing a huge spell circle with it.

Original artwork link: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/12ql0f0/titan_luz_fanart/

"Well shi-" Before the guard could say anything else, a powerful burst of light suddenly formed, all the guards screamed as they were stunned by the bright light, giving Luz the chance to attack them, she flew towards one of them and punched him towards the ground, before flying over to another one and kicking him down onto the roof. She then fired unleashed a Titan roar that sent another guard flying off his staff.

Once all the guards were dealt with, Luz took off with a sonic boom as she went to go meet up with Amity, who was still on her way over to the castle. "Luz! You made it! Did you take care of all those emperor's coven guards?" Amity asked. Luz nodded and said with a smile "Yep, sure did, barely an inconvenience really. Now, let's go save Enzo before the Archivists try to destroy this concealment device!" They both then flew towards the castle together.

Reality....

"Where are they?!!" Orion shouted in anger, still searching for the ones who had the concealment box, he and his brothers have left their robot army to go fight off against the army of witches that attacked them earlier while they went to go search for the small group of witches. They searched through the entire island trying to find them.

Suddenly, Helix flew towards him and said "Orion! I think we've found them!" Orion looked at him and asked "You have?! Bring me to them, now!! We cannot allow Luz, Amity, or the Collector to escape that box! We must have it destroyed before they can escape!!" Helix replied "And we will sir, you see, the Collector has been trapped in the not just the deepest part of the concealment box, but the heart of the box itself. It would take a lot for Luz and Amity to get to him."

Orion nodded and said "That remains to be seen, but we must make sure they do not reach him! Because he has the power to free them from the box. Let's go, alert the other brothers, we will find those witches, destroy the box, and kill them all!" Helix nodded as he flew away. 

To be continued....

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Luz and Amity continued to fly to the emperor's castle until it came into sight. "There it is!" Amity pointed. They both came to a stop as they landed on the ground, Luz could already see several emperor's coven guards blocking the front gate, taking them out won't be too hard, but there was still something she was worried about.

"Luz? What's wrong?" Asked Amity. Luz looked towards her and said "I'm worried... what if Belos really is in there? I mentioned it earlier, but I really wanted to hope I won't see him, but now that I've reached his castle..." Amity put her hand on Luz's shoulder, she said "Luz. We can take him, besides, it's not the real Belos after all, everyone here except for us and Enzo are merely projections, you killed Belos over 4 years ago. He's gone Luz."

Luz nodded and said "I know... I just hate thinking about him, now knowing I may have to face him again, it scares me, it feels like he's come back to haunt me..." Amity held Luz's hand with a smile and said "Well, I'll be here to help you if you do have to fight him, besides, since you got Titan powers beating him should be just as easy as it was last time you fought him." Luz nodded and said "Ok, let's go."

Reality....

The group of witches kept on running, they didn't stop until they reached the knee, after climbing for a while they went to go hide in a cave, hoping that they'll be safe from the Archivists in there. Raine drew a light spell to light up the room as they said "Ok, we'll be safe here, hopefully..." Everyone sat down as King put the concealment box down. "Luz, please hurry..." He said. 

Willow remained outside, seeing the chaos happening in the distance, all of Bonesborough was on fire, the entire castle of the Archivists was hovering above it as the Archivists' machines waged chaos on the town. Willow had tears in her eyes as she sat down. Hunter approached her and sat down next to her, looking silently at the destruction in the distance.  He then looked towards Willow and asked "Still worried about your Dads" 

Willow looked at him and nodded and said "They could still be in there... they could be dead for all I know!" Hunter scooted closer towards Willow and said "You know, when we were all trapped in the human realm for a while, I was feeling exactly the same, I had only recently found out Belos was a human witch hunter who created me just for the sake of his plans, and how he had lied and used me my entire life. I was under a lot of stress during that time, trying to process all of it."

Willow replied "I think we all were under severe stress at the time, we were cut off from our world, the Collector- er, Enzo had taken over the Boiling Isles, and Luz was constantly blaming herself over all of it." Hunter replied "Yeah, I know, I actually caught her trying to inflict harm on herself since she felt like she was to blame for all of it." Willow looked at Hunter in shock and asked "You saw Luz try to do what?! She wouldn't!" 

Hunter replied "Well, she'd been through a lot at that time, and now knowing all the loneliness she suffered from when she was still living in the human realm, I feel like that also contributed to it as well." Willow sighed and said "I don't know what's gonna happen to us Hunter, what if the Archivists have already won? What if this is the end for our entire race?" Hunter wrapped his arm around Willow and said "Oh come on Willow, don't think that way, it'll be alright. If I know Luz, she'll do everything she can to stop this before it worsens..."

"But Luz isn't here right now... and we don't know when she'll be back." Willow said with a frown. Hunter looked at her and said "Willow, it hurts to see you being so negative, I understand things seem pretty grim, but we have to hold onto hope as much as we can, please don't give up now Willow... I love you." Willow went silent and looked towards him, she let out a soft smile and said "...I love you too Hunter." They both leaned in for a kiss on the lips. 

"Alright come on, let's just go inside now alright?" Said Hunter. Willow nodded as they both entered the cave.

The Nightmare....

Amity approached the castle walls, she then drew a spell circle, which fired out a fireball into the sky, getting the attention of all the guards. "INTRUDER!!!" One of them shouted, they all picked up their spears and ran outside, heading in the direction of where the fireball went off, however, when they arrived on the scene, there was no one in sight...

Except for Luz, who had activated an invisibility spell and was already standing in the middle of them all without any of them realizing. She soon spoke to them which disabled the spell. "Honestly guys, how bad are you at your jobs?" She said. The emperor's coven guards all looked towards her and gasped at the sight of her. "AAAAAAHH!!! WHAT IS THAT!!?? IS THAT LUZ??!! WHAT HAPPENED TO HER!!?" Shouted one of them. "WHO GIVES A CRAP!? SHOOT HER!!!" 

All the guards pointed their staffs at Luz and opened fire, she smirked as she created a forcefield around her, she then fired laser eyes at the spears, disabling them. She smiled and said "Ok, my turn!" She suddenly sprinted towards one of them, punching them into the sky with her super strength, the other guards tried to run for it, but Luz charged her palisman with Titan magic, before slamming it into the ground to create a powerful shockwave that hit the guards, knocking them down.

Soon Amity met up with her and said "Well that was easy." Luz nodded and said "Yeah... too easy if I'm being honest, now let's get inside!" Luz approached the front gate, punching it open with her super strength as it fell over a few other guards. They went inside as Luz said "Alright, Enzo has to be in here somewhere, come on!" They both ran down the long corridors of the castle, completely unaware of a rotten goopy figure watching them from the darkness.

The small group of witches remained hidden inside the cave, waiting for their friends to escape the box. "Come on, at least give us a sign that it's going well for you in there!" Said Gus. "How long has it been?" Asked Raine. Eda replied "Well for us it's been 30 minutes since they were first trapped in there. I don't know how much 30 minutes for us is for them in there." "I bet it's been several hours for them." Said King.

Suddenly, the cave they were in began to rumble. "What??" Wondered Eda, she quickly took a peak outside to see the Archivists were punching against the mountain! "SHIT!! THEY'VE FOUND US!!" Eda shouted. "What?!! How??!!" Asked Vee. "I don't know, King, give me the box, I'm gonna fly away with it while the rest of you keep them busy." Said Eda. "Wait you're just leaving us??!" Asked Willow. Eda replied "No of course not! I just need to get the box away from the Archivists, and then I'll be right back! We can't let them destroy this thing!"

King handed Eda the box as Eda shifted into her harpy mode. "Alright, try and keep them on you!" She said. Lilith, King, Raine, and the Hex Squad went outside as King looked at the Archivists and shouted "HEY!!!" They all looked at him as Orion said "Well what do we have here? A Titan! Destroy them all!" The Archivists flew down towards them to attack, but King shouted a powerful "WEEEEEHH!!" At them, knocking them back, the rest of the Hex Squad got on their palismen and flew into battle.

Eda watched them fight and quickly took the chance to take the box safely away. The moment she picked it up, it caused the simulated world inside of it to shake around a bit like it was having an Earthquake. Luz and Amity stumbled around a bit as they tried to get through the castle walls. "Woah!! What's happening?!" Shouted Amity. The moment the shaking stopped, Luz replied "Something's not right up there... We need to hurry!! I think the Archivists are chasing after our friends!!"

Luz dashed towards Amity and scooped her up. "Gaaah!! Luz what are you doing?!!" She asked, feeling somewhat flustered. "I'm speeding things up!! Hang on!!" As she started running forward at intense super speed, hoping to find Enzo before it was too late.

Back in reality, Eda snuck outside the cave as the Hex Squad kept the Archivists distracted. She spread out her wings and flew off. However, one of the Archivists, Helix suddenly noticed her escaping with the box. Eda looked back at Helix and flipped her middle finger at him before flying off at intense speed. Angered, Helix blasted towards her with a sonic boom. Eda could hear him chasing behind as she muttered "Shit, this won't be fun..." Helix fired laser eyes at her, but Eda was able to dodge it by flying to the left, but doing so caused the simulated world inside the box to tilt towards the left as well, causing the ground Luz and Amity were standing on to rotate at an incline.

Luz lost her balance and fell as she dropped Amity, they both rolled to the left side of the corridor, Luz planted her claws into the ground as she struggled to get up, but the ground had suddenly gone incredibly steep. "TITAN!! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON UP THERE??!" Shouted Amity. It was incredibly hard to hold on, but they kept on going regardless as they tried to walk across the now steep floor. 

Suddenly, the entire simulation flipped upside down, causing Luz and Amity to scream as they fell to the ceiling, landing head first, "OW!!!" Amity screamed as she hit the ceiling, Luz quickly got up and checked on her. "You ok Ami bear?!" She asked worriedly. Amity gave her a thumbs up and said "Y-yeah, all good. I can't imagine what's going on up there right now." Turns out Helix had caught up to Eda and grabbed her by the foot, but Eda was able to kick him off of her, but nearly dropped the box in the process, she managed to grab onto it while it was facing downwards, which is why gravity was now upside down.

"Guess we'll have to work with this..." Said Luz as they kept on moving, suddenly, the wall blew open beside them. Once the smoke cleared, they saw a giant abomination mech come inside, with Kikimora piloting it! "Oh crap! you again!!" Luz said in annoyance. Kikimora laughed and said "Well well well, Luz Noceda, I see you've gained some sort of magical upgrade that you claim you got from the Titan! How much of a fraud are you?! Everyone knows only Belos can speak to the Titan! I will personally enjoy tearing you both apart!!!"

Kikimora proceeded to fire lasers at them both. "LOOK OUT!!" Luz shouted as she shielded both herself and Amity, she then spun her palisman around as she drew a spell circle with it, causing ice to grow from underneath Kiki's mech, launching it into the sky. Luz then leaped into the air and attempted to punch it, but the mech suddenly grabbed her tightly as it landed back on the ground. "LUZ!!" Amity shouted as she quickly formed a giant abomination creature of her own. "HEY!! I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WITH AN ABOMINATION!!" She shouted.

The abomination charged at Kikimora, punching her in the face as her mech dropped Luz, Luz got up and smirked as she levitated into the air and charged at the mech, punching it with intense force as it crashed through the wall. "She won't be down for long! RUN!!!" She shouted as both she and Amity quickly started running as fast as they could down the corridor. "GRRRR!! GET BACK HERE!!!" Kikimora shouted as she got the mech back on its feet.

Back in reality, Eda continued to fly near the edge of the Isles with Helix hot on her tail. "Come on come on!! There has to be a way to lose him!" She said to herself. She tried firing her gauntlet at Helix, but he dodged every blast, he then threw a massive star at Eda, it flew right past her which startled her. "WOAH!!" She shouted as she flew out of control, causing her to drop the concealment box from her hands as it began to fall into the boiling sea! "OH SHIT!!" She shouted as she began to fly down to grab it.

As the box began to fall, Luz and Amity suddenly felt the gravitational pull towards the ceiling cease as they suddenly began to float through mid air. "Gaaah!!! What's going on??!" Amity shouted. They both continued to float around as all sense of which direction was up or down suddenly faded, the gravity was now completely gone as a result of the box falling.

"That's it, I gotta see what's going on out there! What just happened to the gravity?" Luz said as she levitated towards her shadow and sticked her face through it, allowing her shadow to emerge out of the box in reality, she gasped as she saw that the box was falling towards the boiling sea. She quickly reemerged back into the simulated world as she shouted "I know what's going on Amity!! We're falling from a high height!!" 

"What??" Asked Amity. Luz levitated towards her and said "The box isn't sitting on any solid surface, That's why the gravity is gone! We're in freefall right now!! And to make matters worse, we're falling into the boiling sea!!" Amity freaked out and shouted "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? How are we supposed to rescue Enzo now?!" Luz replied "Don't worry, since time moves significantly slower in here we still have plenty of time before the box falls into the sea, and not just that, I noticed Eda flying down towards the box to grab it, once she does gravity should hopefully return." 

Amity then asked "How long will it take for her to reach us if time moves way slower for us in here?" Luz thought for a moment and said "Well, for her I'd say only 5 seconds, which means for us I'd estimate a couple minutes perhaps." Amity was surprised by that and said "Jeez, time moves that slow in this thing huh." Luz nodded in response as she said "Until gravity returns, we'll have to keep going like this."

"Heh, says the one who can literally fly which defies gravity, this isn't as much of a problem for you as it is for me." Said Amity. Luz replied "Just grab onto whatever you can to push yourself forward, if you know anything about anti-gravity, whatever direction you're currently moving in, you'll stay in that motion forever." Amity nodded as she quickly got a grip on the wall and pulled herself forward as both she and Luz floated down the corridor.

They arrived at the throne room, assuming that Enzo was locked in there. Luz clenched her fists and harnessed her super strength, punching the door down. Both girls floated inside, only to find that the room was completely empty! Even Belos wasn't there! "You've gotta be kidding me, he isn't here?!" Asked Amity. Luz sighed as she thought for a moment. "Hang on, there's still another room that we can check, it was where Belos hid the portal door to Earth..." 

Luz helped Amity turn herself around in the air as they both left for the door, only for Kikimora to suddenly ambush them! "I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU YET!!" She shouted, she fired a laser towards Amity. Knowing that Amity would be unable to control what direction she's going in without gravity, she quickly shoved Amity aside to save her from the laser, causing her to float towards the wall. "Woah! Thanks Luz." Luz turned to face Kikimora as she flew towards her.

Kikimora activated rocket launchers out of the mech's back to allow her to control what direction she was going in since there was still zero gravity. She fired another laser at Luz, but she dodged it and fired lasers from her eyes at the mech. But Kikimora drew a spell circle and blocked it with a forcefield. Luz clenched her fists as she pounced the mech, they both bounced off the floor as they began fighting in mid air.

Luz punched the mech aggressively in the stomach, before kicking it away towards the wall, but it bounced off the wall and came right back towards Luz, Kikimora fired another laser beam at Luz, but she blasted towards the ceiling and dodged it, she quickly planted her feet against the ground as she thrusted herself off of it, right back down towards Kikimora's mech.

She clenched her fist and charged it with Titan magic as she punched the mech towards the ground, it bounced right off the ground as Luz grabbed it by the arm, swinging it around a few times before throwing it towards the ceiling.

Kikimora made an angry face as she managed to launch herself back towards Luz at a quick speed. "JUST DIE ALREADY!!" She shouted. Luz on the other hand pulled out her palisman as she formed an ice glyph on it, causing her palisman to glow bright blue, she pointed it at Kikimora's mech as she said with a smile "Sorry Kiki, I've already been dead before!" She then fired ice directly out of her palisman as it froze the mech's laser canon in ice before it could shoot at Luz.

Luz then fired lasers from her eyes as the lasers hit the laser canon as it shattered into tiny little ice cubes. As the mech continued to come down towards Luz, Luz flew over it and grabbed ahold of its jet thrusters. "NO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Kikimora shouted as Luz removed the jet thrusters with her super strength. Kiki drew a spell circle as she quickly tried to stop Luz, but Luz simply punched her.

Luz then grabbed onto the abomination mech's hand with a vine she grew out of the ground, swinging it towards the ceiling as she slammed the mech against it. She then blasted towards the mech once again, clenching her fists as she punched the mech with so much force she sent it flying through the ceiling and out of the castle.

Kikimora suddenly realized she was outside and was now endlessly floating into the endless void of space since there was no gravity now. She tried to activate the rocket thrusters of her mech, only to remember that Luz tore them off. She screamed in anger as she floated endlessly into the sky. 

Luz and Amity watched as Amity said "Well that's certainly one way to take care of that problem. I'm impressed, you literally took advantage of having no gravity to defeat her!" Luz smiled and said "Oh it was nothing, come on, let's go." Amity nodded as she pushed herself off the wall and followed Luz as they drifted their way towards Belos's secret room.

They arrived at a staircase as Luz held Amity by the hand as they both arrived at the bottom, and at the bottom was a locked vault door. "This has to be it." Luz said. Suddenly, the force of gravity suddenly returned as both Luz and Amity collapsed to the floor. "Jeez! At least gravity's back to normal now but why'd it have to be so sudden???" Amity asked. Luz shrugged in response.

Back in reality, Eda finally caught the falling concealment box before it could fall into and melt in the boiling sea. "GOT IT! That was close." She said, while it had only taken her 5 seconds, those 5 seconds felt like several minutes for Luz and Amity inside. She then looked up and fired a powerful blast of energy at Helix, stunning him as he fell onto the beach. "That should keep him down for now." Eda said as she flew off to go hide the box.

Back inside the simulated world, Luz punched the vault door open with her Titan strength as she and Amity walked inside. And there it was, the portal door. Luz and Amity looked towards it for a moment as Amity asked "What do you think is behind it? A simulated version of Earth? or something else?" Luz replied "I'm willing to bet something else, I doubt this concealment box is that advanced enough to create a simulated separate dimension, besides, the Archivists have never even been to Earth, but one thing I know for certain is that Enzo has to be beyond that door, they just have to be!"

Before they could take another step, a giant figure suddenly landed in between them and the door, it looked up at them. Luz and Amity were soon met by a hideous corpse like figure, who's flesh was barely holding itself together for it had been reduced to a goopy like substance that looked like it was on the edge of dissolving. There were blue eyes all over the creature's body, along with two horns that sticked out of its head. It was emperor Belos.

Original artwork link: https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryHorrors/comments/vsdzcf/emperor_belos_by_dana_terrace_art_by_sparrrow/

Luz gasped at the sight of her old rival, he'd certainly seen better days. Belos got up onto his feet and said in a raspy voice "Luz Noceda! You've got a lot of nerve coming here!! I see you've finally managed to figure out how to preform magic naturally by physically altering yourself into a witch! How's it feel Luz? Do you feel as if you've finally achieved your dream??" Luz remained silent, she gripped her Palisman tightly.

Amity put her hand on Luz's shoulder and said "Luz, remember, it's not the real Belos, it's just a projection remember? You killed Belos already!" Luz looked at her and nodded silently. Belos continued "You disgust me Luz, you're a HUMAN!! Yet here you are, literally trying to become one of these sinners! Your soul is now just as cursed as my brother Caleb's was when he turned his back on me for that god damn witch Evelyn!! I'm going to enjoy ripping you to shreds!!" 

Belos let out a menacing growl as he extended his arms toward Luz, but Luz quickly charged her palisman with Titan magic as she swung it at the approaching arm, knocking it away. "Oh I can't wait to see you try!!" She shouted, both she and Amity attacked Belos. Amity drew a fire spell and shot fire at Belos, which actually managed to melt a tiny bit of his already half dissolved flesh. He roared at Amity and extended his arm out towards her, grabbing her as he threw her towards the wall. 

"AMITY!!" Luz shouted as she charged at Belos, she levitated into the air and began punching Belos in the face with extreme force repeatedly, trying to punch as much of the flesh off of him as possible, but Belos managed to grab onto her fist and slam her into the ground. "Superhuman strength huh? I don't know what sort of sorcery you've tainted yourself with, but it ends now!" Belos shouted. Luz slowly got up and said "I'll tell you what it is, it's Titan magic!!" 

Luz formed a glyph on her hand, she tapped it and formed vines that grew out of the ground as one of them grabbed Belos on the leg, before swing him around in circles, it then threw him against the ground, Belos quickly got up and shifted his hands into large blades as he swung them at Luz, but Luz quickly fused abomination magic with her palisman as Stringbean shapeshifted into a scythe, allowing Luz to block the attacks, she swung her scythe at Belos as they both clashed with each other.

Belos roared as he slammed one of the blades against the ground, but Luz rolled out of the way, she got back up and fired lasers from her eyes at Belos, Belos let out a shriek of pain as the lasers managed to set some of his skin on fire, as he tried to put the fire out, Luz took the chance to unleash a Titan roar at Belos, causing him to be sent flying as he splat against the wall.

Luz quickly helped Amity up and asked "Are you alright?" Amity nodded. Luz looked at the door and ran towards it. She knew the door could only be powered on by Titan blood, luckily Luz was part Titan so opening this thing should be easy. She put her clawed hand on the doorknob and channeled her Titan energy inside of it, soon the door began to glow, before opening.

Luz and Amity saw a bright white light inside. They held hands as they went through, little did they know, Belos was still alive, he slowly reformed himself and growled as he said "You... will never reach the Collector." As he pursued them.

To be continued.... 

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Reality....

The Hex Squad continued to fight off the Archivists. Hunter and Lilith tried firing magic beams out of their gauntlets, but the Archivists were flying all over the place, dodging all their attacks. King tried shouting out as many sonic blasts as he could to bring them down, but it only stunned them for a little while. "WE COULD REALLY USE LUZ RIGHT ABOUT NOW!!" Shouted Willow as she tried to grab onto one of the Archivists with a vine, but to no avail.

The Nightmare....

In the simulated world, Luz and Amity emerged on the other side of the door. And what they found themselves in was some sort of bizarre and distorted reality. "Where in the Titan's name are we??" Amity asked. Luz took a look around for a while, but then she began to notice something familiar, a memory. "Wait a second..." She mumbled as she dashed over to it, Amity followed her behind as Luz approached what appeared to be one of her memories.

"I know this... this was the day we first moved to Gravesfield." She said. Amity looked closely at the memory, before her stood a house. Suddenly, a car drove up to it and parked beside it, and out came Luz, her mother Camila, and her father. Amity was surprised to see Luz's dad standing there. "Luz, is that..." Luz nodded and said "Yeah, my dad had recently came down with cancer, and Mom thought that if we moved here, something could be done about it here."

Amity suddenly heard Luz's dad start to cough a little bit as Camila quickly comforted him. Luz sighed as she turned around, she noticed even more memories of hers, but her memories weren't the only ones there, there were also memories from both Amity and Enzo! "I think I know where we are, we're in the heart of the simulation. This is where it processes all of our memories and tries to create a world based on what we fear most." Luz said. 

Amity looked around, seeing a few memories that she was all too familiar with, including the one where she was forced to end her friendship with Willow due to her mother's manipulation. A memory she's regretted ever since. Luz and Amity quietly walked through the heart of the simulation, they were basically taking a trip down memory lane. Luz soon noticed more memories of hers and pointed towards them saying "There's the day when we attended the funeral after my father passed away... And there's that time I read my first Azura book."

Amity looked at all the memories of Luz, but she couldn't help but notice a lot of them seemed kind of grim. She saw memories of Luz's time back in school, where she would go on about wanting to learn witchcraft and magic, only to be made fun of afterward.

"So Luz, who do you want to be when you grow up?" Asked the teacher, Luz got up from her desk and said with a wide smile "I wanna be a WITCH! Just like the good witch Azura! I'll learn how to do all sorts of cool witchcraft and magic and be the most powerful witch in the world!!" However, Luz was met with a cruel response. "Hey guys, check it out! Luz said she wants to be a witch! Can you believe this nerd??" All the kids began to chuckle as one of them said "Magic doesn't exist dumbass!" Luz's smile faded as they all began to say mean things to her. Eventually Luz screamed in sadness as she ran out of the classroom, slamming the door behind her as she collapsed to the floor, she began to cry uncontrollably as she sat there in utter despair.

Amity couldn't believe what she was seeing, her own girlfriend being shunned by everyone in school over a simple passion of hers, that just didn't seem fair! Amity would soon see more and more of Luz's memories of her time back on Earth, the more she saw, the more angered she felt by it.

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The memories soon led to one final memory, she found Luz standing there staring at this memory intensively, it was in Luz's bedroom. She stood next to Luz and saw the face she was making, Luz had this frown on her face that showed her that this memory was a deep and personal one.

"What memory is this?" Amity asked. Luz remained silent before saying "...It's.... it's the day I thought about taking my own life." Amity observed the memory, she saw Luz laying there in the bed, and she was crying.

Luz just came back from a miserable day at school, she just got into a fight with another student who made fun of her Azura collection. As Luz continued to lay there in bed, all the insults from the people at school were flooding her mind, she sighed as she asked herself "I- I don't understand... why does everybody hate me?? Are... are they right? Am I an idiot who's chasing an impossible dream? Is this just a result of my father's death? Is this just some dumb phase of mine that will pass one day?? What if I don't want it to pass? W-why does it have to be me??"

Luz got up from bed and put her hands on her face as she thought to herself "It's not fair... why can't I be who I wanna be?" The insults she received from people at school began to flood her mind even further.

"You know... sometimes I wish that kid just didn't show up anymore, you know what I mean?" 

Luz let this thought flood her mind, maybe they were right. Maybe the problem wasn't simply her obsession with witchcraft, maybe she herself was the problem, and that she herself needed to be removed in order to get rid of the problem. Tears poured down her face as she got up from bed and turned on her computer, and she hit record.

"Hey Mom... Uh, I don't know if you'll ever see this message... but I wanna let you know, I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused since I gained this obsession with witchcraft, I really am as stupid as they say aren't I.... I mean, just look at me! A teenager, pursuing some 'childhood fantasy' that can never and never will be reached because it's just a fantasy, one that I need to learn to break out of... but that's the problem, because I can't break out of it... not after what happened to Dad... And maybe.... m-maybe it would be in everyone's best interest if I wasn't around anymore, it's best for everyone, and maybe even best for you as well... I'm sorry for everything Mom... goodbye." 

The memory came to a stop right there. Amity was shocked by its abrupt ending as she looked at Luz and said "Damn... you really did have it rough in the human realm didn't you." Luz nodded, a tear ran down her face as she said "They all hated me for the things that I loved the most in life... I was all alone, for so many years, and now you finally got to see firsthand how all of it affected me..."

Amity nodded and asked "What happened after? While you clearly never went through with taking your own life since you're still alive today, how close did you come to actually going through with it?" Luz looked down and said "Dangerously close. I actually formulated a plan on how I would die, that was how close I came to going through with it. Why I stopped however is... complicated." Amity looked at Luz, seeing that she was crying, she put her hands on Luz's face and said "Oh babe... I'm so sorry, you didn't deserve to go through any of that."

Luz tried to hold back her tears, but Amity smiled and said "It's ok Luz, you can let it out. I'm here for you." Luz closed her eyes as she wrapped her arms around Amity, pulling her into a tight hug as tears began running down her face, she sobbed uncontrollably as the painful memories of her past replayed in her mind. Amity hugged Luz tightly, rubbing against her fur in hopes of calming her down as she said "It's alright Luz, you pulled through it all, and now here you are, you became a witch, you proved all those bastards back on Earth wrong!" 

Luz nodded as she wiped her tears away as she said "I- I know... I just... I can never forget the pain that I went through." Amity sighed and said "I understand Luz. But let's not focus on the pain of the past alright? We've still got to rescue Enzo." Luz nodded and said "Right... let's go." 

They continued on their way through the memory zone, trying to find Enzo somewhere, if they even were in this place, but Luz knew he just had to be. Suddenly, Luz's super hearing kicked in as she shouted "WATCH OUT!!!" She tackled Amity out of the way as Belos landed right next to them both. "You thought you could just escape that easily did you??? HA!! YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!!" Luz and Amity looked at Belos as Luz said "You go find Enzo! I'll hold him off!" She pulled out her Palisman and approached Belos.

"Why would you do this to yourself Luz? Changing yourself into a literal witch?! You're better than this! Better than them!" Luz smirked and said "Wow, you still view yourself as the hero don't you. No wonder you murdered Caleb!" Belos shouted back "CALEB BETRAYED ME!! EVELYN TAINTED HIS SOUL!!" Luz replied "No, YOU betrayed him, he simply found the love of his life, and you MURDERED him for it!"

Belos let out an angry growl and shouted "I WILL MAKE YOUR DEATH AS PAINFUL AS POSSIBLE! HUMAN!!" Luz smirked and shouted "BRING IT BELOS!!!"

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Luz swung her palisman at Belos, dispersing several glyphs at him, they exploded around him as he let out a screech in response. Luz then flew over to him and punched him in the face before grabbing him by the horns on his head, lifting him up into the air before slamming him down onto the floor. She then blasted down towards Belos as she attempted to tackle him, but he rolled out of the way before she could attack.

Luz flew towards Belos again, but he managed to dissolve himself into a puddle as Luz flew right over him, he then reformed himself on the other side as he grabbed Luz by the leg, slamming her against the floor multiple times. He got on top of Luz and pinned her against the floor, holding his giant hand over Luz's face. Luz let out an angry Titan growl as she fired laser eyes through Belos's hand, Belos screamed as he pulled away, allowing Luz to get up.

Luz formed a glyph on her hand as she tapped it, causing abomination fists to form on her hands as she flew towards Belos and punched him repeatedly, using as much strength as possible, she quickly punched Belos into the air and chased after, she flew above Belos and then slammed him back down towards the ground. As Belos laid there, he began to struggle to maintain his physical shape as he felt his body start to melt even more.

"No! Not now..." He murmured, he quickly got back to his feet as Luz flew down towards attack him some more. Belos morphed his hands into sharp blades and swung them at Luz, but she quickly ducked under them and formed a scythe out of her palisman using abomination magic. She then swung at Belos to attack him as Belos blocked the attack with his blades, the two of them clashed together. 

Belos slammed his blades down over Luz, she was able to deflect it with her scythe and then sprinted around Belos, slashing him in the back, he let out a growl of pain and turned around to face Luz. "You really do have the blood of the Titan inside of you. I'm not even sure if I can call you a human anymore!" Luz looked at Belos and replied "And I'm not sure if I can call you human either Belos!" Belos instantly shouted back "I am human!!!" 

"Are you? I mean, just look at yourself! You've lost all resemblance of your human self! You've become the very thing you've been trying to destroy! Don't you get it Belos?? None of us are human anymore! We've both changed for better or for worse! But unlike you, I accept what I have become. Unlike you, who still clings to the need to be the hero!" Luz approached Belos as she continued "Come on Philip, let's finish this the same way we started all of this!" Belos roared at her as Luz levitated into the air and charged at Belos.

Amity hurried through the long hallway of memories, trying to find Enzo somewhere, but all she found were more and more memories of her, Luz, and Enzo, but Enzo themself was no where to be found. She kept running, before passing by a mysterious door that had a star on it. She stopped and ran back too it. She looked closely at the door, she came to the conclusion that Enzo had to be beyond this door.

She tried to open the door, but for some reason it wouldn't budge. Amity pulled harder, she even tried punching it down using abomination fists, but it remained resilient. It was like the door need a special key to open. "Luz... it needs Luz to open it!" Amity said, she quickly turned around to go find Luz.

Luz and Belos continued to clash with each other, throwing each other around, Luz formed an electricity glyph on her hand and tapped it as her hands began sparkling up with electricity, she smirked began punching Belos even more, trying to knock as much flesh off of him as possible.

But Belos managed to swing a large blade made from his own flesh at Luz, she screamed as she was knocked into one of her own memories as she crashed into her classroom, Belos stomped through the wall and looked around at the room. "Old memories huh? A life back on Earth that you turned your back on, the same way Caleb turned his back on me." Luz got back up and grabbed one of the tables, tossing it at Belos, but he just knocked it out of the way.

Luz levitated into the air and tried to tackle Belos, but he sprinted out of the way and quickly grabbed her with his large hard, slamming Luz against the wall. Belos laughed menacingly as he pinned Luz against the wall saying "You will make an excellent body for me to carry out my job as a witch hunter!" Luz made an angry face at Belos before firing laser eyes at him, Belos screamed in anger as the lasers cut off one of his horns, causing him to drop Luz.

Luz quickly punched Belos away as she charged up her palisman with Titan energy, slamming it into the ground which created a shockwave that blasted Belos away, he crashed against the floor as Luz flew on top of him and pinned him down, punching him in the face with intense force, she then fired laser eyes at his other horn, chopping it off as well. Belos let out a massive growl as he grabbed Luz. "ENOUGH!!!!" He shouted as he got up and slammed Luz against the ground. 

Belos then tried to stomp on Luz, but she quickly rolled out of the way and got back to her feet, she levitated into the air and flew towards Belos at intense speed, Belos extended his arm out and swung it at Luz, but she quickly flew to the side to dodge it, she flew around Belos and fired lasers from her eyes onto Belos's back, he let out a massive shriek as he swung his arm back around at Luz, this time successfully being able to smack her.

Luz crashed against the wall and collapsed to the floor. Belos approached her as she tried to get up, but Belos managed to grab her and slam her into the wall repeatedly, Luz cried out in pain as Belos continued to smack her against the wall, laughing as he did so. He finally stopped and looked at Luz saying "Such a shame Noceda, you would have made an excellent witch hunter if you didn't have to choose the witches over your own kind. No matter, your time is now over!" 

However, before Belos could kill Luz, Amity came flying in on her palisman, punching Belos straight in the face with an abomination fist. "PUT MY TITAN FIANCE DOWN BELOS!!" She shouted. Belos dropped Luz as Amity got off her palisman, lots of abomination goo was circling around her as she launched some of it towards Belos. Belos got up and extended his arms as he swung at the approaching abomination goo that had been shaped like shards. He then swung his arm towards Amity, but she swung her palisman at it and deflected it.

Luz got up to see Amity fighting Belos and smiled, she saw her Titan hat laying on the ground as she quickly put it back on and sprinted into action. Luz and Amity both fought Belos together as Luz drew a spell circle that fired an energy beam at Belos's leg, cutting off a small chunk of its flesh. Amity then formed a giant sword out of abomination goo and swung it at Belos, who quickly blocked her attack by turning his hands into sharp blades, he quickly tried to return the blow as he swung the blades down onto Amity, but Luz swooped in and grabbed her. 

They circled around Belos in the air as Luz said "Ok, get ready Ami, let's hit this bastard with everything we've got!" Amity nodded as Luz tossed her towards Belos, she formed abomination fists and punched Belos in the face, he collapsed as Luz flew over him and fired another energy beam from her hand, right onto Belos's chest, destroying some of the eyes that were all over his body. Belos screamed as he extended his arm out and grabbed Luz, tossing her towards the floor.

Luz was able to keep herself in the air however as she blasted towards Belos at intense speed. As Amity circled around Belos on her palisman, keeping him distracted, Luz flew behind Belos and punched him with intense super strength, sending him flying out of sight. Luz slowly levitated to the ground as Amity stood next to her. "Where'd he go?" She asked. Luz used her super hearing, trying to detect Belos anywhere, but she heard nothing.

Both girls quickly stood back to back as they held their palismen staff tightly, ready for some sort of attack from Belos. "Come on you son of a bitch." Luz whispered under her breath. Suddenly, Belos attacked out of nowhere, knocking Amity's palisman out of her hand as he punched her away. Luz quickly turned around and tried to draw a spell circle to shoot at Belos, but Belos kicked her to the floor. 

Luz collapsed as she dropped her palisman, she tried to get back up and grab Stringbean but Belos managed to grab her and lift her into the air as he shouted "I HAVE SPENT YEARS TRYING TO FULFILL MY GLORIOUS PURPOSE BY DESTROYING THE WITCHES!!! I REFUSE TO BE DENIED BY THE ACTIONS OF A HUMAN!!" Luz smirked as she looked directly at Belos in the eye and said "Well guess what, turns out you already have been denied, I managed to defeat you in the real world already, you're nothing but a simple little projection of the real Belos that I killed over four years ago!"

Luz then reached her hand out to Stringbean as she suddenly came over to Luz and turned into a staff once more. She then formed a fire glyph on her hand as she fused the magic with her palisman as Stringbean shapeshifted into a tiny dragon, Luz pointed her directly at Belos as she shouted "NOW EAT THIS SUCKA!!!" Stringbean then breathed a huge burst of fire from her mouth directly onto Belos's face!

Belos screamed in rage as he dropped Luz to the floor and grabbed onto his face, trying to put the fire out, it began to melt some of his rotten skin, exposing his skull underneath. Belos quickly tried to flee, but then Amity approached him, forming abomination goo on her hand and had it take the form of a sharp blade, she ran over to Belos and stabbed it directly through his leg, causing him to cry out in pain as he collapsed to the floor.

"NOW LUZ!!!" Amity shouted. Luz nodded as she sprinted towards Belos, she levitated into the air and shouted "THIS IS FOR TRYING TO PETRIFY EDA!!!" As she drew a spell circle that fired an energy beam down at Belos, he screamed as bits of his flesh were burned away. Luz landed on the ground in front of him before he could flee as Luz shouted "AND THIS IS FOR FLAPJACK!!!" As she punched Belos in the face with extreme super strength, causing him to fall back a bit.

Belos tried to fight back by extending his arm out and swinging it at Luz, but Luz ducked under it and punched Belos once again as she shouted "AND THIS ONE IS FOR WHAT YOU DID TO HUNTER!!!" As she supercharged her palisman with Titan energy, and as Belos swung his arm at Luz again, Luz swung her palisman down at Belos's arm, slicing it clean off of body! Belos roared in anger as he fell back even further. 

Luz then shouted "AND THIS IS FOR CALEB!!!" As she let out the most powerful Titan roar she'd ever delivered directly at Belos, sending him flying towards the wall at intense speed. Belos went splat against the wall, remaining motionless for a moment before managing to half reform himself, his body was now much smaller, his entire lower half was now missing. Luz stared at the creature as he managed to slowly crawl towards Luz with the one hand he still had left, he left a trail of green goop as he crawled.

Luz just gave him the same menacing stare that she gave the real Belos when she killed him. Belos crawled in front of her and looked up towards her, he coughed for a moment before slowly reaching his arm up towards Luz as he managed to mutter "L-Luz... y-you wouldn't... you w-wouldn't kill one of y-your own kind... Luz, you're a h-human, we're b-both human.... We're better than this!" 

No, Belos did not just mutter those specific words to her, trying once again to compare her to him. The same exact thing the real Belos had tried to say to Luz to try and convince her to spare him, it didn't work then, no way in hell was it gonna work now. She looked down at the pile of fungus beneath her feet, completely helpless against her as she said "You still refuse to understand Philip. You and I are NOT the same, and calling us both human?? Oh you've got it all wrong, I already told you, the two of us aren't fully human anymore, now what am I you ask? Well..." 

Luz formed a fire glyph on her hand and activated it, forming a small ball of flame onto the palm of her hand, she looked back down at Belos and continued "I'm the Half-Titan, the warrior of peace! As for you however, well, you're nothing but a cancer!!" 

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Belos let out one last menacing growl towards Luz before Luz raised her hand out towards him, blasting the fire on her hand directly towards Belos, setting him ablaze. His screams of agony only lasted for a brief moment as the fire Luz shot at him eventually burnt him to crisp, he was dead. 

As the fire cleared out, there was not a single bit left of Belos, Luz had completely burnt him away, she sighed as Amity, who had seen the whole thing approached her. Luz looked back at her as Amity shouted "Woah... THAT WAS AWESOME LUZ!!" Luz chuckled and blushed as she said "Heh, thanks. Even though that wasn't the real Belos, it sure felt nice to be able to take that son of a bitch down a second time."

Amity nodded and said "Anyway, I think I found where Enzo is being held, but it requires Titan magic to open, come on!" She and Luz both held hands as they quickly made their way to the hidden door.

Back in reality, Eda continued to fly across the island, Helix had caught up with her once again. "He just doesn't stop does he." Eda mumbled. Helix fired energy beams towards Eda, she tried to dodge as much as she could, but Helix was too fast for her, she wasn't sure how much longer she could last.

"Come on! Where do I put this thing?!" She wondered. Suddenly, before she could think of where to go, the other three Archivists suddenly flew in front of her, startling her. "WHAT?!!" She shouted. Orion smirked as he flew over to Eda and punched her towards the ground. Eda landed with a thud as her harpy powers disabled. The Archivists levitated to the floor beside her as Orion took the concealment box from her hand.

"No..." Eda muttered, Orion smirked and said "You've lost this one Owl lady! And so have your friends." Suddenly, Doradus brought in the entire Hex Squad, King, Lilith, Hooty, and Raine, all of them suspended in the air via telekinesis. "I- I'm sorry Eda, we couldn't stop them." Said Lilith. Eda made an angry face as she shouted "NO!!" She was about to fire her gauntlet at Orion, but then Pismis grabbed hold of her gauntlet and pulled it off her arm, before crushing it into tiny pieces.

"You put up a good fight, but unfortunately for you, the game is over. Now, before we kill you, we'd like for you all to watch as we take your friends from you as we destroy this concealment box!" "NO!!!!" Eda shouted, but Helix restrained her, preventing her from moving.

Back inside the simulated world, Luz and Amity approached the door with the star on it. "This is it." Said Amity. Luz approached the door and put her hand on the star, she channeled her Titan powers as the star suddenly began to glow yellow, causing the door to unlock. Luz and Amity looked at each other for a brief moment before stepping inside. 

Suddenly, as they went through, they began to feel everything around them begin to shake around like it was having an Earthquake. "Woah!! Another gravity shift??" Amity asked. Luz remained silent for a moment before saying "No... this is something else." She quickly took a peak by stepping into her shadow, allowing her to see into the real world, she gasped in horror as she saw Orion picking up the concealment box she, Amity, and Enzo were stuck in.

"We're running out of time!! Orion has us!!" Luz shouted. Amity gasped and replied "WHAT?!!" Luz nodded and said "He's gonna destroy all of this with us inside of it!! We need to find Enzo and get out of here now!!" The two of them ran through the door as fast as they could. Amity looked at Luz and asked "Since time's moving slower for us in here, how much time do you think we have?!" Luz replied "I don't know, maybe 1 or 2 minutes at best!"

Orion levitated into the air, holding the box in his hands, he looked at it for a brief moment before saying "So long brother... you would have made a fine Archivist. But you chose the witches over your own family. The punishment for that is death!" Orion's eyes began to heat up as he prepared to fire lasers at the box.

Back inside the box, Luz and Amity ran down the dark corridor as fast as they could, soon, Amity pointed towards the other side and shouted "I see a light!! We're almost there!" Luz nodded as she scooped Amity up and ran towards it at intense speed, hoping to get there in time. They both arrived in the room and came to a stop as Luz put Amity down. Both girls found themselves inside what appeared to be a dark void, but then right there sitting ahead of them was Enzo.

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Luz approached Enzo silently, she stood behind him and said "Hey kiddo." Enzo turned around and saw both Luz and Amity behind him. "Luz? Amity? You came back for me?" He asked. Luz nodded and said "Sorry we took a while to get here, but we're here, and we need your help to escape, this simulated world doesn't have much longer, we need to leave now, and only you have the power to get us out of here!"

Enzo remained silent as they asked "You wanna know what this place is? This is an exact recreation of the prison that the Titan trapped me inside." Luz and Amity looked at each other for a moment as Luz sat down with Enzo and asked "Really? It was all just this for you?"

Enzo nodded and said "It was just me and my reflection, over time I began to talk to my own shadow like I was losing my mind, I had been alone for several several eons in darkness. The Titan took everything from me... I still don't understand why he thought I was so dangerous... I just wanted friends... was that so wrong? Did he lock me away because he didn't want me to make friends? I- I don't get it..." 

Luz wrapped her hand around the child beside her, the Titan had told her previously why exactly he had sealed Enzo away, but she chose not to tell Enzo that because to tell him would also mean to tell him that Luz can actually speak to the Titan, and she didn't think that would be something she'd want to tell to the one who suffered because of the Titan. She sighed and said "I guess all I can really say to that is not to let what other people thought of you ruin you, don't let what the Titan thought of you drag you down, don't let what your horrible brothers think of you drag you down either, you're a good kid Enzo, and we care about you, you're part of my family now."

Enzo looked at her and asked "Your family?" Luz nodded with a smile and said "Of course! You and King get along really well, you're like a brother to him, me and King would love to have you as part of the family." Enzo smiled as a tear ran down his face as they hugged Luz. Luz smiled and hugged back, she then reached her hand out to Enzo as she said "Let's go home brother." 

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As Enzo took Luz's hand, everything went bright white for a while, and the next thing Luz, Amity, and Enzo knew, they were back inside the emperor's castle, in the throne room. "We're back here? Why?" Amity asked. Luz replied "I think it's because we broke Enzo out, the prison he was in closed down." She looked at Enzo, who was now back to wearing his casual clothing again. "Huh, I gotta say Enzo, that style of clothing suits you very well." Enzo smiled and said "Thank you Luz! Now, what was it you needed my help with again?"

Amity looked at them and said "We need you to get us out of here, but hurry though, Orion is about to destroy this simulated world! And if we're still in it by then, we're all dead!" Enzo nodded as he quickly started to harness their magic.

Back in the real world, the few seconds that felt like two minutes for the ones trapped inside the concealment box suddenly ended as Orion fired his laser eyes at the box. As a result everything in the simulated world within the box suddenly began to shake and crumble. Amity struggled to balance herself as she asked "WHAT THE- LUZ WHAT'S HAPPENING?!!"

All the projections that populated the simulated world suddenly began to glitch out and vanish in an instant, the wind speeds suddenly started to pick up aggressively as the boiling sea began to evaporate! Suddenly, the Emperor's castle began to literally explode from the bottom as it started to collapse. Luz quickly looked out the window and watched as the entire skull of the Titan suddenly began to deconstruct itself and crumble apart into tiny pieces from the top as all of its tiny pieces were blown away by the wind, the simulated world was collapsing around them!

"WE'RE OUT OF TIME AMITY!! THE SIMULATION IS COLLAPSING, WE HAVE TO GO NOW!!!" Amity nodded and looked at Enzo and said "We'd like it if you could hurry kid!" Enzo nodded and said "I'm going as fast as I can! Hang on!!" His hands began to glow as he started to tap into the concealment box, meanwhile Orion's laser eyes began to tear into the concealment box as it suddenly got set on fire from the raw amount of heat that was being fired upon it, causing the temperature in the simulated world to rise rapidly. 

The emperor's castle continued to explode from the bottom as it started to fall into the pit beneath it. Luz and Amity struggled to maintain their balance as the entire castle shook around them, suddenly, the walls blew open, exposing more of the chaos that was now happening outside, Amity looked outside to see the entire Boiling Isles begin to crumble apart piece by piece as nothing but darkness was now heading straight for them, the sky then began to turn darker as the sun went out.

Soon, Enzo finally managed to tap into the box and shouted "I'VE GOT IT!!! EVERYONE GRAB ON!!!" Luz and Amity quickly grabbed Enzo by the hands as pure energy suddenly circled around the three of them. They looked around them and watched as the entire surrounding area began to get consumed by darkness as the ground beneath them began to crack apart, if they weren't fast enough, the darkness would consume them before they would be able to escape, and they would be dead.

"Almost there..." Enzo muttered as he closed his eyes, soon, the energy around the three of them glowed even brighter and brighter, and just before the darkness consumed them, there was a massive surge of light as Luz, Amity, and Enzo disappeared just in time before the entire simulated world faded from existence.

To be continued...

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Everyone watched in horror as Orion destroyed the concealment box in his hands, it blew apart into tiny pieces from the laser eyes. "NO!!!!" Shouted Eda, tears running down her face. Orion laughed menacingly and said "So much for the Half-Titan! Now with her gone, we cannot be stopped now!" Orion levitated to the ground and looked at Eda and said "Now it's your turn to die!" 

Orion grabbed Eda by the throat, he made a sinister smile as he prepared to fire laser eyes through her skull, but suddenly, someone tapped him on the shoulder, he turned around and went silent at the sight of Luz standing there smiling at him as she said "You didn't seriously think that was gonna contain me now did you?" Before Orion could do anything, Luz harnessed her superhuman strength and punched Orion, sending him crashing against the ground. 

