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“So… uh, I guess this going to be a whole new thing now isn’t it?”
Luz laughed nervously, playing with a strand of her purple hair, the glyph on her chest glowing golden with thick and heavy fur covering most of her. The 14-year-old would admit she looked kinda badass like this, a child of both realms but how the hell was she going to explain this to her mami?
“Hey mami, I kinda died via Belos’ fast-growing lichen and I came back to life with a whole new look, and phenomenal cosmic power. Well, I guess semi-phenomenal nearly-cosmic power now but yeah hey mami you’re raising a half-titan daughter now!”
For a brief second she thought about lying but decided against it, given no lie she could think up would ever explain what happened to her.
“I mean, it’s not so bad is it kid?” Eda said, looking at her in the mirror. “Honestly, by demon realm standards, most parents would find you rather normal looking.”
“Yeah, by demon realm standards,” Luz said, nervously squeezing her hat in her hands. “...Heh, I guess I always considered this place more of a home than I ever did the human world. In the human world, I was a loser, too caught up in living a fantasy than facing reality. But here in the demon realm…”
She swallowed.
“I mean… I always wanted to be seen as a great witch, the moment I learned I could do magic and now I can, and now I helped slay a dragon but…” they said, their expression looking rather panicked. They squeezed their hat against their furry chest. “But… I’m not sure I want to be seen as one. Like, everyone’s going to be looking to me now that I helped kill Belos…”
“Hey, breathe kid, in and out,” Eda said, Luz feeling the older woman’s hand squeeze her own. “In and out, you with me kid? Just breathe, deep breath.”
Luz sucked in a breath and let it out.
“Nobody has to know you helped do anything. Nobody saw you rip Belos out of the Titan’s heart besides King and Rainstorm.”
“I’m still going to have to explain why I look…” she laughed nervously again, with her echoing voice. “Well, why I look like this.”
“Meh, people will believe anything these days, people are stupid like that,” Eda said with a shrug of her shoulders. “Maybe we can say you spent so long in the demon realm you soaked up a lot of the wild magic in the air. After all, it hasn’t happened before and you’re only the second human to come to the demon realm, actually the
first
as far as most people know. So who’s going to say we’re lying? Nobody, that’s who!”
“You really think that’ll work…?” Luz asked, as they looked at their mentor in disbelief.
“I mean, who’s going to come along and correct us? Belos?” Eda said, wheezing out a laugh and slapping her knee and Luz gave a snort at this seeing her point. “Honestly, we could probably add a bit more believability to the lie by saying you were in danger -which you were- and absorbed a bunch of magic from King and I! I mean, hell, kid, you even look like us now!”
“Yeah,” Luz said thoughtfully. “I guess I do now, don’t I…? Let’s just… let’s just keep it at I was in danger, I don’t think I want anyone knowing I’m literally Witch Jesus now. I don’t want to be worshipped, especially not after…”
“After Belos got a whole cult devoted to him? Honestly, I don’t think you’ll ever have to worry about anyone worshipping anyone ever again, after Belos,” Eda said, holding them close with her good arm as the sun set over one era of the Isles. Tomorrow, a new sun would rise over a new era. “I think people have learned their lesson about putting blind faith in someone by now.”
Luz smiled weakly as her mentor… well, mother figure held her close. She’d missed this, the older witch’s hugs, and for someone who originally claimed that they hated being called motherly… Well, heh, they’d turned out to be pretty good at it actually. Luz, for so long after months in the human realm hadn’t really felt at home there at all.
This place, dangerous and completely insane as it was, felt like more of a home to them than Gravesfield. Here it felt like they actually belonged, like there were people who understood them. They sniffled a little, tightening their grip on Eda’s clothes as if they were afraid they’d lose her again. That if the moment they decided to let go, they’d lose her forever and she’d just slip away from them.
“Hey, it’s okay kid…” Eda said. “I’m not leaving anytime soon. Trust me on that okay kid?”
Luz looked up, to see Eda give a reassuring wink with her golden fang poking out of her upper lip. They smiled back at her, as the old witch ran a withered wrinkled hand through their curly purple hair.
