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King
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It was a very comforting feeling when first stepping inside the owl house. It was very down to earth and Luz felt a bit of warmth for the first time, surprisingly for the world they were in, it was a unique feeling. It felt like home.
Eda offered him a fresh and hot "Hell Tea" where she described it as getting a fresh "taste of hell". It tasted bitter.
Luz looked around the house, it was messy to say the least,chests were around the place, spells, TONS of weapons on the walls, with candles all over the place, probably to cover the stench within the place.
Suddenly Luz jumped when the ground shook intensely, as it came closer and closer.
"Who dares to interrupt my slumber!" The beast shouted, Luz quickly slid under the couch the best he could before he could get mauled to death by the incoming beast. Eda was surprisingly calm.
Out came a little baby.. monster of some kind? It squeaked its ducky in an attempt of showing superiority, staring at them in annoyance.
"King?" The collector said as they peaked out from their bag, looking fawnly at the creature, almost looking sad and nostalgic like staring at an old friend from the past.
The collector started to extend their shadowy arms towards King, Luz panicked and quickly shut his bag cutting away the collectors presence before anyone could notice.
Luz dragged himself out while Eda snorted at his extreme reaction towards King while King himself smiled at the reaction of being feared if only for a moment.
Luz wiped himself off and stared at the tiny creature, "uh, hi" he waved at the tiny creature, Eda stood behind Luz and put her hands on his shoulder. "Luz, meet King, the most Powerful creature isles! Though you probably already got that from his intimidating presence" Eda snorts obviously making fun of Luz's reaction with her joke. Making Luz red from embarrassment.
"Haha! Fear me!" King laughed as he playfully wrestled against Luz's boots which Luz found awfully endearing.
Luz finally succumbed to his feelings and squeeled from just how precious king really was. "Oh my gosh you're so adorable I could literally squish you right now." Luz said excitedly as he quickly scooped up King cuddling him against his cheeks.
Eda smiled warmly at the sight of King squirming against Luz but eventually gave up while Luz was having the time of his life. Eda noticed strange within their bag but didn't think much of it.
After a bit of twirling King around, Luz finally let the little monster go, King quickly ran over to Edas feet with a ferocious war to accompany him too. "Rah!" King "roared" at Luz after promptly stomping his feet in defiance.
Eda's eyes widened as she remembered something that she almost forgot to ask the human child. "Ah I almost forgot!" She clapped her hands. "You're a human aren't you?" Eda asked again, as Luz nodded, staring at the Owl Lady. "Yes? I know I'm different from here.. my world is quite different from the boiling isles.." Luz replied, Eda hummed in agreement.
"I know that much Kid, you see I had a portal that could travel me to your world but-" before Eda could continue Luz quickly interrupted her. "ARE YOU SERIOUS!? YOU CAN TAKE ME HOME?" He yelled in excitement jumping around, giggling, hugging his back, exactly a child would do. Eda stared at him sadly and shook her head.
"No.. I was about to say I used to have a portal to collect junk from your world but one day Belos managed to successfully steal the portal and it's been missing since. Which makes your appearance strange as that Portal was the only way here" Eda said as she scratched her chin in Thought. Luz quickly tensed up not liking where this was going, Eda seemed to notice the shift in gears.
"Ah, don't worry kid I'm not gonna question you, you seem worked up already, sorry about that" Eda gave Luz a warm smile, as Luz felt a tiny bit of comfort from her.
"Now, who's ready for some dinner?"
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Soon it was night time, from the long day they went through.
When Luz took the collector out, the collector sighed dramatically like he's been holding his breath the entire time, "finally! I've been stuck in that dusty pouche for hooouuuuuurrrrrssss, I wanna play!" The collector yelled excitedly as he swarmed the room in his shadow form staring at Luz who only Yawned in response.
"No games, just sleep" Luz groaned out as he started getting comfortable in his bed, covering himself with the comfort of his blankets, at the dismay of the collector. "WHAT. I wanna play now!! We've been playing your games this whole time I wanna play mine!" The Collector stomped but it had no real impact because of his shadowy form. Luz rolled his eyes and continued to ignore him.
"Hey! Don't go to sleep! I wanna play a game right now! I'll keep annoying you until you play a game with me" and so he did just that by repeating the words "game" and "play." Increasing his voice and getting close to his ears in a repeated pattern. Luz tried his best to ignore it but it kept aggravating him more, it driven him unable to sleep.
The collector finally stopped when Luz kicked off his blanket and stood up from his bed. "Okay fine, what game do you wanna play?"
The collector squeeled and twisted his form in glee, trying to think of a game to play.
"Hmmm, I wanna play hide n seek? Oh-oh-oh! TAG, no- FREEZE TAG!" The collector jumbled their words, naming all sorts of games to play, Luz groaned as he just wanted to sleep…
The collector snapped his fingers as he finally figured out a game to play "Hey! Let's play the Owl House game!" That peaked his interest.
"Owl house game? What's that?" Luz asked curiously, the collector smiled, 'finally! Something the human is interested in!' he thought.
The collector shrugged slightly, "I don't know exactly, my old friend from the last timeline didn't explain it very well…" Luz noticed the sad tone in his voice as he said that. "B-But! He said it was an island worth of players, we're in an Owl House too! And really fun! I Wanna play it!" The collector jumped with his hands going up and down with excitement thinking about 'the owl house game.'
Luz wasn't so sure himself.
"Owl house game? Islands worth of players? Pick something else, it's too late to play a game THAT big," Luz thought about it more. " and I don't think the people on this island want to play with a Human outcast like me and basically a god." Luz replied sarcastically, he noticed the collector's smile quickly wiped off, replaced by a frown.
"But that's not fair! I've been wanting to play my game for ages! And I never got the chance to play the Owl House game!" The collector yelled, throwing a tantrum swatting his arms everywhere, since heem was in his shadow form it affected nothing.
"Suck it up, maybe we can play it tommarrow, I'm going to sleep" before the collector could reply Luz threw a towel on the tablet, he could hear the collector yell in a mumbled tone thanks to the towel, Luz quickly got himself comfortable in his bed and slowly went to sleep.
"Mom..."