"LUZ!!! YOU MADE IT OUT!" Shouted Vee. "Heck yeah!! And not a moment too soon I should add!" Shouted Gus. Luz smiled and shouted "That's right, I'M BACK!!!" As she supercharged her palisman with Titan energy, swinging a powerful surge of energy towards the other Archivists.

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Helix, Doradus, and Pismis were suddenly knocked back by a massive blast of energy. Soon, Amity and Enzo showed up, Enzo snapped his fingers, freeing everyone from their restraints. Luz went to go face Orion and shouted back to them all "All of you get out of here now!" Vee looked at her and asked "Wait Luz, are you sure you can handle all four of the Archivists on your own?!" Luz replied "I don't know, but right now Bonesborough is in danger, I'll handle the Archivists, you all go and try to help the people of Bonesborough!" 

Vee sighed and nodded as she turned and ran away with the others. Luz saw Orion get up as she clenched her fists. "HOW DID YOU GET OUT?!!" Orion shouted. Luz replied "I've told you before to never underestimate me Orion!!" She then sprinted towards Orion and tackled him. They both wrestled around on the floor for a while before Luz managed to get up and attack Orion. She punched him hard in the face, which stunned him for a brief moment, but he didn't back down, he quickly jumped Luz before she could attack again. 

Orion pinned Luz to the ground and grabbed her by the head, trying to snap her neck, but Luz formed an electricity glyph on her hand and touched Orion's shoulder with it, electrocuting him on the spot as Luz got back up and kicked Orion back, she then used her superhuman strength, pulling a tree right out of the ground and slamming Orion with it! Orion was sent flying as Luz blasted into the air and chased him, she flew above Orion and punched him with a massive amount of super strength, which sent him skyrocketing towards the ground as he crashed. 

Luz was about to attack Orion, but then suddenly, Doradus interviened and punched Luz, sending her crashing to the ground. The other Archivists showed up as Pismis helped Orion up. "DESTROY HER!!" Shouted Orion. The other Archivists smirked as Helix said in a deep tone "You're dead Half-Titan!" Luz stood up and got into a battle pose and said with a smirk "Four against one? Heh, I like those odds!"

Luz sprinted into action, engaging the four Archivists, knowing full well just how outmatched she was, but she had to fight on, for the survival of all witches depended on her. Pismis fired lasers from his eyes at Luz, but she quickly rolled out of the way, she drew a spell circle which blasted a fireball back at him, but it didn't harm Pismis at all, Helix then tackled Luz but she punched him off of her and got up before he could, she then kicked him in the face and drew a spell circle that formed abomination fists on her hands, she quickly started punching Helix repeatedly.

Orion tried to attack her from behind, but Luz's super hearing heard him coming as she quickly kicked him away, Doradus suddenly grabbed her by the hair, pulling her back to the floor. Doradus tried to stomp on her but she quickly rolled out of the way, she willed Stringbean into a staff and quickly drew a large spell circle with her, blasting a powerful beam of light at the approaching Archivists, it managed to hit one of them and crashed him against a tree.

The other three Archivists continued to attack Luz however as Helix circled around her and fired lasers from his eyes, but Luz quickly formed a forcefield around herself and blasted towards him with her fists out, but then Pismis grabbed her by the leg and slammed her against the ground, allowing Helix to pin Luz down as he tried to tear her heart out, but much to his surprise, Titan skin was very very durable, Luz smirked as she grabbed Helix by the head and slammed him into the ground, she got up and punched Pismis away, before Orion suddenly attacked from behind, grabbing her by the horn and tossing her into a tree.

Luz collapsed to the floor as the four Archivists approached her, Luz tried to get up but then Orion flew towards her and grabbed her, dragging her against the ground at intense speed. Orion came to a stop and was about to punch Luz, but then Luz managed to raise out her hand, causing her palisman staff to come soaring towards her hand, she grabbed it and supercharged it with Titan energy as she smacked Orion with it, which knocked him against the ground hard. 

Luz quickly got up and formed an electricity glyph onto her hand, supercharging her palisman with it, she saw the other Archivists approaching as she swung her staff right at them, sending out massive surges of electricity at them, the Archivists were hit by pure electricity as they were sent crashing through the trees behind them. Luz took a deep breath, feeling slightly exhausted from trying to take on four Archivists, but the fight was far from over as Orion got back up and levitated to the air and blasted towards Luz.

Meanwhile, the rest of the group were still on their way over to Bonesborough, Hunter flew on his palisman as he said "We're almost there everyone! Get ready for a fight!!" Vee rode on Amity's palisman, but still couldn't help but worry for her sister Luz who had stayed behind to fight the Archivists. She looked back and made a face full of anger as she said "Amity, take me back now." Amity looked at her in confusion and asked "What? Vee that's suicide!"

Vee replied "I don't care, that's my sister we left behind to take on the Archivists all on her own! She may have Titan powers, but she doesn't stand a chance against four Archivists! We have to help her! Please... I had recently lost her for a while when she, you, and Enzo got trapped inside that concealment box for a while. And I just got her back, but now I could very easily lose her again, and probably forever if we don't do something to help!" 

Amity sighed as she looked down at the ring Luz had given her. She nodded and said "You're right, hang on!" Amity quickly turned around as Gus saw her leaving. "Amity where are you going?!" He asked. Amity replied "Luz can't take on the Archivists on her own! Me and Vee are gonna help her alright? We'll meet you all at Bonesborough!" She blasted away at intense speed.

Back in the forest, Luz began to struggle as she fought for her life against the Archivists, while Titan magic is said to be more powerful than the Archivists, they really didn't seem to work well against four Archivists, either that or Luz simply wasn't using the right kind of magic. She got pinned up against a tree by Doradus, who started punching her in the face repeatedly, but Luz shot lasers from her eyes, knocking him back. 

She then sprinted towards Doradus to attack him some more, but then Orion flew towards her at a high speed and pounced her, he flew up into the air while carrying her, the two beings wrestled with each other as they flew around through the air, Luz quickly formed an invisibility glyph on the palm of her hand and tapped it, causing her to turn invisible before Orion's very eyes, Orion was shocked for a brief moment, and in that moment Luz was able to punch him away.

Orion was able to stop himself and looked around for Luz, only for Luz to pounce him from above as she crashed him against the ground, Luz turned visible again as she started punching him aggressively in the face, but then suddenly, Pismis pounded her against the ground, he picked Luz up and held her tightly, she struggled to break free as Doradus flew towards her, punching her in the stomach. Luz cried out in pain as she tried to break free, she quickly lifted her feet up and pressed them against Doradus, kicking him away while also managing to get Pismis to stumble to the floor at the same time.

She got back up, breathing intensely as she kept on fighting as hard as she could, she fired laser eyes at Helix, Pismis, and Doradus as they attack her. But then Orion attacked from behind, throwing a large star at her, the star exploded behind her as she fell to the floor. The explosion was seen from the sky however as Vee pointed towards it. "There!!" She shouted. Amity quickly turned in that direction to go help Luz. 

Luz tried to get up, but then Helix kicked her in the face, she fell back a little as Doradus picked her up and slammed her against the ground a few times. Luz laid there against the floor for a bit, struggling to get up, but when she finally did. Orion shot an energy beam from his hands directly at her, Luz screamed in pain as she was hit by a powerful surge of energy, she was sent crashing into the ground in an instant.

Amity and Vee finally showed up to see Luz laying there on the ground, having suffered a heavy beatdown. "LUZ!!!" Vee shouted as she and Amity ran to go help her. Luz noticed them and slowly raised her hand out towards them. "No... please don't, you'll be killed." She muttered. Soon, the four Archivists approached her as Orion said with a sinister smile "Oh, look who decided to show up? Come to see your Half-Titan die?" 

Vee screamed in anger as she prepared to try and drain Orion of his power again, only for her and Amity to be restrained by Doradus. Orion approached Luz and said "You've already lost Luz, while you were trapped in that concealment box, we unleashed our forces on the whole island, nobody is safe, you all are as good as dead, and balance will finally be restored to the universe, and it starts by killing the ones you care for right here!" 

Orion turned and approached Amity and Vee, planning on killing them both in gruesome ways. However, when Luz heard that, she suddenly felt enraged, a massive power surge suddenly flowed through her as the symbol on her chest began to glow even brighter. She growled in anger which got Orion's attention. Luz clenched her fists as they began to radiate with Titan power. Several glyphs suddenly started circling around Luz as she levitated into the air, she then let out a powerful scream as a massive shockwave suddenly shot out of her, blasting the Archivists away. 

Luz continued to hover there as pure Titan energy began to radiate around her body, she began to glow bright gold, feeling more powerful than she had ever felt before, if she could describe just how powerful she was in a few words, she felt as if she could create entire universes right now! It almost felt as if the very essence of the Isles, the very essence of the magic as a whole, was now completely inside of her. Was this the Titan magic that was said to be more powerful than the Archivists?

Luz clenched her fists as she levitated towards the Archivists, they all looked at her in shock. She made an angry face at them before swinging her arms forward, dispersing several glyph combinations from her hands.

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Before any of the Archivists could react, they were suddenly hit by several glyphs, which all did a variety of things, electrocute them, set them on fire, explode, trap them in ice, anything imaginable. Luz took the chance to attack them as she blasted towards the Archivists at powerful speed. She raised her hands out and grabbed both Orion and Pismis, she then slammed them both together before throwing them against the ground.

Luz landed on the ground, planting her claws into the ground to stop herself, she turned around and pulled out her palisman, charging it with Titan magic. She then shouted at the top of her lungs "GET THE HELL OFF OF OUR PLANET YOU MONSTERS!!" She then fired laser eyes at one of the Archivists, knocking him back, the other three tried to attack her, but she fought back with ease, she swung her palisman at one of them, which knocked him against a tree. Then Helix tried to punch her, but she didn't seem stunned at all, she looked at Helix and punched him away. 

Doradus grabbed her by the horns and flew into the air while holding her, he then punched her towards the ground, but Luz managed to stop herself and circle back into the sky, punching Doradus with extreme force, a force so powerful it generated a shockwave! Doradus crashed into the ground as Luz flew down towards him, but then Orion tackled her, dragging her against the floor, but Luz managed to form an ice glyph and grabbed Orion's hand with it, freezing it in ice, Orion quickly dropped Luz and fired laser eyes at the ice, melting it. 

Luz took the opportunity to levitate into the air and attack Orion, she pounded him and pinned him up against a tree, punching him in the face repeatedly. Suddenly, Helix snuck up on her, however, Vee noticed it in time and quickly ran towards him, she inhaled sharply and began to drain him of his energy, Helix collapsed to his knees as he was unable to move. Luz turned around to see Vee doing this and smiled. She then tossed Orion to the floor and said "ORDER YOUR ARMY TO STAND DOWN NOW!!!" But Orion replied "It's too late Luz, Bonesborough has already been destroyed, you may have the power of a Titan inside of you, but you will never be strong enough to defeat us forever."

Luz was about to attack Orion, but then Doradus fired an energy beam down at her. She collapsed to the floor as Orion got up, he and the other brothers met up and quickly flew away, hoping to fight another day. Luz watched them leave and sighed, she suddenly felt exhausted as she almost fell to her knees, Vee and Amity quickly approached her as Amity asked "Woah Luz, you ok?" Luz looked at her and nodded, she looked at her clawed hands and wondered "What even was all that stuff I did just then?" 

"Whatever it was, it was so badass! Do you think you could do it again?" Asked Vee. Amity looked at Vee and said "Vee, give your sister a break, she literally had to fight for her life just now." Vee nodded and said "Right, sorry." Once Luz felt the strength to walk again, she said "I don't know exactly all of that was, but now is not the time to think about it, we need to go help the people of Bonesborough now!" She called for Stringbean who flew onto her shoulder, she then levitated into the air and said "Let's go!" As she took off with a sonic boom.

Amity got on her palisman as Vee joined her as they both followed Luz to Bonesborough.

The three of them finally arrived at Bonesborough, only to see that all of it was on fire! "Holy Titan... We're too late!!" Shouted Amity. Luz looked down at all the destruction, seeing it fueled her with hatred for the Archivists, she looked at Amity and said "We have to find our friends now!" They both flew down through the streets, trying to avoid all the fire, suddenly a tripod caught sight of them and began to open fire on them. 

Luz looked at the tripod in anger and fired lasers from her eyes directly into the glowing spot on its head, causing the whole head to explode. Luz and Amity both levitated to the floor as Vee got off of Amity's palisman. Luz tried to search around for anyone, but the fire was way too thick for her to see anyone. She quickly harnessed her Titan strength and slammed her hands together, generating a wind current that blew the fire in front of her out, clearing a path for her, Amity, and Vee to keep searching.

"EDA??! KING??! WILLOW??!" Luz shouted as she ran through the town. "Stringbean, find them!" She said as Stringbean quickly flew away to search for the rest of the group. Amity and Vee approached her as Amity said "There's no sign of them anywhere!" "What do we do?!!" Vee asked in fear. Luz remained silent, she could see more machines stomping around off in the distance, it was now just her, Amity, and Vee, against them.

Luz clenched her fists as she began to consider fighting off the Archivists' entire robot army all on her own, knowing she could likely die, she was still somewhat exhausted from the last fight she went through, so she basically stood no chance at this rate, but then, Stringbean returned. Luz saw her and asked "What is it? Did you find them?" Stringbean nodded as Luz said "Take us too them now!" They all quickly followed Stringbean, navigating through all the destroyed homes and burning buildings. Vee held onto Luz's hand tightly as she noticed some burnt witch skeletons on the floor nearby.

The three of them were led into a small alleyway, and there before them all were the entire Hex Squad, but not just them, but there was also Steve, and several other royal guards, and a couple survivors as well. "Luz!!! You made it!!" Lilith said in delight. King ran over to Luz and hugged her. Luz smiled as she walked over to them all. "Oh thank Titan you're all ok! What's happening?!" She looked at Steve who was currently firing back at several robots that were blasting at him. 

"These machines that the Archivists built have overrun the entire town! There's just too many of them! We've been trying to save as many people as we can but it's just not enough! That's why we have no choice but to evacuate Bonesborough." 

"What?!!" Vee asked. Luz looked at Steve and asked "You're not serious are you??" Steve looked back at Luz and said "Look around! There is no Bonesborough left to save! We have to retreat so we can formulate a plan to fight back!" Luz replied "But if we evacuate, then that will basically give the Archivists total control over the whole Isles! We'll all have to go into hiding if we want to survive!" Steve sighed and said "I know Luz, but we have no other choice, I know you've inherited the Titan's power and everything, but that isn't gonna be enough to stop this, we have to evacuate Luz, I'm sorry."

"No... NO!!! I REFUSE!!! Enzo!! Can't you do something?!!" Enzo looked at Luz in despair and said "I- I'm sorry... I- I can't." Luz approached him and asked "Why not? You've got the same exact power they have!" Enzo replied "You don't understand... that concealment box... it weakened me, while I still have some power, I'm currently unable to fight those giant robots at this time."

Willow put her hand on Luz's shoulder and said "Luz, it's the only way if we want to survive this." Luz looked at her, she wanted to say something, refusing to give up on Bonesborough, but as several robot stars flew by overhead, Luz sighed in despair, knowing that Steve was right. She said "Very well..." Steve nodded and said "Good, now we might need some assistance getting out of the city, are those Titan powers of yours still working?" Luz replied "Yeah, they're a tiny bit spent at the moment since I just survived a fight with the Archivists, but I should be able to get us out of here safely."

Steve nodded and looked at everyone else saying "As for the rest of you, try to rescue as many remaining survivors as you can, the more people we save, the more of a chance we have at fighting back." Everyone else nodded as Steve said "Good luck everyone."

As the town continued to burn, a giant humanoid robot walked through the town, searching for any witches that were still alive, as it approached the alley that the survivors were hiding in, Steve held his fist in the air and whispered "Wait for it...." Soon, the very moment the robot passed by the alley, Steve lowered his fist and shouted "NOW!!" Luz nodded and fired a fireball from her hands at the giant machine, it exploded against it which dazed it for a moment, giving Luz the chance to attack it.

Luz ran out of hiding and leaped high into the air, grabbing onto the robot's back. It spun around as it tried to shake Luz off of it, but Luz held on as she climbed up its back and grabbed its head, she let out a powerful scream as she harnessed her superhuman strength, literally ripping the head off of the body! Luz landed on her feet as the robot's body collapsed. "NOW'S OUR CHANCE!! GO!!" Shouted Luz as she raised her palisman in the air. 

The entire group of surviving soldiers made a run for it, with the Hex Squad and the few survivors following behind, Luz led the way as she said "Stay close to me!! We won't be safe until we're deep into the woods!" She slammed her hands together to generate powerful wind currents that blew out the fire that blocked the way. Suddenly, her super hearing kicked in as she heard a few witches who were trapped inside a slowly collapsing building, she followed their cries and approached the house they were stuck in. Harnessing her super strength, she punched the wall open, the witches saw her as Luz said "Get out of here now! We're leaving!" The witches smiled with joy as they quickly ran past her and joined up with everyone else.

As they group kept on moving, they were suddenly ambushed by a giant robot scorpion. "Shit!! It's another one of those things!!" Shouted Hunter. As he quickly activated his gauntlet that Steve gave him, firing energy beams at the beast, all the soldiers opened fire at the scorpion as they tried to take it down, but it was very quick as it fired back at them rapidly. Suddenly King stepped up and said "I've got this!!" He then shouted at the top of his lungs "WEEEEEEHH!!!" Which sent the scorpion flying away as it crashed into a building.

The group kept on going as Luz led the way out, putting out any fire that got in their way. Suddenly, Willow noticed two familiar looking survivors being attacked by a giant robot. "DADS!!!" She shouted as she quickly ran over to them to help them. She drew a spell circle and grew lots of vines out of the ground, tangling up the robot within them, she then clenched her fist, causing the vines to tighten their grip on the machine before crushing it into pieces as it exploded.

Willow ran over to her Dads as she smiled, her Dads saw her as one of them shouted "WILLOW!! YOU'RE ALIVE!!" They all embraced each other for a hug as Willow said with a smile "I- I thought I lost you guys.... Come on, we have to leave now!" Willow's Dads followed her as they regrouped with everyone else. 

"HURRY EVERYONE!!! WE'RE ALMOST THERE!!" Luz shouted as they neared the edge of town, Eda and Lilith flew overhead, firing at all the incoming robot stars with their gauntlets. "So Lily, how many have you managed to destroy so far? I've managed to destroy about 25 of these mechanical freaks!" Lilith looked at Eda and said "Let's not make this into a contest Eda! This is serious!" Eda replied "Yeah I know I know." 

As they kept moving, they searched for more survivors, Amity kicked down the door of a burning building. "Anyone in here?!" She shouted, they passed by two dead witches, their bodies crushed be debris, suddenly, she heard crying nearby, they ran upstairs and found an infant witch in her crib, crying. "Holy Titan, a baby!" Amity shouted as she quickly grabbed the baby and blasted open the window, leaping out of it and landing on her feet safely to the ground. She handed the baby over to Raine saying "This poor child lost her parents, you carry her." 

Luz led everyone to the edge of town as she shouted "HURRY EVERYONE!! THE FOREST IS JUST UP AHEAD!!" However, off in the distance, the Archivists were watching. "Don't let them escape, seal off the exit!" Orion shouted. 

Suddenly, two ginormous tripods suddenly stepped in the way, blocking the only way out, they fired lasers down at the ground in front of them, setting it ablaze, everyone started to panic as they were now trapped, and to make matters worse, several robot stars were now in pursuit of them. Eda and Lilith flew towards them and started firing at them to hold them off, but their gauntlets were running low on power. "Shit!! Nobody told me this thing had a power limit!" Eda shouted in frustration. 

Luz looked back at all the survivors, seeing them starting to panic. One of them looked at Luz and asked "What are we gonna do?!!" Luz looked back ahead of her, seeing the hopelessness of the situation. However, seeing how hopeless everything was suddenly caused her to experience the same exact feeling she felt when she fought the Archivists in the woods earlier, raw magic itself. 

Luz clenched her fists as she looked up at the two giant tripods in front of her, she wasn't going to allow this to be the end. Titan energy suddenly radiated through her fists as the glowing symbol on her chest glowed brighter. She then leaped off the ground and blasted towards the giant tripod, generating a sonic boom behind her, she shouted "LEAVE MY PEOPLE ALONE!!!" As she flew straight through the tripod, destroying it! She then looked at the other tripod as it tried to aim at her, but she pulled out her palisman and formed an electricity glyph on her hand, fusing it with her palisman as she fired a surge of lighting at the tripod, electrocuting it as it exploded on the spot.

"Damn." Steve muttered under his breath. Luz then looked down at all the fire beneath her as she formed a glyph combination on her hand, which allowed her to shoot water down at the fire, putting it out, she landed on the ground and shouted "GO EVERYONE!!! NOW'S YOUR CHANCE!!" Everyone wasted no time running for it as Luz protected them from any incoming threats.

Luz generated a massive forcefield in front of her to block the laser beams fired from flying robot stars as all the survivors ran safely into the woods. She then fired laser eyes at them all, blowing them all up one by one. Once they were all destroyed, and all the survivors were safely away, Luz noticed the Archivists, hovering there in the distance, they took one final look at each other in the eyes, before Luz took off running into the woods with everyone else.

Everyone ran deep into the woods, once they were far away enough from the fire, they all took a moment to rest. Luz met up with them as King saw her and said "Luz, look..." Luz took a look back, she could see the light from the burning town behind her, everyone else saw it as well, they were filled with shock and disbelief from what had just happened, the Archivists just destroyed Bonesborough! "Holy Titan..." Muttered Raine, Eda hugged them to comfort them.

Luz sighed as she sat down on the floor, she let out a frustrated groan as she put her clawed hands over her head, taking her hat off and placing it down beside her. Amity sat down beside her and wrapped her arm around her, she wanted to say something to comfort her, but she couldn't think of any words to say. Gus looked at the destroyed city and said "I can't believe this... they destroyed all of it..." 

Enzo had tears in his eyes, feeling guilty over the fact that he could have done something to prevent this if they were still at full power. But all he could really do now was just simple commands with the snap of his fingers, laser eyes, and flying, but that was just about it. "Your powers will return in time right Enzo?" Asked King. Enzo sighed and said "I- I really hope so... I still can't believe my own brothers would do this... I know we've been fighting them for a while now, yet I still can wrap my mind around this!"

Enzo and King embraced each other for a hug as Enzo said "I'm so sorry all of this happened King." King replied "No, don't blame yourself. We'll be alright, I promise." 

Steve finally spoke up and said "Everyone, I just got a call from Darius, he and the rest of the council have taken refuge within the skull of the Titan, we'll be safe in there." Hunter looked at him and said "Dad's alive? Oh thank Titan." But then Luz asked "Wait, why would they go hide out in the Titan's skull?" Steve looked at Luz with a face that showed bad news. "Luz, it turns out the Archivists also attacked the main castle as well, it's not just Bonesborough that they hit, they've hit every major location on the Isles, like Hexside!"

"Hexside?!" Lilith asked in shock. Steve nodded his head. "...We're being exterminated." Raine said silently. All the witches began to fear for the worst. But then Luz decided to speak up as she said "Everyone, let's not lose hope just yet! We're still alive, and as long as we live, we can fight back! If Darius wants us to meet with him and the rest of the council inside the skull of the Titan, then that's where we should go, we suffered greatly today, but we can't allow it to tear us apart! We need to fight back, we need to do whatever it takes to defeat those Archivists and save our home!" 

Everyone looked at Luz as one of the witches said "We trust you Luz... you're the Half-Titan after all." All the witches agreed, Luz smiled as she said "Then let's get moving then." Everyone stood up and made their way to the skull of the Titan, as they walked, Eda approached Luz and asked "Luz... do you think you can still stop them?" Luz sighed and replied "Well, having just escaped from a simulated nightmare I thought I could accomplish anything, but now... now I'm just not so sure anymore."

Eda sighed and said "Let's just make sure we stick together. I'm sure there's a way we can stop the Archivists." Luz replied "How? We've got no concealment device, and they have an army of machines! What do we have that they don't?" Eda gave a soft smile and said "Well, we have you Luz, you're the most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles, if anyone's gonna defeat them, its you." Luz let out a soft smile and said "Thanks Eda, but I don't know if I can do it though, I want to, but what if I don't have it in me?" 

Eda was surprised by what Luz said and replied "Don't have it in you? When you first got here, becoming a witch like everyone else seemed impossible at first, but then you defied that obstacle and managed to become not just any witch, but the most powerful witch of the entire isles! You inherited the powers of the Titan himself for crying out loud! You always had it in you from the beginning Luz, you just didn't see it at the time. I know you'll find a way, you always do."

Luz smiled again as she wrapped her arm around Eda as she said "Thanks... but right now, let's just focus on survival right now." Eda nodded as the group continued on their journey to the skull of the Titan. Today was a tragic day for the people of the Boiling Isles, but hopefully things will get better by tomorrow, but only time will tell.

To be continued....

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Everyone walked for miles before finally arriving at the Titan's skull. Once they found a way in, they traveled through the dark tunnels. "Ugh... why did they have to choose to hide in here of all places??" Asked Lilith. "Because these tunnels go deep into the ground, the Archivists will not be able to reach us down here." Said Steve. They all traveled deeper and deeper into the skull of the Titan for a while, before they found a light at the end of a tunnel.

"I see something." Said Amity as she pointed towards the light. They all got closer to it and found the what was basically the entire surviving population of the Boiling Isles, they were all down here. Darius saw them and said "You're here! Thank goodness you're all alright."

"Dad!!" Hunter shouted as he ran over to Darius and hugged him. "Hunter! You made it!" Darius said with a smile as he hugged back. Amity looked around for a while, hoping her family was alright. "Ed?? Em??" She called out. Soon, her siblings found her. "Mittens?! You're alive!" Amity turned around to see Edric and Emira standing there, they all quickly embraced each other in a hug as Amity let out a sigh of relief. "Where's Dad?" Amity asked. "Right here, thank Titan you're safe." Said Alador. Amity smiled and hugged him. "We're alright Amity, and we're together now." Alador said with a smile. 

Luz passed by everyone, seeing how many survivors there were, they were all forced into hiding down here in the dark. Luz slowly took off her hat as she saw the scope of it all. It was all too much to bare. One of the witches approached Luz and asked "Luz! Please tell me how things are going up there." Luz looked at the witch, her face of sorrow gave the witch confirmation. "This can't be... have the Archivists actually overrun the entire Isles?! What are we going to do?!" 

Luz remained silent for a moment before saying "I don't know... The Archivists have a powerful army all over the island, I don't know if we can defeat them." She slowly walked away, meeting up with her sister Vee, she was sitting down against the wall, she looked extremely shaken up by everything that was happening. Luz sat down next to her and wrapped her arm around Vee. "You ok sis?" Luz asked. Vee shook her head and replied "...Luz, I'm scared... I want my Mom." Luz quickly embraced her for a hug and said "I know Vee, I know."

"Mom's probably worried sick about us right now! And she has no idea what's happening right now, and since we're all hiding here inside of a massive skull, we have no way of traveling back to Earth to tell her! I promised Masha to take them on another date! But now I can't because we're all stuck here." Vee continued. Luz nodded and replied "I understand Vee, the best we can do is survive until then." Vee replied "For how long? Will we ever be able to stop the Archivists?" 

Luz remained silent, unsure how she should respond. Vee saw her silence and said "You're kidding. Luz, how can you not know what to do? You're a Half-Titan!" Luz nodded and said "I know that... but the Archivists have overpowered not just me, but everyone." Vee replied "Why can't you just do what you were doing earlier when you fought the Archivists in the woods?!" Luz replied "Oh that? I don't even know how I did it! It just happened!"

"I thought you had mastered your Titan powers completely!" Luz nodded and said "Yes of course I have! But this was different, it almost felt like I had the power to create entire universes. Which is something I hadn't felt since I used my Titan powers for the first time over four years ago. But the only reason I felt it then was because my powers were being given energy by the spirit of the Titan himself, but now they're only being fueled by King, I don't have as much power as I used to have then. So whatever happened there was something I have no idea how to do again." 

Vee sighed and said "Well we can't just hide forever." Luz nodded and said "I know Vee, we'll figure something out in time alright?"

Later, Luz went to one of the more empty areas of the cave, she leaned against the wall for a moment as she tried to get her mind off of everything that was currently happening, hoping to find some brief peacefulness, but it proved futile, everything that has happened lately has been nothing but hopeless. Luz let out a dreary sigh as she slid to the floor and put her hands over her face. "...Fuck." She muttered under her breath.

"Luz? Amity called out, looking for her girlfriend, she navigated through the crowds of witches and approached Enzo and asked "Hey have you seen Luz anywhere? I'm worried about her." Enzo nodded and said "Yeah, I saw her over there." As he led Amity too her. Amity found Luz there, sitting in a corner, she was shivering in fear. Amity looked at Enzo and asked "Uh, can I have a blanket please?" Enzo nodded, and with the snap of his fingers, a blanket appeared in Amity's hand.

Amity approached Luz and sat down beside her. "Hey Luz, what's wrong? Are you cold?" Luz looked up at her and said "No... I don't think I can even get cold anymore with all this Titan fur covering the majority of my body. I'm just... scared." Amity nodded, but still chose to wrap the blanket around Luz anyway, Luz sighed as she gripped onto it tightly. "Do you wanna talk about it?" Asked Amity.

Luz looked towards her and said "Amity... what are we gonna do? The Archivists took over the entire island, we're all trapped down here, and I have no idea how I'm supposed to defeat them; here I am, the most powerful witch of the entire Boiling Isles, unable to come up with any plan to stop the Archivists! I should be helping these people! Not sitting here like some weakling! That's not what the witches expect me to be!" 

Amity held Luz's hand and said "Luz, you don't have to push yourself to protect these people." We know you want to help, but we understand if you're unable to figure something out, we're all scared right now, besides, all of this is my fault anyway." Luz's frown faded as she looked at Amity in surprise. "What?! In what way?" She asked. "I insisted that we go on that date to the human realm Luz, I saw that you were going through some things and I wanted to help out. But as a result, we left the entire Boiling Isles unprotected just to get some time to ourselves! If we hadn't left the Boiling Isles, we could have kept Orion from escaping, and we could have stopped his brothers the moment they showed up!" Amity said as tears started to form in her eyes.

"Amity, don't start self-blaming yourself the same way I did when I was still struggling with depression. It's not pleasant." Said Luz. "But it's true! Luz I screwed up! And now everyone is paying the price!" Amity said. Luz quickly comforted Amity and said "No mi amor, don't do that to yourself, we shouldn't blame ourselves for past mistakes, we didn't know this was gonna happen anyway. Please don't go down that same path I did for a while, because when I started putting the blame on myself for everything that went wrong, I almost didn't survive." 

Amity looked at Luz in the face and nodded silently, Luz smiled and gave Amity a kiss. "Come on batata, let's go meet with everyone else." She said. 

Later, Luz and Amity met up with Darius who was speaking with Eda and the rest of the Hex Squad. "Oh Luz, you're here, great." He said. Raine spoke up as they said "Now we've all assembled here in hopes of finding a way to take back the Isles, the Archivists have overrun everything with their army of robots." Eda looked at Enzo and said "Kid, don't you have reality bending powers? Surely you can take down their army with ease."

"I could, but the problem is, when the Archivists trapped me inside that concealment box, it reduced my powers temporarily, I can't do as much as I used to, there's no telling how long it may take for my powers to fully recharge." Eda sighed and said "Well, there goes that plan." Raine looked at Luz and said "Wait a second, Luz, when I first saw you using those Titan powers when you defeated Belos, you managed to summon boiling rain on him!" 

"Luz's Titan powers allow her to control the weather?" Darius asked in surprise. Raine nodded and said "Luz, can't you use that on the Archivists to melt them?" Luz replied "First of all, the Archivists are godlike beings, I doubt boiling rain could kill them. And second, if I could summon boiling rain to kill them I would have done it a long time ago, but you need to realize, the only reason my Titan powers returned is because King's powers grew strong enough to give them energy, but he can only provide so much though. I'm not as strong as I was back when my powers were being fueled by the spirit of the Titan, while I am pretty powerful as I am now, I'm most certainly not as powerful as I was over four years ago. So no, I can't control the weather anymore."

Raine sighed and said "Well, then we're all out of options then. I fear that all we can do now is survive." Willow looked at Raine in surprise and asked "What?!" Raine looked at her and said "We've barely got any advantages here, and while we could try and retreat to the human realm, where would we hide? The humans can't be made aware of our existence. Until Enzo's powers regenerate fully, we'll have to remain hidden." 

Darius sighed and said "I hate to admit it, but Raine's right. We just don't have a solid plan at this moment, the important thing to do right now however is to focus on supporting each other, try to stay alive as best as we can, and try to rescue as many survivors as we can." Luz looked down in sadness, knowing that both Raine and Darius were right. She then said "We'll do everything we can to help keep everyone here alive, me and the Hex Squad have been doing it since the Archivists first started attacking after all." 

Darius looked at Luz and smiled as he said "Thank you Luz, it's good to know we have a Titan on our side." King suddenly spoke up and shouted "HEY!! What about me??!!" Darius looked down at him and said "Oh... I uh, one that has superpowers is what I meant to say." King still frowned and said "At least I can unleash a giant sonic blast! Show some respect already!" Eda picked up King and said "Maybe it's best not to have this discussion here." 

Darius looked back at Luz and said "In the meantime, until we have a way to defeat the Archivists, I entrust you Luz, as our commander." Luz was shocked by this, she replied "Me?" Darius nodded as he continued "You're the Half-Titan Luz, which makes you the most powerful witch in the entire Boiling Isles. You've saved us multiple times from the Archivists. There's no one I want to trust more with this than you Luz. Are you up for it?" 

Luz remained silent, she looked at Amity for a brief moment before saying "I'll do my best to keep all these witches safe, just like I always have." She and Darius shook hands as Darius replied "Excellent. I'll ensure that our royal guard follows you whenever you need them." Luz nodded and said "Thank you." Darius walked away as Hunter approached Luz and asked "Luz, do you have any idea what kind of position Dad just put you in? He's basically just handed you the most important task of your life! Literally everyone's lives are in your hands!"

Luz replied "I know what Darius was asking of me, but I'm gonna do it. It's what I must do to ensure that the essence of all magic can live on." As she looked down at the glowing symbol on her chest. Amity put her hand on Luz's shoulder and asked "How do you plan for us to manage down here?" Luz replied "I don't know yet, but I can't do this alone, so I'm gonna need all of you to help me if I want to keep all of us safe, we're the Hex Squad after all, protecting the witches from the Archivists is what we've been doing for the past few weeks now, why should we stop now?" 

All of Luz's friends smiled as Willow said "We'll do everything we can to help Luz." As she raised up her palisman, one by one everyone else raised their palismen into the air as well. Luz smiled as she pulled out her palisman and raised it up as well. She looked at her friends and said "Remember that old saying of mine? Us weirdos have to stick together?" Her friends nodded. Luz smiled and said "Let's show those Archivists just how resilient us weirdos can truly be."

Later, the witches were able to set up bedrooms inside of the cave system, which actually wasn't as hard as it seemed since they had Enzo who could just create the supplies they needed with the snap of his fingers, since Enzo could give them basically anything they needed, surviving down in the cave shouldn't be as bad. 

Luz and Amity went into their bedroom that they had asked Enzo to set up for them. Amity looked towards Luz and asked "So, Luz, where do we go from here?" Luz replied "Well, tomorrow we wait for Enzo's powers to fully return, that way we can have a fighting chance against the Archivists robot army, but until then we still need to formulate a plan on how to defeat the Archivists themselves, without a concealment mirror, we have no way at stopping them." 

Amity smiled and said "We'll come up with something to stop them, eventually." Luz nodded, she let out a worried sigh as she said "I can't imagine how worried sick Mom must be right now, both me and Vee are currently in hiding from the Archivists who have taken over the whole damn island. And since Enzo doesn't have enough power to create a portal back, I can't go back to tell her everything that's been happening."

Amity approached Luz and said "You'll see your mother again at some point Luz, I know you will. We'll survive this together, and when it's finally over, you and I can finally get married like we promised." Luz smiled and held Amity's hands and said "Oh Ami, I love you." She gave Amity a kiss on the lips as Amity replied "Let's promise each other that we'll both survive this alright?" Luz nodded and said "I promise not to die because I was reckless." Amity chuckled and said "Same here mi amor." 

Luz and Amity sat down on the bed, both of them feeling insanely exhausted from the day they just had, from trying to escape a simulated nightmare, now to trying to protect the lives of all witches from the Archivists. They got snuggled up together as they both stared lovingly into each other's eyes. Amity pulled Luz in for a hug, wanting to fall asleep to the feeling of Luz's incredibly soft fur. Luz let out a audible purr as she said "Even after having seen this body of mine for several weeks now, you still can't get enough of it can you." 

Amity chuckled and said "Never in a million years, I will never get over just how soft your fur is!" Luz smiled and wrapped her arms around Amity, as the couple slowly drifted off to sleep. Life was not going to be easy for the witches going forward, but Luz and the Hex Squad will do everything that they can to try and ensure that the witches will survive. 

As a Titan, you carry the essence of magic itself within you, and you use it to make the lives of those around you better. It's the way of the Titan.

To be continued....

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One week later...

The Boiling Isles, once a peaceful island, but then the Archivists took over everything, now the island was merely a wasteland infested with massive robots created by the Archivists, they hunt down and destroy any witch they see. The witches have now been forced into hiding so they can fight back, but trying to stop the Archivists has not been easy, for their giant castle was huge, and it could be seen all the way from the other side of the island. 

In the woods, several robot stars flew overhead, once they were gone, Luz came out from hiding and shouted "All clear!" The Hex Squad and a few other royal guard soldiers came out of hiding as well. "How much further until we reach Blight Industries?" Asked Gus. Luz looked at him and said "We're almost there." One of the soldiers approached her and said "We might wanna hurry though, if we stay out in the open for too long, the Archivists themselves may locate us." 

Luz nodded and said "I understand that, but we have to retrieve Alador's equipment from Blight Industries if we want to increase our chances of fighting back against the Archivists, we'll try to be as quick as we can." "Well, you're our commander after all." Said one of the soldiers. Luz led them through the woods, she pulled out her palisman and used it to slice against any overgrown plants that got in her way. Eventually the group came across an opening that led to Blight Industries.

"There it is!" Said Hunter. Suddenly, Amity shushed everyone as a few tripods passed by. "Crap, we can't get inside with those things in the way. Gus, we need a distraction." Said Luz. "Say no more." Replied Gus as he drew an illusion spell that created clones of the entire group out in the open, which caught the attention of the tripods, they looked down at the illusions and started chasing them, eventually running out of sight. 

"Now's our chance, go!" Luz shouted. The entire group quickly ran for the building, keeping their eyes out for any sort of machines anywhere. Luz approached the door and punched it open using her super strength. "Ok, get inside and grab the equipment, I'll stand guard." She said. Everyone ran inside to go and grab the supplies. "Alright so what are we looking for exactly?" Asked one of the soldiers. Amity replied "Anything that looks valuable, such as leftover abomination goo, armor for abomination creatures, anything of that kind of stuff."

Hunter quickly pulled out a few bags and handed them to everyone as they quickly began looting. They grabbed as much as they could and did not stop until they filled up their bags. Meanwhile outside, Luz stood guard, holding her palisman tightly, waiting for any machines to show up and attack, so far the coast was clear, for now.

Back inside Blight Industries, the group kept on looting until their bags were finally full. "Ok, my bag's all full, let's get out of here." Said Willow. Everyone nodded as they all made their way out. They met up with Luz as Amity said "We managed to grab everything we could!" Luz nodded and said "Good, let's head back to our hideout now!" Suddenly, several robot flying stars suddenly showed up and began firing at them.

"They found us!! RUN!!!" Shouted Hunter. They all made a run for the woods as Luz shouted "KEEP GOING!!! I'LL HOLD THEM OFF!!!" As she turned around to face the attackers "Alright you mechanical freaks, come and get me!!" She shouted.

Original artwork link: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/12ntk71/titan_luz/

The stars opened fire on Luz, but Luz quickly shielded herself and fired laser eyes right back at some of them, blowing them up. She ran back to follow her friends into the woods, only for the stars to fly around her and surrounded her. They all shot at Luz, but she leaped into the sky and levitated in the air, she looked at the robot stars and attacked them all, she flew towards one of them with her fists out and punched right through it. 

Luz faced the other stars and drew a spell circle, firing an energy beam at some of them, blowing even more of them up. One of them suddenly managed to land a hit on her, causing her to fall to the floor, luckily due to being part Titan she was unharmed, she quickly got back up and drew an even larger spell circle with her palisman, causing an ice block to come out from the ground, launching her into the air as she charged her palisman with Titan energy, allowing her to slice it through some of the robot stars. 

Luz flew around at intense speed as the stars fired at her, she fired laser eyes at all of them, blowing even more of them up, eventually, they were all taken down. Luz sighed as she levitated to the floor and ran into the woods to go regroup with the rest of her team.

The Hidden Cave....

Deep within the Titan's skull was a cave where all the surviving witches currently resided, they managed to make it into their base, where they work to fight back against the Archivists in hopes of taking back their home island, right now they were currently waiting for Luz and her team to return back.

"Come on... where are they??" Eda worried. Raine looked at her and said "Eda, don't worry, they'll be fine, they have Luz leading them." Eda looked at them and replied "I know! But the entire island is crawling with machines created by the Archivists! They're hunting us all down and if they aren't careful, they might be next!" 

Suddenly, a voice shouted "Everyone! Come quickly! The Half-Titan and her squad have returned!" Everyone passed by Eda and Raine. "See? What did I tell you?" Raine said with a smile, Eda replied "Ok yeah sure, rub it in." They both went to the front entrance as Luz emerged from the darkness with her team behind her. "Luz!!" Vee shouted happily as she ran over to Luz and hugged her. Luz hugged back and said "Hey! Sorry I was gone for a while, Blight Industries was pretty far from here." 

Alador approached Luz and asked "Did you retrieve all of the supplies from my lab?" Luz nodded and said "Yep! We got as much as we could!" The rest of the team came in carrying bags that contained things from Blight Industries. "Oh thank you so much Luz! With these supplies, I should be able to craft more advanced weaponry for us to be able to stand a fighting chance against the Archivists." Luz nodded and said "We'll be looking forward to that." 

As the Hex Squad handed Alador his equipment, Luz met up with Enzo. "Hey little bro!" Luz said with a smile. Enzo looked at her and said with a smile "Luz you made it back!" Luz nodded and asked "Any luck with restoring your powers?" Enzo sighed and said "I'm getting there... but unfortunately still no luck with creating a portal back to Earth so you can go see your mother." Luz sighed and said "Well, keep trying, you'll get it eventually." 

Later, Luz and the Hex Squad met up with Darius. "The mission was a success Darius." Said Luz. Darius turned around to see Luz and said "Excellent news! We'll be getting started working on new weapons as quickly as we can, in the meantime Luz, I believe you and your team deserve a little rest after the dangerous mission you went on am I correct?" Luz looked back at everyone else, they all nodded as Gus said "Yeah, I could use a good rest after all that walking." Luz looked at Darius and said "Yeah, thanks." 

Later, Luz and Amity returned to their room, Amity sat down and said "Man, that certainly wasn't hard, but it was definitely tiresome. I'm just glad we're getting a break at all really." Luz nodded and said "Yeah. Me too." She sat down next to Amity, wrapping her arm around her girlfriend as she said "I miss when it was just you and me studying wild magic at the university, even though its only been a week, I miss it already." 

Amity nodded and said "So do I mi amor. But hopefully, if we win this, things should go back to how they were eventually." Luz smiled, she moved her hands up to Amity's ears, causing them to twitch slightly, Amity squinted her eyes shut from the feeling. "Luz..." She muttered. Luz shushed her and said "Just relax babe, we've been through a tough mission, let's spend the rest of this day to ourselves now."

Amity laid down on the bed as Luz climbed over her. "You've clearly used some of that Titan magic of yours to put a spell over me that's caused me to become this submissive to you haven't you." Luz smirked and said "I'll never tell." Amity chuckled and said "Just kiss me already furball." Luz gladly obliged to her girlfriend's request and leaned in to kiss her. Amity sighed in satisfaction as she wrapped her arms over Luz's back, feeling her soft fur as she rubbed against it, still feeling so lucky that her girlfriend got to have Titan powers.

Luz sighed as she felt her girlfriend rub her back as she said "Wow babe, I knew you were head over heals for my Titan form, but never did I think you'd be so addicted to it." Amity chuckled and said "I can't help it Luz, you're too damn cute!" Luz chuckled and continued to rub Amity's ears, causing her to let out a slight purr in response. She quickly wrapped her hands over Luz's head, pulling her closer, deepening the kiss.

Luz and Amity came close to going even further, but then suddenly, King knocked on their door. "Luz! Amity! You guys need to get outside now! Enzo just restored their powers to full capacity!" Luz and Amity sighed as Luz said "Maybe next time alright hermosa?" Amity nodded as they both got up from bed to go and see what Enzo had pulled off. 

Everyone gathered around as Luz saw Enzo form a portal in his hands. "Guys! I- I'm doing it!!" He said in amazement. Luz smiled and approached Enzo saying "Can you make it bigger?" Enzo focused as he tried to make the portal into a door shape. "I- I can try... just hang on!" He focused even harder as he held his hands out even further as the bright light grew in his hands. Soon Enzo tossed the bright light in their hands at the wall, forming a door sized portal on it.

"I- I did it." He said, letting out a sigh of relief. Luz looked at the door and asked "This will take me to Earth?" Enzo nodded. "Will it stay open?" Asked Vee. Enzo replied "I made sure that it will." Vee nodded and said "Then I'm going through then, my Mom is probably worried sick about me!" Luz looked at the portal and said "I can't imagine how worried Mom must be right now." Amity approached Luz and asked "What are you gonna tell her?" 

Luz replied "I'll tell her everything, no secrets this time." She looked back at everyone else and said "I'll be right back everyone, I've just got a more personal matter to attend too." Hunter nodded and said "Go talk to your mother Luz, we'll take care of things from here." Luz smiled and nodded as she, Amity, and Vee walked through the portal and traveled to Earth.

Earth....

Camila was sitting on her couch in fear, it has been a whole week and still she hasn't gotten any word from Luz or Vee, she wanted at least some confirmation that her two daughters were safe, but now she was beginning to fear the worst. She'd been holding off on traveling to the demon realm for a while, but now she felt like she had no other choice.

Camila quickly put on her shoes and was about to walk out the door, but the moment she opened it, she was shocked to see Luz in her human form, with Amity and Vee standing beside her. "Hey Mom, sorry I went quiet for a while." She said with a smile. Camila had tears in her eyes, she pulled both her daughters in for a hug. Luz smiled once more and hugged back as she said "Mom, I only went quiet for a week, don't tell me you were that worried about me."

Camila replied "You have no idea mija, the moment you stopped visiting, I was beginning to fear something bad had happened to you both." Luz replied "Well, the thing is.... something bad actually did happen." Camilia's smile faded as she shouted "WHAT?!!" Luz calmed her down and said "Mom, let me explain!"

Luz went on to explain everything that had happened recently in the past week, how the Archivists launched a massive attack on the entire Boiling Isles, causing it to be overrun by powerful robots, and now she, Amity, Vee, and all the other witches of the Boiling Isles were now forced to go into hiding for their own survival. 

"Turns out your daughter here was given the rank of commander." Said Amity. Camila remained silent as she said "So what you're telling me is, you're currently running a resistance camp of some kind?" Luz nodded and said "Yeah, the reason it took so long for me to make it back was because Enzo's powers were drained because me, him, and Amity got trapped in a simulated nightmare that looked like it was inspired by Inception or something." 

Camila was confused as she asked "Wait, you got trapped in what??" Amity replied "It's complicated, we'll fill you in on all the details later." Vee suddenly spoke up and said "Is it ok if I go talk to Masha? I think I owe them an explanation for why I disappeared for a while as well." Camila nodded as Vee walked away and left. 

"So now what are you going to do?" Asked Camila. Luz replied "Well, right now we're doing everything we can to survive, luckily since Enzo has reality bending powers, they can just summon things like food for us, so surviving hasn't been too hard, but it's taking back the Isles which is the hard part, we can barely stand against the Archivists and their massive armada. We don't even have a solid plan." 