And Luz knew everything would be alright, because their mentor would make sure they were never separated again. Belos was dead, nothing but mud in the wet ground and only his specter would be haunting the Isles. Luz shuddered, even in the end the man hadn’t accepted his death and continued to make up excuses. It made them want to barf, the man saying he’d been cursed by dark magic as if an excuse like that would somehow save him.
Eda had chosen to live with and accept her curse and treat it as a gift and another spell in her spellbook. While Belos had dared to use the possibility of a dark curse as an excuse for his monstrous actions, even while he’d melted away in the rain like the original Wicked Witch.
Rain that she’d created, Luz mused. At the time, she hadn’t really regretted it and a part of her still didn’t. She’d summoned the gathering clouds and let them wash away the sins and she’d just stood there and watched all out of pity for the man.
But what did that make her? A murderer? A monster? Someone just as bad as Belos?
What did it make her?
Deciding to bite the bullet, she looked up at her mentor with worried golden orbs set in a sea of black. “Eda… what kind of person do you think I am?”
“A good one, and an even better witch?”
As the setting sun shown on the Isles, bathing them in burnt-orange light, Eda looked down at the shorter witch.
“It’s just…” Luz said, looking away not quite able to meet her eyes as they reminisced about the night they’d had. “I summoned that rain, I just
watched
as Belos melted away and so what kind of person does that make me? A killer? Someone just as-”
“Now I’m going to stop you right there okay kiddo,” Eda said, soothingly as they continued stroking her hair comfortingly. “Before you ever say you’re as bad as Belos, remind yourself what kind of person Belos really was.”
Luz followed her mentor’s gaze to where King and Raine were, the two talking and finally properly introducing themselves now that the rebellion was over and peace had finally come.
“If Belos was still alive… those two, my kid and my Rainstorm, they’d never have a chance to meet. Raine would be executed as a traitor to the throne and King experimented on, assuming Belos didn’t just toss him into the boiling sea.”
Luz swallowed as they considered that possibility.
“Belos finally dying and running out of continues did everyone a favor kid. You did everyone a favor, and he doesn’t deserve any of your pity.”
“I wasn’t saying I pitied him,” Luz said. “Of course I don’t pity him, he’s a murderer and a monster. Just look at how he treated Hunter, how he killed Flapjack just to stay alive that little bit longer! I don’t pity him at all, he got what he deserved.”
“Exactly, kid!”
“It’s just… I’m worried how easily it came to me, killing Belos. I summoned that rain to finish him off, I’m scared of just how easy it was to do it for me. It’s not that I’m scared of my power, I think it’s awesome finally being able to cast spells like you used to. It’s just…” Luz still couldn’t quite meet their mentor’s eyes.
She swallowed.
“I didn’t want to become a killer.”
“You’re not a killer, you’re not a monster kid,” Eda soothed. “You were doing what you had to. Honestly, think of it this way, you didn’t even really kill anyone. Belos… he died long ago. He was just prolonging it because you know what he was? A coward. He was too scared of facing whatever awaited for him so he ran from it. Dreaded it. He wasn’t really alive anymore, not really. Just living a twisted half-life. In some way, what you did for him was a mercy.”
“Yeah, a mercy,” Luz said, sounding like they didn’t even believe their own words. “I suppose.”
“Killing someone would require them to have been alive in the first place, and what you did was putting a monster down. He would have continued on, had you not did what you did, I’m not sure how but a man like that is too stubborn to call it quits. Hell kid, I’m not even sure you can ever even call him a man. You’re far more human than he ever was, even before he became a monster that reflected exactly what he was on the inside.”
“Yeah, I guess,” Luz said, sounding a bit more sure of themselves. “I’m just not comfortable taking anyone’s life, even if they had it coming. Even if they weren’t really alive anymore.”
“And that, kid,” Eda said proudly. “Is what separates you from him. Belos took lives without a thought, as easily as someone writes words with a stroke of the pen. As I said, you’re far more human than he ever was, even if you’re a little bit beastly now eh squirt?”
Luz nodded before a voice called out for them. It was the Collector, and then another voice could be heard.
“Luz!”
“Mija? Where are you?”
Mami! And Amity!
