Our Week Off Together!

Fourth Day, Part 3

Luz and Amity finally makes it to town and stops for a brief moment to catch their breaths. "Oh man... why did we... ran all the way here...?" Luz wheezes, "My nerd legs are killing me..."

Amity ceases her own panting and wipes the sweat from her forehead, "We can't idle now. Look!" She gestures the surrounding area, "There's no one in sight, Geoffrey-I mean that stupid slime must have passed through!"

"But what can we do even if we do find it? Eda's the most powerful witch I seen. How can we beat something that can absorb all types of magic?"

"Not all magic..." A memory pops in Amity's head as she turns to Luz, "You were able to freeze it back there with that rune of yours. Maybe your fire rune can harm it. Do you still have your papers with you?"

Luz digs into her pockets for her paper runes but discovers she must have left them behind. Amity watches her pull out her pockets to show and sighs, "Guess you'll have to do what you do best then."

Luz blinks, "Like what?"

"You know, improvise?" Amity explains, "You always find a solution in the thickest moments. Now is going to be the best time for that." It was a touching praise, but her tone had an edge to it.

Luz still feels bitter about their fight but the longer the tension sits between them the more regretful she is that it had ended up this way. The moment they had spending the morning working on the assignments together felt like it happened weeks ago. Why can't they go back to that?

"Amity," Luz hesitantly spoke out and timidly asks, "You don't still think I did it? Do you?"

"Now's not the time, Luz."

"I don't want us to fight-"

"I don't either!" Amity cries out, "I don't want to believe it's you. I could accept you messed with our project, but I can't accept being lied to about it!"

"I'm not lying to you!"

"Our project was obviously sabotaged, Luz! Yet you keep assuming I made an error!" Amity snaps, "I wanted nothing more than to do this project with you. I made this formula a while ago knowing you couldn't properly control an Abomination. I want us to be in the same class and have you pick up the same interests as me! And this is how you repay me?"

Luz clenches her fists, not able to stop the emotions from rising. With closed eyes and no control over her words, she shouts back. "I never asked for you to do any of that!"

That hits Amity way close to home. Her lips tremble and her eyes sting like they're ready to burst. There are many things she's ready to say to her, but a well-timed scream cuts through the dense silence. They both remembered what they came here to do and said nothing to each other as they both ran to the direction where the scream is coming from.

"Out! Get out!" shouted the old man who is currently whacking Geoffrey with a stick as it devours the sweets from the man's candy stand. "I ain't giving you no sugar! Now out!"

"Get away from that thing!" Amity shouts to the man as she enters the scene.

"And let him eat all of my supplies!?" the man shouts back. He holds the stick up again and brings it down with all of his might. Only for the slime to extend an arm to catch the stick and crushes it.

The old man looks at the broken end of his stick with the acidic fumes emitting from the splinters. He looks to Amity and says, "On second thought, it's on the house." He jumps away and runs off, screaming for his life.

Luz catches up with Amity and stares at the slime, slowly growing little by little as it feasts on the candies. "It could've eaten the old man, but it was going directly for his sweets," Amity noticed.