"So far Enzo has given us complete schematics of the Archivists' castle, but we haven't exactly figured out how we're supposed to take it out, or how to kill the Archivists." Amity added. Camila remained silent for a moment before asking "Why don't you just bring all the survivors here to Earth? Wouldn't it be easier for them?" Luz replied "Mom, if we did that, where would we all hide? We're not just a small group like last time, so you won't be able to just shelter everyone in your home this time. Under no circumstances can the humans be made aware of our existence! We have to stay in the Demon realm." 

"Wait, you're going back there?" Camila asked worriedly. Luz replied "Of course I am Mom, I belong in the Boiling Isles after all, it's my home! You didn't think I was running away because of all the shit that's been going on over there now did you?" Camila remained silent before saying "That's understandable... but it's still very dangerous." Luz nodded and said "I know that. But that's why I have to fight for my home, I have to defend the magic, the Archivists seek to destroy it, I cannot let them, this symbol you see here on me, I have to honor what it represents, the very essence of all magic and its fate rests in my hands, or claws, more specifically."

Camila sighed as she replied "Fine then, if you're going back there to fight the Archivists, I'm coming with you." Luz and Amity were surprised. "What?!" Asked Luz. Camila replied "I can't just sit here while you're risking your life for all life on the Boiling Isles! I'm coming with you to help in anyway that I can." Luz replied "But Mom, it's extremely dangerous! What chance do you have fighting against the Archivists?!"

Camila replied "Well, you did show me how to use glyphs in your realm, so I could easily rely on those." Luz was about to say something, but then Amity stopped her and said "Babe, maybe it's best we allow her to come along, she's not going to let you leave without her anyway." Luz replied "No! I will not allow my Mom to risk her life like this! Come on Ami, let's go. It's best you stay here Mom, I could never forgive myself if you died." 

Luz approached the front door and opened it, only to see Vee and Masha standing there as Vee said "So uh... I told Masha everything, and now they want to come along to help out, I couldn't do anything to convince them not too." Masha replied "Yeah, no way I'm letting someone with shapeshifting powers get herself into danger on her own!" Luz looked at them both and groaned in response. Knowing she's pretty much lost this argument, she looked over at Camila and said "Fine, you can come along Mom." Camila smiled and said "I'll pack my things." 

Later, Luz, Amity, Vee, Camila, and Masha approached the portal door as Masha asked "So what will we see when we go through this time?" Luz replied "You'll be in the resistance camp that the survivors reside in." Camila looked at Luz and said "I'll be ready for whatever it is that's waiting for me on the other side ok Luz? Remember, you don't have to do this yourself. We'll always be here to help, even if we don't have superpowers like you do." Luz smiled and said "Thanks Mom." As she shifted back into her Half-Titan form, the five of them then walked back through the portal and returned to the Boiling Isles.

Castle of the Archivists....

"How many witches have we managed to successfully kill?" Asked Orion. "Not much, the number of witches we've killed per day has only grown lower and lower as the survivors grow more resilient." Said Doradus. Orion let out a groan of frustration as he said "This clearly isn't working as well as we hoped, if we want to destroy the witches and restore balance to the universe, we'll have to create a much more sophisticated weapon of destruction...."

"What did you have in mind?" Asked Helix. Orion made a sinister smile and replied "Devastation."

To be continued....

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Luz, Amity, Vee, Camila, and Masha emerged through the portal, arriving in the witches' hideout. Once they arrived, they were met by Eda. "Oh Luz, you're back- Why the heck are those two here? You said you'd only go visit your mother to tell her what's been going on here lately, but not bring her here!" She said. Luz replied "I know and that was how it was meant to go, but once I told her everything she insisted on coming along to help."

"What could those two humans possibly do to help us? They'll get themselves killed!" Eda said. Luz replied "We'll have to figure that out for later." Camila and Masha looked around for a while as Masha asked "So this is where you've been hiding?" Luz looked back at them and said "Yep, you're looking at what's pretty much all that's left of the Boiling Isles." 

Camila and Masha were led through the cave, several witches surrounded them. "What are humans doing here??" One of them asked. Camila walked next to Luz and said "You know, I was expecting things to look a lot worse here, but surprisingly you've all been doing pretty well." Luz nodded and said "Yeah, since Enzo has reality bending powers, they can summon basically any man made item that we need. So getting stuff like food and other essential needs hasn't been that hard." 

Luz was suddenly approached by the Hex Squad. "Oh hey guys." Luz said with a smile. "Luz, why is your mom and Masha here??" Asked Hunter. "Eh, they insisted on coming along, nothing I could do about it." Luz replied. "But they're aware of the danger, right?" Asked Willow. Camila stepped in and said "Of course I am! Just because I'm not a witch like my daughter I can still help!" 

"How though? Smack the Archivists with your shoe? Yeah like that'll get rid of them for good." Said King. Camila sighed and said "I'll figure something out ok?" Masha suddenly spoke up and asked "So, these Archivists, do you have any plans on defeating them?" Amity shook her head and said "Not at the moment unfortunately." Masha then asked "Well, isn't Enzo like, related to the Archivists or something? He should know what weaknesses they have right?" 

"Enzo has already shown us everything, they literally made us a holographic display of their castle, let me show it to you." Luz brought Masha and Camila into the briefing room where they discuss plans of attacks. In the center of the table was a large holographic display of the castle made by Enzo. "Woah, that's what their castle looks like?" Asked Masha. Enzo nodded as he said "Yeah, this castle is heavily fortified with all sorts of defenses, even if Luz could get inside, they have a dampening field that weakens her Titan powers, making her unable to fight. So breaking in is a no go." 

"What about that thing in the center there?" Asked Camila as she pointed towards a white glowing orb at the center of the castle. Enzo replied "Oh that?" He raised his hands out towards the hologram, causing it to zoom in on the white glowing sphere at the center. "That is the ships main quantum core, it bends space." Luz looked at Camila and said "We've concluded that we should try and destroy the castle if we want to win this, but unfortunately we cannot figure out a good plan." 

"And to make matters worse, the Archivists themselves reside inside of it, and not a single one of stand a chance against those four." Said Eda. "So what then? Have any of you even thought about trying to stop them??" Asked Camila. Eda looked at Camila and said "Of course we have! It's just... war is never easy alright? We can't focus solely on destroying the castle while we're struggling to survive here."

"More and more, the Archivists are slowly killing off more of the witches, we're lucky to still be holding on Mom." Said Luz. Vee looked at Masha and said "Now do you see why it was a bad idea coming here? You've entered a warzone you don't stand a chance in!" Eda looked at both Camila and Masha as she said "Look guys, not that I have anything against humans, but you both really cannot be here alright? Go home where it's safe. Enzo, could you open another portal back to Earth please?"

Enzo nodded as they were about to open a portal, but then Masha spoke up, "Hang on Enzo, didn't you say that the castle's quantum core can bend space?" Enzo nodded and said "Yeah, it's what gives the castle the ability to travel light years in a short amount of time." Masha approached the hologram before saying "If that's the case, why don't we just do what the movie Man of Steel did." 

"What??" Asked Vee. Masha looked at them all and said "Oh come on Luz, did you not show any of these people Man of Steel?" Luz replied "Oh no we have seen that movie before, it's just... what's that got to do with any of this?" Masha continued "Well, remember in the climax of the film, the Kryptonians were attempting to terraform Earth into a new Krypton? And in order to defeat them, Superman and the military had to use the space craft that Superman first arrived on Earth in and bomb them with it." 

"Yeah I know that, but what's that got to do with-" Before Luz could say anything else, Masha continued "Do you remember how it worked exactly? You see, both space vessels were powered by the same exact engine called a phantom drive, and just like the quantum core that the Archivists' castle uses, the phantom drive could bend space as well, therefore, by causing both engines to collide with one another, a singularity, kind of like a black hole in a way, was created, and it consumed the entire Kryptonian ship. What I'm trying to say is, why don't you guys try and create a quantum core of your own and bomb theirs with it? Doing so should create a singularity that will consume the entire castle and destroy it for good."

Everyone went silent from what Masha just told them. "Would that... actually work?" Asked Hunter. Eda thought about it before asking Enzo "Hey kid, does it actually work that way?" Enzo replied "Actually, Masha is right! If two quantum cores collided with one another, it would create a huge destabilization in gravity and space, creating what would affectively work like a black hole." Vee looked at Masha in amazement and shouted "Holy Titan Masha! How did you figure that out so easily!?" Masha smiled and replied "Oh, you know me. Just watched a lot of space movies back in the human realm honestly."

Eda smiled and said "Huh, not bad." But then Amity spoke up as she asked "Hold on a second, even though this could work, is it even possible to create a quantum core?? Do we even have the recourses to make one?" Camila looked at Enzo and asked "Can't you simply make one like you've been making items for all the witches here?" Enzo shook their head no and said "I can't, sorry, a quantum core is made up of... well, honestly, I have no idea what its made up of, I was never great with science anyway. But all I can say is that something about it prevents me from creating one with the snap of a finger." 

Luz sighed and said "Well, this is our only shot we have at defeating the Archivists, and if we want to survive, we need to figure out how to create one now." Everyone nodded as Gus said "Well hey, at least we have a fighting chance at least." Eda looked at Masha and said "You know, you're quite the smart one, maybe we can hold onto you for a while." Masha smiled and looked at Vee saying "See? I told you I could be helpful." 

Vee nodded and said "Alright Masha, you proved me wrong, don't rub it in please." Luz then said "Alright, Eda, call everyone in here for a meeting, I think we just found a way to end this conflict for good." Eda nodded and went outside. Amity looked at Luz and asked "Do you think this could actually work?" Luz replied "It has to babe, it's our only shot."

Soon, all the witches came inside the meeting room. "What is this about?" Asked Darius. Luz looked at him and said "We have a plan Darius. Enzo, show it to them all." Enzo nodded and zoomed in on the quantum core of the castle. Hunter spoke up and said "So we know that the Archivists' ship is powered by a quantum core that has the power to bend space. Now Masha here presented us with an opportunity to use that tech against them."

"What we need is another quantum core exactly like theirs, and find a way to somehow get the two of them to collide with each other, if we can do that then-" Before Luz could finish, Alador interrupted "Then a singularity should be created, like a black hole?" Luz pointed towards him and said "Precisely! It will consume the entire castle, and hopefully if we can keep the Archivists contained in their castle during the time, then it should consume them as well, banishing them forever. And the conflict with the Archivists that started the moment Enzo first warned us about them will finally be over." 

Everyone looked at each other as Raine said "You know... it sounds like a decent plan." Amity soon spoke up, "The only problem we've encountered is how exactly we can get a quantum core, for some reason Enzo can't create one of these things, so creating one of these things is gonna be challenging." Everyone remained silent for a moment as they tried to think of a way they could create one of these quantum cores. Some of them thought of trying to discover a new spell that could hopefully create this thing, but that would probably take a long time, and due to the situation they all were in, time was off the essence here.

Suddenly, Lilith spoke up as she asked "Hang on a second, what about all those machines the Archivists built? Clearly they must be running on some kind of high energy source, what if we could use that energy source to create a quantum core?" Enzo looked at Lilith and said "That could work actually." Raine looked at Enzo and asked "If that could work, can you show us what kind of robots there are?"

Enzo nodded and snapped his fingers, causing four holograms to appear on the table. "Ok, so from what I've seen out there, there are four robot types in total, first there's your average humanoid robot." Enzo enlarged the first one as Masha looked at it and said "Heh, it looks like one of those decepticons from the Michael Bay Transformers movies." Enzo continued "So, these robots are fairly moderate in terms of strength and durability, they can shoot laser beams from their hands the same way the Archivists and I can. However, its energy level isn't very high, so let's take a look at the next one."

Enzo enlarged the second robot hologram and said "This next one is a star, which is kind of obvious if you know anything about me and the Archivists, we basically live in the stars. Now these ones attack from the sky and are very quick, making them a hard target, however, they are not very durable so it is fairly easy to take one of these down. However, as a result, their energy level isn't that high, and I feel if we're gonna create this quantum core, we'll need a heck ton of power."

Enzo then enlarged the third robot hologram and continued "Now this one is a real nasty one, the scorpion." Masha looked at it and said "Hey! That's the same kind of mech that attacked Bonesborough when Vee first brought me to this realm!" Camila then asked "Scorpion?? Why scorpions??" Eda shrugged in response. Enzo continued "These robots are the hardest to take down, their bodies are surrounded in a very highly resistant armor, so you could basically hit this thing with everything you've got and it still won't go down. It also has the ability to dig into the ground, allowing it to attack its enemies from below. It can shoot powerful sound waves and lasers out from its tail, and it is very fast. However, much to my surprise, its energy level isn't as high as this next one." 

Enzo then enlarged the final hologram and said "Now here we have the tripod, the most massive of the machines out there, they can shoot lasers that can disintegrate you in an instant, they can easily catch their targets, and destroying them takes a lot of teamwork and firepower. This ones energy level appears to be the highest, so I'd recommend taking down one of these things to create a quantum core." 

Luz replied "I agree." Everyone looked at her as she continued "If we want this to work, we need to be able to get our hands on the most amount of energy possible, that way we can ensure that this will work." Alador spoke up and said "Once we get ahold of this energy, I might be able to use all that equipment you guys managed to retrieve for me and try to create this thing, I doubt it will be easy, but I'm hopeful that I can pull it off." 

Luz nodded at him and said "Well then everyone, now that we know what we need to do, let's formulate a plan on how to bring one of these tripods down." 

The witches worked together to set up a plan on how they would attack. After lots of debate, it was settled that the Hex Squad, led by commander Luz would go out there and search for a tripod and take it down, they would also bring others to help, like Eda, Lilith, King, Raine, and Steve. And while Luz tried to persuade Camila not too, she insisted on coming along to help, Luz could already tell she wasn't going to win this argument so the best she could do was give Camila some glyphs to protect herself with.

"Now, remember what I taught you about these glyphs?" Luz asked. Camila nodded and said "Yep, every last one." Luz replied "Good, now please try not to die out there Mom, I can't lose you as well." Camila smiled and hugged Luz as she said "I'll be alright Luz. I promise." 

As Hunter put on his magic gauntlet, Willow entered his room. "Hey Hunter." Hunter turned around and said "Oh, hey Willow. I was just getting ready." Willow nodded as she said "I can see that." Hunter suddenly let out a sigh as he asked "Willow, do you think we'll actually win this fight against the Archivists?" Willow seemed confused as she asked "What kind of question is that Hunter? Of course we can win, we've been kicking their asses for a while since they first started attacking us, they only just managed to gain the advantage over us at the start of the week." 

Hunter replied "I know that... I just don't know what we're going to do if we actually do win, they've taken so much. What do we do once it's over?" Willow approached Hunter and said "I don't know what the future holds after this Hunter, but whatever it is, I'd love to spend it with you." Hunter smiled as he kissed Willow on the lips. Willow sighed as she wrapped her arms around Hunter.

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"I love you Willow." Hunter said with a smile. Willow smiled back and said "Love you too. Now, you ready to go?" Hunter nodded as he willed his palisman Waffles into a staff as the two of them left the room.

While everyone was getting ready, Luz decided to spend this time showing Camila and Masha the condition that the Boiling Isles was in right now. She brought them both to the exit and drew a spell circle, causing the wall in front of her to disappear into a puff of smoke for it was only an illusion, Camila and Masha quickly shielded their eyes as the bright light from the outside suddenly gleamed through.

The three of them stepped outside to find themselves standing on a ledge, there was a large mountain behind them, but not just any mountain, the Titan's skull. "Woah... how high up are we?" Asked Masha. Luz replied "We're pretty high, but look around you for a moment." Camila and Masha took a look around to see the condition of the Boiling Isles, they saw that Bonesborough was in complete ruins, there were giant glowing stars that had crashed all over the place. Giant robots could be seen walking around in the distance. But most of all, the giant Archivist castle could be seen hovering in the sky off in the distance.

"God damn... it didn't look like this at all the last time I was here, how did this happen?" Asked Masha. Luz sighed and said "The Archivists, they managed to gain the upper hand by trapping me, Amity, and Enzo inside of their own concealment device, we were trapped inside of a nightmarish version of the real world. It gave me a lot of Inception vibes to be honest. But since we were trapped inside it, we couldn't do anything to protect the Boiling Isles, so the Archivists took the opportunity to launch a full scale attack on the Boiling Isles, they set all of Bonesborough on fire. And by the time we were able to escape that concealment device, we were already too late. The Archivists destroyed everything, me and all the other witches had no choice but to go into hiding, and we've been hiding in this cave ever since."

"How many of you are left?" Masha asked. Luz replied "Enough to keep our race alive at least. But I don't know how much longer we can hold out here. Before all of this we actually had the advantage over the Archivists, every time they attacked, me and my friends would always be ready, and we'd always be there to send them retreating back into the stars before they could cause any considerable amount of damage. But now they've upped their game, and now they're the ones with the advantage. They have control over the entire Isles now, and now they're more closer than ever to wiping us all out. I can't let that happen, not after the incredible life I've made for myself here, I can't lose all of that to those monsters, I can't let them destroy the home I love." 

Camila put her hand on Luz's shoulder and said "You can stop them Luz, I know you will. You've got Titan powers after all, I'm sure you can win." Luz smiled and said "Thanks Mom."

Suddenly, Luz's super hearing kicked in as she caught the sound of a few robot stars flying nearby. "Stars are coming, we might wanna head inside before we're spotted." The three of them turned back around and entered the cave as Luz drew another spell circle that caused the fake wall illusion to appear again.

Soon, everyone was all ready to go as they prepared to part ways. "Good luck to you all, we'll be awaiting your return." Said Darius. Luz nodded and said "When we return, we will have retrieved what we're hunting for." As Lilith prepared to leave, she said one last goodbye to Hooty. "BE SAFE LULU!! PLEASE!!!" Hooty shouted as he began to cry slightly. Lilith held him by the head and said "I will Hooty, I promise." She stood up and walked away as Hooty began to roll around on the floor crying. 

The group met up with each other at the main exit as Eda said "Alright kid, lead the way." Luz nodded and said "Remember to lay low until we find a tripod, got it?" Everyone nodded as Amity said with a smile "I'm looking forward to taking one of those machines down." Then King looked at Luz and said "Can we go now? Hooty's crying is driving me crazy." Luz nodded as she willed Stringbean into a staff and said "Let's go hunting." The whole group then turned and walked away, traveling up to the surface to go and hunt for a giant tripod.

To be continued....

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The group of witches traveled across the island, Luz led them through the woods as they went searching for a giant tripod. While they could travel by palismen, they didn't want to attract to much attention to themselves, they needed to lay low and focus only on bringing down a single tripod. "Do you hear anything yet Luz?" Asked King. Luz tried to use her super hearing to locate a tripod, but she was only met with silence. "No, not yet." She replied.

They kept moving until they arrived in the ruined town of Bonesborough. Now here they had to stay extra stealthy since the flying castle of the Archivists was nearby. Sticking to only alleyways when moving around, Luz suddenly heard some robotic movement. "Hang on..." She whispered, they all stayed hidden as Luz looked outside the alley, only to see a scorpion pass by. "Never mind everyone, it's the wrong robot, let's keep looking." Luz said.

As they continued walking through Bonesborough, Camila looked around at all the burnt buildings, seeing how empty the town was now was very unnerving for Camila, usually Bonesborough is a thriving town, but now it was completely abandoned. They kept searching through the town but were unsuccessful at finding a tripod. "Now what?" Asked Steve. Luz replied "We're not gonna stop looking until we find one, let's go somewhere else." 

The group of witches left Bonesborough and went back into the forest. They passed by several skeletons of dead witches, Vee was somewhat creeped out by this as she quickly wrapped her arm around Camila's arm for comfort. They all traveled for several hours on end, soon the sun was beginning to set. "Luz? How much longer do we have to keep searching?" Asked Gus. "Guys, we can't stop until we accomplish the task at hand." Sad Amity. "Yeah but at least let us take a break, we've been walking for hours!" Said Eda. 

Eventually after a while, the group eventually stumbled upon Hexside, or what was left of it, its entire structure had completely collapsed. Luz gasped at the sight of what used to be the school she had attended here. "Holy Titan... Hexside!" Lilith said in disbelief. 

Luz approached the wrecked building in silence. Placing her clawed hand against the wall, closing her eyes in sorrow. She turned back around and said "We'll stop here for the night, it should give us all the time we need to rejuvenate our strength." King sighed and said "Thank you!"

Later that evening, everyone sat down in the wreckage, Gus gathered up some firewood as Raine drew a spell circle that shot fire at it. They then sat down by the fire, but it wasn't enough to keep warm, it was dark outside now, which meant the temperatures were dropping. Eda sat down beside Raine as she asked "You cold?" Raine nodded in response. Eda smiled as she shifted into her harpy form, wrapping her wing around Raine, pulling them closer to her, causing Raine to blush initially before eventually getting comfortable.

Luz noticed Amity sitting by herself against a wall, she was shivering. Luz sighed as she approached her girlfriend and sat down next to her. "I take it you're cold? Let me help with that." She scooted closer next to Amity, pulling her onto her lap, wrapping her arms around her girlfriend, allowing Amity to bury herself in Luz's body fur. Amity felt her face turn red from being this close to Luz, but she got used to it very quickly as she got herself comfortable, she sighed as she let out an audible purr, resting her back against Luz. 

Luz smirked and asked "You feeling comfy batata?" Amity nodded and said "Yes, definitely yes." Luz chuckled lightly and said "Glad to be able to satisfy my fiancé in any way I can." Amity chuckled in response as she wrapped her hands over Luz's arms that were holding her close to the slightly taller witch behind her. She looked at her and asked "So Luz... Do you think the university is still standing?" Luz replied "Gosh Ami, I have no idea. I certainly hope it is though." 

"I just hope everything goes back to normal when we end this for good." Luz smiled and nodded as she said "Same here hermosa. Getting married is one of my top priorities right now." Amity smiled as she moved her hand under Luz's chin and said "I love you Luz." As she began rubbing it slightly, and since Luz was part Titan, this caused her to close her eyes as she began to purr. 

"Heh, she really is just a giant cat." Amity thought to herself. She then pulled Luz forward into a kiss on the lips. Luz obliged and deepened the kiss, slightly tightening her grip around Amity as she pulled her closer. The two stayed like that for a while, wanting to remain as comfortable as possible, but the moment was short lived however, when Luz's super hearing suddenly kicked in. She caught the sound of a familiar footstep in the distance, the footstep of a tripod.

"Wait, I hear a tripod on its way!" Luz said worriedly. "What?!" Amity asked as she stood up. Luz stood up and willed Stringbean into a staff as she shouted "Everyone! Get into defensive positions now! I heard a tripod on its way!!" Everyone looked at Luz in surprise as Willow replied "A tripod?! Here? Now?!" Luz nodded and said "Get ready to hit it with everything you guys got!" Eda and Lilith stood up as they activated their gauntlets. "Is that thing fully charged Lily?" Asked Eda. "Certainly is, made sure to double check it before we left." Said Lilith.

The entire group stood together, hiding behind some debris looking towards the trees ahead of them, expecting the tripod to show up from behind. "Do you hear it Luz??" Asked Vee. Luz replied "No... it's gone quiet." 

Suddenly, Enzo turned around to see a giant tripod off in the distance, standing taller than the trees. He shouted "GUYS!!! BEHIND US!!!" Everyone turned around to see the tripod standing there looking at them, it let out an ear piercing sound as the entire group instantly covered their ears. The tripod then began to open fire. "TAKE COVER! INCOMMING!!!" Luz shouted as they all split up and dived for cover. Luz grabbed Camila and Vee by the hand as they dived for cover, just barely dodging the laser that fired at them. 

"HOLY SHIT!!" Vee shouted. Luz looked at Camila and said "Remember to use those glyphs sparingly Mom." Camila nodded. Luz then blasted off into the sky and faced the tripod. "ALRIGHT HEX SQUAD!! LET'S TAKE THIS THING DOWN!!" Luz shouted, raising her palisman in the air. Gus quickly drew a spell circle, forming illusions of all the witches to keep the tripod distracted. While its back was turned, Enzo and Luz both fired energy beams from their hands at the tripod, only for it to hit some kind of forcefield. 

"It's got some protective shield around it! We can't break through it!" Enzo shouted. The witches quickly got on their palismen and flew into the air, circling around the tripod as they opened fire onto it. It tried to shoot at them, but Gus drew more illusions of witches flying around on palismen, throwing the tripod off. Hunter shot electricity from his gauntlet, hoping to break its shield open, but it did nothing.

Eda flew over the tripod, she pulled out her palisman Owlbert and activated a spell on her gauntlet, allowing her to charge her palisman with magic, she spun it around and drew a spell circle with it, firing multiple energy beams at the tripod, but they all exploded against its forcefield. "I can't break through it!" She shouted. Luz flew at the tripod in an attempt to punch down its shield, but the moment she threw her fist against it, the shield electrified her. She screamed as she was thrown back and collapsed to the floor.

"LUZ!!" Amity shouted. "MIJA!!" Shouted Camila. The tripod noticed her and tried to shoot at her. She gasped as she ducked for cover as a laser shot at her from overhead. Amity ran over to Luz and helped her up. "Are you alright??" Luz nodded and said "Yeah, this thing is tougher than I thought it would be." She then looked towards Vee and asked "Vee! Can you absorb its energy? Maybe you can disable its forcefield!"

Vee nodded as she leaped out from hiding and took a deep breath, slowly absorbing the energy of the forcefield surrounding the tripod. "It's working!!! Keep doing that Vee!" Luz shouted. She quickly levitated into the air and flew towards the tripod at intense speed, with its forcefield now mostly down, they all could attack it. Luz punched the tripod in the head, knocking it back a bit as Eda activated an abomination spell on her gauntlet, forming a sword out of abomination goo. 

She smirked as she flew towards the tripod's legs and began slicing against them with it. The tripod began firing back rapidly, but it ended up missing all the witches for they were flying around it too fast. The Hex Squad was gaining the upper hand! "YEAH!!! TAKE IT DOWN!!!" Shouted Steve as he drew a spell circle, shooting a fireball at the tripod in the back of its head. Amity flew over the tripod and leaped onto its head, punching against it with abomination fists. The tripod could sense her as it managed to shake her off, Amity screamed as she began falling, but Luz quickly rescued her and brought her safely to the ground.

Enzo then flew towards it and punched it in the eye, before shooting lasers from his eyes at one of the tripod's legs, nearly cutting through the metal. The tripod recovered however and faced Enzo. "ENZO LOOK OUT!!" Shouted King, but he was unable to help as the Tripod suddenly shot Enzo! Knocking them to the ground! King panicked as he ran over to him to help. "Oh Titan, Enzo! Are you alright??" He asked worriedly. Enzo slowly tried to get up, but he was injured. "ENZO'S DOWN!" Shouted King. Luz knew that was a problem since Enzo was one of their most powerful fighters they had. 

Luz growled at the tripod and continued to attack it, she flew towards its face and punched it rapidly with her superhuman strength, the tripod tried to fire another laser at her but she quickly circled around the tripod at intense speed, she then blasted towards it as she kicked it in its back. Luz then formed a fire glyph on her hand, fusing it with her palisman, allowing her to shoot fire directly from it towards the tripod, but the tripod continued to fight on. It faced Luz and fired another laser at her, she quickly dodged it and then fired laser eyes at the tripod, only slightly tearing into its hull. Angered, the tripod let out another ear piercing sound that caused everyone to cover their ears, making them lose their focus.

The illusions that Gus had generated disappeared, allowing the tripod to hit its targets. And to make matters worse, Vee ran out of breath, she collapsed to her knees as the the tripod began to reactivate its shield. "No no no NO!!!!" Luz shouted, she tried to attack it as she flew towards the tripod, but its shield was already up! Luz screamed as she was shocked by powerful volts, sending her crashing into the ground once more. 

"LUZ NO!!!" Shouted Camila, she watched in terror as the tripod began to fire rapidly at all of the witches. Causing them to fly out of control, Willow suddenly fell off her palisman as Hunter quickly glowed gold and warped towards her and caught her mid air. The tripod looked down at them both as it opened fire at them. "RUN!!!" Willow shouted as she and Hunter quickly ran for cover. Steve quickly shouted "FALL BACK!!!" As all the witches quickly flew away and hid.

"Great, now what do we do??" Asked Raine as the tripod passed by, searching for them. Eda knelt down beside King who was still worrying for Enzo. "They've been hurt badly, we need healing magic now!" Shouted King. Steve quickly approached Enzo and said "Hold still kid, this will only take a moment." As he prepared some healing magic for Enzo. Lilith sighed and said "Well we don't got a moment though, that thing is hunting us down and we don't stand much of a chance against it.

Luz sighed as she said "Well, I guess I'll just have to keep that giant tripod distracted then, all of you stay here, I'll go fight it." But then Camila put her hand on Luz's shoulder as she said "Luz, I don't think that's a good idea." Luz turned to face her and said "Mom, I have to do something or else we're all dead, alright?" She pulled out her palisman and blasted off into the sky. Eda sighed and said "That's the kind of person Luz is, she takes the situations she's in very seriously now compared to how she was like back when she first arrived here. She's become a true fighter now."

Camila replied "I can see that." She looked down at the glyphs Luz gave her and said "I'm not going to stand around in the sidelines this time." She suddenly took off running. "Wait! Where are you going!?" Shouted Hunter. "I'm making a diversion to keep the tripod occupied!" Camila shouted back.

The tripod walked around for a while, searching for the Hex Squad, suddenly a voice shouted from behind "HEY!! LOOKING FOR ME??!" The tripod turned around to see Luz soaring towards it, riding on top of her palisman. 

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Luz formed a fire glyph on her hand and fused it with her palisman as she flew towards the tripod, causing Stringbean to shift into a dragon and emit fire from her mouth, the fire engulfed the tripod's entire forcefield, blocking its view. Luz leaped off her palisman and landed on the ground, she planted her claws into the ground as she unleashed a powerful Titan roar, causing the giant tripod to collapse to the floor from the intense sonic blast that hit it.

"HA!!" Luz shouted as she fired lasers from her eyes at the tripod, but it had no effect because the forcefield was still up. The tripod was easily able to get up as it fired lasers towards Luz. Luz was able to dodge the incoming lasers as she sprinted around at intense speed, she clenched her fists as she drew a spell circle with her finger, causing a block of ice to launch her into the air, she unleashed a battle cry as she charged her palisman with Titan magic, swinging it down over the tripod, the tripod however was able to fire a laser directly at her. 

Luz was able to generate a forcefield around herself in time to protect her from the blast, but just barely, for the impact from the blast sent her crashing into the floor. As she slowly got up, she suddenly noticed Camila in the distance. "M-Mom?? What are you doing??" Camila replied "Saving your life! Hey ugly!!! Down here!!!" The tripod turned around to face her, it charged up its laser and opened fire on Camila. Camila quickly took off running as she activated one of her glyphs, turning herself invisible.

"No... GET OUT OF HERE!!!" Luz shouted in fear. The fear of losing her mother suddenly triggered something inside of her, the same feeling she had when she fought the Archivists in the woods. All of Luz's friends soon showed up with Enzo, having fully healed from his wounds. They all saw Luz as Amity wondered "What's happening??" Luz levitated into the air as the symbol on her chest glowed bright. 

Luz began to glow bright gold as she began to feel raw everlasting magic itself radiate from within her body. She then let out a powerful scream as she clenched her fists, unleashing a powerful shockwave as she flew towards the tripod at intense speed, generating a sonic boom behind her. "...Woah." Amity said, blushing slightly.

Camila kept on running as the tripod chased after her, she activated some plant glyphs and tossed them on the floor, they grew vines as they tried to grab the tripod by the legs, but they were stopped by the forcefield. The tripod continued to rapidly fire at her, barely missing every attack. Camila soon came to a stop to catch her breath, but before she could continue running, the tripod stopped her.

Camila searched frantically through all the glyphs Luz gave her, hoping to find one that would save her, but she wouldn't have the time as the tripod fired a laser directly towards her. But before the laser could hit her however, Luz suddenly landed on the ground in front of Camila, she threw her hands forward and generated a forcefield to block the laser. As soon as the tripod stopped firing, it was confronted by Luz, pure Titan energy was radiating around her. 

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"GRAAAAAHH!!!" Luz shouted at the top of her lungs as she supercharged her palisman with Titan magic, slamming it against the ground as it blasted a massive shockwave directly at the tripod, causing it to collapse. "Luz??" Wondered Camila as Luz levitated into the air, clenching her fists in the process. Luz blasted towards the tripod at intense speed as it got up, she drew an abomination glyph with her hand, forming several abomination fists to form behind her as they all thrusted towards the tripod, punching its shield rapidly, meanwhile Luz flew around the forcefield at intense speed, firing lasers from her eyes at it, trying to damage it as much as possible.

The tripod tried to fight back by creating another loud noise again, but Luz remained unaffected by it this time as she continued to attack the tripod aggressively. She clenched her fists as Titan energy traveled through them, she then flew towards the forcefield, punching it with so much force it actually caused the tripod to stumble a little bit! Luz didn't even get hurt by the electric shock that she received from making contact with the forcefield, instead, she absorbed it.

Luz looked at her arms as pure electricity from the shield suddenly traveled through them, she then looked back at the tripod and its forcefield, seeing that as a result, the forcefield was now slightly weaker. She smirked as she had an idea, she then blasted towards the tripod once again at intense speed, the tripod tried to fire at her, but Luz quickly made a forcefield around herself to block the attack, she then placed her hands directly on the forcefield, causing her entire body to emit electricity around it. 

Luz let out a powerful scream as she began to absorb all the energy of the forcefield, all the energy traveled up her arms as she contained that energy within her, feeling empowered by it. Once the forcefield was down completely, Luz smirked and shouted "Looks like your advantage is gone!! NOW YOUR GOING DOWN!!!" Luz then attacked the tripod with all her might. All of Luz's friends showed up in time to watch the fight. 

"Holy Titan...." Gus muttered. Everyone was shocked by what they were seeing, and Amity was, well you know how she reacted. 

Luz formed an electricity glyph on both her hands, she tapped it as pure electricity traveled through her arms, she pulled out her palisman and fused the magic with it, causing Stringbean to emit electricity as well. Luz smirked as she swung her palisman around at the tripod, hitting it with several electrical shockwaves! Blowing chunks of its hull apart. She then blasted towards the tripod, punching it with her superhuman strength, using the electricity that traveled through her arms. 

The tripod tried to fire at her, but Luz blasted around it at intense speed, kicking it in its back. She then formed a fire glyph on her hands, she activated it as a supermassive fireball formed in her hand, the fireball was actually so hot that it ended up turning into blue fire! Luz flew over the tripod and blasted the fire down at the tripod, the insane heat from the blue flame was so much it actually began to melt the tripod's metal. 

The tripod tried to fire back at Luz once more, firing another laser at her, but rather than dodge it like last time, she let it come towards her, she smirked as she then raised her arms out at it. Luz screamed as she was instantly hit by the pure heat of the laser, but rather than be harmed by it, she focused hard as she used all the Titan energy she had in her, doing the same thing she did to the forcefield, she absorbed the entire laser beam into her, causing her to feel a massive power surge travel through her body. Luz then flew closer towards the tripod as it faced her as she fired all that energy she absorbed from it directly back at it, firing a powerful laser from both her hands and eyes!

The laser hit the tripod, causing a massive explosion against it which tore a hole in it. "YEAH!!!! GO LUZ!!!!" Everyone shouted. "HAHA!!! THAT'S MY SISTER RIGHT THERE!!!!" King shouted with excitement. The tripod stumbled back as Luz clenched her fists once more, her entire body still flowing with Titan magic unlike anything she had ever felt before. She let out a powerful scream as she flew towards the tripod, generating a sonic boom behind her as she prepared to give the finishing blow as she blasted straight through the tripod! 

Luz landed on the floor as the tripod collapsed to the floor behind her. She and everyone else approached it as Steve asked "Did you destroy it?" Luz approached the tripod and used her superhuman strength to tear it open, revealing the core where all of its energy was. The core was still intact, which was good because they needed its energy to create a quantum core. But not only was it still intact, but it was also still functional too!

"What the? It's still active?!" Hunter asked in confusion. Suddenly, Camila approached it as she took off her shoe. "Hang on a second, I got this." She then slapped the core with her shoe, causing it to shut off on the spot. "Huh... well that worked, somehow." Said Eda. Luz sighed as she felt the insane amount of power within her subside as the golden glow around her faded. Amity looked at Luz and said "Wow Luz... you were incredible!!" As she gave Luz a kiss on the cheek.

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Luz smiled and said "Heh, thanks!" She then turned to face Enzo and said "Hey, you alright?" Enzo nodded as they said "Yeah, I'll be fine." Luz smiled as she gave him a hug saying "Good, because I'd hate to lose my new brother." Hearing that surprised King quite a bit, was Enzo actually his brother now? Enzo approached the tripod and carefully pulled out its core as he said "Alright, we have what we need, I guess this means we should head back now." 

Luz nodded and said "Alright everyone, time to head on back, mission accomplished!" But before they could get moving, Hunter approached Luz and asked "I don't understand it though, how in the Titan's name were you able to do all that stuff you just did?! I've seen you act pretty powerful before, but never have I ever seen you do something as bizarre as that Luz." Luz shrugged and replied "I honestly have no idea really, I just saw my Mom being attacked and I just... did it."

Raine approached Luz and said "From what I remember, your Titan powers are being given energy from King here, but King's Titan energy is no where near as powerful as his Dad's was, and yet you seemed even more powerful than both! I'm starting to doubt that King's giving you all this power anymore, this has to be something else entirely. I'm starting to think... that maybe they might be permanently one with you now..." 

"But that shouldn't be possible, the Titan's magic cannot function as its own independent source of magic, it needs a Titan soul strong enough to provide for it, which is what King has been doing since these powers first reawakened." Eda put her hand on Luz and said "Maybe we can discuss it when we get back to base? How's that sound?" Luz nodded, Amity spoke up and said "Maybe we could have my Dad try and figure out what's going on. I'm sure he can figure something out." 

"That would be helpful, besides, I think maybe I should try and figure out how my Titan powers can somehow become that powerful. Because maybe if I can figure out how to go all goddess mode on command, I might be able to defeat the Archivists for good." Amity put her hand on her shoulder as she said "And we'll be there to help you with that Luz." Luz smiled and gave her girlfriend a kiss as they all traveled back to base.

Castle of the Archivists....

Orion met up with his brothers as he asked "You three called for me, why?" Helix replied "We've got good news brother, remember those tracking devices you had us install to all of our machines? Turns out one of them hit a target, and it just so happened to be our traitorous brother the Collector!" Orion looked at the holographic display of the Boiling Isles, and he saw a glowing dot that was moving across it, that was where Enzo was.

"We believe that there may be others with him, if we follow him, he will lead us directly to where they are hiding." Said Pismis. Orion made a sinister smile and said "Perfect.... Assemble the armada, it's time for us to wipe this island clean of all witches for good!"

To be continued....

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In the witches' hideout, everyone there was eagerly waiting for the Hex Squad to return, hoping that they were able to successfully obtain what they were looking for. Suddenly, one of the witches shouted to everyone. "Hey! Everyone! They made it back!" All the other witches quickly gathered around the entrance of the cave to see the Hex Squad emerge out from the darkness.

The witches happily cheered for them as they passed by. As Amity entered the cave, both Edric and Emira ran up to her and hugged her tightly. "Thank Titan you made it back safely Mittens!" Emira said happily. Amity smiled and hugged back. Lilith looked around for a bit before spotting Hooty, who was overjoyed to see her. "LULU!!!" He shouted as he extended towards Lilith and wrapped around her like he was hugging her. Lilith smiled in response and said "Ok I missed you to Hooty." 

As Vee passed through the crowd, Masha ran over to her and hugged her tightly saying "There's my favorite shapeshifter!" Causing Vee's face to turn red. "Uh... ok, you can let go of me now..." She muttered. "Oh, sorry, personal space." Masha replied. 

Soon, Alador approached the group as he asked "Did you find what you were looking for?" Luz nodded and said "Yeah we did, here you go." Enzo approached Alador and handed him the core from the tripod. Alador took it as Enzo said "The energy we'll need is inside of it, try and extract it somehow and hopefully you'll be able to create the quantum core." Alador smiled and said "Thank you, I'll get right to work on it."

Suddenly, Raine approached Alador and said "Wait a moment, when we were fighting the tripod, something bizarre happened with Luz, she unleashed an insane amount of power, more power than I have ever seen her use, more power than I've seen anyone use really! It looked like she was using her own magic, which shouldn't be possible since her Titan powers are being given to her by King, and King's Titan powers have not yet grown to be as strong as his Dad was, yet despite that, Luz acted as if she were more powerful than both of them!"

Alador looked at Luz and asked "What is it that you're asking of me then?" Luz replied "We'd like you to give me another scan, try and see if there's something happening to me that's giving me so much power." Alador nodded and said "Why of course Luz, follow me." 

Luz and the Hex Squad followed Alador to his lab, he put the tripod core down and started setting up the energy scanner. Luz sat down as she took off her hat. "So, you say you're feeling more powerful than usual?" Alador asked. Luz nodded and said "Yeah. It's weird, whenever it happens, I suddenly feel a powerful rush of magic inside my entire body. I've never felt anything like it before, it feels like all the very essence of all magic in the entire demon realm is now inside me when it happens."

"When did this start exactly?" Asked Alador. "I think it started a week ago, when I fought the Archivists on my own in the woods." Luz replied. "Can you trigger this power at will?" Luz shook her head no as she said "Sadly not, sometimes it just happens, and I don't know why. I always thought I was already strong enough before when my Titan powers reawakened. But now I'm starting to feel like I've barely scratched the surface with my powers." 

Alador approached Luz and put the scanner over her head and activated it. "Alright, let's see if we can track the source of your powers, see if it's still coming from King or not." He looked at the screen as it showed him the data after scanning Luz. After observing it for a while, he finally saw what was going on. "Holy Titan..." He mumbled.

"What is it Dad?" Asked Amity. Alador continued "Luz's Titan power is no longer being fueled by King like it was before, it's become independent." Everyone was surprised by this news. "What?? But how?" Asked Willow. "Luz, your powers have become one with you, you've truly become a hybrid of both human and Titan." Alador said. "I don't understand, what do you mean they've become one with me?" Luz asked.

Alador quickly opened up the first scan he made of Luz when her Titan powers first returned and said "Look at this Luz, this was you when your powers first reawakened, at the time your powers were fully dependent on King's Titan blood to charge them. When your powers were first reawakened, while you certainly experienced lots of physical changes, one of the things that did not change however was your blood type, your blood vessels remained that of human blood cells, so at the time you really weren't much of a hybrid yet, you were still at your core a human who just so happened to have the Titan's power inside of you. Not trying to make you feel as if you weren't a true witch then, because you certainly were."

Alador then switched the screen to the scan he made of Luz just now and said "Now look at this scan, notice anything different?" Luz looked at it and replied "Wait... Mixed blood types?! What does that mean?!" Alador nodded and said "Yes Luz, overtime, as you continued to use your Titan powers, your body began to adapt to all the changes you'd gone through more and more, before eventually it started to produce Titan blood along with human blood! You now have both Titan blood and human blood flowing through you Luz! You've fully become a hybrid of two distinct species now!"

"What does that mean? What's this doing to my daughter?" Camila asked worriedly. Alador replied "I understand your concern Camila, but I can assure you that this isn't going to do anything bad to Luz whatsoever, turns out her body has actually handled this new change very well actually, she's in perfect health."

"But what's it got to do with me having even more power than before?" Luz asked. Alador continued "Well, I said earlier that at first your Titan powers relied on King's Titan blood to charge them, that was all they could cling onto at the time, but since your body started to produce its own Titan blood, your powers no longer needed King's Titan blood to sustain themselves, now they have their own Titan blood to draw power from! And as a result of that, your Titan powers have now become independent, and far stronger than they ever have been before!"

Luz remained silent, unsure of how to respond to the new information, all of this was quite a lot for her. "So basically Luz is an overpowered anime girl now, got it." Masha joked. Camila looked at Luz, seeing that she was feeling somewhat overwhelmed by all of this. "Oh mija, it's alright." Camila said as she pulled Luz in for a hug. 

Luz looked at Alador and asked "How much power do I have inside of me now?" Alador looked at the data and said "Based on these readings,  Not only are you the most powerful witch in the entire Boiling Isles now, now you are also the most powerful Titan in the entire Demon realm! The very essence of all magic in the entire demon realm as a whole now resides within you Luz, you now carry the heart and power of all of the magic inside of you." As he pointed towards the symbol on Luz's chest. 

How did Luz react to all this news? While a part of her felt pretty hyped about this, another part of her felt unsure, she already had the powers of a witch, why did she need even more power? Luz slowly looked down at her claws, knowing the true extent of it all began to stress her out. "Luz are you alright?" Asked Amity. Luz looked up at her and said "I- I need some alone time." She stood up and walked away, leaving the room. "Well that certainly went well." Eda said sarcastically.

Luz ran into her room, she closed her door and looked at herself in the mirror, staring down at the glowing symbol on her chest, she pressed her claws against it, feeling pure magic within it. Luz sighed as she thought to herself, she had already accepted her Half-Titan form as her true self, so why was it that she was suddenly feeling unsure of herself now because her power level had risen? 

She asked herself this endlessly as she stared at her reflection, as she looked at it, the answer began to hit her; Belos. Luz remembered that something very similar happened to Belos, he used to be human, but then he selfishly took an unlimited amount of power for himself by devouring the souls of palismen, making himself into the most powerful and ruthless witch ever. Was Luz now going through the same thing? Was she going to experience more changes later? Was she being selfish like Belos was for inheriting the powers of the Titan? Was she going to turn into the monster that Belos was? That should be impossible since she and Belos were nothing alike, yet the fear of becoming her worst enemy lingered on despite knowing that. 

"Damn it... I shouldn't be this doubtful! I- I'm a witch, just like everyone else... this- this doesn't change anything about that... It can't!" Luz thought to herself, trying desperately to find some way to justify all of this power she now had and why it wasn't going to make her into Belos, but she couldn't think of anything, more and more she began to feel frightened by the thought. Stringbean tried to comfort her but it wasn't enough. "Please... someone tell me that I'm still me." Luz muttered quietly. She wished for anyone at this point, even her own father. 

Soon, Amity entered the room, seeing Luz laying there on the bed, she was all curled up. Amity approached her and asked "Luz... I wanted to check in on you, the way you walked away like that worried me." The moment Luz realized Amity was in the room, she quickly tried to hide her insecurities by acting completely normal as she looked towards Amity trying her hardest to crack a smile. "Oh! H-hey Ami! Sorry, I just... wasn't expecting you is all."

Amity frowned as she said "You're hiding your feelings again Luz, I can tell." Luz's unconvincing smile faded as she sighed. "Yeah... I am, you're too good at spotting it." Amity sat down with her and asked "What's wrong babe?" Luz looked over to her and said "I- I don't know why, but for some reason I can't help but feel terrified by the fact that my Titan powers have now become even more powerful than they were before... I was totally happy with the state that my Titan powers were before, I felt like a true witch. But now I don't know if I can still call myself a witch anymore." 

"Why's that? I thought you had accepted this new body of yours as your true self." Luz nodded and said "I know, I know... it's just, knowing that I've gotten even stronger makes me feel selfish in a way, like... it's like I'm going down the same path Belos went."

Amity was surprised greatly by what Luz said. "Luz, you're not comparing yourself to Belos now are you? Didn't I watch you say right to his face while we were still trapped in that simulated world that you and him are not the same right before burning him to a crisp?? So why are you suddenly comparing yourself to him?"

Luz replied "I know it's probably stupid to be comparing myself to him in a way... but you and I both know how Belos became the monster that he was, he gave himself an unlimited amount of power by devouring the blood and souls of palismen, making himself immortal, and he did it all out of selfishness and his desire to destroy all the witches regardless of how long it would take him. Belos took all that power for himself, and he turned himself into the most powerful and ruthless witch in the entire Isles. And now here I am, once a human of Earth, having obtained an insane amount of power from the Titan himself, and now I've become the most powerful witch in the Boiling Isles, just like Belos! Have I become just as selfish as he was for inheriting these powers that didn't even belong to someone like me in the first place?"