And she rushed into their arms, her girlfriend and her mami holding her tight as if they were afraid they’d lose her.
They did actually, Luz thought sadly. Even if it wasn’t her fault, she still felt guilty about it and squeezed her mother tightly and held Amity close. But everything was alright now, the two people she loved the most were here now.
…wait, loved? Did she love Amity? Just thinking about it made it far easier to accept, as if the answer to a question she never knew existed had been there the whole time. Yeah, she loved her sweet potato, and hadn’t gotten the chance to say it yet. She was glad that King’s dad had given her a second chance to say it. She might have never gotten the chance otherwise.
She needed to get Amity alone, just so she could tell her away from everyone else. She needed to tell her, in the place where it call began. Underneath the Grom Tree, which had always been and always would be Their spot. It had always been a place of solitude and tranquility over the past year, a place where they could meet up away from everyone else to just talk to one another.
And they needed to Talk yet again, after everything died down. Luz had realized something, she’d nearly lost Amity twice by now. Had she stayed in the human realm, she would have slipped out of Luz’s grip forever. Had she chosen to stay dead, Amity would grow up and live her life without her. They’d be like stars, living a million miles away from one another.
Funny how dying put everything in perspective. Should she tell Amity about that? No, not right now, Luz decided as she snuggled into her awesome girlfriend. Right now, she should be just glad she got a second chance with her love.
“Uh, Luz, mija?” her mami asked. “I know it hasn’t been that long but you’ve changed mija. What happened to you?”
“Y-Yeah, w-what?” Amity stammered out, blushing as she looked Luz up and down apparently liking what she saw and Luz had to suppress a snort. By demon realm standards, she’d probably gotten a
lot
more attractive.
“See something you like, sweet tomato?” Luz said, booping her girlfriend on the nose.
“Just you,” Amity replied, and to her credit mostly managed to keep her composure. “I’m just seeing
you
right now. You’re such a dummy
batata,
honestly!”
Their girlfriend didn’t need to know what
really
happened, at least not right now. This was a happy moment, there was no reason to spoil it. They weren’t that cruel.
“Well, I was in danger,” Luz said, as lying as best as they could even if they would admit they’d always been pretty terrible at it. So they gave a half-truth. “So I somehow absorbed magic from Eda and King and bada bing bada boom here I am with more power than ever! Belos didn’t know what hit him!”
Amity seemed satisfied with the answer, at least for the moment though it was obvious the gears in her head were starting to turn. Luz had always loved how intelligent their awesome girlfriend was, how simply smart she was when she put her mind to something though right now they weren’t really a fan. They knew their lie wouldn’t hold up forever.
It was already falling apart judging by the ‘look’ their mother was giving them. That was the one thing they’d never managed to really do, lie to their mami.
“Not right now,” they mouthed to their mami. “I’ll tell you later, but not right here and not right now.”
Luz sighed in relief as their mother nodded, just letting herself be held tight, something she knew she would have missed out on had she decided to stay dead. Along with a lot of things actually, such as growing up alongside her girlfriend. While marriage was still very far off and she was way too young to think about it right now, she wanted to grow up with Amity. Go to…
Well, she supposed regular school was out of the question now, wasn’t it? Not that she even wanted to go back, her ADHD had always really prevented her from having an easy high school life and having the powers of a Titan had given her a free pass from public school forever. Another thing she owed King’s dad for. Though she knew her mami would definitely want her to at least try and complete her schooling at home.
Luz supposed she could try that at least, even if she wouldn’t be living out every high school movie cliche with any hypothetical friends she might have made. Of course… she didn’t need hypothetical ones now. She had real friends now, even a loving supportive girlfriend which had always seemed so incredibly out of reach for a weirdo like her.
“Now Luz,” her mami said when they were alone and everyone was starting to go their separate ways. The Collector was heading off to the starts to do some more growing up, and everyone else had their own families to reunite with. “You’re going to tell me everything because I know that story you gave is a lie.”
“I died mami…” Luz said. “I died and met the Titan and he gave me his remaining power. I… I wasn’t expecting to keep it but heh, I guess life has a way of surprisi-”
The wind was knocked nearly out of her as her mami hugged her tight, Luz’s eyes growing a bit watery.
