6After things that have happened near the end of the first season, I decided to go ahead and make this besides waitng until I actually make the Adopted!Luz story. This takes place during the Eda vs. Lilith battle from "Agony of a Witch" and is also part of my Adopted!Luz AU and is canon to said AU and I hopefully won't have to change anything in the near future.
Streaks on yellow and blue light flash o the bridge connected to the Emperor's castle.
Eda fires blasts of light from her staff as Lilith dodges and fires back.
"Where is she?" Eda growled in boiling anger.
It was only this morning when Luz left for school when she and King decided to do something special for Luz after her many accomplishments while living in the Boiling Isles and a mere few minutes ago when Luz's two friends, Willow and Gus, stood at her doorstep with dire news. Seeing her sister's white staff hovering off the ground behind them already told Eda what was happening before the two young witches could speak.
Today was supposed to be good day. Eda just finished an awesome cloak she made for Luz as King made the finishing touches on the cake he made.
Now she was battling her sister to save Luz's life. Eda didn't want this. She didn't want to put the girl she raised since she was young to be harmed.
She would hate Lilith forever if Luz was hurt in anyway...and herself.
"Easy now." Lilith warned as she raised her hand forwards which made Eda cancel her dash and float in front of her. "Your human is safe." Lilith revealed and with a twirl of her staff, the pale witch slammed the bottom of the staff onto the ground.
Suddenly, a large blue orb came rushing out of the entrance of the Emperor's castle with Luz trapped inside.
The orb stopped immediately beside Lilith to show a disoriented Luz who opened her eyes and saw Eda.
"Eda!" Luz called out only for Lilith to stand in front of her.
"You can have her back, provided you do what I say. Renounce your wild ways and join the Emperor's Coven. He can help heal your curse!" Lilith pressed on towards her sister whose gritted teeth and hateful glare were visible.
"Don't believe everything that bonehead tells you. He doesn't want to heal me, he wants to control me!" Eda said with malice.
"Then I'll take you in by force." Lilith threatened as she she spun her staff with her right hand.
Eda gently landed her high heels on the ground.
"You've always looked down on me because I'm wild, but fortunately that made me work harder than you!" Eda said with her famous confident smirk as she twirled her staff in the air before slamming the bottom onto the ground which caused a large shockwave of yellowish light in the form of a large owl.
Seeing Lilith distracted by the large light owl, Eda dashed forwards at with incredible speed and swung her staff at Lilith who was taken by surprise and only managed to block the attack with her own staff in a quick second but the force caused her to be launched into the air.
The castle guards looked from the window as they watched the fight unfold, their heads following Lilith flying through the air.
Lilith managed to recover but not before Eda teleported right behind her ready to attack.
Thinking fast, Lilith caused her body to disappear before she could take the hit and reappeared behind Eda to attack her instead.
But as if she read her mind, Eda quickly vanished before Lilith could make a move which took her by surprise long enough for Eda to reappear and slam against Lilith's left side.
Luz watched from her prison bubble as yellow and blue clashed in the sky and zig-zagged through the air like something you would see in a Saturday morning cartoon.
Finally having enough, Lilith decided to hit Eda where it hurts and blasted a beam of blue at Luz which made the Owl Lady fly over to her rescue but was too late as the blast from Lilith caused the bubble containing Luz to fly forwards.
"Luz!" Eda called desperately as she followed her daught...apprentice.
In a streak of light, Eda passed Luz and caused the wood boards of the bridge to rise and act as a curved ramp to turn Luz safely back around.
Though unharmed, Luz was feeling quite queasy from the constant spinning.
Seeing that Luz is safe, Eda looked up to see Lilith attempting an attack from above which Eda quickly dodged as Lilith slammed on the ground feet first.
Using this moment, Eda raised her staff which summoned three dark Hooty look-a-likes who wrapped around Lilith like snakes.
Seeing her binded, Eda made her staff spin around at unimaginable speeds like the blades of a helicopter and blasted a large beam of light forwards.
Seeing the attack quickly approaching, Lilith freed her right hand while keeping her left on her staff and swiped her finger which caused Luz's bubble to move in between.
Shocked by what Lilith just attempted, Eda used as much strength as she could to curve the beam of light enough to narrowly miss Luz.
Sweating and struggling to keep even breaths, Eda spoke.
"S-Stop hiding behind Luz, you coward!" The Owl Lady said with tired annoyance before slumping.
Lilith who was now free from the Hootys and was also exhausted smiled at Eda.
"It's sad to see you slowing down sister. Tell me, is it the curse?" she taunted.
Eda looked up and glared angrily at her sister who was indeed right. Eda was using too much magic and the jewel on the chest area of her robe was growing more black with each amount of magic used. Soon enough, the curse will take full hold.
Noticing this, Luz called out to her mentor.
"Eda!" Luz said as she began to speak but the bubble she's trapped in muffled her words as Luz beat the inside of the bubble hoping to break free.
"Maybe it is the curse-" Eda began as she stood up. "But then how pathetic are you that you can't best me at my worst?" Eda asked breathlessly as she summoned a new attack which involved multiple yellowish circles of many sizes to blast a bombardment of light at Lilith who quickly created a large shield which blocked the attacks but caused Luz's bubble to bounce to the side.
Now standing and trying to find a way to help, Luz noticed a sharp spike next to her which gave her an idea.