Amity put her hands over Luz's shoulders and said "Luz, you don't know what you're saying. You're scared because your Titan powers have grown even further, I get it. But just because you've become the most powerful being in the entire Demon realm does not make you anything like Belos." Luz looked at Amity and asked "How can you be so sure?" 

Amity smiled and said "Well, first of all, unlike you, Belos stole all that power that truly didn't belong to him all for himself out of selfishness, out of cruelty, he murdered palismen and devoured their blood like some vampire shit to obtain that power. He didn't do anything to justify why he should even be allowed to have all that power in the first place, he only did it because he was a monster. But you Luz, you got your Titan powers through entirely different circumstances, and they show why you are nothing like Belos."

"You see, rather than steal the power for yourself, the Titan willingly gave it to you, he even let you decide if you wanted it first before giving it to you! Saying he wouldn't give it to you unless you willingly chose to inherit it, or more specifically, choose yourself. You said that the Titan had been watching over all of us this whole time in the In Between. And that he had seen everything you had accomplished."

"I think that's why he chose to give you his powers willingly, because unlike Belos who took powers that did not belong to him, nor did he do anything that made him truly deserving of the power he obtained, you deserved to inherit the Titan's power, after everything you've done to protect the people of the Boiling Isles and stop Belos, acting only out of selflessness and love for this world, you earned those powers that the Titan gave you, you've truly earned the chance to become a witch like the rest of us."

"So even though you say you inherited powers that never belonged to you, that's exactly why the Titan's power does belong to you, because you deserve the chance to be a witch like all of us after everything you've done for the Boiling Isles, you've had such a positive impact around here since you first stepped foot in this realm, you made so many people's lives better, especially mine. You didn't just inherit the Titan's power, you earned it. Which is why you're nothing like Belos, because unlike you, Belos didn't do anything to earn his power, he obtained his power through selfishness and the desire to fulfill his twisted genocidal plans." 

"Belos let his selfishness and constant need to be the hero get to him and turn him into the monster that he was, not that he wasn't already a monster since he did murder his own brother. But you on the other hand, you took all that power the Titan entrusted upon you, and made it into something special about yourself, you used it to help define you even further. And you've done nothing but protect the witches from the Archivists since then Luz. Don't you see? You never have to worry about becoming Belos. You're our hero Luz, my hero." 

As Amity finally finished what she was saying, Luz couldn't help but have tears in her eyes as she listened to the profound words of her girlfriend, she slowly wiped some of her tears away as she said with a smile "W-wow... That was the most nicest thing I-I've ever heard you say to me. Thank you!" 

Luz pulled Amity in for a hug and kissed her on the cheek, Amity smiled and said "Couldn't leave my fiancé all sad now could I?" Suddenly, another thought crossed Luz's mind as she said "But even if I don't become like Belos, that doesn't close off the possibility that I could still change into something completely different later in life. Like... Alador told me that my body has adapted to its new look, which is why it started to develop Titan blood, what if I undergo even more changes later? What if stop producing human blood entirely and end up turning into a literal Titan?? Will that ruin our relationship??"

Amity smiled and pressed her hands against Luz's face as she said "Oh babe, nothing will ever ruin our relationship, I love you very much and I will never stop loving you. And you wanna know my opinion on your Titan powers growing stronger? In my eyes, this doesn't change a single thing about you honestly, you're still the same Half-Titan that you were then, all this really does is give you the power boost necessary to defeat the Archivists for good. So this is more of a good thing that should give a lot of witches hope in my opinion. Just remember Luz, it's not what species you're part of that defines what kind of person you are, it is you as in individual who defines yourself, so it doesn't matter if you're human or a Titan, that doesn't change what kind of person you are, you will always be the same Luz that I know and love."

Luz smirked and said "Heh, ironic coming from someone who goes head over heals over my Titan form." Amity sighed and said "Ok that's fair. Yes I can't deny that your Titan form is certainly 'more attractive' but my point still stands." Luz chuckled and said "Thank you Ami bear. I really needed this." She and Amity gave each other a kiss as they both went to go talk with everyone else.

Luz and Amity met up with everyone outside. "Luz! You're back.... are you ok?" Hunter asked. Luz nodded and said "Yeah I'm perfectly fine. I just needed some time to clear my head is all. Anyway, it seems based on what Alador has told me, my powers have now grown back to their fullest potential that they were at on the day the Titan first gave them to me. And I need to learn how to activate all that power on command. Once I do, we may finally be able to defeat the Archivists for good."

Everyone smiled as Willow said "I like the sound of that." Luz replied "Tomorrow I'm gonna need some help training so I can activate this power at will." "Oh! We can totally help!" Said Gus. "We'll be happy to help you whenever you need Luz." Said Enzo. Luz smiled and replied "Thank you. In the meantime, Alador, I suggest you get started working on that quantum core we're gonna need for defeating the Archivists." 

"Already on it." Said Alador as he left to go get started developing the quantum core. Luz looked back at everyone and said "Tomorrow I focus solely on trying to unleash my power's fullest potential. But for now I think it's best that we all got some rest for the night, we had quite a busy day today." King nodded and said "Yeah, I could use the rest if I'm being honest." 

As everyone went off on their merry way, Camila approached Luz and asked "Luz, are you sure about this? I mean... all that power inside of you, are you sure you're ready for that? What if it does something we don't want to happen? What if you become something else entirely? Will you still even be the same Luz?" Luz smiled and said "I get that you're scared, and that's alright, you're my Mom and have every right to be scared, but I promise you, all of this power I have does not change who I am, I am still the same Luz you raised, and I'm gonna use the power that the Titan has gifted me with to protect this world from the Archivists, I am a witch, and this world is my home."

Camila smiled as she pulled Luz in for a hug. "Oh mija... look at you all grown up. I'm so proud of you." Luz smiled and hugged back as she said "I'm glad you're still here Mom, I don't know what I'd do without you." 

As Luz and Camila parted ways for now, Vee approached Luz and asked "Hey uh, Luz? There's something I need to ask you." Luz and Amity both looked at her as Luz asked "Yeah Vee what is it?" Vee took a deep breath before continuing "Since I told Masha everything about me and this world, I've decided that I think I'm ready to tell them that I love them." Luz smiled with joy as she shouted "Oh Vee! That's amazing! Why'd you feel the need to tell me first though?"

Vee replied "Because I have no idea how! Like, Masha is like, the definition of cool! While I'm the definition of the shy one! How am I supposed to confess to someone like them? I wanted to know how exactly you confessed your feelings to Amity." Luz and Amity looked at each other before Luz replied "Um, actually, I didn't confess, Amity did. And not in the way you're probably thinking she did." 

"I just pulled her in for a kiss on the lips without even thinking, and that's how it happened." Said Amity. "Oh..." Said Vee, feeling somewhat underwhelmed. "What's wrong?" Asked Luz. Vee replied "Well, you see, I'd really like it to be all fancy, like lots of effort went into it." Luz replied "Well you don't exactly have to confess the way we did, you can choose whatever way you like Vee." Vee nodded and said "Ok... I'll think of something." As she turned and walked away. "Good luck." Luz said.

Later, both Luz and Amity returned to their room as Amity looked at Luz and said "So Luz, you think Dad's gonna be able to make that quantum core?" Luz nodded as she took off her hat and hanged it up and said "He must be able to, our survival depends on this plan to work." Amity smiled and said "Let's just hope he can make it in time though." 

As Luz sat down on the bed with Amity, she thought about what it was gonna be like to be able to unleash the full power of the Titan once she masters it. "Something wrong babe?" Amity asked. Luz shook her head and said "It's nothing Ami... I'm just nervous about tomorrow is all, about training to be able to go all goddess mode, you know?" Amity nodded in response as she said "Just remember Luz, no matter what form you're in, no matter what species you're part of, you're still the same Luz I know and love."

Luz smiled as she kissed Amity. Amity happily kissed back before pulling Luz down on the bed next to her, holding her close so she could bury herself in all of Luz's body fur, feeling just how warm she was. She rubbed her hands over her girlfriend's fluffy back as she whispered "I love you." Luz looked down towards Amity within her arms and asked "Say it again..."

"I love you." Amity said.

"Again please?" Luz asked.

"I love you." Amity said once again.

"You mean it?" Luz asked.

"Absolutely." Amity confirmed.

"Even if I turn into something completely different?" Luz asked.

"Yes." Amity said in a loving tone.

Luz sighed happily as she got all snuggled up with her girlfriend, giving an audible purr. She then said "Thanks. Now.... where were we?" Amity was confused for a moment before Luz suddenly rolled on top of her, pinning her to the bed. "Luz?!" She asked in surprise, face starting to heat up. 

"We were interrupted last time mi amor. Now that everyone's asleep, we have the whole night to ourselves." Luz said in a flirtatious manner. Amity regained her confidence and wrapped her hands over Luz's neck and said "Oh you big furball. Trying to use that absolutely adorable fluffy look of yours to seduce me again now are you? Well, I've got a surprise for you."

She pulled Luz down as the two began kissing each other passionately, Amity started to rub Luz's stomach, causing her to purr as she asked "Oh what are you doing? Trying to take the upper hand?" Amity grinned and managed to bring the towering witch above her down onto the bed beside her as she managed to crawl over her. Both girls began cuddling and snuggling one another affectionately as Amity ran her fingers affectionately through her girlfriend's fluffy, purplish brown hair as their lips locked together, the two stealing kisses from one another as their passion began to evolve into desire. Both girls spent the rest of the night expressing their love for each other before drifting off to sleep."

Castle of the Archivists....

Orion watched in satisfaction as his entire robot army assembled, his brothers stood beside him as he said "Brothers, the time has come. Have you tracked our brother to the witches hideout?" Doradus nodded and said "We have Orion. They are all hiding out deep within the skull of the Titan itself." Orion made a sinister smile and said "Then we shall go and destroy them at once!"

The Archivists along with the robot armada began to travel up towards the skull of the Titan, more prepared than ever to destroy the witches, and the worst part was that the witches still had no idea that they were coming.

To be continued....

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King slowly woke up early in the morning, he crawled off his pillow and went out into the rest of the cave for a bit, since it was still fairly early, he decided to go sit outside and watch the sun rise, he arrived at the entrance of the cave, and was surprised to see Enzo sitting there already. 

"Oh Enzo, you're up pretty early." He said. Enzo looked behind him to see King. "Oh, hey King." They said with a smile. King sat down beside them and asked "Had nothing to do either?" Enzo nodded and said "Yeah, everyone else is still asleep, so I decided to come out here and watch the sun rise, not like I got anything else to do." King nodded and sat beside his friend for a while in silence, but then a thought crossed his mind.

"Hey uh, Enzo? Earlier I remember hearing Luz refer to you as a brother to her, do you know what she could have meant by that?" Enzo looked at King and replied "Oh yeah, I should have told you about this earlier, but turns out, since I've basically been all alone for the majority of my life, Luz decided to accept me into her family!" King was surprised by this news and asked "Really?? As in, like a brother??" Enzo nodded and said "Yep! I guess you can refer to me as Enzo Clawthorne now!" 

King couldn't express how happy he was to hear that, he had always viewed Enzo as a brother figure, and now Enzo actually was his brother now. "Oh Enzo, that's amazing!" He stood up and hugged Enzo. Enzo smiled and hugged back as they said "I'm so happy I met all of you, you've given me a better life and I am forever grateful for that." 

Suddenly, Alador came outside. "There you are Enzo, I've been looking for you." Enzo and King looked at him and were surprised that he was already awake, actually, he looked as if he hadn't gotten any sleep at all. "Woah... Alador? You ok?" He asked. Alador replied "Sorry, I was up all night working on the quantum core, but I've got great news, it's nearly finished! There's just one final ingredient needed, and for me to get it, I'm gonna need your help Enzo."

Later that morning, things got moving swiftly, Luz got together with all her friends to try and master the ability to activate the full strength of her Titan powers. Gus drew an illusion spell which set up a training field for Luz. "Alright Luz, you ready?" Asked Gus. Luz nodded and said "Of course I am, I've been ready since I drew my first glyph." Gus nodded and asked "So, how many enemies do you want me to spawn in?"

Luz looked at him and said "As many as you can possibly create, and don't stop until I'm completely outnumbered to the point where I don't stand a chance!" Hearing Luz say that slightly worried everyone, especially Amity. "Luz, are you sure that's safe? I know they're just illusions and won't actually hurt you, but we don't want you to overwork yourself here." Luz replied "I know, but I got no choice, the Archivists will destroy us unless I master the fullest extent of my powers. And the only way I can be sure that I've mastered them is if I go against the biggest army possible where the odds are all against me, and still win."

"How do you know that will work?" Asked Willow. "Because it's how my full Titan powers first triggered, when I was fighting the Archivists in the woods, I was fighting against four powerful demigods all on my own, I was basically fighting for my life at that moment, and I almost didn't survive. But then, that's when it happened, and I ended up defeating the Archivists despite how outmatched I was. So don't hold back Gus, hit me with literally everything you've got!" Luz said as got ready for battle.

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Gus sighed and said "Alright then luz, good luck." He hesitantly drew an illusion spell that caused over 50 robots built by the Archivists to suddenly appear, completely surrounding Luz. Luz was shocked by how many there were. 

"Holy shit! I didn't think he'd create that many!! I was expecting around at least 25 or so! Ok Luz... don't panic, just use your Titan powers the way you've used them before and hope whatever triggers your full powers occurs." Luz thought to herself. 

All the robots suddenly opened fire on her, she quickly leaped into the air started flying around as fast as she could. She fired lasers down at one of the robots, causing it to disappear in a puff of smoke. She kept flying around frantically as she avoided being shot at as she engaged the robots, flying at intense speed as she crashed right through them, causing them all to disappear as well. Luz smirked as she supercharged her palisman with Titan magic and swung it forward at the robots, dispersing several glyphs at them, the glyphs exploded as the machines disappeared.

"Ha!" Luz shouted, but then suddenly, she got hit by a laser in the back, while she wasn't harmed, she certainly felt it. Gus quickly made all the illusions vanish as he said "Aaaw, sorry Luz." Luz groaned in annoyance, "Damn it." She muttered. "It's ok Luz, let's just give it another go." As he drew a spell circle again, causing all the robots to appear once more as they all opened fire onto her.

Luz tried going for a different approach as she formed a forcefield all around herself, protecting her from being shot at. "Great, now what do I do?? Aha! I got it!" She thought as she unleashed a powerful Titan roar that blasted several machines away as the disappeared into a puff of smoke. Luz took the chance to fly forward as fast as she could as she raised her hands out and formed glyphs on them, shooting fire directly out of her hands as she aimed them at the machines that shot at her.

She kept on fighting the machines, supercharging her palisman with an electricity spell, firing volts of lighting directly at several of the robots, causing them to disappear. Luz clenched her fists as pure electricity traveled up her arms, she then flew at super speed towards the robots and began punching straight through them. "Come on come on! Why can't I get my full powers to activate?!" Luz thought to herself as she continued to fight. 

As Luz fired laser eyes at some robots, a scorpion suddenly shot at her in the back, all the illusions disappeared as Luz growled in frustration. "Come on!!" She shouted. Camila made a concerned face as she said "Maybe we can try this again some other time-" Before she could finish her sentence, Luz said "No, again." Gus sighed and drew the illusion spell once more as Luz got back into battle.

Luz flew past several more robots, firing lasers at them, trying her hardest to unleash her powers to their fullest extent, but no matter how hard she pushed her powers, no matter how hard she pushed herself, she couldn't seem to go all goddess mode like before. "Why isn't this working??" She wondered, she once again got shot by a robot from behind, she sighed and said "Again!" 

Luz tried again, but lasted no longer than last time, she tried again once more, but she ended up lasting even less than she did the previous attempt, she kept on trying, pushing herself and her powers to their limit as she fought off all the illusions, but each attempt ended up being shorter than the last, showing just how tired Luz was getting from all this, it was starting to take its toll on her up to the point where she could only last a few seconds before being shot at. 

Eventually, it got to the point where Luz could no longer fight anymore, for as soon as Gus spawned in the illusions, Luz was shot at as soon as they appeared. This showed everyone just how tired Luz now was as Amity finally had enough of seeing her girlfriend push herself over her limits. "Ok that's enough!" She shouted. Luz got up to her feet and groaned in anger. "Aaargh!! Why can't I just get it right for Titan's sake?!" She shouted as she punched the wall in frustration. 

"Luz! Please don't keep doing this to yourself! You're only gonna wear yourself out if you continue this any longer!" Said Amity. Luz sighed as she turned to face her and said "I- I know... but I have to do this, otherwise the Archivists will kill us all! And if they do, then I will have failed the Titan, you said it yourself Amity, the Titan granted me his powers so I could use them to be a witch, and to preserve the magic itself that resides in the hearts of every witch. I literally carry the heart and essence of all magic inside of me! And the Titan entrusted me to ensure it lives on! If you all die, then I will have failed that promise to the Titan! I will have failed everyone in the Isles! I can't fail... I have to do this!" 

Amity stepped closer to Luz and said "Yeah I understand how important this all is to you, but you shouldn't completely disregard yourself in order to keep us all alive!" Hunter watched the two speak to each other as he said "Maybe we should give these two some time alone." Everyone nodded in agreement and left Amity with Luz.

"Amity, I have to figure out how to master this new power I have, the entire Boiling Isles is depending on me, if I want to defeat the Archivists, I have to be just as strong as the Titan himself if I want to end this." Said Luz. Amity nodded and said "I know Luz, and I assure you that you will master it in time, but it doesn't have to be today, and you shouldn't have to wear yourself out like that just to keep us all safe, it's not something I can take seeing you go through." 

Luz sighed and said "But what if it takes me forever to master this? What if the Archivists destroy us before I can?" Amity smiled and wrapped her hands around Luz as she said "That won't happen Luz, we'll get through this together alright? And we'll keep trying to get those powers of yours to reach their fullest capability, but next time try to avoid pushing yourself to hard alright?" Luz gave a soft smile and nodded as she said "Oh what would I do without you sweet potato. Alright, we can take a break." Amity smiled and kissed Luz on the cheek as they both left the room.

Later, Luz was sitting all by herself in the briefing room, examining the holographic map of the entire Boiling Isles. She tried calling for the Titan, hoping that maybe he could at least give her some advice that would make it easier for her to go full goddess mode with her Titan powers, yet for some reason, the Titan never showed up, it's been like this for a while, for some odd reason the Titan simply stopped showing up, it was like something was wrong.

Luz sighed, she really wanted to master this power, not because it excited her, but because of how important it was that she masters it. The entire Boiling Isles was now depending on her to save them from the Archivists after all, so you could imagine why she's become so stressed lately, while Stringbean tried to comfort her, all Luz could really give in response was a weak smile to her kind gestures.

Soon, Eda found Luz and walked over to her. "Hey kid, what'cha been up to?" She asked. Luz sighed and said "Oh, just trying to come to terms with the huge responsibility I now have to all the witches that's been put on my shoulders, you know how it is." Eda sat down next to Luz and said "Yeah, being a commander can be tough sometimes." Luz nodded and said "It's not just that, I still can't seem to figure out how to unleash the full potential of the Titan's power, that way I could just defeat the Archivists with ease."

"I assume training didn't go so well did it." Eda asked. Luz shook her head and said "Oh, it went horribly. If you'd have seen it Eda, oh you'd be embarrassed." Eda chuckled and said "Oh I'm sure it wasn't that bad." Luz looked at her and said "Sometimes I worry I'm not even ready for this kind of power, which is why I haven't been able to control it, so far I can only use my Titan powers the same way I always have since they returned, but I know that's not enough to defeat the Archivists, it never will be. But am I ready to harness the full power of the Titan?" 

Eda put her hand on Luz's shoulder and said "Luz, you've come so far since you arrived here, if you wanna know my opinion, you're more ready than you realize, I just know it. It may take time, but I'm sure you'll get all this figured out in no time." Luz was about to say something in response, but then suddenly, King came outside and found them. "Luz! You need to get inside and see this!" 

Luz and Eda went inside as King led them to Alador's lab. Enzo was with him. Alador turned around to see them and said "Ah Luz, you're here, I've got great news." Alador handed Luz a container and opened it, revealing a bright white orb inside. Luz looked at it for a moment before saying "Is... is that-" Alador nodded and said "It is Luz, a quantum core. It worked." Luz smiled and said "Wow, you actually did it! We now have a fighting chance against the Archivists!" 

Enzo approached Luz and said "Turns out Alador only needed one more ingredient to make it." Luz looked at him and asked "Oh, and what was it?" Enzo replied "A sample of my blood of course." Luz went silent for a brief moment, you know what? No comment necessary. Alador looked at Luz and said "We needed a sample of Enzo's blood because they have reality bending powers, and if we want to make this thing work the way we want it too, it needs to have a sample of Enzo's power in it for it to work." 

Luz nodded and said "You did a great job today Alador, we're now one step closer to defeating the Archivists!" Eda smiled and said "See Luz? I told you everything was gonna be alright." Luz nodded and said "We need to let everyone know about this immediately."

Later, Luz called everyone together to show them the quantum core. She held it in her hands and said "Everyone, I've got great news, you see this little white orb in my hand here? It's a quantum core! With this, we can defeat the Archivists and end this conflict for good!" All the witches started to cheer. Luz then said "Now, what we need to do now is to plan out how exactly we're going to weaponize this thing against the Archivists so we can destroy their castle..."

Suddenly, the mountain everyone was inside began to shake. "Uh, what was that?" Asked Lilith. Suddenly, Luz's super hearing caught the sound of an explosion above ground. "Oh no... Hex Squad! To the surface immediately!" She shouted. 

Luz and her friends ran outside the entrance of the cave and looked down towards the ground beneath them, they found themselves confronted by the largest robot armada they had ever seen. "What the hell is happening?!" Hunter asked as he saw the robots. Enzo looked down at the large army, and the moment they spotted their brothers, he said "No... the Archivists, they found us."

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"There they are! FIRE!!!" Shouted Helix as he pointed up towards the Hex Squad. All the robots opened fire onto them as Luz shouted "EVERYONE GET INSIDE!!!" The Hex Squad ran inside as Hunter asked "How the hell did they find us?!" "I don't know!" Willow replied. "We need to warn everyone that the Archivists have found us, whatever happens, we can't let the Archivists get to them! We have to protect the witches at all cost!" Luz said to everyone. 

The Hex Squad returned to the hideout as Darius looked at Luz and asked "What's happening??" Hunter looked at him and said "Bad news, the Archivists found us." Everyone gasped in horror. "W-what?? How?! What do we do?!" Asked one of the witches. Luz looked at everyone and said "We have to get out of here, this hideout is no longer safe anymore now that the Archivists know we're here." 

"How do we do that?" Asked Darius. Luz replied "It's obvious, with a teleportation glyph." Luz then searched through her glyphs before finding the right kind of glyph. "Here, take it. Have your knights draw as many of these on the floor as you can, and get all the witches out of here." Camila looked at Luz and asked "W-what about you?" Luz looked at her and said "Me and my friends along with as many of the finest soldiers that we have will stay behind for now to hold them off for you, once all of you are safely out, we'll follow you."

Darius nodded and said "Alright Luz, good luck. COME ON EVERYONE! WE'RE LEAVING!" Vee approached Luz and asked "Alright Luz, how will we hold them off?" Luz looked at Vee and said "No Vee, not this time, go with your Mother and get out of here." Vee was surprised and asked "W-what?? But I should be allowed to help!" Luz replied "Vee, they brought the whole damn armada with them, we'll be heavily outmatched here and I don't want you to die! But if you want to help, then take this." Luz put the quantum core in Vee's hand.

"Take the quantum core and get it out of here, this thing is vital for defeating the Archivists, we cannot lose this." Vee sighed and nodded. "Please be careful Luz." She said as she walked away with Camila. Luz looked at them both as they left. As all the witches left, Amity gave her father and siblings a hug as Edric asked "We'll see you again right?" Amity nodded and said "As soon as you all are safe, we'll follow, now go." Alador nodded and said "Come on." As he and the twins walked away.

Before King left, he approached Enzo and said "Please come back safely, ok brother?" Enzo nodded and said with a smile "I will, little brother." King smiled and hugged him, before turning and walking away with everyone else.

Once all the other witches left, the Hex Squad was approached by Steve, Eda, Lilith, and many other fighters. "Alright Luz, we're all here to help, so what's the plan?" Asked Eda. Luz replied "Gather around the entrance and set up a defensive zone, whatever you do, do not allow them to get through." Steve nodded and shouted "Alright everyone you heard the commander, let's go!!"

All the soldiers made their way towards the front entrance as Luz approached the Hex Squad and said "Alright, this is it. Are you guys ready?" Her friends nodded as Enzo said "We're ready Luz. Those Archivist shall face my wrath before they harm any of my friends!" Luz smiled and said "Let's take it to them!"

All the other witches gathered around in the furthest corner of the cave as Darius ordered "Now I need all of you to draw as many copies of this glyph pattern on the floor as you can, we need to get everyone in here out of here safely! Make sure you leave one extra for commander Luz and her team!" Everyone nodded as they quickly got to work drawing the glyph pattern Darius showed them with their palismen. 

"Where exactly do you think we'll be going?" Asked Emira. "I don't know, but it's our only chance." Said Vee. She then noticed Masha standing against the wall, they appeared to be breathing heavily. She approached them and asked "Masha? You alright?" Masha shook their head no and said "Of course not, we could die here! I don't want to die!" Vee nodded and said "None of us do, but don't worry, Luz and her friends will ensure our safety."

The large squad of soldier's positioned themselves by the main entrance, Luz led them all as she held her palisman tightly. "Luz, can you hear anything yet?" Asked Lilith. Luz used her super hearing to listen for any sounds of robots making their way inside. Suddenly, she caught the sound of movement coming from outside. "They're coming, get ready everyone." 

The footsteps grew louder and louder, everyone stayed quiet as they waited for the robot to approach, as the humanoid mech made its way through, it suddenly stepped on a glyph, a fire and ice glyph! It caused lots of mist to get emitted from it, filling up the entire tunnel, blinding the robot's sight. As soon as the trap was activated Luz shouted "FIRE!!!" Everyone behind her opened fire at the robot, Luz and Enzo fired energy beams from their hands as they blasted the robot, causing it to explode on the spot.

"Ha!! Nice work everyone!" Luz said with a smile. Steve nodded and said "Thanks, but how do you intend to do the same thing to all the other robots that are on their way though? That trap could only be used once." Luz shrugged and replied "Well, I guess we'll have to improvise then!" Everyone got into defensive positions as they heard a large horde of humanoid robots start running down the tunnel in front of them. "How many can you see in there Luz?" Asked Gus.

Luz used her night vision to see all the approaching robots from the darkness. "Woah boy, that's a lot of em. Ok everyone! We need to hit them with everything we've got if we wanna protect these people! Alright?!" Everyone nodded as Amity formed abomination fists on her hands. "LET'S BRING IT TOO THEM!!" Luz shouted as she charged her palisman with Titan magic. 

All the machines came running through the tunnel as the group of witches opened fire on them. Luz slammed her staff against the ground, emitting a bright purple shockwave that blew some of the robots up. All the soldiers began firing at the machines as they started destroying them one by one. Luz and Enzo flew into the air and began pounding right through some of the robots while Hunter began running at super speed, grabbing onto one of the robots and tossing it towards Willow, who drew a plant spell that caused a vine to come shooting out of the ground, impaling the robot.

Amity ran around frantically as she punched some of the robots in the face with her abomination fists, she then formed a blade out of abomination goo and swung it as hard as she could, slicing some of the robots legs off. The robots tried firing back but the witches were moving to fast. As Steve dodged some of the attacks, he drew a spell circle caused several ice shards to come shooting out of the ground, impaling some of the machines that came close to him. 

Eda and Lilith fought off the machines together as Eda slashed her hook against one of them before shooting at it with her gauntlet, while Lilith used the enhanced strength of her harpy form to punch several attacking robots towards the wall as they broke apart. Meanwhile Luz flew towards a large group of robots as she fired lasers from her eyes at them, one of them ran at her to attack her, but she kicked it away with her superhuman strength. 

Luz then leaped into the air and started firing energy beams down at the robots beneath her, before landing behind them all and finishing them off as she kept on firing. Enzo formed a giant star on his hand and tossed it towards the entrance where more machines were coming, blowing them up before they could even get inside. As Amity punched against some more machines, she drew a spell circle that caused a giant abomination fist to rise out of the ground, smashing several robots against the ceiling above them. 

"NICE ONE AMITY!!" Luz shouted as she formed an electricity glyph on her hands, charging them up with lightning, she clenched her fists and sprinted towards a large group of machines and punched them real hard, blowing them into pieces as the electricity fried their circuits. Luz managed to grab onto another one and suspend it in the air with two hands, before ripping it in two! Luz then saw a few more machines running her way, she smirked before zapping the lighting directly at them, causing them all to explode on the spot! 

They all continued to fight on as Willow wrapped some vines around a robot, clenching her fist as the vine began to squeeze the robot before crushing it. Luz levitated into the air as she harnessed her Titan strength, she blasted forwards at high speed as she threw her fists out towards even more robots, blasting straight through them all with ease! Luz landed beside Amity and shouted "Behind you!" Amity already knew as she turned around and punched her abomination fist right through it. 

Both Luz and Amity fought together as more robots fired at them, Luz formed a fire glyph on her hand, fusing its energy with her palisman as she fired pure flame right out of it, setting many of the machines ablaze. Amity looked at Luz and asked "Is it just me or is this too easy?" Luz replied "Yeah I know! And the Archivists consider themselves gods? If they do, why don't they just take us out themselves?!" 

The fighting continued on until every single robot was destroyed, Eda ripped the head of the last one remaining off as she asked "Is that all of them? Don't tell me that was the last one, I was actually having fun busting these machines up!" Everyone looked around, there wasn't a single other robot in sight. "I think that's all of them." Said Hunter. Suddenly a powerful force suddenly sent the entire group flying towards the wall before collapsing to the floor. Luz was the first one to get up and see the Archivist entering the cave.

"Would you look at this, trying to buy the witches time to run away now hmmm?" Asked Orion. Luz gave a menacing Titan growl towards Orion as she clenched her fists, everyone else got up as Luz shouted "BRING IT!!!" As she and the Hex Squad engaged the Archivists.

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Meanwhile, as more and more witches arrived in the room where everyone else was in, they were able to fill the entire room with teleportation glyphs. "We filled the room with as many as we can." Said One of the soldiers. Darius nodded before saying "Let's move these people out!" They quickly began gathering the first group of civilians onto the first teleportation glyph, including Masha, Camila, King, and Vee. Most especially Vee because she had the quantum core with her, and it was vital they got it out of that cave.

They stepped on the glyph as it began to glow, causing the people standing on it to disappear in a flash of light. Soon, the main council members including Darius gathered up on another one. Before Darius left he asked "Did you manage to make one extra glyph for the Hex Squad?" The soldier nodded. Darius replied "Good, let's go. Be safe Hunter." He stepped on the glyph as it began to glow, causing him and all the other council members to disappear as well.

Luz charged at the Archivists as she punched Orion repeatedly in the face using her super strength, but then Orion grabbed her fists, slamming her against the ceiling. Luz collapsed but quickly recovered as she levitated into the air and tackled Orion, slamming him against the wall.

Meanwhile the rest of the team proceeded to fight the rest of the Archivists, Willow tried to surround Pismis inside some vines and then crush him inside, but Pismis punched his way out with ease, he was about to attack Willow before Gus flew in front of him on his palisman, drawing a fire spell that shot at Pismis, blinding him, allowing Hunter to warp beside him and punch him to the floor, but he got up and kept fighting.

Eda and Lilith flew around in circles as Helix tried attacking them, firing laser eyes towards them, luckily Eda and Lilith were very swift as they used their gauntlets to fire energy beams right back at Helix. the lasers blasted him against the ground as Steve drew an ice glyph that encased Helix within ice, Helix used laser eyes to break out however and kept on fighting.

Meanwhile Enzo and Doradus got into a huge fistfight, throwing as many hits at each other as possible. Doradus grabbed Enzo by the throat and slammed them against the wall, but Enzo formed a giant star in his hand and slapped Doradus with it, it exploded against him as he fell down, giving Enzo the upper hand to attack, firing laser eyes at him.

Luz and Orion attacked each other with full force, fighting each other in mid air, Luz tried to punch Orion, but he circled around her and kicked her from behind, Luz crashed against the wall as Orion blasted towards her and pinned her up against it. "You have nowhere to run Luz, we have this entire mountain you witches are hiding in surrounded. What do you have to say to that??" Luz smirked and fired lasers from her eyes directly at Orion's face, he screamed as he dropped Luz. 

Luz clenched her fist as she flew back up towards Orion, she drew a spell circle that fired an energy beam at him, knocking him out of the sky, Luz grabbed onto him mid air and then punched him with her super strength, causing him to crash against the floor. Luz landed over him and started punching him in the face repeatedly. "GIVE UP ORION!! I WILL NOT LET YOU HARM THE WITCHES!!" She shouted.

Orion chuckled sinisterly and said "Didn't I mention Luz? We have this entire mountain surrounded, and we're already on our way inside." Suddenly, they could all feel some shaking in the walls, before suddenly, several robot scorpions came drilling their way inside! And there was quite a lot of them too. "Oh no not these guys!!" Shouted Eda. As they all opened fire upon the witches. Luz started to worry as she saw them break through the walls, giving Orion the chance to get up and punched Luz across the room. Luz collapsed as Orion ordered "Wipe this cave clean of all witches!" 

All the scorpions began to go and make their way through the cave. "NO!! DON'T LET THEM REACH THE WITCHES!!" Shouted Luz as she and the Hex Squad quickly ran in front of them. Enzo tried firing laser beams from his hands at the machines, but they remained unharmed, Luz tried flying towards them to attack them, only for Orion to pounce her and pin her against the ground using his foot. "You cannot win Luz, the witches are destined to die!" 

He then punched Luz hard in the face, causing her to collapse. Orion smiled sinisterly as he sprinted away. "FIRE EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT!!" Shouted Steve as he and his army of soldiers tried to fight against the scorpions, shooting every last spell they had available, but none of it proved effective enough as the scorpions simply fired at some of them, killing them! "NO!!!" Steve shouted, more and more, witches around him were being killed off.

As the Hex Squad tried to fight against the scorpions, one of them powered on its tail and unleashed a powerful sound wave that caused all the witches to scream as they covered their ears, allowing the scorpions to overpower them and access the rest of the cave. "NO!! STOP THEM!!" Shouted Lilith as they all quickly ran to go and stop the army, with Luz following behind. 

In the rest of the cave, there were still a couple of witches who were trying to get safely to where everyone else was located so they could escape. Suddenly, the wall blew open as the Archivists came levitating through with a massive robot armada behind them. All the witches screamed in terror as they all opened fire upon them, in no time at all, it was endless chaos inside the cave, the Hex Squad arrived on the scene to see the chaos themselves.

There were machines killing witches left and right, nobody could escape them, the Archivists laughed menacingly, relishing the terror they were causing. "No... they've overrun the entire cave!" Enzo said in terror, a tear running down their face. Luz made an angry face as she said "We have to stop this now!!" As she sprinted into action, she was hoping this would be enough to get her Titan powers to go full goddess mode, which would allow her to put a stop to this almost instantly. Yet for some reason she didn't feel any stronger than she already was. 

Luz grabbed one of the scorpions by the tail and lifted it up using her superhuman strength, tossing it towards the wall as it crashed. She levitated into the air and swung her palisman around, dispersing several glyphs at the machines, getting their attention onto her. Luz landed beside the Hex Squad as they ran into battle, attacking the Archivists' robot army with everything they had. The Archivists saw this however and went to go join in on the fight, attacking the Hex Squad. 

Enzo levitated into the air and tossed a star down at several of the robots, blowing some of them up, but there were still many more, before Enzo could attack them, Helix pounded them to the ground. Hunter fired pure lighting from his gauntlet and then charged his palisman with that energy, allowing him to fire lighting right out of his staff, zapping a few of the robots, but there was way to many to take down, one of them approached Hunter and kicked him down, Hunter collapsed as the robot raised an axe out of its hand and tried to attack him, but Hunter warped behind it and blasted it with his gauntlet.

"THEY'VE BROKEN THROUGH ALL THE DEFENSES! THERE'S TOO MANY OF THEM!!!" Shouted Steve as he found himself surrounded by some more robots, Luz quickly swooped in and rescued him from being shot at, she safely brought him to the ground as Steve said "You know Luz, now would be a really good time for you to unleash the full wrath of your Titan powers, I think that would be the only way we can win this fight."

Luz replied "I know I know!! I'm trying! But it's just not coming to me!" Steve sighed and said "Well please try and figure it out, we can't hold them for much longer!" They both ran into battle with everyone else, Eda grabbed one of the machines, ripping it in two as she sliced her hook through it. She then kicked another one that attacked her from behind before shooting at it with her gauntlet. Luz tried to attack the scorpions that were busy attacking all of the witches, but none of them paid any attention to her, instead the Archivists intervened as Doradus grabbed her, then Helix tried punching her, but Luz was able to kick Helix away, using the force of that kick to break free of Doradus's grip.

Luz looked at the Archivists and flew towards them, attacking with all that her Titan strength could offer, punching them with all her might, she tried firing laser beams at the Archivists, but they shielded themselves, blocking the attack, suddenly, Pismis grabbed Luz by the horns and kicked her in the back with his knee, Luz cried out in pain as Orion soared past her, punching her in the face, Luz screamed in rage as she fired lasers from her eyes at them, but they flew to fast for her to hit them.

They all began to gang up on luz as they punched her around through the air, Helix punched Luz in the stomach as Orion punched her to the ceiling. Luz refused to back down as she supercharged her palisman with Titan magic, swinging it at them as she tried to hit them, she managed to hit Doradus with it which sent him crashing against the wall, but then Helix managed to punch Stringbean from her hand as Orion kicked her forward, before Luz could fight back, Orion formed a giant star in his hand and threw it at Luz, before she could react, it exploded against her, sending her crashing against the ground.

Luz collapsed to the floor as she felt weak, she tried to get up but was far to weak to fight back, she opened her eyes as her vision returned to her, allowing her to see nothing but death and destruction around her, she could hear her friends cries for help. "I've got some bad news guys! My gauntlet is outta juice, and I'm all out of ideas." Said Eda as she swung her hook at one of the robots, slicing its head off.

"THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!!" Shouted Amity as she took cover and tried to fire magic energy beams at the machines. "LUZ!! WE REALLY REALLY WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO GO FULL GODDESS MODE RIGHT NOW!!! WE CAN'T STOP THEM!!" Shouted Hunter as he found himself surrounded by machines. Seeing all this fueled Luz with anger, but unfortunately, it just wasn't enough to get her Titan powers to reach their full power, no matter how much she wanted them too, her powers just would not max out. 

"Please... come on Titan powers please! Just let me use my powers to their fullest!! Why can't I do it!!?? PLEASE!!! JUST LET ME UNLEASH THE FULL POWERS I HAVE ALREADY!! THEY'RE ALL GONNA DIE IF I DON'T!!! PLEASE!!!" Luz started to cry slightly, wanting nothing more than to feel a super powerful rush of magic to hit her and enhance her powers even further, but that powerful rush of magic just wouldn't come.

Luz sighed in defeat as she laid on her knees. She looked down at the floor and said in despair "I- I'm sorry... I failed you all, I just can't do it no matter how hard I fucking try..." Suddenly, a robot approached her and was about to attack her, but before it could, Enzo flew behind it and punched right through its core. "Luz, are you alright?" Enzo asked as he levitated to the floor to help his sister up.

Luz looked at him and said "We can't win this fight... I- I don't know what we're gonna do, people are dying and I can't get these damn powers to go all goddess mode for some reason!!" Before Enzo could say anything in response, Orion suddenly approached them, levitating to the floor. "Ah would you look at this, my horrible excuse of a brother, we meet again Collector." Enzo made a hateful face towards their brother and shouted "HOW DID YOU EVEN MANAGE TO LOCATE US IN THE FIRST PLACE?!"

Orion made a sinister smile and said "Oh it was simple little one, you see, we installed a tracking device in our machines, and we waited for one of you witches to come out of hiding so our machines could shoot one of you with it, and the one that got hit with the tracker just so happened to be you little brother." Enzo went silent at that, remembering the time when they got shot by a tripod earlier, that must have explained why he had lived, he now had a tracker inside of him! 

Luz looked at Orion and shouted "You put a tracker on your own brother?!! You monster!!" Orion replied "Either way, even if you all do manage to escape somehow, you won't be able to run forever, because wherever the Collector goes, we'll always follow, you cannot hide from us any longer Half-Titan, the time has come to meet your fate." Enzo let out a scream of anger as he fired lasers from their eyes, blasting Orion back.

Luz got up and said "I don't think we can win this fight, if we want to survive, we have to run now!" Enzo then took a look around at all the chaos, seeing all the death that was happening around them, he looked down as he began to remember years back to the time shortly after Belos had been defeated, to the time when he and King parted ways.

Over 4 years ago....

King had handed the Collector his old plushie Francois as a parting gift for him. He walked outside and was about to fly off into the stars, but before they could leave, King ran outside and shouted "Collector! Wait!" The Collector turned around to see King approach him. "What is it King?" He asked. King replied "Now that Francois is under your care, you must protect him, with your life!"

"That's... pretty extreme." Said the Collector. King replied "Francois cannot fend for himself, especially since he's just a stuffed animal, but he means a lot to me and I would love it if you take good care of him. The strong must be there for the weak after all." The Collector looked down at francois and smiled as they said "I'll do my best King!" King smiled and said "Thanks Collector, pinky promise?" The Collector smiled and said "Pinky promise!"

Enzo smiled as he remembered what King had said to him, he then slowly pulled out Francois, they'd been holding onto him this whole time. He sighed as he looked towards Luz and said "Luz, I think the only way we're gonna escape is if one of us stays behind to hold them off." Luz looked at them with a confused look and asked "Enzo what are you saying? You're not seriously going to stay here to hold them off for us now are you? Enzo you can't!"

Enzo replied "I have too Luz! You heard what Orion said, I've been marked with a tracking device, if I go with you, then the Archivists will quickly find us again, I have to stay here, I'll give you all the chance you need to escape, the survival of the witches depends on it." A tear started to run down Luz's face as she said "No... please Enzo! Don't!" Enzo smiled and gave Luz a big hug as they said "This is my world, you along with everyone else here made this world feel like my home. I'm so happy for all that your people have given me Luz."

Enzo let go of Luz and handed her Francois as he said "Please, give this to King, I promised him I'd keep this thing safe for him. And please tell him that I am proud to have been his brother." Luz began to tear up as she pulled Enzo into one more hug. Enzo smiled and hugged back. Luz let go of him and nodded, wiping her tears away. Enzo nodded back as he levitated into the air to attack all the attacking robots themself.

Enzo fired lasers from both his eyes and hands at the attacking robots, getting their attention. "HEY YOU UGLY ROBOTS!!! COME AND GET ME!!!" All the robots turned around and fired upon him as Enzo led them away, giving Luz the chance to meet up with the Hex Squad. "Woah... what's Enzo doing??" Asked Amity. Luz sighed and replied "Giving us the chance to escape." Amity looked at Luz in silence before asking "Wait... is he not coming along??" Luz shook her head no and said "It's the only way for us to escape." 

Everyone gave Luz a look of worry as Hunter said "W-what if he dies?" Luz replied "He's doing this for us, we have to get out of here while there's still time. I'm sorry, we have no other option." Everyone reluctantly nodded as they turned and ran away, but then the Archivists pursued them. "YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!!" Shouted Orion, before they could attack them, Enzo landed in front of the Archivists and formed a shield, blocking the Archivists.

"GO!!!" Shouted Enzo, Luz nodded as they all kept running away, they made sure to help any other surviving witch escape with them in the process. Enzo lowered the shield and faced their brothers. Clenching his fists as he charged towards them and attacked.

The entire Hex Squad ran into the room where all the teleportation glyphs were drawn, there was only one left, which meant everyone else got away safely. "Quickly, everyone get on!" Said Steve. Everyone quickly stood over the teleportation glyph as Luz stomped on it, causing it to slowly start to glow around them all. Suddenly, the wall blew open as Enzo came crashing through it, collapsing to the floor having been severely wounded by the Archivists. "ENZO!!" Shouted Luz. 

Enzo got up to see the Archivists come levitating into the room. Orion looked at the Hex Squad, making an angry face as he fired lasers from his eyes towards them, Enzo reacted fast enough as they formed a large glowing star in his hand and tossed it in front of the lasers, exploding as soon as it hit them. Orion growled in frustration as he blasted towards them to attack, but Enzo stopped him, grabbing him by the foot and tossing him towards the wall, remaining determined to protect his friends, his true family.

Orion's brothers helped him up as he faced Enzo. Enraged by his brother's actions he shouted "WHY COLLECTOR WHY?! We were a family for millions of years, and then all of a sudden, you turn you back on your family, sacrificing the balance of the universe for these mortals?! You truly learned nothing have you little brother!"

Enzo looked back at the Hex Squad, at his newfound sister Luz for a brief moment before turning back around to face Orion as he said "No Orion, you're wrong. You see.... I have learned a lot! I discovered and witnessed death first hand right in front of me, I discovered how it feels to love, to feel pain, to grieve for those around me, but most importantly, I learned about how important life truly is."

Enzo approached his brothers and said "You four like to think that you're the gods of the universe don't you, but you're not gods, you're just genocidal maniacs filled with delusions that you have the right to play god, believing yourselves to be the only ones who deserve to be gods! Wiping out any other race that has powers of their own off the face of their planet, just because their existence challenges your beliefs! You're not doing the universe any good! You're just murdering innocent lives! All because they have gifts that make them special!"

Orion shouted towards him "LIAR!! THEY'RE JUST FOOLISH MORTALS WHO LIKE TO THINK OF THEMSELVES AS GODS!! THEY'RE A LOST CAUSE AND MUST BE EXTERMINATED! THERE'S NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT THESE WITCHES!! THEY'RE A THREAT TO US AND OUR WAYS!!" Enzo sighed and said "For a while I had hoped that maybe you would have changed during the time I spent trapped inside the concealment mirror... hoping that you would give up your ways and embrace kindness! You could have changed throughout all that time we spent separated, and you could have for once in your life been kind!!! But no, even after several million years, you still haven't changed one bit, and it makes it clear to me that you four are never going to change. And I'm not going to allow you to harm the one true family I care about!!"

Enzo took one final look back at his friends and family standing on the teleportation glyph, their lives now in his hands. He smiled and said "Besides, the strong must be there for the weak after all. And that's what I'm going to do with my life." Luz heard them say that as she smiled, a tear running down her face. Enzo looked at his brothers and clenched their fists as he shouted "So, Archivists... LET'S PLAY A GAME TOGETHER SHALL WE?! I'M IT!!" He clenched his fists and charged at the Archivists, the five of them wrestled around with one another as Enzo fought relentlessly for as long as they could to prevent the Archivists from attacking the Hex Squad.

Luz watched as Enzo continued to fight the Archivist as the glyph that she and the other witches were standing on began to glow even brighter. Suddenly, Enzo took one last look towards Luz and smiled softly. "So long sis." He whispered. 

"E-Enzo..." Luz muttered as she raised her hand out towards him, but as soon as she did, the glyph fully powered on as the entire group of witches disappeared in a flash of light, leaving Enzo all alone with his brothers, with no way out at all. 

"NOOOOO!!!!" Orion shouted in rage, he flew towards Enzo and punched him aggressively, knocking them against the wall so hard it knocked him unconscious. Orion approached him as he said "Take this little shit back to our castle, I'll deal with him later. Doradus nodded before saying "But what about the witches? Since the Collector didn't go with them we have no way of tracking them. What do we do now?"

Orion looked towards his brothers and said "Well, once again our robot army has proven that they do a horrible job at killing all the witches effectively. And since even the tracker didn't work either since the witches still managed to escape, it seems we indeed will have to resort to plan devastation. Those witches will not be able to hide for long, because very soon, the entire island will be gone, and they'll all die with it."