Their mother was whispering soft reassurances to always be there for then, and whispered prayers thanking the Titan for bringing them back to her. And a few curses towards Belos for taking her child away from her, however briefly.
“Thank you… thank you for coming back to me Mija, I said to the kids, to your friends that you’d find a way back to me and that death itself wouldn’t stop you but they were just words. I didn’t expect you to come back and prove me right… Oh Mija… Promise me you’ll never leave me ever again.”
“I promise mami,” Luz said. “I’m never leaving you again, cross my heart hope to fly and stick a cupcake in my eye.”
“Ay, Mija. I always thought was a ridiculous way to make a promise but I’m not caring right now,” her mami said through her tears. “I’m just so glad that you’re here. I have an awesome daughter, who even overcame Death itself just to dethrone a madman and find their way back to me. I have the best daughter in two worlds.”
“Well, heh, what can I say,” Luz said. “I got it all from you, right? Everything I am, I really got it all from you and papi. You two were always such great examples, without you I wouldn’t be who I am today.”
“What stopped you, from… I mean…”
“Joining Papi in the afterlife? You, Mami. You and Amity and King and Mama Eda and Willow and Gus and Hunter and Vee… All of you. An afterlife without you isn’t really a great afterlife at all. My home isn’t the demon realm nor is it the human realm. It’s right here, with all of you.”
“Oh Mija…” her mami said. “Ahora prometes, juras que nunca más dejarás sola a tu pobre madre, hija mía, ¿de acuerdo?”
“I promise, Mami. Don’t worry, I promise, I’m not going anywhere any time soon. I’ve got a whole life I want to live, even if…” Luz looked down at the fur on her chest. “Heh, I’ll be living it in a drastically different way than I ever really expected.”
“I don’t mind, I kinda like it. After all, what other mother can say their daughter is covered in fur?”
The two laughed, and for Luz all was well again.
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Amity just couldn’t get Luz’s new look out of her head, her heart skipping a beat when she first saw her. Damn it, even if she knew her girlfriend was lying out of her ass when she said she’d somehow absorbed magic from King and Eda, she’d been standing there gaping like an idiot just looking at her.
She’d been drinking Luz’s new form in, feeling the sheer power the girl now possessed. There was something that her batata simply wasn’t telling her though, Amity knew she had to focus on that instead of following the now-demonized Luz like a lost puppy. She’d been shamelessly looking her up and down, memorizing every new part of her form like a lovesick schoolgirl.
It was hardly proper behavior, she could hear Odaila’s voice in her mind even right now. Pushing the witch’s voice out of her head, Amity swallowed taking in a deep breath. So what if Luz looked a little different, a little bit hotter now? It was still the same girl underneath all of the fur and glyph lines. Even with the horns now poking out of her head, and the sharp boney claws to hold her tight with, it was still the same dorky dumb girl she’d fallen in love with.
She just had a few extra additions now, that was all. A few extra additions that she… appreciated thinking about. Goddamn it, Luz looked so much better now. Not that Luz had ever looked exactly awful per say , hardly. Far from it. She’d always looked extraordinary, even for a human.
Not that Amity had even been shallow enough to fall for someone just based on their looks alone. She wasn’t that type of girl, even if it certainly helped. It had always been Luz’s infuriatingly kind personality, not to mention her incredibly stubbornness that had won Amity over.
That had made her fall head over heels for the stupid human. Because, yes, Amity knew she was utterly lovesick for the dang Noceda girl. Like… a girl like that didn’t come along every century, the youngest Blight knew. It was amazingly contradictory, a girl from a family of contraption makers, abomination goo shapers had fallen for the sole person in the demon realm who didn’t press a drop of magic. An heirless like her had fallen for someone straight from a magicless realm, who’d come to Muspelheim by sheer accident. And yet, Luz had turned out to be exactly the thing she’d been missing in her life.
Luz just by being near had made Amity want to be better, to prove she was better than this magicless witch who somehow did things that flew in the face of all logic. Her relentlessness in defying everything everyone knew about magic and humankind had found Amity utterly besotted with her.