"Maybe you are stronger than me, but that made me work smarter. I've became sharp, crafty-"
"A lapdog for a tyrant!" Eda added.
The bubble slammed against the spike a few times before cracking and finally shattering, allowing Luz to escape her enclosed prison.
With her won shield beginning to weaken, Lilith started to speak.
"You always though you were better than me. That I could never beat you in anything."
"I AM better than you!" Eda taunted.
Consumed by anger, Lilith looked at her sister with wide eyes and spoke in a voice filled with venom.
"Then why were you so easy to curse?" she asked menacingly only for her expression to change into surprise at what she just said, even going as far as to cover her whole mouth with her left hand.
Eda, who shared the same expression as Lilith, thought back at the memory of the night she was cursed and this time she could see the culprit clearly. Her own sister cursed her...
Luz gasped as she heard this.
Lilith removed her hand from her mouth and struggled to form words.
"Uh..A-And I have the power to remove it-" Lilith said as she reached her hand out towards Eda, almost sounding regretful. "If you would just let me explain!"
Eda's close to saddened expression morphed into unbridled fury. With a scream, Eda launched herself forward and crashed against Lilith's shield, causing it to shatter and Lilith to fly back and slam her back against a stone wall.
Quickly running up, Luz yelled at Eda.
"Eda, stop! Your magic!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.
Indeed, the blackness was taking more and more of the jewel.
Eda breathed heavily as fire burned in her eyes.
Seeing this, Lilith smiled as an awful idea came into mind.
Blue light surrounded Luz as she was lifted off of the ground.
"Human. That orb was for your protection." Lilith said evilly before tossing Luz over the side of the bridge and fall to the spikes below.
Luz screamed as gravity did its job only for Eda to quickly "grab" Luz with her own magic before landing on a large spike.
Eda struggled to keep Luz in the air as she became more weaker.
"Eda, stop! You'll run out of magic!" Luz warned with worry.
"It's my power, kid-" Eda said though pain "And before you showed up, I spent my whole life wasting it." said Eda as Lilith floated near, watching with a smug smile.
With a wave of her staff, Lilith's right hand was covered in blue magic which summoned a large blue hand which pushed down on Luz, causing Eda to work harder to not let Luz die a horrible death.
Luz winced as she saw herself almost coming in contact with one of the spikes but she still looked up at Eda.
"Eda, no! No! No!" Luz wined as Eda's jewel became more darker.
"Alright, kid-" Eda started as the white of her eyes started to grow black yet she still smiled as if to comfort Luz. "Listen to me. I'm going away and...I don't know if I can bounce back this time. Watch over King, make sure to feed Hooty."
"Please, no!" Luz begged almost to the brink of tears.
Eda then fell onto one of her knees.
"And Luz. Thank you...for being by daughter." The Owl Lady said with a heavy heart.
With a loud scream, Eda was consumed by light which causes a shockwave that knocks Lilith back as Owlbert flew off of the staff and into the air.
The magic once surrounding Luz disappeared which caused her to continue falling only for her to stop falling again a second later as Owlbert grabbed her by the back collar of her school uniform and flew her back up the the bridge to find an unconscious Eda on the ground.
"Mom..." Luz said softly as she knelt down before the witch only for Eda to turn and on her back and groaned painfully before she let out a screech that sounded all too familiar to Luz.
In a matter of seconds, Eda fully transformed back into the mindless owl monster and stood on all fours.
The owl monster approached Luz and Owlbert with a savage snarl and was about to attack before multiple blue ropes wrapped around her body and dragged her back.
The owl monster struggled to break free as Luz stood over her.
"Come along, sister. Now we can let the healing begin." said Lilith as the Emperor who was watching the whole time from the top of his castle walked away.
"You monster!" Lilith heard the voice of Luz yell behind her only to feel the teen jumped on her back and wrapped both of her arms around Lillith's throat.
The two struggled for under ten seconds before Lilith managed to pry Luz off of her and hold her in the air by the front of her school uniform.
"Let me make this clear to you, human. Eda isn't your mother, you're not her daughter, you're not a Clawthorne, You aren't even a witch! You're just a filthy human she found on the street like trash! You don't belong here, you've never belonged here. So leave!" Lilith barked before throwing Luz towards the entrance of the bridge.
Quickly, Lilith snatched Olwbert from the air and held him tight in her grasp.
"Edalyn is finally with her family. Her real family." said Lilith as she tapped the end of her staff onto the bridge which caused its gears to turn and draw the bridge in, creating a gap between the castle and where Luz was standing.
"Go back to your world, this one is ours." Lilith said coldly as she stared as Luz.
Luz watched helplessly as Eda, Owlbert, and Lilith vanished into the darkness of the castle before the doors slammed shut.
Later, Luz returned home to see that she was in for a surprise when she got home only for it to be ruined by today's events.
Realizing that something bad happened, Hooty and King comforted Luz as she fell to her knees and cried.
That night, Luz slept in Eda's nest which is something she hasn't done since she was younger.
King war curled up next to Luz's belly as Hooty stretched himself and rested behind Luz's back while the girl herself remained awake with tear stains on her face.
In her hands was a small toy owl toy Eda made for Luz years ago as a birthday present. The memories of her adopted mother flooded Luz's mind as she started to cry again.
"mommy..." she whimpered