At the Owl House, all the witches who had previously escaped the cave were waiting patiently for Luz and the rest of the witches to make it back. "Come on... where are they??" Vee asked worriedly. Suddenly, there was a bright flash of light outside in the front yard of the house as the Hex Squad suddenly appeared along with a few other survivors. "GUYS! LOOK! THEY MADE IT!" Shouted Hooty. 

All the witches came running towards the group, cheering for them. LULU!!" Hooty shouted as he wrapped himself around Lilith and hugged her. Amity was met by her twin siblings as they gave her a hug. "MITTENS!!! You made it out!!" Shouted Emira. Amity smiled in response and said "I'm so glad you all made it out as well!" 

Willow looked at where exactly they all were and said "Woah, we're at the Owl House!" Luz nodded and said "Yeah... it was the only place I could think of for us to go to." Soon, King approached Luz, overjoyed to see her. "Luz!! You made it!! He ran over to her and hugged her by the leg. "Uh... where's Enzo?" He asked, he looked around, but couldn't see him anywhere. Luz sighed and knelt down towards King, putting her hand on his shoulder and whispered. "I- I'm so sorry King." 

King went silent from what Luz had told him, suddenly, Luz pulled out King's old plush toy Francois and handed it to him. King gasped at the sight of it. Luz continued "They wanted you to know that they are proud to have been your brother... I'm so sorry King, he stayed behind so we'd have the chance to escape." King went silent as he held his old stuffed toy in his hands. Realizing just what exactly Enzo had done, King broke down as tears began pouring out of his eyes as he collapsed to his knees, he began to sob before looking into the sky and screaming in anguish. 

"NOOOOOO!!!!!" He shouted at the top of his lungs, his scream was so powerful it unleashed a sonic blast. King dropped Francois as he laid there on the floor, crying endlessly, his cries of anguish caused everyone to stop celebrating that they all had survived as they began to realize what exactly had happened. "Enzo gave himself up for us?" Asked Raine. Eda approached them and nodded as she said "It- it was the most bravest and selfless thing I've ever seen the kid do..." 

Luz sat down with King and hugged him tightly, King hugged Luz back as he buried himself in Luz's body fur. He continued to sob endlessly as Amity slowly joined in on the hug, along with Eda, Lilith, Gus, Willow, and Hunter. They all hugged King collectively, hoping to make him feel better. But King didn't stop, for he had just lost someone who he only just recently could refer to as his brother.

To be continued....

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It has been a full day since the witches escaped the Archivists, since Enzo had given himself up for all of them to survive. Ever since then, lots of witches have started to lose hope. All of them were seeking refuge around the owl house, trying to make the best out of it, but it wasn't as easy, because unlike the cave that was deep beneath the ground, the owl house was out in the open, meaning any of the Archivists' machines could find them. This put a lot of witches' fears on edge. 

While Steve and several royal knights would stand guard to watch out for any mechanical beings, all the witches had to go on the hunt for supplies so they could set up camp, it was much harder to obtain essential survival equipment since Enzo was no longer around. It was a very bleak time for all of the witches, especially King.

Luz remained seated on the couch with Camila sitting beside her. She was holding the quantum core in her hands, although they had a weapon they could use to defeat the Archivists, they had no idea how they were even supposed to get inside the castle since it has a dampening field that nullifies magic, so nobody would stand a chance inside of it, Enzo could have done it, but he was no longer with the witches anymore, and Luz had no idea if he was gonna be ok or not.

Eda came downstairs as Luz asked "How is he?" Eda sighed and said "He hasn't come out of his room since we escaped, the poor guy misses Enzo a lot." Luz replied "I'll go speak to him." She stood up and went upstairs to King's room. She found him sitting there on the floor, holding Francois in his hands, he could be heard crying, for he still couldn't stop worrying about Enzo.

Luz walked over to King and said "Hey King, just wanted to see how you were doing." King faced her and shouted "Yeah well I'm doing horribly! Thanks for asking!" Luz sighed and said "Oh King, I'm so sorry, I know how much Enzo meant to you, they meant a lot to me too." King sighed as he said "Why did he have to stay behind like that? What did he hope to accomplish!?"

Luz sat down next to King and said "Apparently the reason the Archivists managed to find us in the first place was because one of their tripods managed to shoot Enzo with a tracking device. When he figure out he knew that if he came with us, the Archivists would follow, we'd never be able to escape. Enzo did what was best for all of us." King replied "Yeah, but he didn't have to go as far as to throw away his own life like that just for us to survive! He could have stayed with us once we defeated the Archivists, he would have been part of the family..."

Luz wrapped her arm around King and said "I'm sure Enzo isn't dead, hopefully we'll see them again." King looked at her and asked "How do you know? Enzo betrayed his brothers, there's no way they would show him any mercy just because they happen to be related! He could easily be dead for all we know!" Luz sighed and said "King, Enzo wouldn't want you to grieve, he'd want you to stand up against the Archivists, which is what each and everyone of need to do right now."

King suddenly made an angry expression as he lashed out at Luz. "You know Luz, MAYBE IF YOU'D SIMPLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO GET YOUR TITAN POWERS TO MAX OUT, ENZO WOULD PROBABLY STILL BE HERE!! BUT NO, YOU STILL CAN'T BRING YOURSELF TO UNLEASH YOUR FULL TITAN POWERS CAN YOU!!" Luz replied "King! I tried my damn hardest to get these powers of mine to manifest to their fullest potential! Don't get mad at me! I don't know why I can't do it, or why it happens at the most random times! But that doesn't make it fair for you to blame me for what happened to Enzo! Heck, I didn't want him to stay behind, but Enzo made that choice himself! If you wanna get all mad at somebody, get mad at him!"

King replied "Whatever Luz, clearly despite being a Half-Titan, you still don't have what it takes to save everyone, and now Enzo is gone as well." Luz was stunned by King's attitude towards her. "King-" She tried to say, but King replied "Just leave already." Luz sighed as she left King alone in his room.

Meanwhile, Masha was sitting at the top of the tower right next to the owl house, they were all by themself, but eventually, Vee would join them. "Oh, hey Masha, I was wondering where you were." She said. Masha turned to face her and said "Oh, hey Vee, just admiring the ocean view from up here." Vee stood beside them as Masha asked "You know, if the ocean is this world is boiling hot, how come we can't feel its insane heat from over here? Does it not give off heat to anything that's close enough to it or something?"

Vee shrugged, then Masha looked at her and asked "I've got another question, despite being a shapeshifter, you seem to go around a lot more in your human disguise than you do as a basilisk, why is that?" Vee looked at Masha with a puzzled look and asked "Why are you asking me these things?" Masha sighed and said "I'm just trying to lighten the mood is all. We just escaped death and are currently struggling to survive here, while the front door to the owl house usually works like a portal to Earth, ever since Enzo stayed behind to save us, the portal suddenly deactivated, which has given lots of people a bad sign as to what could have happened to Enzo." 

Vee sighed and said "Well, to answer your question, it's kind of complicated, you see, I guess I kinda prefer the human realm over the demon realm." Masha was surprised and asked "Really? But didn't you tell me that this world is better than the human realm? Since there's no racism or homophobia or any of that shit that humans still struggle with?" Vee replied "I know, it's just... when I was living here, Belos was still in power, and I was one of his prisoners. I was a slave to the emperor's coven, being used in horrible ways, I was used as a weapon to drain witches who used wild magic." 

Masha looked at Vee and asked "Is that why you ran away to Earth for a better life?" Vee nodded and said "Yeah, I managed to escape Belos's castle and I found Eda's portal door, I snuck through it as soon as Luz stepped foot into the demon realm for the first time, and I found myself in the human realm, and while at first I had to blend in as Luz to avoid being discovered, next thing I knew, I was under the care of my new mother Camila. She's taken good care of me since I first entered the human realm, since then, I formed my own identity on Earth, made friends, I even adapted to people's culture, and while it took a while, I figured out the behavior of people who use the Internet. So yeah, I fit right in with the human realm."

"But you still have to hide your 'true' identity from the humans right?" Asked Masha. Vee nodded as Masha asked "How is it that you can feel at home in a world where you still have to hide a huge secret from all of mankind? Doesn't that kinda contradict the whole point of finding where you belong?" Vee replied "I know it doesn't make all that much sense, but it's just that due to what I went through in the demon realm, the human realm was my way out from that, I just felt like the human realm would be better for me." 

Masha replied "But Belos is gone now, you don't have to worry about being enslaved anymore." Vee nodded and said "I know that. But I've already adapted to the human realm so much, I have a Mewtube and Reddit account, I've come to find the human realm as my home, so that's why I go around in my human form than I do in my basilisk form. Plus, it's way easier to get around faster with legs than it is with a tail." 

Masha chuckled slightly and said "Now that makes sense." Vee went silent as she moved a bit closer to Masha, who soon noticed her, but smiled anyway, wrapping their arm around Vee, pulling her close. Vee's face began to heat up from sheer embarrassment. "Heh, glad to have you around Vee." Masha said with a smile. Vee smiled back and wrapped her arm around them.

Meanwhile, Luz sat down by the edge of the cliff, staring off into the sunset. She couldn't help but feel as if maybe King was right, maybe Enzo's fate really was her fault, she had the power to save him, but for some reason she just can't seem to get it to reach its full capacity. Luz sighed as she said "Man I could really use some help Titan..." She hoped that maybe the holographic Titan would appear beside her to help her, but even still, the Titan just would not show up, it has been a while since Luz last spoke to the Titan, the fact that the Titan has been absent for this long now has truly started to worry her.

Amity left her tent to find her sitting there, she walked over to her and sat down beside her. "Hey love. What's the matter?" She asked. Luz looked to see the face of her girlfriend as she said "King blames me for what happened to Enzo, I could have saved everyone if I could just max out my Titan powers, but no matter how hard I try, they still remain at the same state they've always been at ever since they first reawakened."

Amity wrapped her arm around Luz and said "Come on furball, it's not your fault. Even still, Enzo had a tracking device implanted inside of him, even if you mastered the full potential of the Titan's power, there's nothing you could have done about the tracking device, Enzo knew they had to stay behind to protect us and keep us safe from the Archivists, otherwise they would find us again, and we'd never be safe."

Luz sighed and said "I know... I'm starting to think that... maybe I can't do it." Amity gave Luz puzzled look and asked "What are you saying?" Luz replied "Maybe I can't unleash the full strength of the Titan's power. Maybe I'm not as strong as the Titan was, nor will I ever be. I couldn't even stop the Archivists from taking over the entire Boiling Isles! If I can't save everyone from the Archivists then maybe I'm just not as powerful as everyone expects me to be... Maybe I'm just a fraud like Belos was." 

Amity couldn't take another word like that. "Ok let me stop you right there Luz, you're doubting yourself again. You can't max out your Titan powers, so what? That doesn't mean your can't still stop the Archivists, you're already strong enough, you've managed to beat them before remember?" She said. Luz replied "Yeah but that was before they built an army of robots and took over the entire isles. But now they've weakened us, and I can't stop them... I'm just not strong enough." 

Amity sighed and pulled Luz in for a kiss, Luz smiled and kissed back. Amity looked at her and said "If we stick together, then maybe you don't have to be." Luz sighed and said "Enzo probably would have loved to be a part of the Clawthorne family." Amity nodded as she said "Wherever he is right now, I hope he's alright."

Castle of the Archivists....

Enzo awoke to find himself inside a cell, he was back inside the castle once again. "Hello Collector." Said a familiar voice, it was Orion. Enzo stood up and made an angry face at him. Orion faced Enzo and said "You actually thought you could protect these witches could you? Either way, they won't be able to stay alive for much longer."

Enzo finally spoke as he said "Even if I can't help them, they'll continue fighting back against you Orion, they're more resilient than you realize." Orion smirked as he said "Oh Collector, you foolish child. Defending these mortals who like to think of themselves as Gods." Enzo made an angry face as they said "Their magical abilities don't make them gods Orion! How can you see them in such a way?!" Orion replied "It is unnatural for a mortal to know magic, we are the only gods of this universe and it is our destiny to show the mortals their primitive place in the universe!" 

Enzo replied "Well, good luck with that, Luz will stop you and your brothers. I know she will succeed." Orion made a sinister smile and said "For the past week, our robot army has failed time and time again to destroy the witches, you were right about one thing Collector, the witches are more resilient than we anticipated, which is why we're going to have to resort to a new plan. Devastation." 

Confused, Enzo asked "Devastation? What do you mean?" Orion made a sinister grin and said "Why it's simple, it gets the job done fast and easily." And then, with the snap of his fingers, Orion suddenly caused the environment around them to change. They were now standing outside in the Boiling Isles. "What is this??" Asked Enzo. Suddenly, he noticed the castle in the sky, lowing down onto the isles. "What is it doing?" He asked.

"Using the power of our ship's quantum core, we shall harness its energy and have its energy travel throughout the Boiling Isles, spreading through the entire island like a virus spreading through a person's body. The raw energy of our ship's quantum core will be far too powerful for the Isles to handle, eventually causing the isles to become increasingly more unstable, leading to a total collapse of the entire island, which will be so deadly that nobody will be able to survive it.

Enzo gasped in fear as he suddenly felt the ground beneath him shake, he looked towards the castle as a bright light white was emitting from within its windows. Suddenly, white energy streaks began to travel through the ground beneath them both, causing the ground to crack open. "No... no I can't let you do this Orion!! I won't let you!!" Shouted Enzo. The entire island began to crack apart as lava began erupting from within. The knee suddenly collapsed as the giant arm that was pointed directly upward suddenly snapped and fell down, crashing into the sea. Enzo ran towards Orion to attack him, only for the ground beneath him to burst open as he fell into it. The moment he fell, everything went back to normal. And Enzo was back in his cage again.

Enzo got up and looked at Orion as they shouted "YOU BASTARD!!! I WON'T LET YOU DO THIS!!! JUST YOU WAIT WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE..." Orion smirked and said "You're going to watch these insignificant creatures die as the island collapses around them, don't you see Collector? You and the witches have already lost!" Enzo remained silent, terrified by the lengths his brothers were willing to go to. 

Orion turned to face his brothers as he said "Prepare to lower the ship into the ground, position it over the remains of Bonesborough." Helix nodded as he and the others walked away. Orion took one last look at Enzo and said "We're not finished with you yet, I've got lot's in mind on what exactly I want to do with you, but I'd think it be best you watch the ones you seem to care about so much die first before I do anything to you. So long Collector." Orion turned and walked away, leaving Enzo to sit there in terror. He tried to bust out of his cell, but he was trapped inside a powerful shield that couldn't be broken whatsoever.

Enzo sat down in the center of their cell, hoping more than anything that Luz and all the witches would be able to find a way to fight back and stop this before it was too late.

Back at the owl house, everyone was still going about their tasks, Darius worked alongside Raine and other council members as they tried to come up with a way they were going to fight back. Meanwhile Hunter and Willow had just returned from supply gathering as they brought in some firewood. "Willow, do you think Enzo is alright?" Asked Hunter. Willow shrugged and said "I certainly hope he is..." Hunter sighed as he put the firewood down, Willow drew a fire spell and lit it. 

Several witches gathered around the flame as Gus sat down next to Willow and Hunter. "Finally, warmth." He said as he got comfortable. Luz and Amity showed up by the fire as they sat down by it as well. As they all started using the fire to cook themselves a meal, Luz however refused to eat. "Luz? What's wrong? I thought you could finally eat demon realm food since you're a Half-Titan. Luz replied "Yeah... sorry, I'm just not hungry is all." Luz curled up on the seat as she pulled her witch hat over her face, trying to hide the face that showed signs of guilt.

"Luz what's the matter?" Asked Hunter. Amity looked at him and said "Luz's has just been having a rough time since we escaped the cave, she's mad that she couldn't get her powers to go all goddess mode." Hunter sighed and said "Oh Luz, I'm sorry about that." Luz replied "If I could have been able to master it, I could have saved everyone, maybe even Enzo as well..." Gus looked at Luz and said "Come on Luz, I'm sure Enzo is fine." Luz looked at him and said "Have you seen the portal to the human realm? It no longer works anymore! If that's not a sign I don't know what is! I told King that Enzo is fine, but deep down I can't help but worry that we've lost him forever." 

Amity wrapped her arm around Luz and said "You'll see them again, I promise Luz. Please try and eat something, you haven't had anything all day." Luz sighed as she nodded. 

Meanwhile in King's room. King was still miserable over what had happened to Enzo. He tried to wipe his tears away, but only more would come later. He picked up his stuffed toy Francois, wishing for Enzo to be here. He missed his brother, a lot. King groaned in anger as he tossed Francois to the wall, but when it hit the wall, a weird noise was heard from it, it sounded as if some sort of hard material had hit the wall, which made no sense because Francois was just a stuffed toy.

King got up and approached Francois, he looked at the back and noticed that it had been stitched up, curious, he pulled on the stitches, revealing a blue star inside of it. "What??" He asked. He pulled it out and tapped on it. It began to glow in his hands. 

Meanwhile in the castle of the Archivists, another blue star that Enzo had hidden in their pocket suddenly began glowing as well, he smiled and said "Finally, I was waiting for them to find it!" He quickly pulled the star out of his pocket and spoke through it. "Hello? Who am I speaking too?"

The moment King heard the voice of Enzo, he couldn't express his relief and outmost joy he was now feeling. "ENZO!!! OH THANK TITAN YOU'RE ALIVE!!!" He shouted, tears of joy running down his face. "King!!" Enzo shouted back with a smile on is face as well. King began to break down slightly as he said "E- Enzo... I- I thought I lost you forever... I- I was so scared..." Enzo sighed and said "Yeah, sorry about that, it was me who chose to stay behind in the first place."

King nodded as he wiped his tears away. "N-no no, I get it. You were trying to help... j-just don't do it again please?" Enzo let out a light chuckle and said "Sure thing brother. Anyway, can you put Luz and the Hex Squad on the line? I have to tell them something urgently!" King wasted no time running downstairs which surprised Eda and Lilith. "King?" Asked Eda. She and Lilith got up and followed him outside. 

King emerged outside of the house and shouted out loud "EVERYONE!! ENZO IS ALIVE!!!" 

Everyone instantly set their eyes on him as Gus asked "W-what?! He's alive?!" King nodded and said "Luz, there you are! Enzo wants to speak to you." He brought the star over to her as Luz asked "What is this?" King replied "It's some kind of transceiver in the form of a star, Enzo must have made it so he could communicate with us after being captured." Luz took it and spoke through it, "Hello?" She said.

"Luz! Oh am I glad to hear you." Said Enzo. Luz gasped initially, hearing Enzo's voice after having seen them face off the Archivists. "Oh my Titan... y-you're alive Enzo!" Enzo nodded and said "Yeah, I'm currently stuck inside the Archivists' castle at the moment, but I'm alive, and hearing your voice affirms to me that you all made it out safely, good to know what I did wasn't in vain. Where exactly are you guys?" 

"We're at the owl house right now, we've been here for a whole day now at least." Said Luz. Enzo replied "Hope everything's been going well for you all over there." Luz chuckled a little before saying "That's debatable... but at least we're alive, and we're going to get you out of there Enzo, don't you worry."

Enzo smiled and said "I appreciate that but I actually don't need you guys to come in here and rescue me." King was surprised by what Enzo said and shouted "What?! Enzo are you insane?!" Eda spoke through the transceiver and said "Yeah kid, don't you know what the Archivists could do to you if they found out you were in contact with us?" Enzo replied "I know it sounds stupid but I have a plan, and if it works, we can end this conflict and defeat the Archivists for good! Do you trust me?"

Luz smiled and said "Of course I trust you Enzo, you're my brother. What's the plan?" Enzo replied "I didn't just let myself get captured so you all could make it out safely, I also allowed myself to be captured so I could infiltrate their ship and disable their dampening field that nullifies the use of magic, only me and the Archivists can access the ship's main systems after all. Once the dampening field is disabled, it should give you all the chance you need to launch a frontal assault on the castle, where you can safely drop that quantum core of yours into their quantum core, destroying the entire castle!"

As soon as Luz understood why Enzo had allowed himself to be captured, she smiled and shouted "Enzo, you're a genius!!" Soon, Vee, Masha, and Camila came outside, having heard most of the conversation as Camila asked "Mija, what is Enzo doing?" Luz replied "They're giving us the chance we need to stop the Archivists for good!" Vee smiled at that news. Enzo replied "It may take me some time to figure out how to get out of this cell I'm trapped in, but once I do, I should have that dampening field down in no time!"

King smiled before Shouting "The only question I have is why you didn't tell any of us beforehand! Do you not realize how worried sick I was about you?!" Enzo replied "Hehe, yeah... sorry about that."  

Luz nodded and said "We shall have our army ready to go while we wait. Once the dampening field is down, let us know, and we'll be on our way to bring the Archivists down for good!" Enzo replied "No Luz, you need to attack as soon as you can, regardless of whether the field is down or not, first of all, attacking now will keep the Archivists distracted while I go to disable their dampening field. And second, I just discovered something horrible that the Archivists are planning to do!"

All the witches went silent as Darius asked "Do what exactly?" Enzo replied "Orion just told me his new plan to destroy all of witchkind, he calls it devastation. He intends to lower the entire castle itself onto the ground somewhere on the island! Then, harnessing the energy of the ship's quantum core, he will manifest it within the isles itself, causing the isles to become unstable, which will lead to a total collapse of everything! The entire island will basically sink into the boiling sea like a sinkhole! Nobody will be able to survive it! We're on a time crunch here people!"

All the witches went silent from fear, knowing just how bad the situation was. But Eda managed to lighten the mood somewhat by asking "The one thing I don't get is if the Archivists could do this, why didn't they just do it from the start? I mean, I'm glad they didn't because I don't wanna die, but still it raises some questions if you think about it." Enzo shrugged and replied "I don't know, beats me." 

Luz finally said "We'll be on our way as soon as we've reassembled our troops." Darius looked at Luz and said "Me and Hunter will get right on it." Hunter stood up and followed Darius as they went to go get their royal guards assembled. King spoke through the transceiver as he said "Enzo... I'm so happy to have you as my brother." Enzo smiled and said "Me too King, more than anything." Suddenly, he heard his brother's passing by as he said "Uh oh, ok King, I gotta go, I'll let you know when the dampening field is down!" He then turned off the transceiver.

King stood there in utter disbelief as Eda knelt down to him and asked "You ok bud?" King slowly looked at her and hugged her as he said "Enzo is alive!! And he's gonna save us! He's gonna save us all!" Eda smiled and hugged back. Luz smiled as she stood up. Camila approached her and asked "So what exactly are you going to do?" Luz looked at her and said "I know exactly what we're going to do, the time has come to make our final stand against the Archivists." 

Darius and Hunter returned with several royal guards including Steve as Hunter said "We assembled as many troops as we could, but I don't think it's gonna be enough to launch a full scale attack on the Archivists' castle." Luz's smile faded for a moment, but then she looked at all the other witches surrounding her, looking towards her like they were searching for hope. Luz sighed as she knew what needed to be done.

Luz looked at all the witches as she said "If we want to end this conflict, I'm gonna need every single one of you to help us with this fight, me and the Hex Squad cannot do this alone." All the witches were surprised as Edric looked at her as he said "B-but we're not fighters! We're just civilians!"

Luz looked at everyone as she stood up among them, she looked at them all and said "I know it seems like that, but there's one thing we all have in common, and it's the magic that the Titan has blessed us all with! Let us stand together, use the magic the Titan gifted us with and fight back against the Archivists! This cannot, and will not be the end! In order to save the Boiling Isles and its people, we shall launch a head on attack against the Archivists!"

She pulled out the quantum core and continued "Only with this weapon can we bring about the end of this conflict! We shall stand together as we fight against our common enemy, fighting not against tyranny or persecution or enslavement, but from annihilation, we're fighting for our right to live, to exist! And when the account of the ages is etched into the cosmos, let those who exist long after us know, that this was our finest hour!!!"

Luz pulled out her palisman staff and raised it into the air as all the witches cheered for her. Camila smiled with pride as Vee shouted "HELL YEAH! THAT'S MY TITAN HYBRID SISTER RIGHT THERE!" Eda and Lilith smiled as Eda said "Damn, look at the once nerdy kid giving off heroic speeches like that!" Lilith nodded and said "I know, becoming a Titan hybrid must really do a lot to a person doesn't it!" Luz looked at all the witches and smiled as Amity approached her "I'll be willing to fight alongside my fiancé no matter how dangerous it is, I love you Luz." She said as she pulled her soon to be wife close to kiss her on the lips. Luz smiled and wrapped her arms around Amity, happily kissing back.

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(Once again I am well aware Amity looks younger in this art, but I really wanted to use this art because it's one of the few artwork pieces where Amity actually gets a kiss from Titan Luz!)

they held hands as Luz said to her "I love you too, batata." One of the witches soon spoke out "Alright Luz... we'll help you fight the Archivists, they threatened to kill my family, I won't let that stand." Another witch then shouted "We'll follow you anywhere until the end of time Half-Titan!" Luz smiled as she said "Well? What are waiting for? Let's go bring the fight to the Archivists shall we?!" 

To be continued....

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As all the witches prepared for battle, Luz spent the time with Amity trying one last time to try and go full goddess mode with her Titan powers. "Alright Luz, let's just try something simpler and less overwhelming this time." Said Amity as she drew a spell circle that formed a giant abomination creature onto the ground. It charged at her as Luz clenched her fists, Titan magic radiating through them. 

Luz sprinted at the creature and leaped into the air, punching it in the face with intense strength. It collapsed but got back up again, Luz quickly drew a spell circle that caused vines to grow around the creature, grabbing it by its hands and legs, stopping it from moving. Allowing Luz to levitate into the air and fly straight through it at intense speed. The creature dissolved into goo as Amity asked "So Luz, did you feel anything godly about that?" Luz sighed and shook her head no.

"I don't understand, I just can't seem to do it Amity. I've tried multiple times but even still I can't seem to get all that Titan blood inside of me to supercharge my powers even further!" She said. Amity walked over to her and said "Luz, it's ok if you can't do it, maybe we don't even need it anymore since Enzo has given us the chance to fight back against the Archivists." Luz replied "Yeah, but a very slim chance, if we want to shift the odds closer to our favor, I would have to figure this out now."

"Babe, everything is gonna be ok, I promise." Amity said as she pulled Luz into a hug. Luz hugged back as she said "...I just really really want us to win this, because I want nothing more than for us to get married, it's all I've been able to look forward to. And if we lose, then it'll never happen, I can't come to terms with that." Amity smiled and said "Then we'll do everything we can to win alright?" Luz nodded and said "We should probably head back and help with the preparations." Amity nodded as they both returned to the owl house.

Luz oversaw the progress that all the witches made, Alador quickly got to work making as many weapons as possible for some of the witches, he built as many abominations wearing battle tech as he could, hoping to increase their numbers. "How's it coming along Dad?" Asked Amity. Alador turned around and said "So far I've created a whole group of abominations that are fit for battle, I've retrofitted them with all the advanced weaponry that I could make, defeating the Archivists will not be easy."

"I know Dad, we're doing the best that we all can do to increase our chances of winning this." Said Amity. Alador then asked "Amity, do you ever imagine what Odalia's been up to in the human realm?" Amity was puzzled by that question and asked "Why's that of all things on your mind? I thought we had completely moved on from her." Alador replied "It's not that I miss her or anything, absolutely not, especially after what she did to this family. I'm just worried about what she's been up to on the human realm." 

Amity replied "Probably nothing great I'd imagine, I'm willing to bet she's been trying to get away with scamming people, or she could have ended up like one of those Karen's Luz told me about." Confused, Alador asked "Karens?" Amity replied "Oh, they're just entitled people who like to believe that they're right about everything and throw a fit at people who don't agree with them." Alador remained silent before saying "That's... an odd name to give to people like that." Amity shrugged and said "Well, that's just what they're called in the human realm." 

"I was mainly worried that if Odalia were to somehow find her way back here, and she found out that you and Luz were getting married... Oh Titan I can't imagine what she would try and do." Said Alador. Amity smiled and said "Don't you worry about that Dad, me and Luz are going to be just fine, Odalia can't do anything about our relationship. Besides, there's no way she'd stand a chance against Luz, Odalia would think twice before challenging a Half-Titan."

Alador chuckled and said "True, yeah maybe you're right. I just feel bad that I allowed her to make all the rules in the family, that's all." Amity smiled and hugged him as she said "But when the time was right, you stood up to her and turned yourself around, which makes me happy to know that I still have a parent who cares." Alador smiled and said "I hope you and Luz have a great future together."

Meanwhile, Hunter was sitting by himself in the forest, staring upon the memorial sight for his long lost palisman Flapjack. His new Palisman Waffles sat beside him as Hunter said "Oh you would have loved Flapjack if he were still here Waffles, you two would have made great siblings." Soon, Willow found Hunter and walked over to him. "Hey Hunter, shouldn't you be helping all the witches get ready for battle?" She asked.

Hunter nodded and said "Y-yeah, I'll be right over there in a minute Willow..." Willow looked at the memorial for Flapjack and asked "Still miss him huh?" Hunter nodded and said "Yeah, he often gave me emotional support almost every day ever since I found out Belos had lied to me my whole life. I was feeling worried that we won't be able to win this battle, so I came here, hoping that even in death Flapjack could still give me that emotional support he's always given me." 

"Aw, that's nice." Willow said with a smile, "Well, is it working?" Hunter replied "Sort of... but not much." Willow sat down with Hunter and said "Well maybe I can give you some emotional support of my own." Hunter sighed and replied "Oh Willow, you really don't have to do that. I'll be fine, I promise." Willow sat down behind him and wrapped her hands around him. "I don't care, I love you to much to leave you here by yourself."

Hunter smiled and said "I love you too Willow." Willow turned Hunter around and said "Whatever happens next, we'll face it together. We defeated Belos, we can defeat the Archivists as well." Hunter replied "But Belos was a creature that was easily killed once Luz first got her Titan powers, but the Archivists on the other hand are different. Even with her Titan powers having been reawakened for way over a month now, she's still struggled to defeat them." 

Willow nodded and said "Which is why we had to come up with a different method, don't you worry Hunter, this plan to defeat the Archivists will work, and when all this is over, we'll be going on many dates with each other." Hunter smiled and said "I'd love that." He pulled Willow in for a passionate kiss.

Inside the owl house, Luz met up with the Hex Squad, and the entire army of witches that Steve assembled. "Alright everyone, listen up, now we've only got one quantum core, so we're gonna need to make sure that nothing happens to this thing." She said. 

Luz drew an illusion spell circle, causing a miniaturized version of the Archivists' castle to appear beside her. She continued "The castle is protected by a dampening field both around it and inside of it that prevents any witch, including me from using magic at all, making that witch completely defenseless when they go inside, luckily however, Enzo managed to get themself inside, and he'll be able to give us the chance to get through it."

"Only an Archivist can access the ship's main systems, and since Enzo is the same species as the Archivists, he'll be able to access it as well, but it won't be easy since there will be lots of robots created by the Archivists inside. Our job is to try and get all those robots preoccupied by launching a full scale attack on the castle, which will allow Enzo to get to the ship's main system without experiencing too many problems, once he has disabled the dampening field, I will fly inside with the quantum core, find the ship's quantum core and then..."

Luz tossed the quantum core at the castle beside her, causing it to disappear in a puff of blue smoke. "Causing both cores to combine with one another will create a destabilization in both gravity and space, causing a singularity to be formed in the center of the castle, consuming it entirely, and hopefully the Archivists along with it." 

"That sounds like a big risk though, and what if the Archivists aren't inside the castle when the singularity is created?" Asked Raine. Luz replied "We'll have to do everything we can to ensure they do stay inside, but if any of them were to somehow survive, then I guess we'll just have to think of something to deal with them along the way." Darius then asked "How long do we have to pull this off though? Because didn't Enzo say that the Archivists intended to tear this island into the boiling sea itself with their quantum core?" 

Luz nodded and said "Yeah, now I'm not sure how long we have before they begin this process, or how long the process will take before it destroys the entire isles, so we'd better be as quick as possible, hit the castle with everything we've got until we've gotten the Archivists attention, they'll send their entire forces out to attack us, in order to take on the robot forces, I've decided that everyone should split up into large groups, that way we'll be able to attack them more efficiently. And then when Enzo gives the call that the dampening field is disabled, I'll head right for the castle to plant the bomb." 

Amity soon asked "Shouldn't someone go with you??" Luz replied "Amity, the Archivists are going to be inside the castle." Amity replied "Yeah and you can't face all four of them on your own." Luz sighed and said "Alright Ami, you'll be with me on this." Suddenly Eda asked "Hold on Luz, once you drop the quantum core into theirs, will you be able to get out of there in time?" Luz replied "I suggest you ask the one who actually made the quantum core." 

Alador stood up and said "To answer your question Eda, Luz will have time to get out, but it won't be long, I'd estimate she'll only have 30 seconds to fly out of that castle before the quantum core collapses." 

"30 seconds? Isn't that a bit to short?" Asked Camila. Alador replied "30 seconds was the max amount of time I was able to give it, so be quick on your way out Luz." Luz nodded and said "Now that you all know the plan, any questions?" King raised his hand asked "Where exactly is the castle right now?" Luz looked at Steve as he stood up and said "We were able to track the castle's movement, apparently it's headed towards the ruins of Bonesborough, that's where we'll be heading." 

Luz replied "Thanks Steve, now, are you all ready?" All the witches nodded as Gus said "I say let's do it!" "Yeah, what else can we do at this point to stop them?" Raine added. Luz smiled and said "Good luck everyone, let's hope to the Titan that Enzo can get that dampening field down fast enough."

Later, Masha was getting themself all ready for a fight as they put a gauntlet on their arm, they powered it as it displayed a set of glyphs. "Woah, cool!" They said. Vee approached Masha and asked "Masha? You're not actually going to help us fight now are you?" Masha looked at her and said "Oh you bet I am." Vee replied "But Masha, you have like, no idea how to use that thing!" Masha replied "Of course I do, Luz already showed me all the glyphs, I'm sure I can figure this out with ease."

Vee made a worried expression and said "B-but Masha, we're going to be entering a huge battlefield, there's a very good chance of death when we get there! I don't know if this is a good idea for you to come along!" Masha replied "Vee, I chose to come back here when you told me how bad things were getting here for all the witches, I don't want to stand by while knowing that an entire species is about to be wiped out."

Vee grabbed Masha by the arms as she shouted "Masha please! If you die... I- I don't think I'll be able to live with that. I don't want to lose you Masha..." Masha was confused and asked "Vee, why are you so worried about losing me?" Vee replied "Why am I so worried about losing you?! I thought that would be obvious, first of all, you're one of the first friends I made back on Earth, the two of us are even dating now! You're one of the very few people who didn't freak out over knowing what I truly am, you still viewed me as the same person even after discovering that I'm actually a basilisk. I think you should know why I don't want to lose you.... Don't you get it Masha?? I... I love you!"

Masha was surprised by what Vee told them. They both stared at each other for a moment as Vee realized what she had just said to Masha out loud, she blushed madly as she turned away. "Vee..." Masha muttered as they watched Vee turn away feeling all flustered. They sighed as they walked over to her. They cupped her by the chin and said with a smile "Oh Vee... you adorable little shapeshifter, why didn't you just say so sooner?" 

With her face already having gone as red as a tomato, Vee asked "W-what do you mean?" Masha smirked as they said "You know exactly what I mean cutie." Masha leaned in and gave Vee a kiss on the lips, Vee's eyes opened wide as she felt incredibly startled by the move Masha just pulled on her, but she eventually calmed down and happily kissed back, wrapping her arms around Masha, deepening the kiss. The feeling of having been kissed by her crush suddenly caused her to slightly shapeshift into her basilisk form a tiny bit as her tail formed behind her, and it was wagging intensely.

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They both eventually pulled apart, they both smiled at each other as Masha said "Now you understand Vee? I love you too." Vee smiled and said "...I'm glad." Masha continued "I understand your concern for me, but I've made my choice Vee, I want to help you stop the Archivists, please let me help. I know I've got a life back on Earth, but I can't deny that your world is absolutely beautiful. If I were in the same place that Luz was in, I would totally have chosen to stay here if life on Earth sucked for me. So please let me help you."

Vee sighed and said "Alright Masha... you can join us, but you BETTER not die alright?!" Masha chuckled and said "I'll try not too." 

Suddenly, out of nowhere came Luz, she jumped out of hiding and squealed with excitement. "WOOOOHOOOO!!! WAY TO GO VEE!!!" She shouted as she pulled her sister into a hug, lifting her up with barely an ounce of her super strength. "GAAAH! Luz how long were you watching us for?!" Shouted Vee. Luz gave a wide smile and shouted "The whole entire thing baby!!! I'm so happy for you Vee, you finally confessed to Masha and kissed them! HEY MOM!! GUESS WHAT! VEE JUST KISSED MASHA!!!" 

Camila heard Luz and shouted "WHAT?!! Oh Vee that's amazing!!" She came running towards Vee and gave her another big hug. "Well, technically Masha kissed me." Vee said, feeling super flustered. Masha chuckled and said "Wow Camila, this is one crazy family you've got here." Camila chuckled and said "I know, but I've gotten pretty used to it, I'm honestly not surprised that my daughter Luz basically became a Titan hybrid after moving into this realm, it was bound to happen to someone like her eventually." 

Luz chuckled and said "Oh Mom, you know you didn't see this coming at all." Vee then said "Can I have some peace and quiet time with Masha already?!" Luz laughed and said "Of course Vee. See you two around!" As Luz and Camila walked away, Vee held Masha's hands and said "I guess... this makes us a couple now." Masha smiled and said "Yeah it sure does, which means I get to give you a nickname now, I've already got several in mind." Vee's smile faded as she said "Oh I'm somewhat hesitant to hear what some of those may be..."

Later, Luz went to go see the progress all the other witches were making so far. Darius spoke with her saying "We've gotten as many of these witches ready for battle as we could, but I still fear it won't be enough." Soon Gus showed up and said "That's all of them, every witch is now ready for battle." Darius replied "Excellent work. Alright Luz, now what do we do?" Luz looked at them both before saying "No, it's not all of them just yet, there's still more out there we can get to fight for us."

Luz suddenly started walking off into the forest. "Wait Luz, where are you going?" Asked Gus. Luz turned back to look at him and said "It's time for reinforcements, remain as your were, and wait for my return." She then disappeared into the forest. "Where's Luz going?" Asked Amity. Gus turned to look at her and said "She wants us to wait for her, she said something about reinforcements." Amity remained silent before saying "I think I know what's she going to do."

Luz continued to make her way deeper into the woods, she eventually arrived at the more secluded part of the woods, it was pretty dark in there, Luz activated her night vision to allow her to see better. Once inside, she called out "If any of you are listening, you should know who I am, and I'm here because me and all of witchkind need your help, the Archivists are going to destroy this entire island, and nobody, not even you will be able to survive it, but if you help us, we can save everything we've ever known."

Suddenly, out of the darkness came a massive horde of palismen, they surrounded Luz as the bat queen showed up, landing in front of her. "Luz Noceda, the once former human now the legendary Half-Titan. Quite the surprise seeing you here at a time like this." Luz replied "Now I wouldn't call myself a legend just yet considering I've only had my Titan powers for nearly two months now." The bat queen replied "You want us all to help assist you in stopping the Archivists? Luz, don't you realize how futile this is?" 

Luz replied "I know you chose not to help us fight the Archivists when they first took over the isles because you fear it's a battle you can't win, but hear me out, we've managed to find a way to defeat them." She pulled out the quantum core and showed it to her. "You see this? This is the key to stopping them, if we drop this into their ship's core, it will create a singularity that will consume the ship and the Archivists. We now have a chance to win against them." 

The bat queen replied "Why should we help you with this? The odds are still very much against you Luz." Luz nodded and said "I understand that, but you're all going to die regardless of whether you help us or not, you see we just figured out the Archivists' next plan, they intend to harness the energy of their quantum core to cripple this entire island to pieces! Nobody, not even you and all the palismen will be able to survive it, don't you get it bat queen? You're already just as involved in this as me and the witches are! So please, I speak for all of my people when I ask you to help us stop this before it can happen, if you're not going to listen to me as a Half-Titan, then listen to me as a friend!"

Soon, Stringbean levitated beside her as she said "Look, you see this? Stringbean here is just like all of you, but despite that she's sworn to stay by my side throughout all of this, she's my friend. So please, for the survival of all life on the Boiling Isles, help me fight for my people and stop the Archivists for good. Please, trust me." The bat queen remained silent for a moment, she sighed and said "I have sworn to protect all palismen from harm, and if the Archivists intend to harm them, then they'll have me to answer!"

Luz smiled as the bat queen continued "We will be honored to fight alongside you Half-Titan, just tell us what we need to do."

Back at the owl house, everyone was waiting patiently for Luz to return. "Where did she even go??" Asked Camila. Eda shrugged and said "I don't know, hope she's alright." Suddenly, King looked up at the sky and saw a huge crowd of flying creatures in the distance. "Holy Titan... Everyone look!!"

Everyone got up and looked up into the sky to see a whole army of palismen heading their way, they all landed on the floor in front of them, along with the bat queen, Luz was there riding on top of the bat queen, she leaped to the floor and looked at everyone as she said "Reinforcements have arrived!" All the witches were incredibly surprised by this. "Luz... you convinced the palismen to help us?!" Asked Hunter. Luz nodded and said with a smile "I have, and now we have a better chance at defeating the Archivists!"

All the witches cheered as Eda said "Well I'll be damned kid, you are just so full of surprises." Luz smiled and said "Isn't everyone?" Darius soon spoke up as he said "Well everyone, I guess this means the time has come to attack! Let's get moving everyone!" All the witches nodded as they gathered their weapons and to get all set for the final battle.

Later, Luz went to go speak with her mother Camila. She'd been given a gauntlet of her own as well as Luz showed her how to use it. "That's how you change the glyph setting, and then you open your hand out fully to fire. Just make sure to keep safety on so you don't accidentally shoot a laser beam by accident." Camila chuckled and said "I think I got it Luz." Luz nodded and said "You know what? I think you're right." 

Camila smiled as she looked at Luz, even though she's been going around with this new Titan form of hers for nearly two months now, seeing her daughter having grown up in such a way was incredible for her to see. She sighed as she said "Luz... I'm very proud of you. You truly have proven that dreams can indeed come true. You defied the odds that were put against you, and you managed to actually become a witch of the Boiling Isles, in the place that you could truly call home. Seeing you having found such an incredible calling makes me so happy for you Luz."

Luz smiled and pulled Camila in for a hug. Camila smiled as she said "I don't care how strange it is knowing that your body is almost completely covered in fur, as long as you're happy with looking like this all the time, I'll always accept it." Luz sighed and said "Oh Mom, thank you so much, for everything. I know I don't consider myself a human anymore, but I'll always still be Luz Noceda, your daughter." Camila smiled and said "Yeah, I already know. Now go fight for your home, and give those Archivists hell." 

Luz nodded and said "Oh I most definitely will Mom, those Archivists have no idea who they're messing with!" She willed Stringbean into a staff and put her witch hat back on her head as she said "Let's take the battle to them now shall we?"

Luz went outside and met up with all the other witches, they were all ready to go. "We're all set Luz!" Said Willow. Luz nodded and said "Glad to hear it Willow, now, who's ready to go bring down the Archivists?!" All the witches yelled out "We're ready Luz!!" Luz smiled and said "Well, what are we waiting for?? Let's go!!" 

Suddenly, everyone heard a loud noise in the sky, and over in the distance they could see a large airship heading towards them, it came in for a landing as all the witches cleared some space for it. Once it landed, Amity could be seen standing on it as she said "Hey guys! Look what I just got!" Luz was surprised and asked "Amity! Is that your airship?!" Amity nodded and said "Yep, couldn't fly off into battle without it!"

"Nice!" Luz said, Luz leaped into the air and landed on top of it, she looked down towards all the witches as she shouted "Let's go show those Archivists that it'll take a lot more to permanently kill us for good!!" All the witches cheered as some of them climbed on board the airship, such as the Hex Squad, Camila, Masha, and Vee. "Alright Ami, let's go!" Amity nodded as she started up the airship once again as it slowly levitated into the air, all the other witches climbed on their palismen as they levitated into the air as well.

Eda and Lilith shifted into their harpy forms as Lilith looked over her shoulder and asked "Alright Hootcifer, are you ready?" Hooty smiled and said "ALWAYS!" Eda and Lilith then flew into the sky to join all the other witches, the palismen flew alongside them all as well. As they all made their way over to Bonesborough at a fast pace, Luz stood by the front of the airship as she said "Hang in there Enzo, we're on our way." 

Luz smiled gleefully as she leaped off the airship. "WOOHOO!!!" She shouted happily as she blasted off into the air, generating a sonic boom behind her. She flew alongside all her friends as they made their way over to Bonesborough to confront the Archivists one final time as she said with a smile "Alright Hex Squad! Let's show those Archivists what real magic looks like!!!" 

The entire army of witches led by their Half-Titan flew triumphantly across the isles as they went to go and face off against the Archivists in one last battle that would decide the fate of the entire Boiling Isles as we know it.

To be continued....

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The castle of the Archivists soared overhead the ruined town of Bonesborough. Pismis approached Orion and said "We have arrived, shall we begin?" Orion nodded and said "Lower the castle over the town. The time has come to wipe this island clean!" Pismis nodded as he returned to the control room, placing his hand against the hand print as he commanded the castle to slowly lower itself onto the ground beneath it.

Meanwhile in the cell, Enzo was still trying to find a way through the forcefield they were trapped inside so he could go disable the dampening field around the castle. But none of his abilities allowed him to break through it. He sighed as he sat down, having a hard time trying to figure out what to do. They looked down at the ground for a brief moment, and that's when an idea hit them. Why try and go through the forcefield when you can go under?

Enzo stood up as he looked at the ground. "Oh this better work." He thought to himself. His eyes began to heat up as he fired lasers from his eyes, directly at the floor beneath him as he tried to cut it open. They drew a full circle with their laser eyes, and when he did, the floor beneath him suddenly fell into the floor beneath him, Enzo smiled as he levitated into the lower level. "Yes! It worked!" He shouted.

He took a look around, only to be confronted by a few robots that instantly opened fire onto them. "Uh oh!" He said as he quickly flew down the hall the other way to escape. As he flew down the corridors, he activated his little transceiver star and asked "Luz, are you there?!" 

Meanwhile outside, the entire army of witches and palismen were still flying through the sky as they made their way over to Bonesborough. Suddenly, Luz's little transceiver star began to glow, Luz tapped it and asked "Enzo??" Enzo smiled and replied "Luz, I made it out of the cell, I'm on my way over to the main control module to disable the ship's dampening field! Have you guys launched the attack yet? Because this place is still crawling with machines!" 

"Hang on Enzo, we're almost there!" Luz said. She turned it off and kept on flying with everyone else. Soon, Amity looked ahead and could see the castle in the distance. "We've arrived everyone!" She shouted. All the witches looked ahead of them to see Bonesborough in the distance, the giant castle hovering above it. "Ok everyone, this is it!" Shouted Luz. "We need to get the Archivists' attention somehow." Said Eda.

Amity nodded and said "Leave that to me." She steered airship as it accelerated speed, flying ahead of everyone else as it headed straight for the castle. Amity smirked as she pulled a switch that unveiled some missiles made entirely out of abomination goo inside the airship, one should do the trick. 

"What's going on?!" Orion asked furiously. "Orion, look!" Said Helix as he pointed outside. Orion looked outside to see a whole army of witches and palismen headed straight for them. "Ah, the witches actually think they can stop the inevitable now can they? Activate the forcefield! Let's see them try and get into the city when there's a forcefield blocking the way. Helix nodded in response. 

Amity fired one of the missiles at the castle, only for it to explode against a forcefield that suddenly formed, sealing the entire town of Bonesborough inside of it! "What the fuck?! Luz, something's wrong!" Amity shouted. Luz made a worried expression and said "Hang on! I'll try." She fired lasers from her eyes towards the castle, only for the lasers to hit the forcefield. "Crap! They've surrounded Bonesborough inside a massive forcefield! I can't break through it, everyone stop!" 

Everyone stopped flying as Luz levitated to the ground right outside the town. Everyone else landed on the ground behind her as Amity's airship came down for a landing, Amity swung off of it as the people riding on top of it climbed down. Everyone who was riding on top of it climbed down and landing beside her. Luz walked over towards the city entrance as all the other witches and palismen came landing down beside her.