A human shouldn’t have been able to do magic, not that it had really stopped Luz from someone trying and pulling it off at that! A human shouldn’t have ever left a mark on the demon realm and certainly not on her. And yet she had! A human shouldn’t have been able to absorb magic and become whatever she was now. And yet here Amity was, wanting to see more of her girlfriend’s new form.
Was this the new normal now? Was Luz going to look like this for the rest of their life? If so, Amity wasn’t exactly in the mood to complain about it. It figured, really, the human who defied all logic in just doing magic would somehow defy all logic again and look like she’d been born here all along.
Maybe this was only temporary though, maybe in a few weeks, a few years, fifteen years Luz’s state would wear off and they’d go back to normal much to her disappoi- No, her delight. Her whole world had been rocked again and she just wanted to get off this crazy train and catch her breath.
Somehow though, Amity got the feeling she would be incredibly disappointed when Luz didn’t turn back to normal even fifteen years from how. And by utterly incredibly disappointed she meant utterly incredibly delighted. Because yes, as it turned out, she was that type of girl. She was just shallow enough to think Luz looked way better like this.
Because she just did.
Having a few extra demonic features like fur to cuddle into, and claws to hold just improved the fantastically irritating functionally impossible conundrum that was Luz Noceda. That long curly hair that Amity just wanted to run her fingers through and that thick and heavy fur she was all too happy to make into her own personal pillow just made the already fantastic-looking paradox that was Luz Noceda somehow improve on themselves.
Oh by the Titan, she was backsliding, wasn’t she? She was becoming that person, that witch who couldn’t string together two sentences around Luz without feeling like she wanted to faint. This was incredibly embarrassing really, being completely unable to focus on Luz all over again without doing an incredibly accurate impression of a tomato.
She felt like she wanted to bang her head against the wall, she swore she’d gotten all of this under control and all it had taken was one small… one really small and totally completely terribly insignificant change in the looks department to make her do a complete 180 on herself.
Titan she was such a… oh what was that word Luz liked to use to describe Hunter about Willow? A simp. She’d become such a pathetic freakin’ simp for Luz and it was utterly disgusting how one change about the ‘human’ had made her want to just bow before her. Like she was a holy object to be worshiped. Like she’d become the Titan itself returning to walk the very Isles.
Good grief.
This was terribly embarrassing. She had to get herself under control, before she made an even bigger fool of herself.
“Amity? Can we talk?” the object of her affections asked. “Down at the cliff, underneath our tree. I just… there’s some things I want to say to you, in private, without anyone else around to overhear us.”
Her, and Luz, alone, under the starlight. Yeah, she could handle this. She had this covered. Totally nothing would go wrong at all.
Pink flowers fell around them, the tree having somehow withstood everything even Belos taking control over the whole entire Isles. Amity had decided to take it as a sign, that despite everything, their love would still blossom no matter what happened.
“Heh, everything’s changed so much hasn’t it…?” Amity said, running her hand down the trunk. “It’s only been about a year and everything’s changed so much just since then. We went from dancing under the moonlight to fighting for our lives. I’ve gone from a bratty teenage girl who thought she was so incredibly sure of herself to… well, I don’t even know what I am now.”
She didn’t even know what she was going to do with her life now, given her family had disowned Odaila from the family. And nobody needed Abomatrons anymore, now there was nobody left to use them on. What good was a weapons company without any buyers?
She felt a bit sick actually, having realized her family had perverted abomination crafting to arms dealing to whoever had the biggest check for them. All under Odaila’s tyrannical orders of course. Because she knew what was best for her family, although it was simply astonishing how someone who had incredible skills in Oracle magic hadn’t seen the future for herself.
Of course, a deluded mind saw whatever it wanted to. For someone who prided herself on seeing the future of her company -not theirs, her company- she had an astonishing lack of foresight. Oh, the irony.
Amity had accepted things would never be the same anymore though that wasn’t exactly a bad thing really. She still had a lot of growing up to do, she wasn’t anywhere near ready to take over the family business both in skill or maturity. Maybe it was a good thing she didn’t know what she was supposed to do now.
