Home (book 3)

Chapter 1

Luz pov:

I land harshly on the other side of the portal. Amity had encased me in some black armor and protected me from belos.

I quickly got up,"Amity!" I rush to the door to be met with nothing there. The door isn't there anymore. It's just gone. I fell to my knees in front of the old house.

"No." I whisper. The armor slowly dissipates, I try to grab onto it desperately. It's the last bit of Amity I have left,"no! No! NO!"

I clutch onto my shirt. Hoping to grab onto the armor but to no avail. I slam my hand into the ground roughly. I hear someone screaming.

I grip onto the grass before grabbing my own hair and pulling on it. I look up at the blue sky that never felt right. when I notice something. My throat hurts. Am I the one screaming?

I felt someone's arms around me. I quickly pushed myself away and prepared to activate a glyph when I noticed somethings.

One, that someone was my mother. She was waiting for me near the house and probably heard me screaming.

She was waitin for me. After all, I had a mission to do. A mission that no longer felt as important.

Secondly, it was jsut me. My friends were not with me on the other side. Eda didn't come through. Not king or the blight twins. amity didn't come through either. Just me and mom.

Lastly, when I touched the glyph it didn't activate. It didn't grow vines like it was supposed to. It didn't work. It didn't activate.  

I look down at the glyph and tap it again. Nothing happened. My magic isn't working.

"Mamá" I whisper as I drop the glyph, my voice hoarse and full of sorrow,"mamá!" I throw myself into her arms letting a sob rip through me.

My mother held me close. Trying to calm me down enough to figure out what was wrong. I couldn't say it. Despite my efforts I jsut couldn't speak. Just like I couldn't help them.

"Mija it's ok I'm here it's ok. What happened?" My mother whispered. Holding me closer. I sniffle and look up at her,"mamá, dad he-" I couldn't finish. I just continued to cry.

I dunno how long I cried. The only thing I knew was I was in my house again. My mothers house. She was patching me up. And it had begun raining.

I stared at the floor as she tended to my wounds. She had brought some soup to my place on the couch but I couldn't bring myself to eat it.

With a deep sigh mom put it down and jsut held me for a while until it was way past midnight.

Mom helped me upstairs to my room and laid me down in my bed. She kissed my head gently before heading to the door and closing it behind her.

I don't recall falling asleep. I had dreamt. This dream I liked.

I was in the boiling isles. The sun was shining. I was reading on the couch with king. He would ask questions about the story. I would happily answer them.

Eda came over to us and leaned on the couch. She skimmed the part we were at and began to spin a tale of her doing something way cooler.

Suddenly amity was there. She held king in her lap and leaned on me as we heard Eda's tales of grandeur.

One minute we were on the couch the other it was just us two on the roof. The sun was setting and everything felt right. We could hear our friends playing a game in the living room. Their laughs echoed around us.

I admired amity. She looked beautiful. She had her hair down and had a small smile on her lips. The setting sun gives her such a beautiful glow. I began to lean in and as soon as our lips were to touch I woke up.

It was raining. The soft pitter patter of the rain hitting our home. I love rain. It always remind me of....amity.

The rain reminds me of amity.

Amity.

I reach to my neck searching for the ring. I pay my chest then my pockets. The ring! It's gone.

I quickly pull the blanket away and rush outside and look all over the ground near the old house.

"Maybe it's in the boiling isles. I'll go check real quick." I reach for the abandoned door and pull it open. I only saw the crumbling insides. Nothing.

No boiling isles.

No pixies.

No Hooty.

No king.

No eda.

No willow.

No Bosha.

No gus.

No Lilith.

No Edric.

No emira.

I feel myself begin to panic. My breathing becomes shallow and my head begin to spin.

Amity.

No amity. Amity saved me. She got me through the portal. Amity isn't with me. Amity stayed behind. Amity is stuck with belos.

Alarm bells ring throughout my head. Amity isn't here. Amity isn't with me. I try to walk away from the house. I trip over my own feet.

I fall backwards, falling off the patio. I stare up at where the door to the boiling isles should be. I begin to shake. I can't tell if it's from the cold or the reality of my situation hitting me.

"Luz! Luz, bebe, come inside please."

I run a hand through my hair. How am I going to get back? Is everyone ok? The questions run through my head, none of them getting an answer.

I grip my hair and let myself lay back. I stare at the sky as more rain begins to pour down. It's cold.

"Luz baby you need to stop screaming. You need to breathe." My mom holds me close once more. She gently cups my face and moves the hair from my face.

"Follow my breathing. Please honey. Breathe like mamá ok" she whispers and begins to take slow breaths gently placing my hand on her chest. Follow the breathing.

I let myself follow her breathing. Follow mom.

"That's it honey" mom smiles down at me as she gently caresses my cheek,"I got you. Whatever it is, I'll help you. No matter what."

I cling onto mom as tightly as I could. Hiding my face in her neck. I hear a string of 'it'll be ok' and 'I got you' being whispered to me. My eyelids grow heavy as I let my mothers smell envelop me.