Eda levitated the ground beside Luz and asked "Now what do we do? How are we supposed to get inside now?" Luz looked back at everyone, they had only just arrived and already something was going wrong. 

She sighed as she pulled out her transceiver and spoke to Enzo. "Hey Enzo, we've got a problem on our hands, I'm sorry to say this but you're on your own for now." Shocked, Enzo asked "Wait what?? What's going on?!" Luz replied "The Archivists triggered a protective barrier around all of Bonesborough with their castle, we can't get through it, can it be disabled through the castle's main system along with the dampening field that nullifies magic?"

Enzo made a worried expression after hearing this unfortunate news, they said through the transceiver. "Oh... uh, I'm pretty sure that it's possible. I'll have to get there first before I can know for sure, but I can try and disable the shield." Luz smiled and said "Thank you Enzo." Enzo replied "Yeah, only problem is that since you won't be able to keep the Archivists' robot armada busy, I may experience lots of difficulty trying to reach the control module." 

Luz gave an understanding nod and said "Yeah, all I can say is good luck kid. We're all depending on you here." Enzo sighed and said "Yeah... I know, I'll do my best." They then continued to make their way down the corridor.

Luz put the transceiver away stepped onto a small hill as she pulled out her palisman, her 'cloak' was blowing in the wind, Amity walked over to her and asked "Now what?" Luz replied "All we can do is pray that Enzo pulls it off, we can't launch this attack without him." Steve heard Luz's sentence and shouted to everyone else "Alright everyone, you heard the commander." All the witches positioned themselves just outside the shield with Luz still standing there atop the hill, staring directly towards it, waiting for Enzo to disable it.

Orion looked at the giant forcefield that now surrounded the city, he smiled sinisterly and asked Helix "The witches won't be able to break through it right?" Helix shook his head no and said "The only way to bring the shield down is to deactivate it." Orion smiled and said "Excellent. Doradus, go check on our little brother, make sure he's not up to any trouble." Doradus nodded and made his way down the corridor. 

Doradus approached Enzo's cell, the moment he noticed the hole in the ground, he knew what it meant, he quickly ran back to where his brothers were and shouted "Orion! The Collector has escaped!!" Orion looked at Doradus with a surprised expression and shouted "He escaped?! How!!" Doradus replied "He cut a hole in the floor! I assume he's on one of the lower levels!" Orion approached Doradus and shouted "Then what are you doing here telling me about this? GO FIND HIM!!" Doradus nodded and quickly left the room.

Enzo continued on his way through the long hallways of the castle, the only problem was that there were lots of robots everywhere. He reached the entrance to the main control module, but it was guarded by a few bots. "Shoot! This won't be easy at all." Enzo screamed as he ran to go fight them, the moment the machines caught sight of them they all quickly opened fire, shooting lasers towards Enzo.

Enzo formed a shield around themself and quickly snapped his fingers, causing the robots to levitate into the air as he fired laser eyes at them, blowing some of them up. He then tossed the remaining few towards the walls and quickly formed a star in his hands, lunging it at them, the star exploded, finishing off the robots. Enzo sighed as he levitated into the air and blasted through the door.

He arrived inside the main control module as he approached the controls. "Ok, let's do this." They said as they put their hand against the handprint. Enzo was just about to tap into the castle's main systems to disable the dampening field and the forcefield, but then Doradus found him. "THERE YOU ARE! YOU LITTLE RUNT!!" He shouted as he sprinted towards Enzo at intense speed, grabbing him and tossing him towards the wall. 

Enzo collapsed as Doradus ran over to him to attack him, but Enzo quickly got back up and leaped over Doradus as they attempted to run for the handprint again, but then Doradus raised his hand out and suspended Enzo in the air, pulling him right back towards him. "LET ME GO YOU MONSTER!!" He shouted. Doradus grabbed him by the throat and slammed him against the wall, Enzo struggled to fight as he snapped his fingers, which sent Doradus crashing towards the ceiling, giving Enzo the chance to once again run for the handprint.

He quickly place his hands on it and tried once again to disable the forcefield as he said "Come on come on!!!" Doradus got back up and levitated towards the air, blasting towards Enzo as he tackled him. Enzo screamed as Doradus dragged them against the wall before throwing him across the room. Enzo quickly got back to their feet and fired lasers from his eyes towards Doradus, but Doradus formed a shield to protect himself. 

"You don't have what it takes boy!!" He shouted. Enzo made a face of anger, he was tired of being treated like the lowest. As Doradus flew towards him to attack, Enzo quickly circled around him and kicked him in the back, sending him crashing through the wall. Enzo took the opportunity to quickly disable the dampening field and the forcefield. They ran over to the handprint and placed his hand on it, this time Enzo was successful at tapping into the system as he quickly disabled the forcefield and the dampening field. 

"Orion... our shield is going down!" Shouted Pismis. "What?!!" Orion asked in surprise, he looked out the window and watched as the forcefield slowly lowered. Back in the control module, Doradus got up and sprinted towards Enzo, shoving him out of the way as he attempted to turn it back on. But Enzo quickly wrapped their arms around his neck, pulling him back. 

Doradus screamed in rage as he tried to grab the handprint, but then Enzo said "Now to make sure you don't turn it all back on!" As he looked directly towards the handprint and fired lasers from his eyes at it, causing it to explode. "NO!!!!" Doradus shouted. He broke free of Enzo's grasp and shouted "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'VE DONE?!!" Enzo nodded and said "Yep, I gave the witches a fighting chance!" 

Enzo then sprinted towards Doradus and punched him against the wall with intense strength, he then turned around and ran out of the room as he got on his transceiver. "Alright Luz, the forcefield and the dampening field are down! You're good to go!" 

Luz smiled and replied "Great job brother!" Soon, all the witches watched as the forcefield that was blocking their way into Bonesborough completely vanished, allowing them to enter. With the forcefield and the dampening field now permanently down, the witches now had the ability to launch the attack against the Archivists and infiltrate their castle and bring it down along with them, the time has finally come to defeat the Archivists for good.

Luz turned around and looked at all the witches behind her, all of them ready for battle. She levitated into the air as she said to them all "Witches and demons alike! We have all seen what exactly the Archivists can do, from afar they have filled us with fear, but soon now we will meet them face to face, in battle, one final time! You wanna know the truth of the Archivists and why they do the cruel things that they do? It's because they're scared, scared that they might not be the most powerful beings in the universe, and now they want to make sure they are by wiping all other beings with power off the face of their worlds."

"The Archivists are just scared of being weak! So let's use that against them shall we? We shall show them just how powerful we truly can be, and make them feel weak! Let's show these bastards that they cannot choose who lives and who dies! Let's defend our incredible island home the Titans gave to us together! The time has come! Hold all that you hold dear to you, and fight!!" Luz raised her palisman in the air as all the soldiers in front of her pulled out their swords and weapons.

"CHARGE!!!!" Luz shouted as she pointed her palisman forward, all the witches screamed as they charged forward into battle, Darius and all the other council members, along with Camila climbed on board the airship and took off with it, several witches got on their palismen and flew into battle. Luz then blasted forward at intense speed, leading the attack, together, all the witches would fight for their survival. 

Inside the castle, Pismis shouted "Orion! They're heading into the town!" Orion looked out the window to see the witches charging through the town as he said in frustration "No! Without the dampening field to protect our castle, they could get inside and do who knows what!" Helix looked at Orion and asked "What should we do??" Orion remained silent for a brief moment before shouting "Unleash the armada! Defend the castle! Do not let the witches reach it!" 

Soon, several robotic beings beamed down onto the surface as they pulled out their weapons, Orion spoke to them all telepathically. "Kill all the witches, do not let them reach this castle!" All the robots charged forward as robot stars took off into the sky, flying at intense speed. As the large army of witches stormed through the town, Luz looked ahead to see a large armada of machines approaching rapidly. 

"HERE THEY COME! THIS IS IT, LET'S TAKE IT TOO THEM!!" She shouted, Willow smirked as she said "Oh yeah let's do this!!!" As she pulled out her palisman and willed it into a staff and flew forward riding it. The bat queen along with all her palismen took off into the sky as they charged at the approaching robots. 

Soon, the opposing forces attacked each other. Luz supercharged her palisman with Titan power as she slammed it against the ground, creating a powerful shockwave that blasted several attacking robots away. All the witches opened fire on the machines, firing energy beams directly at them, blowing some of them up. Some of the robots attacked with axes as they swung at the witches, but the witches brought their own weapons, blocking the axes with swords as they swung right back at them.

The palismen flew through the air as they attacked some of the robot stars, the larger ones grabbed and crushed some of the stars with their feet, while other palismen breathed fire out of their mouths, setting the robots ablaze. 

Eda and Lilith hovered in the air as they fired energy beams from their gauntlets down upon all the robots beneath them, Luz flew through the air as she fired lasers from her eyes down onto a whole group of attacking machines. Suddenly, slightly bigger machines beamed down into the battlefield and began blasting at several attacking witches. "Uh oh, WE GOT SOME BIGGER ONES INCOMMING!!" Shouted Amity, suddenly Alador jumped in and shouted "Abominations, GO!!" As a whole army of abomination creatures ran into action as they battled against the bigger robots.

Hunter warped around several machines, grabbing one of them while running, he tossed it against the ground before firing his gauntlet at it, shooting a bolt of lighting from it that caused it to explode. Willow landed beside him and raised her arms up as vines grew out of the ground, wrapping around several approaching machines as they crushed them into pieces. 

Edric and Emira ran through the battlefield piloting some abomination mechs. Edric laughed like a crazy person as he fired rapidly at the enemy forces "HA HA HA!!! EAT THIS FUCKERS!!!" He shouted at the top of his lungs. "Woah Edric, never saw you as the aggressive type!" Amity shouted as she punched a giant machine away with an abomination fist. Edric laughed as he said "Yeah well what can I say mittens? Piloting one of these things is awesome!!"

Luz flew around the battlefield, punching several robots with intense strength, knocking them into the air as she laser eyed them, causing them to explode in the sky. Luz then drew a spell circle with her palisman which caused thousands of ice shards to come shooting out of the ground and impale many attacking machines as their bodies all collapsed to the floor. 

Meanwhile, Vee and Masha ran through the battlefield frantically, Masha began firing magic beams of energy from their gauntlet, which blasted against some of the robots. "WOAH!! OK THIS IS A LITTLE MORE CHAOTIC THAN I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE!!" Vee looked at them and said "I TRIED TO WARN YOU!! Maybe you would have been better off fighting on Amity's airship alongside Mom and the council members!" 

Masha shook their head and said "N-no! I can handle this!" But then suddenly, a robot landed behind them as Vee shouted "MASHA LOOK OUT!!" Masha turned around to see it as it pointed its laser hand at them, they screamed as they ducked out of the way just in time. Vee quickly inhaled sharply as she began to absorb its energy, allowing Masha to fire a bolt of lightning out of their gauntlet, blowing the robot up. "You alright?" Vee asked. Masha smiled, kissing her on the cheek and said "Yeah, I'm fine." Vee smiled as they both kept on fighting.

Up in the sky, Darius was piloting Amity's airship as Raine shot energy beams off the side, shooting at any attacking stars that flew their way, Darius formed a forcefield over the whole airship to protect it from enemy attackers. "DEPLOY BOMBS!!" He shouted. Raine nodded as they pulled a switch that deployed a few abomination spheres that fell out from underneath it, as they fell, they suddenly ignited into flames as they crashed into the ground, all of them causing massive explosions that blew several robots on the ground apart!

Luz noticed the explosions go off in a distance as she looked at Amity and said "Wow amor! Your airship really packs a punch!!" Amity smiled and said "I know! I've been adding onto it every since I graduated Hexside. Pretty cool right?" Luz nodded as she and Amity fought off against more robots together, Amity harnessed abomination goo to form a giant blade as she swung it aggressively at more giant robots, slicing off their legs. 

Luz smirked as she tried it for herself, she formed an abomination glyph as she made a giant blade out of abomination goo. "Alright mechanical freaks, let's clash!!" She said with a smile as she sprinted towards more robots, slicing them apart as she swung her abomination sword at them, she then had a cool idea as she formed a fire glyph on her hand, she activated it as it set her sword ablaze. Amity watched as her Titan girlfriend swung her fire/abomination sword at any incoming machines like a total boss, seeing this from her girlfriend caused her face to turn deep red. 

"Oh... ok Amity, don't go nuts over watching your girlfriend who is currently part Titan wield an abomination blade that's on fire now... snap out of it, you're in a battle for Titan's sake!" Amity thought to herself as she quickly snapped herself out of her flustered state, she quickly joined Luz in battle as they both continued fighting. Luz let out a powerful Titan roar that sent a giant tripod crashing against the floor as Luz leaped into the air and slammed her fists against its eye as she came down over it. 

Suddenly, Luz and Amity both found themselves surrounded by a few scorpions, the most deadly machines. "Shit, now what!?" Amity asked, Luz and Amity took defensive positions as the scorpions prepared to attack them. But then suddenly, they all heard a loud sonic boom in the sky. "What the?" Luz wondered as she looked up to see a kid skyrocketing out of the castle at intense speed. It was Enzo!

Enzo flew right over all the scorpions, firing energy beams down at them, blowing them all to bits! Luz smiled with joy as she shouted "ENZO!!! YOU MADE IT OUT!!" Enzo smiled at her as he flew off to go help out in the fight, they formed a few giant stars behind him with the snap of their fingers, tossing them down onto the attacking robots, causing massive explosions. "Hah!! That's what I'm talking about!!" Shouted Gus. 

King let out a powerful "WEEEEEHHH!!" At a few robots that sent them crashing into a wrecked building, but then one snuck up behind him and attempted to attack him with its axe, but before it could attack, Enzo tackled it from above and ripped its head off with super strength. King turned around to see him. Seeing Enzo alive caused King to suddenly tear up as he shouted "ENZO!!!" Enzo looked at him and happily shouted back "KING!!!" 

The two siblings tackled each other with a massive hug, King had never felt so happy to see Enzo as he said "I- I was so worried about you... even after finding out you were ok I- I still couldn't stop worrying about you... Please don't ever scare me like that again!" Enzo smiled and said "Don't worry King, I'm not going anywhere this time. Come on let's go help the others!" 

Luz and Amity met up with all their friends as they helped fight against more robots in the huge battlefield. "Hey guys, how many kills have you gotten so far??" Asked Luz. Hunter looked at her and said "Luz this isn't a game." Luz chuckled lightly before Enzo and King showed up, King unleashed a sonic blast towards some robots while Enzo fired lasers from their eyes, destroying a few robots that were approaching from behind.

Luz looked towards Enzo and smiled as she shouted "It's so great to see you again brother!!" As she pulled Enzo into a tight hug. Enzo hugged back and said "Great to see you too sis!" Willow approached Luz and asked "Luz, didn't Enzo say that they disabled both the forcefield and the dampening field? Shouldn't that mean you can safely get into the castle without your magic being weakened?" 

Luz looked towards the flying castle in the distance, still slightly lowering itself towards the ground as she said "Of course! We should hurry over there now before it's too late!" Amity said "Let's go together as team then shall we?" Luz smiled and nodded as she said "Alright Hex Squad, we've got one objective, get this quantum core into that castle and drop it into the castle's quantum core! You guys ready?" 

Luz's friends nodded as she looked over to Eda and shouted "Hey! Eda! We could use your help, we're gonna try and head for the castle and we need some cover on the way there!!" Eda looked over to her and nodded as she said "I'm on it Luz! Good luck!" Luz looked at all her friends and said with a wide grin "Let's take it to them!!" Luz levitated into the air a little bit and blasted forward with a sonic boom, her friends got on their palismen as Enzo levitated into the air as well, with King riding on his back, they all followed Luz as they made their way towards the castle.

Eda spread out her wings and flew into the sky. She found herself surrounded by several robot stars, she smirked as she activated an abomination spell with her gauntlet, allowing her to form a sharp sword out of abomination goo with it. "Let's get this done!" She said as she flew towards the stars and sliced through them, they all tried to shoot at her but she flew around to fast for them to hit her, she circled around one of the stars and kicked it into pieces before grabbing another one and punching it apart, soon Lilith joined her as she fired energy beams from her gauntlet, the two sisters flew together through the sky as they attacked any incoming robot stars, they both made sure to follow Luz to protect her and her friends from any attackers from above.

The Hex Squad blasted through the battlefield, passing by several witches and robots as they got closer to the flying castle. Luz and Enzo soared through the sky, firing lasers from both their eyes and hands down at several machines, fighting together like brother and sister. But then suddenly, a giant tripod fired at them. Causing them all to crash to the ground. Luz groaned as she slowly got up. "Is everyone alright??" She asked worriedly. Hunter slowly got up as he helped Willow get to her feet. "Yeah, all good Luz." Said Gus as he gave a thumbs up.

Luz helped Amity up as they saw the tripod, it fired upon them, but Gus quickly drew a spell circle that caused a shield to surround them. "Take it down!!!" Shouted Hunter. Amity and Willow got on their palismen and flew around it to keep it distracted while Gus drew illusions of them to ensure it would shoot at the wrong targets. "All yours Luz!" He said. Luz clenched her fists as she blasted towards the tripod, punching it aggressively. She formed a fire glyph on her hand and fused it with her palisman, igniting the staff in flame as Stringbean breathed fire out of her mouth, directly at the tripod, while it didn't burn the machine, it definitely blocked its line of sight.

Luz circled around it and kicked it in the back as Enzo flew into the air and punched it up into the sky a little but with his extreme strength. Allowing Luz to fly up towards it and slam it down towards the ground with intense force. She landed on top of the tripod as it lay there motionless before charging her fists with an electricity glyph, allowing her to easily punch through the tripods eye in the process. She sighed as she brushed some dust off of her as she regrouped with her friends, but they would all soon see that more machines were coming.

"Oh boy that's a lot of them..." Said King. Gus looked towards Luz and Amity and said "You two, keep going without us! We'll hold them off for you! You get that quantum core into that castle no matter what." Luz was about to say something in response before Enzo said "Go! We'll be just fine on our own!" Luz nodded and said "Be careful guys." Willow smiled and said "We will be. Now go save the Isles already!" 

Luz chuckled lightly and said "Already on it!" She and Amity held hands as they both raced across the battlefield, continuing on their way towards the castle. Eda and Lilith flew overhead to ensure that they both would make it safely. 

Inside the castle, Orion looked to see both Luz and Amity heading closer to the castle. "Orion, they're getting closer..." Said Doradus. "I know that!" Orion shouted furiously, he was getting very frustrated with how things were going. He suddenly had an idea as he said "I know exactly what will stop them." He thought of the most deadly robot monster he could think of, and then snapped his fingers.

Luz and Amity ran across the battlefield as Eda flew right beside the two. "Keep moving!! You're almost there!" She shouted as swung her sword at a giant robot, cutting it in two. Luz and Amity continued to run as fast as they could, destroying any robots that got in their way.

Luz then levitated into the air as Amity got on her palisman, they both began to fly towards the castle, but then suddenly, a giant group of robots suddenly beamed down on the ground in front front of them, they proceeded to punch them both to the ground, they crashed against the ground as Luz quickly got up. "Ami bear! You ok??" She asked worriedly. Amity slowly got up and said "Yeah... I'll live." They both looked at the robots in front of them as Luz asked "What exactly are they? I've never seen anything like them before..."

Suddenly, the unthinkable happened, the robots started making a weird sound as they began to deconstruct their bodies at will. "What the fuck??" Amity said all confused. Suddenly, the robots began to merge their bodies together, slowly but surely they began to form a figure of some kind. "Oh shit... we might wanna hide, NOW!!" Luz shouted as she scooped Amity up and sprinted towards one of the wrecked houses of Bonseborough. "Holy Titan!! WHAT'S HAPPENING??" Amity asked worriedly. 

Luz peaked over to see as the robots continued to merge together, forming a completely new body entirely, wings began to grow on it as it grew clawed like hands, it had a large tail sticking out. Eventually, it transformed into a giant robot dragon! It let out a loud robotic roar as fire shot out its mouth. "HOLY TITAN!!! A DRAGON?!!" Shouted Luz. 

The dragon looked down upon several witches who had been fighting throughout the whole battle, Steve looked up at the dragon and shouted "SHOOT THAT THING DOWN NOW!!!" All the witches proceeded to open fire on the creature as giant abomination creatures charged at the dragon as they fired lasers at it. But the dragon remained unharmed, instead it let out a powerful roar at all the witches and unleashed a powerful burst of flame at the witches, burning a lot of them to a crisp.

As soon as Luz saw the sheer amount of power the dragon had, she came out of hiding and shouted towards Steve "NO! DON'T ATTACK IT!! YOU'LL GET YOURSELF KILLED!!!" Steve nodded and shouted "EVERYONE FALL BACK!!!" They all began to run as the dragon continued to emit fire down at the witches. Eda and Lilith looked at the giant dragon from above as Hooty shouted "WHAT IS THAT THING?!" Lilith replied "Some kind of mechanized dragon made by the Archivists!"

Eda looked towards the ground and said "And to make matters worse, it's got Luz and Amity completely trapped! Even though Luz has Titan powers I doubt she'll be able to fight it easily, we have to help her now!"

"What do we do Luz?" Amity asked worriedly. Luz looked at the dragon and said "Well, even with my Titan powers I doubt I can fight something as big as that, did you see what it did to all those witches there?!" Amity then asked "So what do we do instead?" Luz looked around for a moment before noticing a large opening in between the dragons feet, big enough for Luz and Amity to run through and safely escape the dragon. She looked at Amity saying "We run, and I see a way to get away from it! The only safe spot is right under the dragon, run at it! Run for its feet!" 

Amity nodded as she and Luz came out of hiding and began running. Eda and Lilith flew over to them as Eda asked "Luz what are you doing??" Luz replied "We need to escape that thing somehow! Cover us!!" Eda nodded and flew into the air and shouted "Hey!! Look at me you oversized tumor!! Come and pick on someone who can fly as well!" The dragon let out an angry snarl as it breathed fire towards Eda and Lilith as they both flew around at swift speeds to avoid being burnt. Meanwhile Luz and Amity ran for the dragons feet to get past it. 

Suddenly, the dragon's stomach opened to reveal a bunch of blasters underneath. "AW COME ON!!" Shouted Luz, the blasters shot out fireballs down at her and Amity, Luz quickly shot laser eyes at some of them as they exploded mid air. She then supercharged her palisman with Titan energy as she leaped into the air, slicing one of the fireballs apart with it. She landed against the ground as she and Amity kept moving. 

"WE'RE ALMOST THERE!!" Luz shouted as they both reach the feet. As Eda and Lilith kept the dragon distracted, the two girls safely made it behind the dragon. "WE MADE IT!!" Amity shouted. Little did she realize the dragon was made specifically to stop her and Luz from reaching the castle, it turned around and growled at them, spreading its wings out as it levitated into the air. "Uh... LUZ!!!" Amity shouted.

Luz turned around and gasped in shock as the dragon suddenly shot a massive burst of fire out of its mouth down at her and Amity, in a panic, Luz drew a spell circle with her palisman and formed a forcefield around her and Amity, she struggled to hold that forcefield as the fire blasted against it, the heat was so immense it raised the temperature up a lot. Luz fell to her knees as she struggled to hold the forcefield up.

The dragon continued to fire at Luz and Amity before being shot in the face by a fireball. "HEY!! YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SHOOT FIREBALLS ASSHOLE!!" Shouted Eda as she shot fireballs out of her gauntlet rapidly at the dragon's face, causing it to turn its attention towards her and Lilith, allowing Luz to lower the forcefield around her, Luz collapsed from exhaustion as she suddenly shifted into her human form unexpectedly!

"Luz! What's wrong!?" Amity asked as she tried to help her girlfriend get to her feet. Luz got up to her knees and said "I... I just need a moment Ami... That took a lot outta me..." Amity made a worried expression and said "We don't have time for that Luz! If we waste anymore time, the Boiling Isles will be destroyed and this whole battle would have been for nothing!" Amity turned to see the castle getting closer towards the ground. "Luz! The Archivists are gonna kill us all! Please Luz get up!" Luz looked up at her for a moment, she then took a look around to see the battle that was still raging on around her, nothing but fire and destruction as far as she could see.

"Come on babe, you gotta pull through, we need you... I need you." Said Amity. Hearing Amity mutter those words encouraged Luz to get to her feet, she clenched her fists and let out a powerful scream as she quickly shifted back into her Half-Titan form once again. Amity helped her to her feet as she said "Let's go then!" But then Amity said "No... you go, that dragon was made to hunt both of us down, it's important that at least one of makes it inside the castle, let's make sure that the one who gets inside the castle is you Luz."

Luz looked at Amity and made a worried expression and said "B-but you said we should both stick together!" Amity nodded and said "I know, but this is your fight Luz! You can save us! I believe in you, don't worry about me, I'll be fine. I gotta help Eda and Lilith fight that dragon, now go on mi amor, go save the Boiling Isles!" Luz looked at her for brief moment before giving her girlfriend a kiss on the lips, holding Amity as close to her as possible. 

They both eventually pulled apart as Luz said "I love you Amity... Please be careful." Amity smiled and said "I love you too, furball. Now go give those Archivists an ass whooping." Luz chuckled lightly and said "I will hermosa." Suddenly, the voice of Masha shouted from a distance "Oh my god will you girls just stop flirting for like, five seconds and just go already?!" Luz and Amity chuckled as Amity said "Good luck."

Luz nodded as Amity ran off. As Luz watched her fly away on her staff, she turned around to see the Archivists' castle just up ahead. She smirked as she said "Alright Stringbean, let's do this together, you and I!" She sprinted forward at intense speed as she spun her palisman staff around and drew a spell circle, causing an ice block to blast out of the ground, launching her into the sky as she blasted towards the castle, generating a sonic boom behind her.

As the fight raged on behind her, Camila watched from Amity's airship as she saw her daughter flying towards the castle. "Be safe Luz..." She said, before continuing to fire at more robot stars with her gauntlet.

Inside the castle, Luz blasted through the walls, she landed inside one of the corridors and looked around, since the dampening field was down her Titan powers were still working fine. She began walking down the corridors, hoping to find the ships quantum core so she could drop her quantum core into it and destroy the castle. She soon approached a large door, she huffed as she kicked it down with her superhuman strength. 

Luz walked into the room on the other side, but it was completely dark inside, she quickly activated her night vision so she could see her surroundings, it was very quiet in the room, too quiet. 

Suddenly, Luz's night vision caught sight of a figure moving in the shadows, it was Orion. He quickly fired an energy beam towards Luz, who quickly shielded herself to avoid being shot. Orion fled as he let out a menacing laugh. Luz quickly gripped her palisman lightly as she looked around, breathing deeply. 

"Would you look who decided to join us today. I see that since you still got that Titan hybrid body of yours, you're still trying to lie to yourself that you are indeed a witch just like all those creatures outside, how childish of you Noceda. Trying to make yourself into something you aren't." 

Luz made an angry expression and said "Shut up and come face me already you coward!" Orion smirked and said "Oh where are my manners? Of course!" Suddenly, the lights turned on, and Luz found herself confronted by all four Archivists. Orion made a sinister smile and said "Welcome back Luz!" 

Luz clenched her claws as she let out a Titan growl. Orion smirked and said "You really think that just because you have the powers of the Titan makes you special?? No, no matter how many physical changes you undergo, deep down you will always just be the same frail and weak human that you always were back on your home world! You will never be a witch or a Titan, the universe does not work that way!"

Luz shouted back "Shut up!! I didn't come here to have a casual discussion with you! I've come here to stop you from destroying my home!!" Orion laughed maniacally and said "You seriously think you can save them Luz?! This world was never meant to be! Its existence upsets the cosmic balance, and me and my brothers are going to ensure its protection. And you can't do anything to stop us with that quantum core of yours."

Luz went silent at the mention of the quantum core. Orion smirked and said "Oh yes Luz, we are very aware of your plan, we know you created a quantum core and plan to drop it into our castle's quantum core to destroy it. We knew you've come here to kill us, when will you learn Luz? We are GODS!! WE CANNOT BE KILLED! WE ARE THE MOST POWERFUL BEINGS IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE, WE GET TO DECIDE THE FATE OF ENTIRE LIFE FORMS! THAT ROLE WAS GIVEN TO US AND US ALONE!! YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE THE POWERS OF A GOD, NOT YOU, THE WITCHES, OR ANY OF THE TITANS DESERVE IT!! YOU ALL MUST DIE!!"

Luz made an angry growl as she said "Well, come on then!! Take your shot asshole!!" Orion looked at his brothers and said "Brothers, destroy her!!!" Pismis, Helix, and Doradus suddenly flew at Luz at intense speed. Luz reacted fast enough as she supercharged her palisman with Titan magic, smacking Helix against the wall with it. Doradus suddenly tacked her from behind and dragged her against the floor, he then attempted to slam her with his fists but she quickly rolled out of the way and got back up. 

Luz clenched her fists as Titan magic radiated around them. She then drew a spell circle that fired a massive beam of energy at Doradus, knocking him against the wall. Pismis let out a scream as he punched Luz in the face she collapsed as Pismis grabbed her by the foot and tossed her to the ceiling, she crashed against it as she began to fall, she was able to land on her feet as she regained composure as she and Pismis flew at each other, tackling each other mid air as they threw punches against each other.

Pismis tried to choke Luz but Luz fired laser eyes at him, he screamed as he let go of her, allowing Luz to fly toward him and punch him with superhuman strength, he crashed into the wall as Luz levitated to the ground. The three Archivists got back up to attack Luz before Orion shouted "Enough! You've done enough, leave me with her." Helix looked at Luz and said "But Orion-" But Orion interrupted "Leave us Helix, now."

Helix nodded as he and the others left. Luz breathed heavily from the fight she got into and asked "I see you want some of what I just gave your brothers for yourself now huh?" Orion walked over to her and said "You could have walked away from all this Luz, you could have lived a happy life on Earth as the human you were born as, not this freak against nature you've turned yourself into! Why must you continue to defy mother nature by making yourself into this witch that you see yourself as?? I don't understand!!"

Luz replied "There's a difference between defying mother nature and following your dreams Orion, clearly you have no understanding of people's dreams, and I'm not going to let you crush the dreams that the people of the Boiling Isles have, your days of deciding races fates are over!" Orion smirked and said "Wrong choice Half-Titan, I'm going to enjoy killing you!" Luz smirked as she shouted at the top of her lungs "Heh, well then... BRING IT ORION!!!"

The Half-Titan's last stand has finally begun.

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To be continued....

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Luz and Orion flew into the air and blasted towards each other, Orion managed to tackle Luz and slam her against the floor. He then tried to punch her but Luz quickly formed a shield in front of her, barely blocking the punch, she quickly kicked Orion back as she got up and blasted towards Orion, tackling him as they both crashed through the wall, emerging outside of the castle.

They both punched each other as they flew around through the sky at intense speed. Luz wielded her palisman as she formed an electricity glyph on her hand, fusing the magic with Stringbean as she swung her staff around, firing out bolts of lightning out at Orion. Orion flew around at rapid speed as he dodged every bolt that came his way, before pouncing Luz, they both crashed back into the castle as Orion threw Luz against the wall.

She collapsed as Orion sprinted towards her to attack, but Luz drew a spell circle that caused a vine to grow and grab Orion by the leg, he tripped as the vine gripped him and proceeded to swing him around, Luz quickly fled as she formed an invisibility glyph on her hand, she activated it as she vanished into thin air. The vine slammed Orion against the ground repeatedly before he eventually broke loose, he went to attack Luz again but found that she had vanished. 

Orion looked around trying to spot Luz before Luz sprinted towards him still completely invisible as she punched Orion to the floor. Orion slowly got up before being punched against the wall by an invisible force. Orion grunted as he collapsed, he then shouted "Show yourself!!!" As he fired laser eyes all around the room, trying to hit Luz. Luz gasped as the lasers came zooming right over her, causing her to reappear. 

"There you are!!" Orion said with a menacing stare as he sprinted towards Luz to keep attacking her. Luz fired lasers from her eyes at Orion, but Orion simply shielded himself and flew towards Luz at intense speed, before Luz could react, Orion grabbed her by the throat and slammed her against the wall. Luz struggled within his grip as Orion attempted to choke her, but then Luz wielded her palisman once again and supercharged it with Titan magic, causing Stringbean to glow bright purple as Luz slammed her staff against Orion, sending him crashing into the wall. Orion let out a frustrated growl as he and Luz continued to fight to the death.

Meanwhile, back in Bonesborough, Steve rode on his motorcycle as he led several soldiers through the battlefield, Vee and Masha tagged along for protection. They fired their way through the battle, shooting at as many robots as they could. They quickly ran down an alleyway through bonesborough as multiple flying stars came soaring overhead. Before they could come out of hiding, a massive tripod passed by, causing all the witches to go deathly silent as it passed by.

"What do we do now? We're trapped." Whispered Vee. Steve looked at her and said "Quiet, let me think of something..." He took one look at his motorcycle and had an idea as he said "Everyone, let's bring the rain on that thing. Try and get its attention, I've got an idea." He got on his motorcycle and drove down to other end of the road as the witches all came out of hiding.

"What's going on?" Asked Masha, Vee shrugged in response. Soon, one of the witches drew a spell circle and shot a fireball at the tripod, causing it to turn around as it fired at them all. "SPREAD OUT!!!" Shouted one of the witches, they all dived for cover as Vee and Masha quickly took cover. "NOW'S YOUR CHANCE STEVE! GO!!" Shouted another witch. Steve smirked as he started driving forward on his motorcycle, driving at top speed.

He came speeding towards the tripod as it caught sight of him and fired lasers towards him. Steve quickly drew a spell circle that caused a ramp made out of ice to form on the ground in front of him. He drove off the ramp as his motorcycle flew right over the tripod, allowing Steve to fire energy beams from his hands directly at its head, causing it to explode. 

Steve came down for a landing on his motorcycle as the tripod collapsed behind him and exploded. "WOW!! NOW THAT'S HOW YOU TAKE DOWN A GIANT ROBOT WITH STYLE!!" Masha shouted. Vee smiled before looking towards the castle, seeing that it has almost reached the ground. "Come on Luz... hurry." She muttered.

Back inside the Archivists' castle, Luz and Orion continued to fight relentlessly. Luz formed an ice glyph on her hand and fused the magic with Stringbean, causing her to glow blue, she quickly pointed her palisman towards Orion and shot an ice ray at him, but Orion dodged it and shot an energy beam at Luz, who quickly was able to form a forcefield around herself to block it.

Suddenly, Orion snapped his fingers, causing Luz to get thrown across the room as she screamed, she was held against the wall as Orion walked towards her. "You can't possibly hope to win Luz, me and my brothers have wiped out countless mortals that had even more power than you! What makes you think you're different from the rest?!" Luz gave Orion an angry stare as she unleashed a powerful Titan roar, which sent Orion crashing against the wall.

Luz got to her feet and sprinted towards Orion to keep attacking him. She supercharged her palisman with Titan magic as she leaped into the air, she screamed as she swung her palisman down over Orion, but Orion formed a star in his hand and lunged it towards Luz, before she could react, she was hit by the star, it exploded against her as she collapsed. While her Titan strength gave her invulnerability to such deadly attacks, it still hurt like hell.

She tried to get up, but Orion sprinted towards her and pressed his foot over Luz's back, pushing against her. Luz cried out in pain as Orion added more pressure against her, causing her to collapse to the floor. Orion made a sinister grin as he knelt down in front of Luz and looked at her in the eyes. "You never had what it takes to defeat us Luz, nothing can kill us, you're fighting for a lost cause!"

Luz let out a scream of anger as she tried to punch Orion, but Orion blocked her punch and lifted her up with his super strength, slamming her head first into the ground. Luz screamed in pain as she collapsed to the floor, feeling too weak to keep fighting. Suddenly, the castle began to shake slightly, Orion chuckled maniacally as he knew what it meant. "Would you look at that Luz, you're too late."

The Archivists' castle had now touched down against the island. Meaning that the process could finally begin. Soon, Helix approached the quantum core deep within the castle and placed his hand against a hand print in front of it, he tapped into the core as he willed it into manifesting its raw unlimited power throughout the entire Boiling Isles. Soon, the quantum core began to glow brighter as sparks of electricity began to emit from it. 

Outside, all the witches that were fighting off against the robot armada heard a loud noise coming from the castle, they turned around to see the castle as sparks of white lightning suddenly began to zap out of it and travel into the ground. "No... It's happening!" Said Enzo. King looked at them in fear as he asked "What's happening?" Enzo looked at King, showing a face of dread as he said "Devastation."

Suddenly, the ground began to shake slightly as the energy from the ships quantum core began to spread through the ground, white streams of energy could be seen flowing through the ground, they passed by large forests, causing them to instantly wither up and die. The ground began to shake and crumble as it began to crack open, the energy from the quantum core slowly spread through the land like a virus as it began to collapse.

"RUN!!!" Shouted Hunter, all the witches began to fall back as they tried to escape the approaching destruction. But they were stopped by the robot armada that blocked their way, all of them began to fire upon the retreating witches, they tried to fight back but there were far to many robots to take on. All the witches started to panic, having nowhere to run. "HUNTER!! WHAT DO WE DO??!" Willow asked worriedly. Hunter looked at her and grabbed her by the hand as he said "This way!!" They both began running to go hide as Gus quickly followed behind. "Hey!! Wait up!!" He shouted.

The three of them ran down an alleyway as they stayed hidden from all the machines outside. "Where are we supposed to run?!" Asked Willow. Hunter looked out to see the corruption making its way closer towards them. "As far away from that as we can that's for sure." He said.

Suddenly, the ground began to shake once again, but this time it shook far more than it did before. Causing the houses they were hiding in between to collapse, some debris began to collapse over Gus as Willow saw it in time. "GUS LOOK OUT!!" She shouted as she ran over to him and shoved him out of the way. Gus collapsed as the debris fell over Willow. "WILLOW!!!" Hunter shouted in fear. He quickly started pulling on the rubble as he tried to help Willow; eventually finding her buried underneath, she was alive thankfully, but was severely wounded.

"Hunter... help me... I can't get free! I- I'm stuck!" She said with a growing fear in her voice. Hunter held her by the hand and said "Don't worry Willow, I'll get you out of there. GUS!!! GET OVER HERE AND HELP ME!!" Gus took a look outside once again to see the corruption drawing even nearer as the white streams of energy started heading their way, they didn't have much time to waste so they had to hurry. Gus quickly ran over to Hunter to try and help get Willow free.

Back inside the castle, Orion dragged a burnt out Luz towards the window and forced her to look outside "Take a good look at it Luz, God's judgement at its finest!" Luz took a look outside to see the chaos that was unraveling in front of her. She watched in horror as the isles slowly collapsed as the infectious energy traveled through all of it, the ground began to crack open as witches would fall into it.

"THERE'S TOO MANY OF THEM!!" Shouted Steve as he and all the witches tried to fight against the machines, but they were being completely outnumbered, they had nowhere to run or hide. "THE WHOLE ENTIRE ISLAND IS COLLAPSING!!" Shouted King. "No... NO NO NO!!!" Luz shouted in horror. Amity's airship was eventually surrounded by a horde of robot stars, they fired at it endlessly before successfully breaking the forcefield around it. "THEY'VE BROKEN THROUGH!!" Shouted Raine.

Camila and Raine had nowhere to run as the airship began to get fired upon, Darius couldn't steer past any of the incoming fire for there was far too much to fly around, the ship was hit as it suddenly exploded. "WE'RE GOING DOWN!!" Shouted Darius as Amity's airship crashed against the ground. "MOM!!!!" Luz shouted. 

Everyone on the airship slowly got up as Darius asked "Is everyone ok??" Raine nodded as they helped Camila out of the wreckage. "Yeah, we're good." Suddenly, all the council members were surrounded by an army of attacking robots. "EVERYONE!! HOLD YOUR GROUND!!!" Darius shouted, Camila had no other choice but to help them fight for none of them could run for it at the moment.

Hunter and Gus pushed with all their might as they tried to get Willow free. But the deadly power that was traveling through the ground was drawing nearer as the streams of white energy came into sight. Willow freaked out at the sight of it as she looked towards Hunter saying "Hunter, please! Get out of here now!!" Hunter stopped to look at her for a moment before looking at what could be considered death itself slowly approaching. 

Hunter sighed and said "No Willow... I'm not gonna leave you here like this. We'll both stay together until the end." As he gripped Willow's hand firmly. Willow went silent as a tear ran down her face, she understood what Hunter meant, the three of them would die together as the isles collapsed around them. "Y-you guys are the best..." Gus said, accepting that this was most likely the end for all of them.

Luz cried out in anguish as she listened to the screams of terror coming from the witches. Seeing the destruction was far too much for her. Orion laughed maniacally as he picked Luz up by the throat and said "Everything you love shall disappear in an instant! And then it's your turn!" He tossed Luz against the floor saying "This should be a lesson to all mortals in the universe to never defy the Archivists, the only true gods of the universe!"

Luz slowly crawled forward, feeling weak and helpless, she came to a stop as she started crying, feeling nothing but despair and sadness as she whispered to herself "I- I'm so sorry everyone... I failed you all. I really thought we had a shot at this... But I'm just not strong enough, nor will I ever be..." 

Suddenly, she heard a familiar voice call her name. "Luz...." She looked up to see none other than the Titan standing in front of her. "W-where the hell have you been?" She asked. The Titan replied "I apologize for my absence Luz." Luz got up to her knees as she said "Titan... Orion he's- he's too powerful, I've tried so hard to bring him down, b-but I can't stop him, I've tried multiple times to unleash the full potential of your powers you gave me... but no matter how hard I try, I can't get it to work. I'm not strong enough... I'm not as strong as you were, and I don't think I ever will be..." 

Luz looked down in despair, accepting defeat. The Titan sighed and approached her, he knelt down in front of Luz and placed his hands on her shoulders. "No Luz, you're stronger." He said. Luz looked at him in confusion and said "No matter what I do, the Archivists still manage to overpower me, they took the entire Boiling Isles and forced me and all the witches into hiding. I've done nothing but fail to stop them. How can I possibly be stronger?" 

The Titan sighed and said "I wish I could say it gets easier kiddo, but if I did I'd be lying. But what I can say is, all those witches out there need your help more than ever." Luz replied "It's too late, the Archivists are already destroying the entire island, all the witches out there are gonna die and I can't do anything to save them! I'm just not good enough to inherit your powers. I don't think I ever will be." 

The Titan smiled and replied "No, it's not over Luz, not as long as the magic that you now carry inside of you lives on within all of the witches. Remember what that symbol of yours means, that symbol on you holds the very essence of magic itself, as a Titan, it is your responsibility to carry that essence inside of you and ensure that it is preserved, which is exactly what you've been doing ever since you first inherited my powers, you've kept the witches safe, and in doing so you have kept the magic alive. I would tell you why I chose to give you my powers in the first place, but I feel as if you already know."

Luz remained silent as she remembered the things that Amity had told her a while back...

"The Titan willingly gave it to you, he even let you decide if you wanted it first before giving it to you! Saying he wouldn't give it to you unless you willingly chose to inherit it, or more specifically, choose yourself. You said that the Titan had been watching over all of us this whole time in the In Between. And that he had seen everything you had accomplished."

"I think that's why he chose to give you his powers willingly, because unlike Belos who took powers that did not belong to him, nor did he do anything that made him truly deserving of the power he obtained, you deserved to inherit the Titan's power, after everything you've done to protect the people of the Boiling Isles and stop Belos, acting only out of selflessness and love for this world, you earned those powers that the Titan gave you, you've truly earned the chance to become a witch like the rest of us."

Luz remembered why exactly the Titan gave her his powers in the first place. The Titan put his hand against Luz's face and said "Luz, you have the heart of a true witch, and the soul of a mighty hero. I chose to let you keep my powers because that way you could finally become that powerful witch that you always wanted to be, the witch you were born to be. Seeing your compassion, seeing your willingness to do what's necessary to defend the Boiling Isles even if you have to die in the process showed me that you were always meant to be a true witch from the start, you earned my powers, this is who you are."

Luz let the words of the Titan motivate her, realizing that this whole time she hadn't been failing to protect the witches at all, in fact, she's been protecting them from being wiped out since before she got her Titan powers, like back when she stopped the day of unity. She sighed as she let all her doubts about whether she's good enough fade into obscurity, and in doing so, gave her the confidence she needed to finally awaken the full extent of her powers.

The Titan put his hand on the symbol Luz carried on her chest as the symbol slowly started to glow slightly. He then said "Luz, the very essence of all magic in the entire Isles now lives in you, and you alone, for you are not just a witch, but a Titan witch, carry that essence of the magic within you, let it empower you, the same way it empowered me, be one with it, let it give you the strength you need to ensure the magic is preserved. Me and the Titans dedicated our very existence to preserving the essence of magic that we all carried within us, and now we all collectively pass that on to you now, you will go on to ensure the magic is kept alive, the same way you've always managed to do in the past, for it is who you are, who you always wanted to be. For you are the warrior of peace! The Half-Titan!"

Luz closed her eyes as she clenched her fists, she suddenly began to feel a rush of magic, one far more powerful than she had ever experienced in her entire life, travel through her veins, she could feel the Titan blood within her fueling her Titan powers with raw energy itself, Luz could feel as if all the magic in the entire Demon realm was now flowing through her, which it was. 

The Titan smiled as he continued "Those powers, that essence of the magic itself no longer belongs to me Luz, now, and forever more, those powers are yours, you now carry all that my race dedicated their very existence to protect, the essence of all magic! All of it now belongs to you! You are the one who will ensure that it lives on for generations the same way my species did in the past! Let your heart, be your guiding key. Let the Light, shine on the darkest shadows. Become the witch you were born to become."

Raw Titan magic radiated around Luz's fists as the Titan continued "Your time has come Luz, your time has come to rise... Embrace who you've worked so hard to become and rise! Save the Boiling Isles, be there for the witches of the Boiling Isles, and preserve the magic! For you are the child of the human realm, student of the demon realm, the warrior of peace! You are the Half-Titan!!" 

As the words of the Titan echoed throughout her mind, something powerful triggered something inside of Luz as her Titan blood empowered her entire body with raw independent magic itself, Orion was shocked to see Luz suddenly levitate into the air as she clenched her fists, the glowing symbol on her chest began to shine like a star itself as the essence of magic radiated within it. Luz opened her eyes as they were glowing bright gold, she then let out a powerful Earth shattering scream that unleashed a powerful shockwave, fully unleashing the true potential of her Titan powers! 

Orion crashed against the wall as the shockwave hit him. He slowly got up as Luz levitated in the air, Luz began to glow bright gold as she began to feel raw everlasting magic itself radiate from within her body. Sparks of golden electricity emitted from her body. There were glyphs circling all around her as she looked at her hands, seeing the infinite number of glyphs she now had complete access to now that her true Titan powers had awakened.

If Luz could describe the amount of energy she was feeling, she would describe it by saying that all this power she now had made her feel at peace, like she had finally let go of all her insecurities and as a result she felt open, she felt as if she was now completely one with the magic itself that empowered her, and she wanted to feel like this forever now. Luz turned to face Orion, raw Titan energy still radiating around her body. Stringbean smiled as she floated towards Luz, Luz smiled at her as she willed her into a staff. 

Luz looked at Orion and shouted "You're wrong Orion, I am not frail and weak! And you don't get to decide what I am for me, I do! And I know who I am! I am Luz Noceda, a true witch! Just like everyone in the Boiling Isles! I am the Half-Titan!! And the Boiling Isles is my home! And it's time that I show you what exactly REAL MAGIC LOOKS LIKE!!"

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Orion made a face of anger as he sprinted towards Luz to attack her. But Luz simply shouted at the top of her lungs "NOW EAT THIS SUCKA!!!!" As she unleashed a powerful Titan roar, firing out the most powerful sonic blast she'd ever produced! It sent Orion crashing through the wall as the entire wall blew right open! Orion screamed as he fell down to the ground outside.

Meanwhile, all the witches on the ground suddenly heard a powerful sonic boom off in the distance, they along with all the robots looked up in the sky to see a bright golden light flying towards them. "Luz??" King wondered. All the robots pulled out their weapons as they prepared to attack Luz as she skyrocketed towards them at intense speed, she was flying so fast she probably broke the sound barrier! Luz landed on the ground with such powerful force it generated an electric shockwave that sent all the surrounding robots flying. She looked up to see a whole army of robots charging at her ready to attack.

