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Luz slowly woke up and saw five eyes staring at her. She sat up and looked at Amity.

"Amity, are you okay?"

"Am I okay? Luz! You just got shot in the chest with a foot-long poison needle and you're asking if I'm okay!?" Amity angrily hugged Luz, "Never do that again."

"Luz; Amity and I used some of your glyphs to heal you and we saw something inside you." Boscha said.

"What do you mean you saw something inside of me? What is it?"

Amity placed her hands on Luz's shoulder's and looked at her.

"Luz, we used your X-ray glyph on you to see if anything important was hit, we saw your heart. Luz, you're a witch." Amity said.

"Amity, I know I'm a witch. I spent the summer training with Eda to-"

"No Luz. We aren't talking about your glyphs and recent training; you have a magic sack on your heart."

"Amity, if that was true; I could do magic like you and Boscha." Luz did a circle motion with her finger and nothing happened, "See, I can't make spell circles."

"Luz, we know what we saw." Boscha said.

The three of them continued to talk before the sound of movement caught their attention. Boscha grabbed a potion, Luz grabbed a fire glyph, and Amity had her finger's ready to summon an Abomination. A large plant type creature made its way into the cave and roared at them. It swiped at them with its large wooden arms. The girls dodge the strike and ran out of the cave and move to an opening a few feet away. The plant demon crawls out of the cave and stood up. They managed to get a good look at it. It was nearly thirty feet tall, made mostly of wood, and had vines hanging off of it. Luz taps her glyph and a fireball appears in her hand. She throws it at the demon and the demon starts to shake its arms to get the fire off.

"Boscha, what kind of demon is that?" Luz asked.

Boscha looked through the pages but couldn't find the creature anywhere.

"It's not in the book!"

"How do we take it down if we don't know what it can do?" Amity asked.

"Do the both of you know fire spells?" Luz asked.

They both nodded and summoned fire and Luz took out another fire glyph and activated it.

"Get ready!" Luz said, "Fire!"

The three of them threw fire at the monster and it stumbled backwards. The continued to throw fire at it until the wooden skin starts to burn. The wood cracks and a three foot long worm jumps out and lands in front of them, dead. The monster fell down and disintegrated. All that was left was girl in a Hexside uniform.

"Willow?!" Luz said.

Willow opened her eyes and looked around.

"Oh, what happened?" She asked before standing up.

"Willow, are you okay?" Luz asked.

"Luz?! What are you doing here?"

Willow ran at Luz and gave her a big hug. A little too big, as Luz started turning purple from a lack of oxygen.

"I-it's great to see you to Willow." She said before her lack of oxygen started to get to her, "Getting... dark."

Willow let go and Luz started to breathe again. When she had filled her lungs, she looked at the worm.

"Boscha, what is this thing?" Luz asked.

"According to the book, it is a Demonic Change Worm. Apparently, it's capable of turning people into a demonic creature that represents their personality or skill. So, for Willow, it turned her into a living tree because she excels at plant magic."

"Willow, what happened to you?" Luz asked.

"I was heading to school with Gus when what could only be described as Hell opening up happened. We were separated and the thing ended up biting my shoulder. After that I sort of blacked out."

As they were talking about what could've happened on that day, Mrs. Noceda was waking up. She looked around and saw that she was in a cage. Definitely not in her house.

"Did you have a nice nap, Camilia?"

"What do you want with me?!" She shouted.

"You? Nothing. I am more interested in Luz."

"You will never get my daughter."

"Our Daughter. It takes two to tango as they say. I have just as much to do with her living as you do. Unfortunately, you took her away before I could help her become who she's meant to be." He said.

"I took her with me because you were an abusive psychopath! If you think I will let you do so much as lay a hand on her, you are dead wrong!"

"You aren't far off I'm afraid."

"What do you mean?" She growled.

"I'm dying, that's why I need her. She must take my place once I'm gone. It's her destiny." He said before walking away.

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