Owl house - Fight against false fate

Chapter 2

After Luz and Boscha had managed to put out the fire and picked up the ruined gauntlet, they turned to the door to see how far Luz had come with the drawing before the gauntlet started malfunctioning. "I almost finished it!" Luz said. "I guess that is somewhat a good result!"

"Considering that you almost last your hand, I can't agree with you!" Boscha said. Luz said nothing. She grabbed her right hand reflexively at the mention of it. They stood so for a moment in silence, before Luz shock her head violently and slap her hands against her cheeks.

"No point to be thinking about what could have happen, we need to get going again!" Luz said with some new find determinations. "Right!" Boscha said nodded, feeling a little better by those words. She turned back to the door. "So what now?" she asked.

"I have to finished what I started to do the old fashion way!" Luz said as she took out a chalk from her one of her pouches. "And how are you going to reach up to draw? Are you planning to stand on my shoulders to do it?" Boscha asked not liking the idea.

Luz laugh a little "No! I had something else in mind, but I like what you suggested!" Luz said as she took out a paper and threw it in front of her. As soon as the paper meet the ground it started to light up and ice began appear and began to form into a stairs that lead up to the door centre portion.

"Why didn't you do this from the start?" Boscha asked, impressed of that she saw. "One, I wanted to test the gauntlet and two, you complained it would take time!" Luz answered climbing the stairs. Boscha shrugged her shoulder.

After some minutes, Luz was finished drawing and walked down to the stairs. Soon she stood near the foot of the door and touched the glyph. The glyph started too lit up and soon the door started open up. Air push by them as to door sucked it in as it opened more and more.

Soon the door was fully open and Luz and Boscha stood by the entrance looking into the darkness inside. "Let's see if what's inside was worth all the trouble!" Boscha said. Luz nodded and began to send in the light orbs.

The room they entered was around four times sex meters in area. As the light orbs illuminated more of the room, they saw the walls were covered with ancient text, expect for one. The wall right in front of the entranced had only half the wall covered in text, while the other half showed picture.

Luz took off her back pack and started digging through it for her digital camera. Boscha meanwhile walked around, looking at the walls. She stopped in front the picture wall and stared at it. "Hey Luz?" Boscha asked.

Luz, who had fished up her camera and put back her back pack, turned towards the dark pink hair girl. "Yeah, what is it?" she replied. "What do you think of this picture is telling?" Boscha asked as she point at it.

Luz looked closer at the picture. It showed two group of people standing face against each other. The group on the left side all looked a like human expect their ears where pointy. The group on the right on the other hand, all looked different. Some stood upright, others were on all fours. Some had more limbs, others fewer and so on. Luz knew exactly what the group represented. "They are witches and demons!" Luz said. Boscha looked at Luz with surprise.

"Are you sure?" Boscha asked. Luz nodded. "I am!" She answered. Boscha looked back at the wall. "So...what are they doing?" She asked. Luz looked at the middle of the picture. There she saw that the foremost of each group were reaching out their hands and shake them. Right behind them stood some people, each holding white flags.

"I believe they are stopped fight and negotiating peace! Unless a white flag and handshake mean something else here on the Boiling isle!" Luz said. Boscha continued to look at the wall as Luz words sank in. "Peace" She said after a while.

Both of them stood in silence for some time. Eventually break Luz the silence. "I never imagined that I would try in the future to find a way to restore peace to the Boiling isle when I first came here seven years ago!" Luz said. "Yeah! I wouldn't believe you if you told me a year ago this would happen!" Boscha replied.

They went quieted again as they started to think back all incident that began to happen a year ago, when life turned upside down for everyone on the Boiling isle.

At first it was only more often strange weather, such as boiling rain, scolding hot north wind, gorinador, shell hail and painbow. Soon started the flora and fauna to act strangle. It had come in report the people had been attacked by animal that was normally shy and peaceful. Their where some report also about animal entered town and start rampaging.

Luz remembered the first time it happen, as she was in town on a date with Amity. But it was the latest incident that had shaken everyone to the core, the report of people turn into mindless beast. No one knew why people would suddenly transform, but it were discovered that the transformation where similar, if not identical, to Eda's and Lilith's curse.

Upon that discover, Emperor Belos announced temporary ban of magic until the source were found with the expectation for education and works. That temporary ban of magic had been in practise for nine months now and still people transforms.

Anyone how had or was suspected to either illegal uses of magic or transform in a beast, the emperors coven would come and drag them to the prison. Luz and her friends were furious over it all and decided to help people as it and find the source of the problem, something Belos hadn't done at all.

Belos didn't take too kindly to theirs interferes and put bounty on almost everyone, especially Luz who had the biggest bounty of all. Her bounty was at the moment 5 000 000 000 000 snails, beaten her mentor old one and she was proud of it and so were Eda and King, the rest not so much.

Luz was walking around and took picture of all the walls with the text. Meanwhile Boscha was looking around to see if they had missed anything. She came to the conclusion that they had not. She looked back at Luz who photographed the right wall now.

"Human technology is fascinating!" Boscha thought. "They have no magic and yet they live comfortable lives without it, even thrives." When Boscha first visit the human world, she had not high expectation about human and there world. She thought like most how visits human world that they uncivilised and superstitions, because of old human history books that would occasionally come to Boiling isle.

How wrong she was. Boscha smile at memory of how chocked she had become. She had stared all around with her wide eyes open at everything. The wagon that pulled it self forward. Large screens with moving images that made the crystal balls at home look small and insignificant. Sweets like tasted something from the higher plans and flower, so many flowers.

As she thought of flowers, she began to think of her short, but strong turquoise-blue hair girlfriend and her smile widen. "Boiling isle and Earth to Boscha! Hello!" Luz said waving her hands in front of the three eyed girl. Boscha jerked from her thought back to reality. "Uhm...Yes! What!" she said, looking at the brownish-purple hair girl.

"I said that I was finished with taken all photos of the walls!" Luz said, grinning. "Oh...Yeah. That's good." Boscha said not sure why Luz where grinning. "Did you find anything or did you stand there thinking about Willow?" Luz said mischievous.

Boscha eyes widened as her face turned red. "Uhm...What! NO! I didn't!" she answered flustered. "Boscha!" Luz said, grinning. "I have seen that face before and I know it is a face that belongs to someone who's thinking about their special one, which in your case is Willow!" She continued.

"Shut up!" Boscha snapped blushing. Luz laughed. "Come on now let's..." Luz began. "You have company!" a voice said. Luz grabbed her red painted reinforced baseball bat and turned to the door. "Luz! What are..." Boscha began, but was interrupted. "We have company!" she said.

Boscha reach down for her battle potion and grabbed a couple. "Come out and show yourself!" Luz shouted. Second after she shouted, six white robed men with bird like masked emerged from the door. They stood in a line with their spear pointed at the two girls.

From behind the guard, came a white robed girl also with a bird like masked, but it did only cover half of her face. The Emperor's coven symbols on her rob, shines a little in the light orbs light. In her right hand rested a sword.

"Good evening Luz!" The white robed girl saidcoldly. "Good evening to you too, good-looking!" Luz said flirty.