"Heh, come and get some!!" She said with a smirk, harnessing her now supercharged Titan powers. 

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Luz pulled out her palisman and sprinted at the attackers at intense speed. She supercharged her palisman with Titan magic and swung it around at the robots, it was so powerful that she literally cut right through them like her palisman was a sharp blade! She then drew a powerful spell circle with her staff as she fired out a powerful blast of energy towards several robots in front of her, reducing them to ash! 

Luz levitated into the air as she fired laser eyes down at the machines beneath her, her laser eyes were so powerful they blew all the robots up instantly, a few robot stars flew by and tried to shoot at her, but Luz turned around to face them as she fired laser eyes towards them, blowing them out of the sky! Luz gave a wide smile to express her joy having all this magic at her disposal. She cheered happily as she blasted forwards at intense speed. "HAHA!! OH I ABSOLUTELY LOVE BEING A WITCH!!!" She shouted as she formed electricity glyphs on her hands, supercharging her fists with electricity, she proceeded to fire lightning down at the robot horde beneath her, saving a large group of witches from being killed. 

Edric and Emira continued to fight relentlessly from within their abomination mechs, they were confronted by a few ginormous tripods. "Crap! What do we do?!" Shouted Emira. Before the tripods could shoot at them, Luz came blasting towards them all at intense speed, crashing straight through them as they exploded behind her! Luz circled around to wave hello to the twins as Edric raised his hands in the air as he shouted "YEAH!! THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!"

"WOAH!! LUZ??!" Shouted Vee as Luz soared overhead after destroying a few robots. Luz looked down to her and waved to her. Before landing on the ground as she said "Hey sis!! Check this out!!" She clenched her fists as multiple glyphs circled around them, she threw her arms out as she unleashed a powerful shockwave that blew several robots to bits! She then sprinted toward several robots at intense speed, punching them into pieces with just a single punch! Vee's jaw basically dropped at the sight of her sister having become so powerful. "SINCE WHEN CAN YOU DO THAT?!" She shouted. 

Luz chuckled lightly and said "Just recently actually, turns out I finally managed to unleash the full capacity of my Titan powers!"

Luz kept on fighting more of the machines that attacked her, one of them managed to hit her on her shoulder with an axe, but it was unable to cut through her impenetrable Titan skin, she smirked as she punched the robot away with her superhuman strength, she then formed an abomination glyph on both her hands and managed to create abomination fists, she let out a scream as she charged at a few more robots, punching them into pieces with her abomination fists, she then drew a spell circle that caused an ice block to launch her into the air as she came crashing down against some more robots, slamming her supercharged fists against the ground which caused a powerful shockwave to be blasted forwards at several of the robots.

As she fought on, Enzo and King showed up. "Woah... is that Luz?!" Asked Enzo. King smiled and said "Yeah... it is!" As Luz kept on fighting the robots, several soldiers joined her in battle, Luz raised her palisman in the air, supercharging it with Titan magic as she slammed it against the ground, generating a powerful shockwave that blew up several attacking robots. Luz smiled as she blasted off into the sky once more, all the witches beneath her cheered for her, she smiled, feeling like a true hero in the eyes of all the witches. 

Meanwhile, Hunter, Willow, and Gus were still huddling together as they awaited their inevitable dooms from the deadly corruption that was being generated by the quantum core. They closed their eyes as it got closer, Hunter gripped Willow's hand tightly, letting her know he'll be by her side. Suddenly, they all opened their eyes as a glowing figure approached them. "Luz??" Gus asked in surprise. The three of them were shocked to see Luz approaching them, she was glowing bright gold. 

Luz approached the debris Willow was trapped under, she grabbed onto it with her claws and began pulling on it as hard as she could, using as much of her superhuman strength she had in her, she growled slightly as she began to lift it. "Pull her out of there!" She shouted. Hunter nodded and helped get Willow out. "Oh thank you Luz!!" Said Willow. Luz smiled and said "Anytime Willow!" Hunter looked at her for a moment before asking "Luz... what's going on? Why are you glowing now?" 

Luz smiled and said "Turns out I managed to finally tap into my full Titan powers! Anyway, you all should go, it's not safe here with that quantum core destroying everything, I need you three to regroup with the others and run as far away from the spread as you can! I'm gonna try and stop it." Gus nodded and said "Sure thing Luz." Luz nodded as she sprinted away and blasted into the sky at intense speed, generating a sonic boom behind her. 

Luz's super hearing suddenly kicked in as she heard some fighting going on somewhere, she looked to see the council members, including her mother, fighting for their lives against an army of scorpions. "MOM!!!" Luz shouted as she blasted towards the airship. She quickly landed down against the ground in front of Camila, startling her. Luz got to her feet to find herself surrounded by several robot scorpions.

"M-mija??" Camila asked full of surprise to see her daughter now had lots of magic energy radiating around her. Luz looked at Camila and said "Stay behind me." Camila nodded and backed away as the scorpions opened fire upon Luz. She formed a forcefield to block their attacks, she then levitated into the air and tackled one of the scorpions, punching it repeatedly with her super strength, before punching its head clean off! She then grabbed its body and threw it at another robot scorpion, knocking it down as Luz fired a powerful energy beam from her hand at it, blowing it up as well.

Luz looked at all the other robot scorpions and unleashed a powerful sonic blast upon them, causing them all to disintegrate on the spot from the powerful force that hit them. This truly shocked everyone who was watching. "Woah! L-Luz... You're..." Before Camila could finish, Luz interrupted "Somewhat more powerful than I already was before? Yeah I know, I finally managed to unleash the full scope of my Titan powers! Pretty cool right?" As she charged her fists with pure Titan magic, showing off her now enhanced powers. 

Camila smiled and gave her daughter a hug. Luz replied "Woah... uh, be careful please? I don't know what happens if someone touches me while I'm in this state." Luckily nothing bad happened to Camila, Luz smiled as she hugged back. "I'm glad you're ok Mom." Suddenly, Raine noticed the ground starting to crack around them as the deadly energy continued to spread through the isles, Luz looked at it, knowing how little time there was left.

"We're running out of time, if I don't act now the entire Boiling Isles will be gone!" Darius looked at Luz and asked "What are you gonna do commander?" Luz replied "I'm gonna see if I can harness my Titan powers throughout the island, it should hopefully be able to counteract the process and stop it before it destroys everything." Raine nodded and said "Good luck Luz." Luz smiled and nodded before blasting off into the sky once more, generating a sonic boom behind her. 

Suddenly, Luz noticed Amity, Eda, and Lilith still battling against the giant dragon, Eda tried punching it in the face a few times as Amity kept it distracted, suddenly, it shot a fireball from its stomach guns, which zoomed right by Amity, she gasped as she fell off her palisman and began falling to the ground, which suddenly cracked open due to the destruction that the quantum core was causing. "SWEET PATATO!!" Luz shouted as she blasted towards Amity at intense speed. 

She swooped in and caught Amity before she could fall into the pit. Amity suddenly found herself in the hands of her Titan girlfriend Luz, she looked at Luz for a moment, seeing that she now had a slight golden glow surrounding her. Amity blushed at the sight of this as her face went all red. "Woah... um, Luz?? W-what happened to you??" She muttered. Luz smiled and said "Heh, like what you're seeing I suppose? Anyway, I finally figured out how to harness my full Titan powers! Pretty cool right?" 

Amity could barely form words, seeing her girlfriend now acting even more powerful than she already was made her feel like she was gonna faint right on the spot, when she was finally able to form words, she gripped Luz's fluffy shoulders and shouted "Marry me!!!" She gasped as she realized she said that out loud. Luz chuckled as she said "Wow, still can't stop getting all flustered over my Titan form can you? I mean, I'm not complaining." 

Luz put Amity down as she saw Eda and Lilith fighting against the giant dragon, she clenched her fists and blasted off into the sky, Amity watched in pure shock and amazement as Luz flew directly towards the dragon, before punching it in its face! The dragon snarled in anger as it tried to shoot fire at Luz, but Luz formed a shield around herself and fired laser eyes at it, stunning the giant beast. Eda and Lilith flew over to her as they all met up with Amity on the ground.

"Woah Luz! What's going on here? I see you're looking a bit more powerful than usual." Luz smiled and said "Yeah, thanks, I finally managed to unleash the full potential of my Titan powers." Amity smiled and said "See Luz? I told you that you could do it!!" The robot dragon roared at the four of them as it raised its wings out, flying into the sky as it prepared to attack them. "Heh, this creature is all yours to deal with Luz." Said Eda. Luz smirked as she clenched her fists, glyphs circled around her wrists as she blasted off into the sky to attack the giant beast.

Luz threw her fists forward as she charged at the dragon, the dragon breathed fire out of its mouth, but Luz formed a shield around herself once again to block it as she circled around the dragon, she fired energy beams from her hands as she circled around the dragon, every hit she landed against the dragon did lots of damage, it snarled at Luz at it shot fireballs out of its stomach, but Luz simply supercharged her palisman with Titan magic as she swung it through all of them, causing them to explode on the spot. 

Luz let out a powerful scream as she flew directly at the dragon, before blasting right through its stomach, the dragon let out an ear piercing roar before malfunctioning as its robot body collapsed to the floor. Amity, having just saw what Luz did was absolutely speechless, seeing the insane amount of raw power Luz now had thanks to all that Titan blood that now supercharged her powers to the same level as the Titan himself made her face turn as red as a tomato as her jaw dropped. Eda noticed this as she quickly pushed Amity's jaw back up.

Luz landed in front of them as Lilith shouted "Wow Luz!! That was so cool!!" Luz smiled and bowed, pretending to be all dramatic about it. Even still, despite how powerful she was, she still had the same exact personality as before. 

Suddenly, the ground beneath them began to shake and crumble as white streams of energy began to travel underneath them. "I have to stop this now! All of you try and run to safer ground now!" Amity looked at Luz and asked "Wait, what are you going to do?" Luz replied "I think I can use my Titan powers to heal the isles the same way I did when I fought Belos." She then blasted into the sky as Eda said "Let's hope she's right about this."

Luz hovered in the sky as she looked towards the corruption, seeing how much damage the quantum core had already done to the isles, she couldn't let this endure any further. "Oh please let this work." Luz said as she closed her eyes, channeling her Titan powers as much as she could, soon, the symbol on her chest glowed even brighter as her eyes went completely gold, she then let out a powerful Titan roar as she threw her arms out, causing a massive shockwave as several bolts of golden lightning suddenly fired out of her and zapped directly into the Boiling Isles itself.

All the witches stopped their hasty retreat as they saw a bright golden light shining in the night sky, it was Luz. "What's she doing??" Asked King. Vee watched Luz in silence as she saw Luz emit golden lighting from her body, the lightning traveled into the isles as the Boiling Isles began to harness that Titan energy into it. Soon, golden streams of light started traveling through the ground in the opposite direction, pushing back against the infectious spread that the quantum core was causing. 

Slowly but surely, the Titan energy continued to make its way through the Isles, revitalizing it as the trees suddenly sprang back to life in an instant, Luz was using her powers to heal the Isles! All the witches looked around them to see the trees beginning to grow back to life around them. "Woah! What's happening??" Willow asked in amazement. Amity stared up at her Titan girlfriend in the sky and said with a smile "She's harnessing her Titan powers throughout the Isles! She's giving it an energy boost that it needs to fight back against the spread! She's using her powers to heal the Boiling Isles!"

Once all the witches caught onto this themselves, they all cheered for their Half-Titan, Camila placed her hands together as a small tear of joy ran down her face. "Oh mija! I'm so proud of you!" She said with a smile. Meanwhile, Orion finally managed to pick himself up off the ground, only to find that the Isles was now healing around him as the trees regrew, the chunks of land that cracked apart suddenly began to shift back together again.

Orion looked up to see Luz in the sky, using her now supercharged Titan powers to heal the isles. "No, impossible! She's ruining EVERYTHING!!" Orion shouted in anger. The other Archivists tried to fight back as Helix placed his hand against the handprint, trying to speed up the process, but Luz's Titan magic continued to push back against the quantum core, eventually traveling through the castle, Helix was surprised when he saw the handprint device suddenly began to sparkle up with golden electricity before exploding, preventing him from fighting back. 

Soon, the entire Isles was completely healed as all the witches celebrated. Luz sighed as she stopped emitting energy from her body and levitated to the floor, the bright gold glow that surrounded her faded. Amity, Eda, Lilith, Enzo, and King ran over to Luz cheering for her. "WOW MI AMOR!!! THAT WAS AWESOME!!!" Shouted Amity as she pulled her girlfriend in for a kiss. Luz smiled and kissed back. Amity noticed that the golden glow around her was gone as she asked "Luz, you're not glowing anymore, did your full maxed out powers revert back to normal or something?"

Luz replied "No, they're actually still present, I was just starting to get tired of the golden glow really. Turns out I figured out why I was struggling so much to begin with, I was treating my full Titan powers like something that could be activated, which wasn't at all the case, they were already at full power this whole time since they became an independent source of magic when my body first started developing Titan blood, they weren't something that needed to be 'activated' on command, but more like something that I had to simply accept."

Amity looked at Luz in silence before asking "Hang on, so you're telling me you went through all that training for nothing??!" Luz quickly replied "No no no I wasn't saying that... it's complicated." Amity chuckled as Eda asked "So, is this basically the way your powers are now is what you're telling us?" Luz replied "Yeah, pretty much. I mean, it's not all that different from the powers I had before, only difference is that their power level is maxed out." Amity replied "Eh, who cares, I'm just glad you didn't lose your Titan form when you did what you were doing earlier to rejuvenate the Boiling Isles. I'm not ready to lose this cute, fluffy, and utterly adorable look of yours yet!" As she pulled Luz in for a big hug. 

Luz chuckled as she said "Oh don't you worry hermosa, I've said it before I'll say it again, my Titan form is here to stay." 

Suddenly, Luz's super hearing kicked in as she heard a sonic boom in the sky, it was Orion, he landed in front of them as he made an angry face. "YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!!" He shouted in rage. King looked at Luz and asked "What do we do Luz?" Luz replied "I still have to get this quantum core of mine into the Archivists' quantum core so I can destroy their castle." But then Orion shouted towards Luz "If you want to do that, then you'll have to go through me!!" 

Enzo looked at Luz and asked "Why don't you just hit him with a Titan roar? That should do the trick." Luz looked at them and said "Oh I just hit Orion with probably the most powerful Titan roar in the history of Titan roars and it did nothing!! If we want to get this quantum core into their ship, we'll have to fight our way past Orion."

Eda smiled and said "Whatever you say Luz, let's kick this guy's ass!" Enzo smiled as he levitated into the air, clenching his fists as they said "Now this is a fight I most certainly will enjoy as long as I get to make my horrible brother get what he deserves!" Amity nodded as she formed abomination fists on her gloves as she said with a smile "We'll follow your lead Half-Titan." 

Luz smirked as she shouted "ASS WHOOPING IT IS THEN!!" As she, Amity, Eda, King, and Enzo charged at Orion to take him out.

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To be continued....

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Luz and King charged at Orion as Luz supercharged Stringbean with Titan magic, slamming her staff against the ground as she generated a powerful shockwave at Orion, King got down on all fours as he let out a powerful Titan roar, the sonic blast and the shockwave combined as they headed for Orion.

Orion sprinted forward but was unable to dodge the combined Titan power as he was blasted by a powerful amount of godlike magic, he quickly got back up as Luz, Amity, Eda, Enzo, and King charged at Orion. Luz dashed in front of him and kicked him back a bit before punching him aggressively, but Orion grabbed her by the fist and slammed her to the floor, but then Eda formed a sharp sword out of abomination goo using her gauntlet as she swung it down over Orion, but he dodged the attack and was about to fire an energy beam at Eda, but then Enzo pounced him, pinning him against the ground as he punched him repeatedly.

Orion grabbed Enzo and threw them to the side as he tried to get up, but then luz sprinted over to him and kicked him in the face as Amity picked him up and slammed him to the floor head first. But Orion quickly got back up as he fired lasers out of his eyes, Luz quickly shielded herself as she levitated into the air and fired a powerful energy beam from her hands, Orion was hit by the energy as he collapsed.

Amity picked Orion up and punched him in the face repeatedly with an abomination fist, but then Orion kicked her back and tried to attack her, Eda fired an beam of energy out of her gauntlet at Orion, knocking him towards Enzo who punched him into the air. Orion regained his composure as he formed a massive star in his hands, tossing it towards King, but King unleashed a powerful sonic blast that blew up the star and sent Orion flying through the sky as Luz flew after him.

Luz flew above Orion and punched him with intense force, sending him crashing to the ground. Enraged, Orion got up and shouted "ENOUGH!!!" As he threw his hands out, causing everyone to be thrown back. Eda got up and flew towards Orion, but Orion managed to punch her to the ground. Enzo fired energy beams from his hands towards Orion, but Orion blocked it with a shield, but then luz dashed over to him and formed electricity glyphs on her her hands as she supercharged her fists with lightning, she then punched Orion with extreme force, causing an electric shock that knocked him to the floor.

She then fired electricity from her hands, zapping Orion with it, Orion screamed in rage as he levitated into the air and flew towards Luz, tackling her, the two of them wrestled around against the ground as Orion tried to punch Luz aggressively, but Luz formed a shield around herself, blocking the punch. Suddenly, Amity showed up and drew a spell circle, causing abomination goo to form around Orion and squeeze around him, preventing him from moving, allowing Luz to get up and punch him in the face repeatedly.  

Orion screamed in rage as he broke free. Punching Luz away, but then King and Enzo attacked from behind, King unleashed a sonic blast that caused Orion to stumble as Enzo formed a star in his hands, tossing it towards Orion as it exploded against him. Orion looked at him in rage as levitated into the air to attack him, but Luz intervened and tackled him, she threw Orion to the floor as she formed a fire glyph on her hand, and since she managed to max out her Titan powers to their fullest, when the fire formed on her hand, it was so hot it turned blue.

She threw her hands forward as she blasted a huge burst of blue flame at Orion, Orion quickly formed a shield around himself to block it, but then Luz formed a plant glyph on her other hand as she tapped it, causing a vine to grow out of the ground and wrap around Orion's leg, he lost his balance as the vine spun him around as it slammed him against the ground repeatedly, before eventually tossing him into the sky.

Luz smirked as she flew into the air after him, harnessing as much superhuman strength she had as she punched Orion a great distance away! As Orion crashed into the ground, Amity could only watch in pure amazement at how powerful her Titan girlfriend was. Luz levitated to the ground as Orion got back up, making his way back over to them to fight them. "You think I'm giving up so easily?! Never!! I will not stop until I destroy every single one of you!!" Luz clenched her fists as they radiated with Titan magic, glyphs circling around them. 

But suddenly, Eda put her hand on Luz's shoulder and said "If you continue to stay here and fight him, we'll never be able to destroy the Archivists' castle, go on ahead, we'll hold him off!" King stepped forward and unleashed a powerful "WEEEEEHHH!" That blasted Orion back as Enzo flew towards him and punched him into the air. Luz smiled and nodded before looking at Amity saying "But this time, you're coming along Ami bear." 

Amity looked at Luz for a moment before taking her hand, nodding in agreement as Luz said "Come on, let's end this together, you and me!" Amity smiled as she willed her palisman Ghost into a staff and levitated into the air. "Good luck you two." Said Eda as she spread out her wings and flew into action to help King and Enzo fight Orion. Amity flew towards the castle as Luz sprinted forward, she drew a spell circle with her palisman, causing an ice block to grow out of the ground, launching her into the sky as she blasted towards the castle, generating a sonic boom behind her as she flew at intense speed.

Enzo watched as Luz and Amity flew towards the castle, he smiled as he went to go and confront Orion. Orion approached him as he shouted "So, you're finally going to fight like a man now aren't you little brother, such a shame you're doing it to defend these freaks!!" Enzo made an angry stare at their brother, clenching his fists as King and Eda stood next to him, he then said "You're no brother of mine, and I'm done letting you rule the universe in your own twisted ways! It's time for you and I to settle this once and for all!"

Orion made a sinister frown at the three of them and shouted "Do you have any idea how many false gods me and my brothers have killed?!! We've killed millions of them! Many of which were far more powerful than you! You don't stand a chance!" Enzo replied "Oh you'll be surprised by how much the witches can do, if you were right about these witches being easier to kill than other powerful beings you've faced, you would have managed to kill all of them long ago! But you didn't, it's time for your rein of terror to end for good!" Eda smirked as she said "Let's kick his ass!" As the three of them converged on Orion.

Luz and Amity flew at intense speed as they approached the castle, Luz held her quantum core tightly within her grasp as they both got closer, Luz drew a spell circle that shot a bright blue fireball at the castle's wall, blowing it open as she flew inside. Amity flew inside beside her as she said "Ok Luz, this is it, are those Titan powers of yours still at max power?" Luz nodded and said "Yeah they sure are, it's safe to say I can finally control just how powerful my powers can get now." 

Luz and Amity walked down the corridor as they went to go look for the quantum core. "What if we encounter the other Archivists?" Asked Amity. Luz replied "We'll have to fight our way past them somehow. Whatever happens we gotta stick together, everyone is depending on us to get this quantum core into the core of this ship so we can destroy it." 

Suddenly, Luz's super hearing kicked in as she could hear a few robots on the other side of the door leading into the next room. "Hang on Blight, I think we got company." She approached the door and harnessed her super strength, kicking it down in an instant. Amity felt her heart flutter from seeing her fiancé kick the door down with such ease, oh how she loved this girl.

Luz and Amity entered the room as they found themselves confronted by a variety of machines created by the Archivists. They stood back to back as the robots converged on them as Luz asked Amity with a smile "Hey, do you remember the Grom dance?" Amity nodded and said "I'll always remember it." Luz replied "You ready to do it all over again mi amor?" 

Amity understood what Luz was saying as she said with a smile "Oh I would love too batata!" Luz and Amity pulled out their palismen staffs as Luz shouted "Alright you ugly robo freaks! LET'S DANCE!!" 

Luz formed a glyph combination on her hand and activated it, causing a giant cloud of mist to surround her and Amity, which confused all the robots, while their guard was down, Luz and Amity both charged into action. Luz swung her palisman around, dispersing a bunch of glyphs at the robots, blowing some of them up. Luz smirked as she knelt down, allowing Amity to boost herself up as she jumped off of Luz's back.

Amity drew a spell circle mid air as she fired down upon the robots beneath her, blowing a few of them up. As for Luz, a couple of the robots charged at her with battle axes, but she deflected them with her palisman staff, she then formed an ice glyph on her hand, slapping it against the wall as ice spikes suddenly grew out of the wall, impaling a few of the robots. Amity landed on the floor as she formed a sword out of abomination goo, swinging it at the robots that attacked her, some robots swung axes down at her, but she deflected them with ease before chopping the robots in half. 

Amity quickly kicked a robot to the floor as Luz fired laser eyes at it, destroying it entirely. She quickly spun around and formed a fire glyph on both her hands, as a few robots attacked her, she smirked as she swung her arms around, emitting hot blue fire from her hands, setting the robots ablaze as they burnt away almost instantly! Luz and Amity fought side by side against the attacking machines, it was like they were dancing together at Grom all over again. 

Amity punched a couple robots apart with abomination fists as Luz threw her fists forward, punching right through a robot with her superhuman strength, she supercharged her palisman with a fire glyph as it lit up with blue fire, causing Stringbean to shapeshift into a dragon as she breathed blue fire from her mouth, Luz spun around as she held her palisman staff like it was a flamethrower, setting all the robots that came near her ablaze. 

A couple robots opened fire upon Luz, but she was able to dodge them with ease, doing a full on backflip as laser beams zipped right by her, she landed on her feet and fired laser eyes at the robots, blowing them up, she then formed a plant glyph on her hand, slamming it against the ground as several vines suddenly grew out from the floor, wrapping around some of the robots before crushing them completely. 

Amity spun her palisman around, drawing a spell circle as lots of abomination goo circled around her, she raised her staff outward towards the robots as the goo suddenly morphed into shards and launched towards the robots, impaling them against the wall. Amity smirked as she and Luz continued to fight together. Luz levitated into the air, grabbing Amity by the shoulders as she flew around the room while carrying her, Amity looked down at the robots and drew a fire spell circle, shooting fireballs down against all the robots that shot at her and Luz.

Luz then dropped Amity down on top of one of the bigger ones as she grabbed onto its back, she formed an abomination fist on her other hand and punched right into its back, causing it to malfunction and collapse. Meanwhile Luz landed against the ground, she found herself surrounded by more robots as she unleashed a powerful Titan roar, blasting creatures against the wall as they burst into pieces upon impact. Luz then sprinted around at more attacking robots, punching them into pieces with her superhuman strength, she formed an electricity glyph on her hands, supercharging them with energy as she continued to attack the robots, punching them with intense force as the electricity her fists emitted caused the robots to explode on the spot!

After a lot of fighting, the entire room was cleared out, and was now left an absolute mess. Luz and Amity stopped to catch their breath from the workout they just went through, before smiling at each other, they embraced each other for a short kiss before continuing on their way. "That was a lot of fun Luz! We should totally do stuff like that more often!" Amity said. 

They continued to make their way down the corridor as they traveled deeper into the castle, for some odd reason there was no sign of the other Archivists anywhere. Eventually they arrived at their destination, Luz kicked the door down with her Titan strength and was surprised to see a giant glowing sphere in front of her, it was the ship's quantum core. 

"This is it!" Luz said with a smile. Amity replied "Well what are we waiting for then? Let's finish this!" Luz nodded as she pulled out the much smaller quantum core she had, she looked at Amity and said "Let's make this quick so we can get married later." Amity smiled as her cheeks turned slightly red, she watched as Luz approached the ledge to toss her quantum core into the bigger quantum core. She raised her hand out and tossed her quantum core forward, directly towards the much larger one in front of her, only for it to bounce off a forcefield. 

"What?" Luz wondered as she approached the ledge, she reached her claws out only for them to make contact with a shield that protected the quantum core. "Shit!! They must have set this forcefield up once they realized what our plan was!" Amity approached Luz and asked "What do we do now?" Luz remained silent before saying "I- I don't know..." Suddenly, she looked back the way she and Amity arrived, and saw the other three Archivists standing there.

"AMITY WATCH OUT!!" She shouted as she quickly formed a forcefield, protecting Amity from being hit by laser eyes. "You've got a lot of nerve coming to this place human!" Shouted Pismis. Luz and Amity quickly got ready for battle as they engaged the Archivists.

Luz flew towards Helix and punched him repeatedly in the face while Amity shot abomination shards at Doradus, but it only made him angrier as he sprinted towards Amity, she was fast enough to get on her palisman staff and fly into the air however as she circled around Doradus and Pismis, just barely avoiding being hit. Luz grabbed Helix by the shoulders as she levitated into the air, headbutting Helix against the ground as she turned around to go help Amity.

She quickly drew a spell circle the shot a massive blue fireball at Doradus, it exploded against him as he collapsed, before Pismis could react, Luz supercharged her palisman with Titan magic, slamming it against the ground as it blew him against the wall. Luz clenched her fists, channeling the essence of magic within her as she blasted towards Doradus, she slammed him against the wall and punched him in the face with extreme force. But Doradus kicked her back. 

She collapsed as Amity tried to help fight, she punched Doradus in the face with an abomination fist, but Doradus remained unharmed, instead he grabbed Amity by the throat, lifting her off the floor as Pismis and Helix grabbed Luz, they both used their super strength to toss Luz over them and slam her against the floor behind her, Pismis pinned her against the ground and tried to punch her, but Luz formed a shield around herself in time, Helix then tried to kick her, but she rolled out of the way and got back up.

Luz growled at the Archivists as she unleashed a powerful Titan roar, sending the Archivists crashing against the wall, allowing Amity to get free. Helix got back up and sprinted towards Luz, only for Luz to activate an invisibility glyph and disappear. Helix stopped as Amity quickly drew an invisibility spell as well. Luz was able to attack Helix with ease, grabbing him by the back and slamming him head first against the ground, Helix screamed in rage as he shot lasers from his eyes.

Luz snuck up behind him shot a blue fireball at him, he screamed as he was hit. Doradus and Pismis tried to find Luz and Amity, they shot stars around the room, trying to locate them, Doradus threw a star as it exploded against the wall. He soon detected movement through the smoke from the explosion. "THERE THEY ARE!!!" He shouted, he and the other two Archivists sprinted at them both, Pismis managed to punch Luz as she reappeared, she collapsed against the wall.

"LUZ!!!" Amity shouted as she reappeared, Helix managed to grab her and throw her against the wall, she cried out in pain as she collapsed. Seeing this enraged Luz as she harnessed her full Titan strength, her fists radiated with Titan magic as she swung her fists at the Archivists, punching Pismis with so much power it sent him crashing through the wall. She then fired lasers from her eyes at Helix before she could attack Amity, Helix collapsed as Amity slowly got up.

"LUZ BEHIND YOU!!" Amity shouted, before Luz could react, Doradus grabbed her by her hair, she screamed as Doradus pulled her by the hair, before lifting her up and tossing her against the shield that blocked the quantum core. Luz's hands laid against it, but since her Titan powers were currently at their maximum amount of power, her claws suddenly started to glow purple as the energy from the shield began to travel into them.

Luz noticed this as she remembered how she had actually managed to absorb pure energy into herself and use it against the tripod she absorbed it from during that one time she'd actually managed to use the full potential of her Titan powers. She smiled as she had an idea. "Amity! I need you to keep them busy for me! I know how to get past the shield!!" Amity nodded as she formed abomination fists on her hands.

"As Amity fought against Helix and Doradus, Luz harnessed her Titan powers and placed her hands against the shield, she took a deep breath and whispered "Come on Titan powers, do your stuff." Suddenly, the glowing symbol on her chest once again, shining like a star as Luz's whole body had a golden glow surround it, Luz felt a powerful rush of magic surge through her as her claws suddenly began to absorb the energy that powered the forcefield. 

Suddenly, Pismis came charging back into the room, the moment he saw what Luz was doing, he tried to stop her, but then Amity punched him using the strength of her abomination fists. She watched as Luz continued to absorb all the energy into her, before eventually, the shield was now completely down! "That's it Luz!! Now drop that quantum core of yours into it so we can get out of here!" Luz nodded as she pulled it out, she quickly lunged it forward, only for Pismis to fire laser eyes at it, it wasn't damaged or destroyed, but it fell against the floor, sitting there by the edge of the ground with the quantum core literally just a few feet away.

Amity quickly went to go grab it as it landed close to her, but then Helix snapped his fingers, suspending Amity in the air. Luz tried to draw a spell circle to fight back, but then Pismis snapped his fingers which suspended Luz in the air as well. He then raised his hand out, which sent Luz against the wall, she found herself unable to move as Pismis approached her, smiling menacingly. He cackled as he punched Luz against her stomach, causing her to cry out in pain.

"We've just about had it with you Luz, you and your friends are DEAD!! And you can't do anything about it no matter what you do, you may have the power to heal the entire Boiling Isles, but you don't have the power to kill gods like us!" As he spoke, Luz turned her attention towards the small quantum core, seeing that it was laying right against the edge of the floor, all she had to do was find a way to get it to roll off the edge and fall into the much larger quantum core, she thought for a moment before coming up with an idea.

"So, any last words Half-Titan??" Pismis asked as he prepared to shoot through Luz's skull with laser eyes. Luz smirked and said "Actually, yeah... You really should have thought about picking that small quantum core up rather than leave it laying there for someone to mess with it." She then fired laser eyes towards the quantum core, and before any of the Archivists could react, the laser beams hit the ground right in front of the quantum core, knocking it over the edge as it proceeded to fall into the much larger quantum core.

"NO!!!" Pismis shouted as he and the other Archivists dropped Luz and Amity, they tried to go and stop the quantum core, but they were too late. They watched as it fell onto the castle's quantum core, as soon as the two cores made contact with each other, white electricity began to emit from them as the smaller quantum core was slowly consumed by the bigger one. Luz helped Amity up and shouted "IT'S DONE AMITY!! WE'VE ONLY GOT 30 SECONDS BEFORE THAT THING DESTROYS THIS WHOLE CASTLE! WE NEED TO GO NOW!!" Amity nodded as she and Luz quickly ran away. 

Outside the castle, Orion was still clashing against his brother Enzo, who punched him repeatedly in the face before circling around him, grabbing him by the back and slamming him against the floor. Enraged, Orion leaped at Enzo, tackling him to the floor as he pinned him down, he was about to punch him, but then he heard a loud base boom sound coming from the castle behind him, he got up and looked at it, he suddenly gasped in terror once he realized what it meant. 

"No...." He muttered. Enzo got up with Eda and King as Eda asked "What's going on?!" Enzo smiled and said "Luz and Amity, they actually pulled it off!" All the witches stopped fighting off against the robot army as they heard the same noise. "W-what was that?" Asked Masha. Vee remained silent as she looked towards the castle.

Orion screamed in rage as he tried to fly over to the castle in a desperate attempt to stop it before the quantum core would consume it entirely, but then Enzo tackled him and pinned him to the floor. The two of them struggled against the ground as Orion shouted "N-no!! I have to stop it!! LET ME GO!!" Enzo continued to hold their brother firmly, but then Orion managed to get up as he looked at Enzo, who still held him firmly, he shouted at his brother "Collector!! You can't do this!! We're your family! You wouldn't possibly do such a thing to your family would you?! If you kill us! You'll be all alone! Without a family! You'll be nothing but a lonely star in the entire universe! What do you have to say against that?!"

Enzo gave their brother an angry stare as he said "No Orion, you're wrong, I have a family, a real family, here on this world. And by the way, my name is Enzo Clawthorne!" Orion screamed in anger as the 30 seconds ran out. 

Inside the castle, the other three Archivists saw the quantum core begin to destabilize as Doradus shouted "RUN!!" They quickly made a run for it as the now destabilized quantum core suddenly combusted in an instant! Just like that, a singularity was created, it began to pull anything that was close enough inside of it like it was a black hole, including the entire castle that surrounded it. The Archivists quickly fled the room, but suddenly, the ground beneath Helix suddenly cracked apart as it got sucked into the singularity, causing Helix to scream as he fell into the singularity, before disappearing in an instant, he was gone.

Back outside, all the witches watched as massive shockwave fired out of the castle, showing that it had worked, suddenly, the wind speeds began to pick up as the singularity began to devour everything that was close enough to it. "EVERYONE GRAB ONTO SOMETHING!!!" Shouted Hunter as all the witches quickly drew spell circles that caused vines to grow out of the ground, they all quickly grabbed on, hoping to avoid being sucked into the gravitational pull of the singularity.

Inside the castle, everything began to crumble apart as it was slowly pulled into the singularity that formed in its center, entire chunks of walls began to snap apart and get sucked in with everything else, Pismis tried to fly away from the singularity as fast as he could, but then a chunk of the castle suddenly crashed into him, pulling him towards the singularity with it, Pismis screamed as he too was sucked in, being atomized in an instant. 

Luz had to completely pick Amity up as she levitated into the air, flying at maximum speed as she generated a sonic boom behind her, they had to escape the now collapsing castle as fast as they could. Luz raised out her fist as she punched through every single wall in her way, she wasn't trying to look for an exit, there just wasn't time for that, she and Amity had to escape now! Suddenly Luz slowed down as the gravitational pull suddenly grabbed her. 

"Luz what's wrong!!?" Luz huffed as she tried to escape the pull, but it was too powerful. "The singularity, it's expanding! I've gotten caught in it!!" Amity panicked as she saw everything behind her and Luz being pulled rapidly into the singularity behind her, the entire structure around them began to collapse as the walls and floor cracked open, Amity looked at Luz and said "Luz, you have to fight against it! We can't get out of here without you! Please Luz, you can do it! You have literally all the essence of magic itself inside of you! With it, anything is possible! Use it and get us out of here, I love you!" 

Luz looked at Amity for a brief moment, she then closed her eyes as she tapped into all the Titan blood that empowered her, she began to glow gold once again as she unleashed a powerful scream, blasting forward in an instant! "Haha!! That's what I'm talking about!!" Amity shouted. Suddenly, Doradus spotted them both and quickly flew after them. Luz noticed him however and made an angry face as she drew a spell circle, causing a vine to grow and grab Doradus by the leg, stopping him in an instant. "What??! No!! NOOOO!!!!" He shouted as he got caught by the gravitational pull of the singularity, causing him to get sucked into it as he was atomized in an instant, joining the fate of his brothers.

All the witches outside held on as they watched the castle deteriorate further and further as it got consumed by the singularity. Meanwhile, Orion and Enzo continued to fight each other, an enraged Orion punched Enzo down to the floor as he shouted "YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS COLLECTOR!! MARK MY WORDS!!! I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS!!" Enzo smirked as he had an idea, he leaped over Orion, landing behind him and kicked him with intense force, sending him flying towards the castle.

Orion screamed as he felt himself getting pulled towards the singularity. He quickly flew in the opposite direction, trying to resist the pull, but Enzo levitated over to his brother who was not moving at all. Orion, desperate not to die reached his hand out to Enzo and asked "P-please... help me Enzo!! W-we can try again can't we?! You wouldn't actually let me die would you?" Enzo however, frowned at Orion and said "If you really wanted to find sympathy from me, you would have thought before you treated me like shit!!!" 

And then, Enzo snapped against Orion's forehead, which sent him skyrocketing towards the collapsing castle behind him. "NOOOOOO!!!!" He shouted as he was pulled out of sight. Enzo levitated to the ground as Eda said "I don't believe it.... you actually just said a cuss word!! You have no idea how proud you just made me!!" 

The castle continued to collapse, suddenly, Luz came crashing out through the last wall, generating a sonic boom behind her as she carried Amity to safety, she still struggled somewhat, for the gravitational pull still had a firm grip on her, nevertheless, she kept going, screaming at the top of her lungs as she blasted away from the castle as fast as she could.

Everyone watched at the castle of the Archivists continued to collapse as the singularity devoured it, before the entire castle was completely gone, and as soon as it was, the singularity disappeared. Soon, all the robots that the witches had been fighting suddenly powered off and collapsed to the floor. All the witches saw them power down as they knew what it meant. "Luz did it... SHE ACTUALLY DID IT!!!" Shouted Raine. All the witches celebrated as Hunter and Willow embraced for a kiss on the lips, Masha and Vee did the same.

"WE WON GUYS!! WE ACTUALLY WON!!" Shouted Gus. Raine approached Camila, who unlike all the other witches, she had tears in her eyes. "Hey, what's the matter?" They asked. Camila looked at them and replied "Oh... nothing, I'm just- so proud of my daughter..." 

Luz held Amity in her grasp as they both levitated gracefully to the floor. As they landed, they smiled as they looked at each other lovingly, before pulling each other in for a passionate kiss.

The couple broke apart for some air as Enzo, King, and Eda ran over to them both. "YEAH!! YOU GUYS MADE IT!!" Shouted King. Luz looked at them and smiled as she said "Oh it's so good to see you're all still alive!!" As she pulled them in for a group hug. Eda smiled and said "I'm proud of ya kid. You were incredible!" Luz smiled and said "Hehe, thanks. Guess you can happily declare yourself the mentor of who would go on to be the most powerful witch in the Isles now right?" Eda chuckled and said "Totally." 

Luz looked towards Enzo, he was looking towards where the castle had previously stood, there was nothing but a crater where it stood now. Luz approached him and asked "Hey kid, you good?" Enzo replied "Yeah, I'm alright. I'm just glad to know that it's finally over." Luz smiled and said "Welcome to the family kiddo." As she pulled Enzo in for a hug. Enzo smiled and hugged back as he said "Thank you Luz..." 

Suddenly, a figure slowly crawled out of the crater, they all noticed him as the figure stood up, Luz gasped when she saw that it was Orion! He had somehow survived. "No... he's still here. The singularity didn't kill him." She muttered. Orion took a look around, seeing that his castle was now completely gone, his brothers were now dead, he let out a scream of anger at this realization.

"Luz, what do we do?" Amity asked worriedly. Luz remained silent for a moment as she stared at Orion, she knew that Orion would stop at nothing to kill everyone unless she did something about it, but without two quantum cores to collide, there was no way she could defeat Orion. But then, she remembered how her Titan powers at maximum capacity gave her the extra ability to absorb energy itself, she realized that maybe she could do the same to Orion and make him powerless. 

Luz looked at Amity and said "I have an idea! But I need you all to stay here where it's safe, this could get messy. And I don't want any of you to get yourselves killed." Amity asked "You're seriously going to confront Orion aren't you." Luz nodded as she said "This is my world..." She smiled as she looked towards Amity and put her hand up against her cheek and said "You are my world. I love you, and I'll do whatever it takes to prevent Orion from killing you and taking the home I love away. So I have to face him Ami, protecting the magic is what I do after all, it's who I am."

Amity sighed and nodded, she then said "Alright... but you better come back alive mi amor! I have no idea what I'd do without you!" She pulled Luz in for one more kiss as Luz gave her a reassuring smile and said "I'll be fine, I'm the Half-Titan after all." She let go of Amity and went to go confront Orion who was now sitting there on the floor in utter disbelief. Amity, Eda, King, and Enzo watched her walk away as Eda said "We should get somewhere safe, this fight might get very destructive." 

As Luz's friends and family walked away, she approached Orion and stood there in front of him. "Alright Titan powers, don't fail me now." She whispered to herself. Orion looked up at her and made an angry face, he scooped up some dirt off the ground and showed it to Luz as he said "Look at this! This island is tainted by the magic of the Titan, it was never meant to be."

He let the dirt fall out of his hands and continued "You could have avoided having to be a part of any of this Luz, you could have lived your life to the fullest on your home planet of Earth... but you chose the witches over your own kind! I exist only to preserve the cosmic balance of the universe, that is the sole purpose, for which me and my brothers were born. And every action that we took, no matter how violent, or how cruel, was always what was necessary to protect the cosmic balance.... But now, my brothers are gone, don't you see that by having killed most of this universes gods, you've now permanently tarnished the balance Luz, without gods, this universe will fall into chaos... And I can't prevent that on my own... because of you, the cosmic balance has now been destroyed!"

Luz could only frown at Orion as she listened to his delusional speech about the cosmic balance he simply believed he was protecting. Orion made an angry face at Luz as he shouted "You killed my brothers, you have now just doomed the entire universe as we know it Luz... YOU HAVE TAKEN MY SOUL FROM ME!!!!" He suddenly lashed out and charged at Luz, before she could react, Orion punched her across the field with intense force.

Luz collapsed to the ground as Orion stomped over to her, full of rage and anger for the Half-Titan. "I'm going to make all the witches you care deeply for suffer Luz, I WILL TAKE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM FROM YOU ONE BY ONE!!!" Hearing Orion mutter those words enraged Luz as she clenched her fists. "You're insane Orion! And I'm not gonna let you lay a single finger on my people!!" Orion smirked as he levitated into the air saying "A standoff huh? Well then, I look forward to it! Come on Half-Titan! Let's fight like REAL GODS!!!" 

Luz looked at Stringbean, willing her into a staff as she levitated into the air. She smirked As she harnessed her Titan powers, feeling them radiate within her as she prepared for the biggest fight of her life. She faced Orion and shouted "Glady, TIME FOR ME TO SHOW YOU THE FULL POWERS OF A TITAN!! BRING IT!!!!" 

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The two godlike beings blasted towards each other, generating sonic booms behind them as they both pounced each other, all the witches down below would watch as they fought. Orion flew forward while holding Luz by the throat, he tried punching her in the face a few times, but Luz remained unharmed, instead she headbutted Orion, causing him to drop her as she broke free.

Luz formed a fire glyph on her hand, fusing the magic with her palisman as her staff lit up in blue flames, she then fired a massive blast of fire out of Stringbean directly towards Orion, Orion quickly shielded himself from the burning hot flame as he blasted towards Luz, but she smirked as she circled around Orion, forming an electricity glyph on her hand as she supercharged her claws with lightning, firing a massive bolt of electricity towards Orion, Orion screamed as he was hit in the back, causing him to crash into the forest.

Luz flew down towards Orion at intense speed, she grabbed him by the throat, dragging him across the ground while maintaining her flight speed, they both crashed through several trees, causing loads of destruction wherever they both went. Luz then blasted into the sky before tossing Orion against the floor. Orion crashed as Luz landed on top of him, she harnessed her Titan strength and punched Orion aggressively in the face, each punch was so powerful it generated a slight shockwave.

Orion however broke free when he fired lasers from his eyes, just barely missing Luz as she dodged them. Orion quickly got up and sprinted towards Luz, trying to punch her aggressively, but Luz was easily able to block his punches as she punched right back, before eventually kicking him against a tree. Luz then quickly supercharged her staff with Titan magic as she slammed it down against the ground, blasting a huge purple shockwave at Orion which sent him flying through the sky.

Luz leaped into the sky and pursued him, she punched him with her superhuman strength, knocking him several feet away, before flying over to him at intense speed as she punched him even further away. Orion regained his composure as he tried to fly away, but Luz pursued him, generating a sonic boom behind her as she chased after Orion. She quickly came to a stop as she searched for him, but then Orion tackled her from behind, they both wrestled with each other mid air as Luz tried to fire laser eyes at Orion, but missed as Orion pushed his hand against her face.

He then held her tightly as he tried to shoot lasers from his eyes at Luz, but Luz grabbed him by his head and slammed his chin against her knee, he screamed in rage as he kept on fighting Luz. Luz knew Orion had meant every word that he said when he threatened to wipe out all the witches, so Luz could not mess this up, she had to defeat Orion no matter what happened! She formed an abomination glyph on her hands as she formed giant fists on her hands, along with a couple extra behind her as she blasted towards Orion, punching him rapidly with every single fist she had summoned. 

Orion growled in anger and supercharged his fist as he punched Luz hard in the stomach, she screamed as she was sent skyrocketing further up the island, she regained her composure and clenched her fist as Orion flew towards her. She unleashed a Titan roar at Orion, but Orion dodged the incoming sonic blast and tackled Luz. Their endless fighting in the sky would bring them over to the giant arm of the Titan that reached high up into space.

Luz fired golden energy beams from her hands at Orion, but Orion shielded himself and charged at Luz, and before she could react, he punched Luz so far up into the sky, she was sent skyrocketing up the arm of the Titan as she crashed through a couple of the trees that were growing out the side, and all the way out into space. She quickly gripped onto one of the Titan's fingers, preventing herself from floating out into space, she looked down to see Orion climbing his way up towards Luz aggressively, tearing into the bone of the Titan's arm as he climbed his way up.

Luz quickly flew back down into the planet to face him, harnessing as much of her supercharged Titan powers she had in her, both godlike beings pounced each other mid air, and the force of their impact was so forceful and powerful that it generated a huge shockwave that blew the entire arm of the Titan to pieces as it collapsed to the ground! 

Orion and Luz wrestled with each other in the sky, but then Orion managed to overpower Luz as he formed a giant star in his hand, throwing it at Luz aggressively, Luz screamed as she was hit by the star as it exploded, sending her crashing down into Bonesborough. All the witches cleared the area as Luz collapsed to the ground. "MIJA!!!" Camila shouted as she ran over to her daughter.

Luz slowly crawled her way out of the crater that was caused by the crash as she looked up to see Orion hovering there menacingly in the sky, he was glowing bright red, his eyes fueled by rage. He looked at all the witches and said "Take a good look freaks, this right here is your Half-Titan, she thinks she can save you all! But she's so wrong! All of you shall die by my hands!!!" Orion fired lasers from both his hands and eyes at all the witches, they panicked as Darius shouted "RUN!!!!" 

All the witches took off screaming, knowing they didn't stand a chance against an Archivist. Camila, Hunter, Willow, Gus, Vee, and Masha showed up to Luz. Camila helped her up as she said "Oh my god mija! Are you alright?" Luz coughed for a moment before slowly giving her a thumbs up. She looked up to see what Orion was doing. Seeing him threatening the witches filled her with anger as she said "I have to end this now, either he goes down, or I do, the only problem is... what if I'm not strong enough to defeat him?"

Suddenly, Vee shouted "No Luz! Don't say that about yourself!! Ever since your Titan powers returned, you've achieved the impossible! I've seen you do things that not a single human could ever do! And then you unleashed the full wrath of your Titan powers during the battle, and now you've basically become a goddess by this point!! So don't you dare say you can't defeat that bastard!!" Vee had tears in her eyes, feeling terrified by what was going on around her.