She didn’t need anyone telling her they could see the future they intended on laying out for her. It was her choice and hers alone now. Whatever the future was, she could make it for herself. And she had her Luz to help her figure out whatever it was.
Her Luz, who’d gotten a whole makeover, a ‘glow up’ as the human liked to say. It was amazing how far she’d come, really. From an arrogant human who didn’t even know what she was doing who thought she could really make it as a great witch to a human who actually could do all that she said she could. Her Luz in just under a year had probably grown up even more than her.
In so many ways. It looked like she actually belonged in the, actually belonged to the Demon Realm now. Something Amity could definitely appreciate, just watching the way the moon lit up her girlfriend who had glowing eyes in the darkness. Luz blinked and Amity blushed realizing her gaze had lingered a little bit longer than was strictly appropriate for someone eying her girlfriend.
Though Amity could hardly blame herself by this point, given just how Luz had changed. Frankly, she’d honestly thought it impossible for Luz to be any more attractive, and yet seeing her in the moonlight looking like she had become a demon herself made Amity’s cheeks burn hot.
This was the very same girl who a little under a year ago had been stumbling all over themselves and now they’d helped kill Belos. A witch, who prided herself on her magical strength and ability just knowing her girlfriend could easily defeat her in battle without even breaking a sweat, realized she was all too happy to know that. She could brag that she had the most powerful teenage witch in the world for a girlfriend.
That she was dating the slayer of Emperor Belos, and felt honestly enslaved to her. It was like she’d been chained to Luz’s fate, not that she was really complaining much. Because, after all, knowing your girlfriend could easily defeat you in a duel by sheer power alone made Amity feel very lucky indeed. Was she that shallow wanting a powerful witch girlfriend? Incredibly. Was she shallow for wanting one that her wandering eyes would admit to as incredibly attractive? Definitely.
Was she setting witches' rights back a few years just by wanting an awesomely powerful, incredibly beautiful girlfriend? Oh probably. But the best part was that they had a personality to match her attractiveness, easily sweeping her up off her feet with a sheer stubborn sort of kindness. Luz had apparently decided she would be poor lonely Amity’s friend and that was that. And they’d succeeded in making friends and more with her.
Oh Titan help her, she loved this damn witch.
“Mhmmm, still teenaged, still a girl. Still my awesome girlfriend, Sweet Potato.”
Yes, that voice praising her. She was so pathetically weak for it, maybe a little too weak for it. But just hearing Luz’s voice, audibly distorted by magical power was a fun treat to the ear. Was it terribly embarassing to be reduced to someone this lovesick? Maybe a little, as Luz could definitely see her blushing though it was something she was probably used to seeing by this point.
How though, was the question. Just how did Luz get this much magical power? Because obviously, that story about soaking up magic from Eda and King was bunk. Even Luz couldn’t break the laws of magic like that. Not even Eda Clawthorne’s student/adoptive daughter could pull off that level of impossible.
“I honestly….” Luz looked away and swallowed. “Honestly, I didn’t think we’d get to see each other again. I didn’t think I’d actually come back from defeating The Collector or Belos.”
Amity on instinct held them tight.
“I actually… and there’s no easy way to say it…”
Amity’s stomach dropped as she heard the words slip past her girlfriend’s lips. Her girlfriend had actually died taking a blast meant for the Collector. And the Titan had sent her back. Oh, if Belos wasn’t dead already, she knew she’d be killing him herself.
Unable to let them go, Amity continued holding Luz by their fur as if to keep them on this side of the abyss.
“Hey, it’s okay,” Luz said, wrapping her boney furred arms all around Amity. “I’m back. Now you can call me even more awesome, I cheated death. I’m literally Witch Jesus.”
“...you’re not funny,” Amity muttered. “But I’m glad you came back, there’s something I have to tell you and I-”
“Funny,” Amity heard them say, their golden eyes sparkling with happy tears. “It’s probably the same thing I want to tell you. I love you too.”
The two gently kissed under the moonlight and falling flower blossoms, only letting go after several more quick needy kisses.
“That better be the reason you came back,” Amity said, with a fierce expression. “It better not be because you missed my kisses. That had better be not the sole reason. You’d better have come back just to say you loved me, human.”
