Lumity's Beating Heart

Beating Heart Day

Luz woke up on August the Fourteenth ready for another great day on the magical boiling isles. In her past life she might've quoted some latin or some piece of niche foreign media to express how she felt to the outside world. But today she got up, smiled and went downstairs. Luz was simply exuding pleasantness that morning, not unusual. King was waiting for her arrival as happy to see her as he'd been every day since she arrived. She prepared breakfast for her mentor Eda, and King. Hooty the house owl informed the house that it was 9:00 am, Luz hoped that Eda would get up so that she could film her doing magic and learn even more spells. She knew from experience however, that there was no getting Eda to do anything on any type of schedule. Eda eventually found her way down the stairs around 10:00.
Luz, serving her breakfast asked "how is your day going "
. Eda, taking a pause her face slowly whitened and she replied.
"Day..... now wait a minute!" her eyes opened wide she sped through the kitchen and turned to a calendar.
Flipping through it she muttered to herself "Oh no no no this isn't good"

After a second's thought she shouted frenziedly "Luz! We need to go somewhere fast!"

The ground began to tremble and Luz who was now scared and excited for adventure nervously responded "Where?"

Eda immediately, while prepping her staff for take off replied "somewhere people who know me, won't find me!"
Luz scooped up king and her magical supplies, which included a pen paper and a notepad of prewritten spells stuffed them all into a recently acquired fanny pack and hopped on Eda's Staff.

Gently guiding the staff toward her destination she says " I have an idea"
Eda, relieved, says "I'm glad I could count on you".

After an uncomfortable minute of silence Luz ask "so.... what's going on?"

Eda chuckles "it's Beating Heart day"
Luz gave Eda a puzzled look.
"It's a day where past lovers seek to win the hearts of those they haven't gotten over by cutting it out of them." Eda said in a way that made the seriousness of her comment impossible to determine by Luz.
Luz gave a mildly disgusted face. Eda, seeing this responded "it's not as bad as it seems besides where are you taking us?"
Just as the staff rounded a forest and went high up in the sky Luz guided it to a tower and as she got off proudly presented the school by saying "School!"
Eda rolled her eyes and got off the staff. "I hate it here, though I've never seen it from this view"
Luz kicked down three times and a magical trapdoor appeared and while climbing down she yelled triumphantly "nobody will look for you at school that's for sure"
Eda shrugged, she had to agree with that.

In the tower Luz and Eda were greeted enthusiastically by Willow and Gus. After explaining the situation and catching up with each other, Luz asks what Willow and Gus were planning on doing. After some impressively discreet blushing, Willow explains that her and Gus were planning on watching the beating heart ceremony that the school was going to put on. Luz being able to take a hint for once about how her intrusion might be unwelcome stood up and tried to dismiss herself and Eda when Eda cut her off.

"A bunch of school kids participating in a-! Oh that sounds entertaining" Eda Chuckled, Luz you don't want to miss this.

The two students shared an awkward and embarrassed look, Luz knew she was lacking vital information but Eda was absolutely bubbling with excitement. Glad she had prepared Luz reached into her pockets and pulled out her pad of spells, she flipped for a while until she found what she wanted. Two disguising spells, she tapped her pen to her runes and the spells were cast. Eda took notice.

"Good thinking Luz! Now it's time!" she cackled "Lead the way kiddos!"

As they headed down the tower Luz whispered to her friends "what's going on?" while the gang made their way to the school's coliseum Willow did most of the talking. She explained that the Beating Heart Ceremony was a yearly celebration of the pursuit of love. She explained how the event had changed since its inception and now it was mostly a friendly magic tournament. It's mostly for older students but anyone can join technically. Willow hastily added that she and Gus just wanted to watch and neither planned on participating. Luz followed and groaned internally about Eda's apparent obliviousness to Willow's and Gus' romantic intentions. After arriving at the coliseum and purchasing tickets they made their way to the seats. Their seats were in the middle of the coliseum which means the action could be perceived with minimum eye strain. In an attempt to give Willow and guys some space she told eda she wanted to explore the different table set up around. Eda, knowing exactly Willow and Gus' romantic intentions and wanting in part to view the cuteness that would ensue dismissed her. Eda made some comment about not wanting to miss the beginning of the action so Luz awkwardly slinked away to find something interesting to do.