Luz remained quiet for a moment after hearing what Vee had said to her, it reminded her of all she had accomplished since she arrived in the demon realm, finding out magic existed, discovering the Titan's language as she learned how to use glyphs, getting into Hexside to study magic, taking down a genocidal puritan from the 1600's, changing the Boiling Isles forever, inheriting the powers of the Titan, becoming a witch entirely! She's accomplished so much since she first came here, it just wouldn't be fair for it to end this way, not like this.

She then remembered Amity, remembering the ring she had given her, reminding herself that once this was over, she and Amity could finally get married, she imagined herself, her future wife, and a child they both could go on to raise. But all of that would only be possible if she wins this fight. She smiled as she stood up, willing Stringbean into a staff once more as she said "I'm not giving up that easily, not today, not ever!" 

"What are you gonna do??" Asked Willow. Luz looked at her friends and said "The only option I have left is to drain him of his powers." Gus asked "Wait, you can do that now?! That would have been like, really useful before you know!" Luz looked at Gus and said "The only reason I can do it now is because I managed to unleash my full Titan powers. So if I want to defeat Orion, I have to unleash all that my powers give me, what the Titan has given me. If I don't survive, I just wanna say, thank you all, for everything."

Hunter looked at Luz and said "You'll survive Luz, I know you can." Luz smiled and said "Thanks Hunter." Before blasting off back into battle. All her friends watched her blast off as Hunter said "Come on, we have to go where it's safe." 

Luz flew towards Orion, who was still causing chaos on the people of the Boiling Isles. "HEY ASSHOLE!!" Luz shouted, getting Orion's attention as he turned around to face her. "Ah, back for round two I see? Hope you're ready to die!" Luz smirked as she shouted "Oh, I'm not planning on dying today, I plan to stop you! GRAAAAAAHHH!!!" She let out a powerful scream as she blasted towards Orion at intense speed, pouncing him as they both clashed with each other like the godlike beings that they were.

Orion threw a giant star at Luz, but she was ready for it this time as she fired laser eyes directly at it, causing it to explode in the sky. She then blasted towards Orion at intense speed as she drew a spell circle that shot a powerful beam of energy towards Orion, he quickly shielded himself, but this time Luz made sure to use every bit of power her Titan powers gave her, allowing all her attacks to be twice as powerful! The energy beam broke through the shield as it blasted Orion. He screamed as he was sent flying out of control.

Luz pounced him mid air and slammed him against the ground, she supercharged her fists with Titan magic as she punched Orion rapidly in the face, she then grabbed him by the head as she blasted into the sky, Orion broke free however and punched Luz a great distance away, but Luz regained composure as she supercharged her staff with Titan magic, firing a blast of purple electricity towards Orion, Orion tried to fly over it, but it was too big, it exploded against him as he crashed into one of the buildings on Bonesborough.

Luz flew down towards him to take him out, but Orion came blasting right out of the building, tackling her into the sky. Amity watched from below as Luz and Orion continued their endless beatdown in the sky. Orion grabbed Luz by the throat as he punched her aggressively. "YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!! YOU HORRIBLE FREAK AGAINST NATURE!!!" He shouted in rage, Luz tried to fight back, but Orion shielded himself as Luz tried to punch him. He then tossed Luz down towards the skull of the Titan, she crashed against the hard boney surface as Orion landed in front of her.

Luz got back up and clenched her fists, she was about to draw another spell circle, but then Orion sprinted towards her, punching her aggressively in the face, she collapsed as Orion picked her up, pinning her against the Titan skull's horn. He punched Luz rapidly in the face, and the stomach. Luz cried out in pain as Orion brutally punched her endlessly, she tried to activated a glyph on her hand, but Orion snapped his fingers, causing Luz to be frozen as her arms remained stuck as they were.

Orion smirked and said "You were never good enough, no matter how strong you try to become, you'll never be able to beat someone like me!" Luz made a face of fear, worrying that this could be the end....

NO!! This was not the end, it just couldn't be, it just wouldn't be fair, for her, or for all the witches, not after all she's been through. Luz calmed her mind, reminding herself of what being a Titan means, as a Titan, the very essence of all the magic in the entire demon realm now lives inside of you, it is your responsibility to ensure it is forever used by those who come after you. Luz took a deep breath, she looked at Orion and muttered "You like to think you're defending the cosmic balance Orion, but I know the truth, you're terrified of being weak!" 

Orion stopped as he went dead silent. Luz smirked and continued "You murder those you fear may be more powerful than you, you hope by killing those with power makes you the strongest being in the universe!" Orion shouted "I AM THE STRONGEST BEING IN THE UNIVERSE! I AM GOD!!!" Luz continued "You only say you're doing it to defend the cosmic balance because it's your way of justifying your horrible actions! But deep down, you just crave being the most powerful being of the universe, you like to think you're a god, but you're not a god, you're just a maniac who's greedy for power, a maniac who sees himself above everyone else in the universe! YOU'RE JUST A MONSTER!!!"

Orion screamed in anger as he shouted "SHUT UP!!!" As he blasted towards Luz to kill her, but Luz clenched her fists as she let out a powerful Titan roar, blasting Orion away. Luz levitated into the air, feeling the symbol on her chest radiate with pure raw everlasting magic, she could feel all of the magic in the entire demon realm itself flowing through her veins, she felt one with all of it. She felt like a true witch.

She smiled as she looked down at Orion, glyphs were circling around her as she glowed bright gold, she shined so bright all the witches could see her from afar. "YOU ARE MORTAL!!! WHAT MAKES YOU SO SPECIAL THAT MAKES YOU WORTHY OF SUCH POWER?!!" Luz simply replied "Nothing, I'm just following my childhood dreams." 

Luz swung her arms forward, causing several glyphs to come soaring towards Orion, he tried to dodge them, but there were far too many glyphs. One of them hit him and exploded as it sent him falling off the skull of the Titan. Luz blasted after him, generating a sonic boom behind her as she grabbed Orion, punching him with so much force it sent him flying into the sky, above the clouds. Luz chased after him as all the witches saw a golden light blasting into the sky before disappearing above the clouds. 

Orion regained his composure before Luz confronted him in the sky, she raised her hands out as several glyphs surrounded her body, the magic itself was now completely one with her. As if she was now the physical embodiment of the magic entirely!

Orion made a sinister frown towards Luz, he screamed as he fired lasers from his eyes at Luz, Luz was instantly hit by laser beams, but rather than burn her, she simply absorbed the energy, feeling empowered by it. "W-what?? No! Impossible!!!" Luz smirked and said "You should have known not to underestimate me Orion!! Your rein of terror ends today!!" Luz blasted towards Orion, supercharging her palisman with Titan magic as she smacked Orion with it, knocking him several feet away.

She blasted towards him once more as she tackled him, both of them wrestling in the sky as Orion headbutted Luz, but she remained unharmed, instead she formed an electricity glyph on her hands, and then grabbed Orion's shoulders with them, which electrified Orion as he let go of Luz screaming, Luz smirked as she clenched her fists, pure lightning traveling through them as she punched Orion with lots of superhuman strength. 

Orion flew out of control for a while before regaining his composure, he formed a giant star on his hand, tossing it at Luz, but Luz drew a spell circle with her palisman, shooting a massive blue fireball towards the star is it exploded in the air. "I REFUSE TO BE BEATEN BY THE LIKES OF YOU!!!" Orion shouted. Luz said nothing, instead, she raised her palisman in the air, she focused as she harnessed all the magic that flowed within her, the symbol on her chest began to glow bright as she shouted "Your days of being the god of this universe have ended Orion!!!"

Suddenly, raw everlasting magic traveled up through her body, traveling through her hands as a powerful orb of energy suddenly began to form above her, it was surrounded by every single glyph combination in existence, it wasn't just some magic spell Luz generated, this was the essence of magic itself Luz was harnessing. Luz smiled as she shouted at the top of her lungs "NOW EAT THIS SUCKA!!!!!"

Original artwork link: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/12iyveu/titan_luz_unleashes_the_light/

Luz harnessed the magical orb of light within her hands, she then unleashed a powerful Titan roar as she lunged it directly towards Orion, it traveled towards Orion at light speed as all the glyphs surrounding it activated at once. Orion was unable to do anything to counteract it as it hit him. The orb of magic exploded in an instant the moment it hit him, its explosion was so bright it could be seen through the clouds, a giant shockwave emitted from it as it ignited the sky. 

Luz watched as the blast from the explosion knocked Orion down towards the ground at rapid speed. He crashed against the ground, leaving a crater as he crashed. Luz sighed as she levitated down to the ground. "Wow... that was by far the most anime thing I've ever done, sure hope Amity saw it." Luz thought to herself, luckily, literally every witch had seen the fight occur, so obviously Amity had seen it.

Luz landed on the ground, seeing that Orion was still alive since his powers had allowed him to survive, but he was severely weakened. Luz slowly approached him, making an angry face towards him, Orion looked up to see Luz staring coldly towards him, filled with nothing but hatred for him. Enraged, Orion tried to punch Luz, but Luz drew a spell circle with her finger, causing vines to grow out of the ground, wrapping around Orion entirely, and just for good measure, Luz drew an abomination spell circle, causing abomination goo to surround Orion, trapping him within.

With Orion now unable to move, Luz approached him, Orion squirmed around, screaming in rage, wanting nothing more than to kill Luz. Luz ignored this as she placed both her hands against Orion's face. "W-what are you doing?!!" He asked worriedly. Luz said nothing, instead, she harnessed the full capacity of her Titan powers as her eyes began to glow bright gold. 

Suddenly, all of Orion's powers were being stripped right out of his body as Luz absorbed them using her full Titan powers, she could feel the raw power that Orion possessed traveling into her body, but she knew she couldn't possibly contain this much power, she was already powerful enough, if she were to hold onto Orion's power combined with her Titan powers, that amount of unlimited power living inside of her would surely kill her for she wouldn't be able to handle it. 

Instead, Luz looked up into the sky, her eyes suddenly changed from gold to blue as she fired blue energy beams out of her eyes and into the sky, the energy contained the raw power that Orion had. It flew higher into the sky before shifting into a sphere, it glowed brighter and brighter before exploding in the sky, Orion's powers were now gone for good.

Luz's eyes returned to gold as she finally let go of Orion. With his powers now completely drained, she let all the restraints she had him trapped in dissipate. Orion collapsed to his knees, slowly getting up as he tried to punch Luz, still thinking he had his powers. But as he punched Luz, nothing happened, Luz just stood there looked at him. "Was that some personal attack or something?" She asked sarcastically. 

Orion looked at his fists, full of confusion and fear. "W-what did you do to me?!" He asked. Luz replied "I have taken your powers away and disposed of them for good, so you will never be able to use them to harm or kill any living beings ever again. Your rein of terror in the universe is over. Now you finally know what's it's like to feel weak, in a desperate attempt to prove you were the strongest being in the universe, you ended up making your fears of becoming weak come true, you are mortal now." 

As Orion processed all this information. He collapsed to his knees full of disbelief. Here he was, a powerful god, having been defeated just like that. "No... NOOOO!!!" He shouted in anger. Luz simply stood there, allowing Orion to process this for himself. "What are you gonna do now Luz?! Kill me the same way you killed Belos??!" He asked.

Luz remained silent for a moment before saying "No... the main council will decide your fate, I'm not going to be the one who judges people the way you always did." Orion looked down in anger and frustration, he hated this feeling of being weak, but his powers were now gone forever, and he was doomed to whatever fate had in store for him.

Back in Bonesborough, all the witches were waiting patiently for Luz's return. Suddenly, Enzo spotted someone in the distance. "Guys!! I SEE LUZ!!! SHE DID IT!!!" He shouted. All the witches turned to see Luz approaching, smiling at them all, she had Orion all tied up in vines. All the witches cheered for their Half-Titan as Luz levitated to the ground, she tossed Orion to the floor, allowing the witches to see the one who had threatened to kill them all face to face. Luz looked at Darius and said "He's all yours." 

Luz quickly went to go find Amity as all the witches cheered for her, suddenly, she noticed Amity standing there in the crowd. The moment Luz saw her, she quickly ran towards her as Amity came running towards her smiling with her arms wide open. Luz smiled as she approached Amity and wrapped her arms around her, lifting her up slightly with her super strength. Amity smiled and hugged Luz right back.

"Luz! You did it! You saved the entire Boiling Isles!" Luz smiled and said "Heh, yeah. I actually did!" Both girls looked towards the horizon, the sun was rising. They smiled as they looked at each other lovingly, before pulling each other in for the most passionate kiss they could give each other.

Original artwork link: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr4HDvEpFwq/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

(Again, fully aware that Amity looks younger here, but come on, look at how beautiful this artwork is! I knew I had to involve it.)

Luz and Amity eventually ended the kiss as Amity said "You were so amazing up there! The way you harnessed all the magic itself to defeat Orion like that was so badass! I so cannot wait to marry you!" Luz chuckled and said "I love you Ami bear." Soon Eda approached Luz, smiling at her. Luz smiled back and hugged Eda. "You did good kiddo, you did good." Said Eda. Luz had tears of joy in her eyes, feeling nothing but happiness that everyone ended up ok.

Luz was then approached by all her friends, all of them were so happy to see her. "WOW LUZ!! YOU WERE ABSOLUTELY FUCKING AMAZING OUT THERE!! THE WAY YOU TOOK DOWN ORION WAS AWESOME!!!" Shouted Gus.

Luz chuckled and said "Glad you all are ok." Soon, her sister Vee along with Masha showed up as Masha could only say "....Wow! Um, that certainly was something wasn't it." Luz laughed lightly before Vee wrapped her arms around her. "Aw, don't worry sis, I'm alright." Vee nodded and said "I know. It's just, I'm just so glad to have someone like you to call my sister!" Luz nodded in agreement as she said "Same goes to you Vee."

Finally, Camila showed up. "MIJA!!" She shouted full of happiness. Luz smiled at the sight of her mom as she gave her the biggest hug she could give. Camila smiled widely as tears of joy formed in her eyes. "Oh Luz... I- I'm so proud of you! A-and if your Dad were alive today, he would be just as proud too." Luz gave a wide smile in response and said "T-thanks Mom." As her eyes started to tear up at the mention of her father. 

All the witches crowded Luz, all of them applauding her for saving them all. Luz smiled as she looked at all the witches, seeing them all cheering for her made her feel accomplished, like that childhood dream of hers that she'd always wanted to achieve had finally been fulfilled at last, and Luz had now completely become the witch she was born to be. Stringbean flew over to Luz as Luz held her in her hands. "That's right Stringbean, we did it, we saved the Boiling Isles." She said happily.

All the witches continued to cheer for their Half-Titan as the sun continued to rise to a new morning, at long last, the conflict with the Archivists was now over.

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After the fighting was over, the time had come to decide what Orion's fate shall be, many witches would wonder how exactly Orion would face justice for his murderous sins for not just the lives he took on the Boiling Isles, but the lives he took throughout the universe. The council members discussed what fate he would have, some said that maybe they should just execute him now that he was mortal. Others thought of imprisonment within the in between.

But eventually, the final choice was made to use petrification on Orion, reducing him to stone. The council members set up Belos's old petrification device as they had Orion all chained up, ready to turn him to stone, Luz and the Hex Squad, including Enzo were there to bare witness this event unfold. all the witches would watch this event via crystal balls.

"Orion, oldest brother of the Archivists, for attempted genocide of all witches of the Boiling Isles, you are to be petrified, you will never harm anyone ever again. Do you have any final words?" Orion looked up at them all, staring coldly at them. He finally said "You all have no idea what you're doing, this universe needs its gods, and without them, this universe will fall." Orion looked towards his brother Enzo as he said "Enjoy your new life while you can traitor, because one day, the universe will fall into chaos as the balance collapses, and none of you will be able to stop it."

Everyone groaned in annoyance, obviously Orion was still being just as delusional as always, thinking himself to be a god when he clearly wasn't especially now that he no longer had his powers. Raine pulled a switch as the petrification device fired a laser at Orion. Orion took one last look towards Enzo, hoping to find some sort of sympathy for him, but Enzo simply gave him a cold hearted stare. Soon, Orion's body was completely turned to stone, and he was dead.

Luz sighed as she gave a soft smile, knowing that all the Archivists were truly gone for good. Luz helped them carry Orion's body away as she asked "So where are you gonna take him?" Darius replied "We shall lock the body in our secure vaults, where he shall remain forever." Luz nodded as they both put his body inside a large box as it was taken away. Luz and her friends all watched as the carriage drove away, carrying Orion's body within it. 

Enzo sighed as they said "Good riddance." He then looked at Luz and said "I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you, so... thanks for helping me." Luz smiled and said "Anything for my brother." Enzo smiled as they all left the castle.

Later that evening, a massive celebration was thrown in Bonesborough, to celebrate their hero Luz Noceda, the Half-Titan, and to celebrate over the end of the conflict with the Archivists. Now that the fighting was over, peace could finally move forward once again. Today was the time for celebration, tomorrow would be the time for rebuilding their destroyed home. 

Amity went walking through the crowd of witches wondering where Luz was, she hadn't seen her in a while. "Has anyone seen Luz??" She asked. 

Suddenly, Luz ran behind her and said "Hey sweet potato!" As she lifted Amity up slightly, Amity looked to see Luz behind her, and blushed as she saw her Titan girlfriend was now wearing a much more casual outfit.

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"Woah Luz! Y-you're actually wearing clothes now..." She stuttered. Luz smiled as she put Amity down. "Yep! I decided that since I'm gonna be going around looking like this 24/7 now I should probably try wearing some clothes again, and honestly, I think this makes me look fashionable. What do you think mi amor?" She said with a smile as she flipped her long hair in style, earning a blush from her girlfriend.

"Oh Titan... Don't go nuts over seeing your beautiful Titan girlfriend who has god powers wearing such casual attire now..." Amity thought to herself as her face started to turn deep red. She managed to form words as she muttered "Wow... y-you look... pretty." Luz smirked and said "Well you're quite flustered today aren't you mi amor. I'm surprised by how easy it is to rile you up!" If Amity wasn't a blushing mess before, she certainly was now.

Amity covered her face in embarrassment as she said "Luz! You're going to drive me insane if you keep this up!" Luz smirked as she got closer to her flustered fiancé as she said in a flirtatious manner "Heh, maybe I want that." Amity sighed and said "Luz you're such a flirt! I swear to the Titan if you don't kiss me right now I will explode!!" Luz chuckled as she wrapped her arms around Amity and pulled her in for a kiss on the lips.

Both girls pulled apart as Luz put Amity down, they both were met by many witches who were overjoyed to see Luz. One of them approached Luz and said "Luz... thank you so much! Thanks to you, my kid gets to live her life! Thank you!" Luz smiled at him as the witch's child approached her and asked "Can I get in a photograph with you!? I'm like, a huge fan!" Luz smiled and said "Sure!" She pulled out her scroll and pointed it forward, she and the kid smiled at the camera as Luz took the photo.

The kid looked at the photo as Luz sent it to her scroll. She suddenly noticed that Luz had sticked two of her fingers up above the kid's head pretending to give her bunny ears. "Hey!" The kid said to Luz, still smiling. Luz chuckled and said "Heh, sorry, I can't help myself sometimes. No hard feelings right?" The kid simply laughed and said "Thank you Luz!" Luz smiled and said "Anytime kid." She gave the kid a fist bump as she and her father walked away. 

Luz and Amity stayed together throughout the whole party, they met up with some of their friends during that time, Enzo and King approached Luz, she saw that Enzo was currently wearing fancy attire for the occasion. "Hey Enzo, nice suit." Enzo smiled and said "Thanks, same goes for you." King spoke up as he said "So now that the conflict is over, what happens next?" Luz replied "We're going to rebuild all that the Archivists destroyed, and then, me and Amity will get married."

Amity smiled as she held Luz's hand. King smiled and said "Well, I hope everything works out for you both." As he and Enzo walked away, Luz suddenly heard some music playing in the background, noticing as a few witches started to dance lightly. She looked at Amity and moved her finger up to Amity's chin as she said "Hey hermosa, your Titaness demands that we share another dance together." Amity chuckled and said "Well, if the will of the Titaness demands it, I'm down for that my love." 

Luz and Amity held hands as they both danced together throughout the evening, enjoying the atmosphere of their surroundings. There were light circles floating around, lighting up the entire road as the witches danced under the light. Eda and Raine could be seen dancing together, along with Hunter and Willow, even Vee and Masha.

Luz and Amity stared into each other's golden eyes lovingly as Amity said "Man Luz, why do I feel like when the Titan brought you back from the dead with that utterly attractive look of yours, the only thing he had in mind when giving it to you was to make me super flustered by it? Because I feel like that was his true motive!"

Luz chuckled and said "Well, who knows? That could be the case. If that was his intention then he really is quite the mischievous one to be pulling stuff like that." Amity laughed before saying "Indeed, who would have thought the Titan would be such a chill fellow that you described him to be." Luz nodded and said "I know right? And I always thought the Titans were mystical creatures that acted the way humans view gods. Man humans really need an education don't they."

Amity laughed as she looked into Luz's dark golden eyes, their beauty reminding her of the cosmos of space. She smiled as she wrapped her arms over Luz's neck as she said "Man Luz, why can't we just get married now??" Luz chuckled lightly as she said "Because Amity, there's still lots of work to be done before the Boiling Isles can return to how it was before the Archivists arrived. But I promise you babe, getting married is the first thing I want us to do once that's done. I love you Ami bear."

Amity smiled happily towards Luz and said "I love you too." As she pulled Luz in for another kiss on the lips. Luz happily kissed back as she moved her hands up to rub Amity's ears. Amity gasped lightly as she felt Luz's fluffy hands start massaging her ears, causing them to twitch a little bit. She let out an audible purr as she sighed in satisfaction. "Oh Luz... how are you so good at that?" She asked, pressing her head against Luz. 

Luz smiled and said "Alright don't get to comfortable now, let's save that for when we're alone." Causing Amity's face to turn red. "Luz!" She shouted, feeling flustered. Luz chuckled and said "Oh I'm just kidding Amity, unless you want to that is." Amity remained silent for a second before saying "Maybe later hermosa. For now let's enjoy this pleasant evening."

Later, Luz sat down at a table by herself as she got herself a drink. As she relaxed, a figure appeared in the seat in front of her, it was the Titan.

"Well, you've finally done it Luz, you finally accomplished that childhood dream of yours, you've fully become a true witch now. And as a result, you saved the Boiling Isles, you saved the magic, thanks to you, the magic shall live on for generations once more." Luz looked at the Titan and said "Yeah, I can feel all this magic inside of me... it's like I'm one with it, you know what I mean?" The Titan nodded and said "Of course Luz, that's exactly how it works after all." Luz smiled and said "Thank you, for giving this to me, I don't know what else to say to show my gratitude for all you've given me. It's quite an honor to be able to become a true witch."

The Titan smiled and said "Hey, no need to thank me, you deserve it after all Luz. It's who you were born to be." Luz nodded, they both sat there in silence for a moment before Luz asked "Hey, Titan? I have a question... why were you absent for so long? Why wait until now to return?" The Titan looked at Luz, his smile faded as he sighed and replied "This is exactly why I've come here right now to speak with you. You deserve to know the truth after all.... Luz, I haven't got very long left."

Luz was confused by what the Titan said and asked "What do you mean you don't got long left? I thought you said you were an exact copy of the Titan's consciousness embedded within my mind for me to speak to, shouldn't that make you eternal?" The Titan shook his head as he continued "No Luz... You see, when I first gave you my Titan powers nearly five years ago, and embedded a copy of my mind into you, since my powers were already wearing thin at the time, my replicated consciousness would not be able to last forever as a result, you see, whenever I manifest as my holographic form, I exhaust Titan energy, and the longer I stay as a hologram, the more energy I use up. As of right now, I'm nearly all out, and when I run out, I'll be gone, and you'll be on your own from here on out Luz."

Luz looked at the Titan in silence as she asked worriedly "So what you're telling me is... that you're dying?" The Titan frowned as he replied "Yes Luz, I am dying." Luz didn't know what to say, she then said "That's why you stopped appearing as much, you were trying to conserve energy." The Titan nodded and said "I didn't want to fade until I knew that the Boiling Isles was safe, and that you had fulfilled your dreams of becoming a powerful witch."

Luz refused to believe it as she said "N- no! You can't die! I- I still have so much I was hoping to show you! I wanted you to be able to see me and Amity get married together! I was gonna show you the film Inception! I was gonna give you the chance to-" Before she could continue, the Titan interrupted her as he said "No Luz. You no longer have to show me anything, I've already seen everything that I feel like was enough, I finally got to see your friends and family you made here up close and in person rather than watching them through a mirror in the In Between. I got to see the reshaped Boiling Isles that was forged after you defeated Belos. You showed me the human realm, which was quite an interesting place if I'm being honest..."

"But most importantly, I got to watch you grow into this incredible witch that you always wanted to be, I got to witness a young girl's dreams come true because of the powers I gave her, and that's all I need to see, I'm happy with what you've shown me Luz. Your father would be incredibly proud of this powerful witch that you have become." Luz sighed as she replied "I hope so..." 

Suddenly, a familiar voice spoke up. "Dad??" It had said. Luz and the Titan turned to see King standing there in utter disbelief. "What? You can see him?? How?!" Luz asked. The Titan was confused as to how his son could see him for a moment, but then he pieced it together as he said "Of course he can see me, it was King's Titan magic that allowed your Titan powers to reawaken Luz, so obviously he can see me." 

King looked at the Titan as the Titan said to him with a smile "Hello kiddo." King smiled as tears of joy formed in his eyes. He ran over to the Titan shouting "DAD!!!" The Titan got out of his chair and knelt down to King with his arms wide open, as he pulled his son into a hug. King was sobbing endlessly, feeling nothing but joy being able to see his father for the first time. "Woah... bad girl coven? I didn't know you were a fan of my mom Eda!" King said, referring to the shirt the Titan was wearing. 

The Titan chuckled and said "Oh yeah, I'm a big fan of your mother. She's cool." King smiled and said "Yeah, she is. But I don't get it, how are you here?" Luz looked at King and said "When the Titan first gave me the last of his power, he had also implanted a duplication of his own consciousness into me, allowing me to still be able to speak to him." King looked at Luz and asked "Why the heck didn't you tell me?!" 

Luz replied "Well obviously I didn't think you'd be able to see him! And if I told you then you would feel bad that only I can speak with your father and you can't!" King sighed and replied "That's fair. I'm just glad to have you around Dad." The Titan and Luz looked at each other, struggling to figure out how they were supposed to tell King that his father wasn't going to be staying for much longer. 

The Titan sighed as his smile faded, he looked at King and said "Son... this might not be easy for you to hear, but unfortunately I won't be staying." King's smile faded as he asked "W-what do you mean?" The Titan put his hand on King's shoulder and said "I- I'm dying son. I could only give Luz so much during my time trapped in the In Between. And since my powers were wearing thin at the time, I wasn't able to give my duplicated consciousness sufficient enough energy to last forever, and right now, I'm almost out of energy, soon I'll be gone." 

King's happiness changed to despair in an instant as tears ran down his face. "N-no!! No you can't!! There has to be a way!! You can't die Dad!!! I just got you back!!! I can't lose you!!! Please, t-take all my energy if you have to if that's what it'll take to keep you alive!!! Please Dad PLEASE!!!" He shouted. The Titan wrapped his son into a hug as he said "No King, if you were to do that, then you'll die, and I don't want you to throw your life away for someone who has lived far longer than you have. You've still got a long life ahead of you son, but me, I've already lived for billions of years. In fact, I already am dead, the real me died in the In Between when I gave Luz all my powers. My time has come King, I'm sorry, I wish we had more time. But I just don't."

He put King down as he muttered "I- I don't get it, it's just not fair!" The Titan sighed and said "I know son, but this is just how it is unfortunately, my time preserving the essence of magic is over..." The Titan looked at both Luz and King, placing his hands on their shoulders as he continued "But the two of you, I know you both will go on to ensure that the essence of magic will go on for generations in the future, you will both carry it within you and allow it the thrive in the hearts of all the witches who have inherited it, the essence of magic was something me and my entire race dedicated our existence to preserve, but now that responsibility lies in the hands of you two. And I know you both will excel at it."

Luz nodded and said "I promise not to fail you." The Titan smiled and said "I know you won't fail me Luz, this is basically what you were born for after all." The Titan could suddenly feel his energy starting to drain to a critical level as he said "I'm almost out, my time has nearly come." King wiped his tears away as he muttered "W-wait... Dad, before you go, can you and I at least share one good father and son moment together? Please??" The Titan looked at him in silence, knowing that his son had been without a father since he was born. 

He sighed and said "Of course my boy, if that will help you find peace, then I will gladly give it to you." King smiled as he said "Thanks." He looked at Luz and continued "Luz, can you take us to the knee please?" Luz smiled and nodded as she lifted King up, blasting off into the sky as she flew towards the knee of the island. 

They both landed on the knee as the Titan appeared beside Luz. They all walked across the snow as King said "This is one of my favorite parts of the Isles, and I would love to come to this place with my Dad tagging along." The Titan smiled and said "This is a very lovely place to visit indeed King."

King smiled as he suddenly had an idea, he quickly scooped up some snow and shaped it into a snowball, tossing it at the Titan, the Titan gasped when felt the snowball hit him in the back of his head. King laughed as he scooped up some more snowballs and began throwing them at his Dad, the Titan began to run as he shouted "Hey! No fair! You know I can't interact with my surroundings as a hologram! How am I supposed to fight back?!" 

King laughed and said "You don't!" As he kept tossing snowballs at his Dad. Luz laughed happily as she watched King and his Dad sharing a father and son moment together, one that King had always wanted to have.

Luz smiled as she joined in on the fight, scooping up some snowballs and said "Hey guys!" She then tossed the snowballs using her superhuman Titan strength, causing them to travel at intense speed as both King and the Titan were hit, causing them to stumble to the floor. They all laughed as they had fun on the knee like a happy family.

Later that evening, King and Luz brought the Titan to the edge of a cliff of the knee, allowing him to see a beautiful view of the Boiling Isles. "Here is where you get to have the best view of the island Dad." Said King. The Titan smiled as he joked "Ah yes, I get the perfect view of my giant dead corpse from up here." Earning a chuckle from both Luz and King. Luz sat down against the snow as she said "It was when I first saw this view that made me realize that I wanted to spend the rest of my life in this realm."

"How poetic Luz." Said the Titan as he sat down along with her, King joined them both as he sat on his father's lap. He got comfortable as the Titan said "I'm sorry that I can't stay King, as much as I wish I could." King sighed and said "I-it's alright Dad... I'm just glad I'm getting the chance to spend time with you at all really." Luz smiled and said "I still wish you could get the chance to see me and Amity get married." The Titan smiled and replied "It's alright Luz, knowing that you two are getting married is enough for me, I hope you both live your best lives together." 

King spoke up and said "Can we change the topic please? I've only got this moment to share with my Dad and I wanna make it memorable." The Titan then looked at Luz and asked "So Luz, when you finally graduate the university, what will you do with your life afterward?" Luz remained quiet for a moment, she then looked at King and the Titan and said "I think maybe I might go on to write my own novel for the witches to read. My favorite novel series was always the Good Witch Azura, I think it's time I went on to make my own novel series." 

The Titan smiled and said "I like the sound of that." King looked at Luz and said "Wow Luz, you literally have god powers that the Titan passed on to you, making you not just the most powerful witch in the Boiling Isles, but the most powerful being in the entire Demon realm, yet what you decide to do with your life instead is write a book series?" Luz chuckled and replied "Yeah why not? I know I've got, literally the essence of all magic as a whole flowing through me, giving me godlike powers and everything. But despite that, to me, I'm still just a witch, like everyone else here, having god powers doesn't change a thing about me. Deep down, I'll always still be Luz." 

The Titan smiled and said "Of course you'll still be the same deep down, after all, it's not about what species we're a part of that defines who or what we are, what defines us is who we all are inside." Luz smiled as she stared off into the distance with King and the Titan.

Suddenly, the Titan began to feel even weaker, knowing that his energy level was now dangerously low. His time was almost out, he looked out into the distance, seeing the sun lowering itself down towards the Boiling sea. Estimating that he probably only had until the sun completely set, he looked at Luz and King and said "My time is almost up... In a matter of moments I will be gone." King's smile faded as his eyes started to tear up. The Titan smiled and wiped his tears away as he said "Do not grieve King, you have a wonderful family here to take care of you, my child."

King looked up at his father and said "I- I know... it's just... there's so much I wish I could tell you." The Titan replied "Oh you don't have to tell me anything King, I watched over you from the In Between your entire life, I've already seen everything you've been through, you don't have to say a single thing to me." King wrapped his arms around the Titan, hugging him. He then said "Let's just... sit here together, please?"

The Titan smiled and said "I'll be by your side until the end King.... I loaf you." King burst into tears hearing those words from his father as he replied "I loaf you too." Luz saw them both continue to hold each other tightly as the sun made its way towards the sea. She sighed as she scooted closer to the Titan as she wrapped her arms around him, joining the hug. Luz had tears in her eyes as well as she whispered "Thank you... for everything." 

The Titan smiled and replied "You're welcome Luz. I am proud you both." 

The three of them sat there silently together for the rest of the evening, enjoying each others company, before finally, the sun completely disappeared under the Boiling sea, and just like that, the Titan was gone.

King collapsed to his knees and sobbed against the ground now that his father was truly gone forever. Luz frowned as she watched her younger Titan brother cry his emotions out, she knelt down and pulled him into a hug as she said "I'm so sorry King, I'm gonna miss him as well.... Come on, let's go home."

Later that night, Luz and King returned to Bonesborough, all of their friends were there waiting for them. "Luz! There you are, I was wondering where you ran off to." Said Amity. Luz smiled at her girlfriend as she said "Hope I didn't miss out on anything." Suddenly, Lilith approached her and said "Actually Luz, you're just in time." Eda then said "Follow me, we want to show you something."

Luz followed everyone to the university of wild magic, there was a giant window covered in a blanket right on top of the front door. Darius approached Luz and said "Luz, we are all very grateful for all that you have done for us. Thanks to you, the Boiling Isles is safe once again, and to express our eternal gratitude for you saving us all from extinction, we decided to make this in your honor." 

Luz looked as Eda and Lilith shifted into their harpy forms, they flew towards the blanket and removed it from the window it was covering. Luz gasped in amazement to see a giant glass painting of her, and it looked absolutely gorgeous.

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Luz's jaw dropped at the sight of the glass painting, she almost felt like she was dreaming. "W-wow!! You guys made this for me?!!" One of the witches nodded as they said "You have no idea how long this took for us to paint." Luz smiled and said "I gotta admit, while I certainly prefer not being viewed as a god, this actually looks amazing. Thank you guys so much!!" Raine smiled and said "You're welcome Luz, after all you've done for us, it's only fair we show our appreciation for you." 

Luz felt like she was gonna cry as all her friends approached her smiling. "I love you guys!" She said as she pulled them all in for a hug. They all happily hugged back as Hunter said "We're so glad you're here, I don't know where I'd be without you." Camila and Vee looked at the giant glass painting, Camila couldn't help but feel pride for her daughter, seeing just how inspiring she has become in the hearts of the witches was incredible for her to watch.

Camila approached Luz and hugged her saying "I'm so proud of you Luz." Luz smiled and said "I know Mom, you've been telling me that nonstop since we defeated the Archivists." Vee spoke up and asked "Anyway Luz, what are you gonna do once you graduate college?" Luz replied "I thought about it, and I think I wanna write my own book series like the Good Witch Azura." Camila smiled and said "Oh I look forward to that Luz." "A book series?! Awesome!" Gus shouted happily.

After a long night of celebrating, Luz and Amity decided to head to bed, they've both been through quite a lot recently, fighting for the survival of the Boiling Isles, and right now they wanted nothing more than to get some good rest after everything that had taken place. 

They both went to the owl house as they went to the guest bedroom. Luz changed out of her clothing and jumped onto the bed, allowing Amity to get all snuggled up in her body fur. "Oh Luz, I had a lot of fun today, and I'm so happy that we both made it through everything alive." Luz smiled and nodded as she said "I'm glad to have you here mi amor. I don't know what I'd do without you."

Amity wrapped the covers over her and Luz as they snuggled up close together. The glowing symbol on Luz's chest illuminated the space between them both. Amity smiled as she stared lovingly into her Titan girlfriend's eyes and said "I can't believe I'm about to get married to the most adorable and most powerful witch in the entire demon realm." Luz smiled and said "And I still can't believe I'm even here living my life the way I always wanted too." 

Luz and Amity scooted close together as they placed their hands against each other's cheeks. "I love you mi amor." Said Luz. Amity smiled as both girls pulled each other in for a passionate kiss. Amity sighed peacefully as she buried herself in Luz's body fur, she purred as she got comfortable against her girlfriend, wrapping her arms around her as she started to feel desperate to be as close to Luz as possible.

Luz chuckled lightly and said "Woah, someone's certainly needy tonight." Amity's face went all red as she said "Sorry, it's just that you're too damn attractive in this form! I can't help myself because of it!" Luz smirked as she looked at Amity in the eyes, she then said in a flirtatious manner "Oh I don't mind it at all really, I think it's hot." Amity went silent as her entire face became as red as a tomato. 

Luz continued "What do you say batata? You wanna have me all to yourself tonight?" Amity could no longer contain herself as she said "Oh absolutely mi amor." She slowly crawled over Luz and proceeded to rub her fluffy stomach affectionately, causing Luz to purr in satisfaction, throwing her head back in delight as she sighed. She then moved her hands up to Amity's ears to rub them again, causing Amity to purr lightly in response. She huffed as she said "Oh you adorable little furball, come here." As she proceeded to kiss Luz passionately.

The two girls continued to spend the night together sharing one another's love for each other, before finally falling fast asleep all cuddled up together. 

To be concluded....

Chapter Text

Earth....

Luz, currently in her human form arrived at a burial ground as she approached her father's grave, she stared at it silently as she sighed deeply. Suddenly, a car parked behind her as Camila came walking out to find her.

"Oh hey mija, what are you doing here?" She asked. Luz sighed and said "I just... wanted to visit my Dad one last time before the wedding later." Camila nodded as she approached the gravesite next to Luz, they both stared at the grave for a while before Camila said "Your father always knew that one day when you got older, you would accomplish something incredible in your life." Luz nodded and said "Yeah... I just wish he could have been alive to finally see it happen."

Camila wrapped her arm around her daughter as Luz smiled lightly. Camila then asked "So, when's the wedding exactly?" Luz replied "Oh, later today actually, you'll be there right?" Camila smiled and nodded as she said "Of course I will mija." Luz smiled wide as she said "Thanks Mom."

The Boiling Isles....

Today was the big day, Luz Noceda and Amity Blight were finally about to get married together! All of their friends and family were going to be there to watch. Everyone was excited, especially Amity, who dressed herself into the most fanciest dress she could find. She looked at herself in the mirror, observing her dress. "Honestly I think I overdid it really." Said Amity. Emira looked at her and said "What? Nonsense! I think it's perfect."

Amity looked at her and asked "You think?" Emira smiled and nodded as she said "Totally! I just know Luz will love it mittens, now come on, we should head out into the main room so you can wait for Luz." Amity nodded and said "I'll be right there." 

Meanwhile, Luz, now back in her Titan form, was trying on a wedding outfit of her own, she checked herself in the mirror, hoping she made the right choice. Soon, her sister Vee came in to check on her as she asked "Hey Luz, you ready? Because Amity's currently waiting for you up front right now." Luz turned to look at her as she asked "Does this look good on me Vee? Because I'm not sure how this looks." Vee smiled as she said "I think you look great sis, I'm sure Amity will love it."

Luz looked at herself in the mirror again as she mumbled "I just can't believe this is finally happening, I'm actually about to marry Amity Blight!" Vee gave Luz a puzzled look as she asked "What's wrong? You nervous??" Luz silently nodded before saying "A little bit, I've been waiting a long time for this, and now that its happening... it's like completing a whole story arc is the feeling I'm getting right now!" 

Vee smiled and gave Luz a hug as she said "Don't you worry Luz, everything will be fine, I'm so happy for you now that you're finally getting married. Now go on out there and make your family proud." Luz smiled and hugged back as she said "I will Vee." Vee eventually left the room to go sit down with everyone else. Luz took a deep breath as she looked at herself in the mirror, she then said "Alright... let's do this."

Everyone was waiting in the massive room, it was finally time for the wedding to begin, all that needed to happen was for Luz to show up. Suddenly, the door in the back of the room opened as Luz emerged through it, still in her Titan form. Everyone went silent as she passed by them all, she smiled as she looked towards the front to see Amity standing there waiting for her, she was wearing the most prettiest dress she had ever seen Amity wear. 

As Luz passed by everyone, she looked to her left to see all her friends and family sitting in their seats, smiling at her. Luz smiled back as she waved at them, before eventually arriving at the front of the room. Luz stood next to Amity, examining her dress as she whispered "You look gorgeous my love." Amity smiled and whispered "Same goes for you furball." 

Everyone went silent as the archbishop began the speech, Luz and Amity continued to stare lovingly into each others eyes as he spoke. There were no words to be said by anyone else. Soon, the archbishop would ask both Luz and Amity if they promised to always be there for each other in both sickness and health, and they both were quick to respond saying that they will. The archbishop would smile as he said "Well then, I now declare you both as wives!" 

Luz and Amity smiled as they looked at each other, before pulling each other in for the most passionate kiss that they could give, as soon as they kissed, the entire crowd applauded for them, people who were watching from afar on the crystal balls would clap for the two girls as well. "Way to go Luz!!" King shouted happily. 

Luz and Amity continued to deepen the kiss as Luz slowly lifted Amity off the ground a little bit, they eventually pulled apart and placed their foreheads together as Luz whispered "I love you batata." Amity smiled right back at her and replied "I love you too, my beautiful Half-Titan." With the wedding having been finally finished, Luz and Amity were now officially a married couple. 

Luz and Amity emerged outside the building as the church bells starting ringing above. All the witches cheered for them as they stepped outside, both of them were holding hands. As they passed by the crowd, Eda looked at them both, tears were running down her face as Luz saw her and said "Aww, you crying for me Eda??" Eda quickly tried to wipe her tears away as she said "N-no.... Yes, I am crying! I'm so proud of ya Luz!" Luz smiled and said "I really did have a great mentor." 

Soon, all of Luz's friends, Willow, Hunter, and Gus approached her saying "Congratulations you two!" As Willow tossed a bouquet of flowers over to them, Amity caught it and said "Thank you!" She and Luz continued their way through the crowd of witches as the crystal balls would display the news saying "This is a special day for all the people of the Boiling Isles, for Luz Noceda, the Half-Titan, and Amity Blight, have now finally gotten married, with Amity being the one to change her last name to Noceda." 

As they reached the end of the path, rather than get into a carriage, Luz looked at Amity and said "Aaaaand... scoop!" As she scooped Amity up with her super strength, carrying her bridal style. Amity gasped for a brief second before giggling lightly. Luz kissed her on the forehead before blasting off into the sky while carrying her, all the witches waved to them both as they flew off into the distance. 

Luz carried Amity in her arms as she blasted through the sky at intense speed. Amity held Luz tightly as she asked "So now that we're together now, what happens next?" Luz remained silent for a moment before saying "Who knows? I guess we'll have to find out along the way mi amor!" Amity smiled as she said "I love the sound of that." They both continued to fly away into the distance, now officially married.

Three years later....

The sun rose to a new morning of the Boiling Isles. Somewhere over at the knee sat a nice house, one that sheltered the now wedded couple Luz and Amity. Amity awoke to the new morning as she sat up on her bed, looking down to see her Half-Titan Luz laying peacefully in bed, purring in her sleep.

Amity kissed her on the cheek as she awoke. "Good morning furball." She said with a smile. Luz chuckled lightly and said "You're never going to stop calling me that aren't you mi amor." Amity smirked and said "I think it suits an adorable Half-Titan like you." 

Luz smiled as she got out of bed. It's been three years now, Luz and Amity finally graduated the university of wild magic and went to go spend their lives together, settling down in a nice little home sitting on the knee, right by the spot that gave them the amazing view of the entire Isles. Life couldn't be any better for anyone now. King and Enzo were now officially siblings, and Vee got herself a job over in the human realm.

Luz got dressed as she put on her green shirt and orange overalls. Stringbean got up off her pillow and joined Luz as she walked downstairs and pulled out her scroll to text her friends. 

"Hey guys how's it going?" She typed.

"Oh hey Luz! It's going well over here. Me and Willow just had our first human realm date!" Hunter replied.

"Yep! Don't worry Luz, we didn't get caught, we had fun!" Willow added.

"That's great! Glad you both had fun!" Luz replied. 

"Anyway, how's that novel series coming around?" Gus texted.

"Oh it's going great, I'm currently writing the sequel as we speak!" Luz replied. 

Luz later went to go sit down at her desk as she got to work writing her story, trying to think of the proper words for it as she wrote everything down. Soon, Amity came downstairs all dressed, she now worked as a mechanic. She wrapped her arms around Luz as she said "Still working on that story love?" Luz nodded and said "Sure am, I'm getting closer towards the end, once its finished I can finally publish it." 

"How many of those books to you plan to write?" Luz thought about it for a moment before saying "Honestly, I don't know, I don't want to make too many, but I also don't want to make too little of them, you know? I'd hate to end a series too soon, but I also don't want to drag it on to the point where it becomes tasteless, you get what I'm saying?" Amity nodded and said "Just make sure you remember to go and babysit your younger siblings later this week ok?" Luz smiled and nodded as she said "Oh I sure will." She said. 

Luz spent the majority of the day writing her story, it wasn't until later that evening when she finally stopped to get some fresh air outside on the balcony of the house. She sighed as she leaned against the fence. Soon, Amity joined her as she stepped outside, standing next to Luz. Amity smiled as she said "Enjoying the view mi amor?" Luz nodded as she said "I sure am babe." Amity nodded as the two of them just stood there in silence.

Amity eventually broke the silence as she said "Hey, you wanna see something cool?" Luz gave her a puzzled look and asked "Sure, what is it?" Amity smiled as she pulled out her scroll, texting her father as she typed "Alright Dad, turn it on." 

Alador received the text and smiled as he pulled a switch, there were countless witches behind him as they all watched him turn on a spotlight device that as it turned on, it shined into the sky, emitting a bright light into the night. 

Amity saw it light up in the sky as she pointed towards it. "Look." She said. Luz looked ahead to see a bright golden light in the sky, it kinda looked like the bat signal from all the Batman movies, except this time, the symbol that shined in the sky was the same symbol that appeared on her chest. Luz's jaw dropped at the sight of it as Amity said "The witches made it to show their appreciation, and so that way the Boiling Isles will always remember what you accomplished, and everything that you've done for the Isles."

Luz smiled as tears of happiness formed in her eyes. "Oh, it's wonderful Ami! I love it!" Amity smiled and said "You're welcome mi amor." As she wrapped her arm around Luz. Luz smiled and wrapped her arm around Amity's back. They both stood there together, looking at the giant symbol that illuminated in the night sky for a while.

Soon, Luz looked at Amity as she said "You know Amity? I think I'd like for us to raise a child some day."

All my life, I was told that I could never be a witch, but sometimes you can show those who make you doubt yourself just how wrong they are as I did. I'm much happier being the witch that I am here, the Boiling Isles was always meant to be my home from the start.

The Titan gave me these gifts of mine so I could finally become a true witch, and I will forever be grateful for all that the Titan, and this world have given me, having become the person I've always wanted to become since I was a kid has shown me that dreams are not impossible. Let this be a word of advice from me; Luz Noceda, to all of you reading, always follow your dreams regardless of how crazy they may seem, they may just miraculously come true, and when the opportunity to follow it presents itself, take hold of it. Let your heart, be your guiding key, It will allow you to fully find yourself the same way I have.

I know exactly who I am now that I finally fulfilled that dream of mine, I am the child of the human realm, student of the demon realm, inheritor of the Titan's power, the warrior of peace. I am the Half-Titan. A true witch of the Boiling Isles!

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The greatest challenge in life, is discovering who you are. The second challenge, is being happy with what you find.

-Nichola Stephenson.