“Heh, well, yeah, it totally was, though I’m not sure you could call me human anymore.”
No, Amity mused with a simply pathetic lovesick smile as she looked Luz up and down again. No she certainly couldn’t call the now half-Titan Luz human at all.
“Damn, I’m going to have to think up a new affectionate insult for you,” Amity said. “Damn you going and dying on me only to come back with a new form on me furball. You ruined, you had to go and ruin one of my favorite nicknames for you, you damn zombie.”
“So does that mean you love the dead?”
Amity gently slugged her in the arm.
“You want to keep pushing me, furball, so you’ll find out? I can kill you and bring you back myself, you know.”
Luz snorted as she pressed her forehead to Amity’s own.
“So, I take it you’re liking my new look?” they asked, doing a small little twirl in place with their ‘cloak’ flying free in the air. “I mean, you’ve been eying me all night. I mean, I can’t blame you, I look like a real badass now. If you had seen Eda and King and I, well I think you’d probably have fainted in disbelief hmmmmmm Sweet Potato?”
“I see you came back with a new dose of arrogance, furball,” Amity said, gently pushing her girlfriend away with a finger to her forehead. “Don’t let all of that power go to your head,
batata
otherwise you’ll start swelling up like a balloon. I may have to pop you and bring you crashing back down to Earth, Luz.”
“It’s not arrogance if I know you too well, Ams,” Luz said as they tackled Amity into the red grass relentlessly tickling her stomach. Amity let out a squeak as they slid down the tree’s trunk finding herself looking up into their golden eyes. “You, after all, have always been a bit of a gay mess.”
“It’s hard to be anything but when I’ve got such an awesome girlfriend for my girlfriend,” Amity said. “So if I’m a bit weak at the knee, it’s only because you made me that way. You’ve got only yourself to blame, dummy. So, furball, my current state of mind is rather infuriatingly your own fault.”
“I mean, it’s really the Titan’s fault, he gave me this new form.”
“Semantics,” Amity said with a breezy dismissive wave of her hand. “I’m guessing it’s not coming off you, all of this fur is it?”
“Nope, as far as I can see, that last bit of power the Titan said he had was really quite a lot of power by anyone else’s standards,” Luz said. “I mean, if you hate my new look and your roaming eyes say otherwise, there’s really no way to get rid of it. I’m sorry Ams, but you’re kinda stuck with me like this.”
“Just don’t get fleas, I’m not giving you a flea bath,” Amity said. “That’s way too much work for me.”
“I mean, boo, I was kinda disappointed when you said that. You look so cute when you’re soaking wet, when we danced in the rain I couldn’t help but think how beautiful you looked.”
“Are you thinking of splashing water on me if I were to help give you a flea bath just to satisfy your own shameless desires?” Amity said, skeptically and raised an eyebrow. “Because you luring me into a trap isn’t going to get you a bath. No, I think I’ll leave that up to your mother.”
“Oh boo, I’m not going to get pampered and spoiled by my awesome sweet potato, oh boo,” Luz said, giving her a big-eyed expression.
“Oh wow, you’re shameless,” Amity deadpanned. “Employing the puppy dog eyes. Well I’m not your mother, there’s no way it’s going to work on me. My appreciation of your new looks only goes so far so don’t press your luck furball. You’re such a dummy, Luz.”
“But I’m your dummy. I’m your furball,” Luz said, cupping and then pinching her cheeks.
“Oh shtaaaaaappp, just shaddup Luz,” Amity said with a roll of her eyes gently shoving them away. “What you’re doing… oh you’re completely incorrigible. I’m ashamed to be seen with you. Honestly!”
And Luz was laughing, the laughter carrying itself all of the way across the sea and Amity just groaned. Sometimes this girl could really get on her nerves and drive her up the wall! What’s worse, she now had a new way to do it by looking this stupidly attractive! Titan, how she hated this girl!
“Now Amity… I order you to love me as your girlfriend…” Luz said gently cupping her face. “...and to take me on a fluffy slice of life style date tomorrow. The Titan commands it. And now I command you to kiss me.”
Well if the Titan commanded it…