The Glyph Monado

Ch. 41: Palismen, Here and There

Meanwhile with Luz and Amity, the human had finished her call with Eda and cleared that she would be staying the night again.

"But you better hurry back soon! Your dragon palisman is getting antsy without you." Eda said through the scroll.

"Well how do you call your staff from the other side of town?" Luz asked, "I can't exactly summon her like you do with Owlbert at the snap of my fingers."

"Then keep her with you or maybe since you have the Monado, you can call her now?" Eda questioned.

"I don't know."

"Well, just try it. Put your hands together, focus on summoning your palisman, and pull them apart to summon your little dragon." Eda said through the scroll.

"Alright."

Luz put her hands together and focused on her palisman.

'Amethyst.' She thought, thinking off her palisman and pulling her hands apart.

To her surprise, the staff formed between them before Amethyst appeared at the top. The dragon lit up at seeing her holder. It shifted to palisman form and nuzzled to Luz cheek, making sounds of delight.

"By those sounds, I believe it worked?" Eda asked through the scroll.

"It did. Thanks Eda." Luz said to her.

"Yeah, well, make sure you come back soon before King takes over your room."

"IF SHE WANTS HER ROOM BACK, SHE WILL HAVE TO SURRENDER THE MONADO TO ME!" King screamed, still acting like a tyrant even after his truth was revealed.

"Have fun with that." Eda said, hanging up.

Luz would deal with King later as she and Amethyst snuggled some more while Amity rested next to her.

'Hmm, I wonder where Amity's palisman, Ghost, is?' Luz wondered.

There was a knock on the door and Luz answered it.

"Emira? What are you doing here?"

"Helping."

She handed Amity's staff to Luz.

"Whatever you did to mom has made her go crazy, she said she would destroy Amity's staff for it."

"Destroy a palisman?" Luz said, getting flashbacks to what she first saw Belos do with a palisman and gripped Ghost's staff tightly.

"Yeah, it's crazy and could hurt Amity greatly but I managed to get it out while Ed make an illusion fake for mom to destroy instead." Emira said as she looked past Luz, seeing Amity in the couch. "How's Amity doing?"

"She's... doing as good as she can." Luz said, "It's been a lot to handle."

"I bet. Mom came home with an eyepatch and scar on her cheek." Emira said, "I assume Mittens did that?"

"...Maybe" Luz said.

Emira crouched down and placed her hands on Luz's shoulders.

"Listen Luz, you know I like you, I think of you as a good friend." Emira said, before her grip got tighter, "But if you do anything to hurt my sister both physically or emotionally, I don't care if you have some magical sword, I will hunt you down and rip you apart. Got it?"

Luz acknowledged the threat but glared at Emira for even assuming something like that.

"I would NEVER want to hurt Amity. I never meant to before and I won't hurt her now." Luz said to the older Blight.

"For your sake, I hope you're right. Not even your sword will help you if you mess up."

Emira left the human to herself as she closed the door behind her, leaving Luz to return to the couch and placing Ghost next to her master.

"Wait, how did she know about my sword?"

Luz looked down to her Monado in necklace form, wondering if she figured that out from just a look.

"That's got to be it." Luz said.

Maybe one day Amity will tell Luz about the origins of her earrings on their first date. Until then, Luz would be left in the dark as she continued to stay by Amity with Amethyst lying next to Ghost. At Blight Industries, Alador was working on something. Something he should've made years ago... divorce papers.

'I've let you do as you pleased for too long, Odalia. Tomorrow, that end for good.' He thought with a firm and determined look on his face.

Next to the papers was his evidence of Odalia's abuse towards Amity. He's going to ruin her, she'll lose everything and he will be the father he should've been all these years.

"I know I have no right but I'm going to be a father that you can be proud of, Mittens." Alador said to himself as he stoved everything away in a personal safe until tomorrow, "I'm done being a pushover."