Something Ventured, Someone Framed PT1
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In a hexside classroom, several human items where portrayed on a desk.
"Behold. The wonders of the human realm!" Gus presented his small collection of human items. Though all of them were labeled incorrectly. For example; a cheese grater labeled nail clippers, a rubiks cube labeled weapon? and a paperclip labeled pay-per-clorp
With a smile, Gus picked up the paperclip. "This little fella's one of their most valued objects." He explained. "It aids in the compiling of printed wisdom, the scratching of gunk from under your nails and my favourite...It even mimics the sounds of the human ocean!" He flicked it with one finger, making a twaging sound and smiled with closed eyes and a satisfied look in his face.
"Ah, the human realm. So beautiful." He walked up to the chalkboard and held up the paperclip. "It ist safe to say that the pay-per-clorp is a stunning testament to human ingenuity. Any questions?"
He asked, smiling as he turned around to face the rest of the Human Appreciation Society. All of them were either bored or asleep; Eileen was struggling to keep her eye open, Bo looked like she was in another world and the Bard Track Student was asleep, with drool dripping down His chin.
A boy clothed in a brown uniform raised his hand with a thoroughly bored expression.
"Ah, our newest member; Mattholomule!" Gus happily gestured to him, as the boy slowly stood up.
"A-Augustus, is this what the President of the Human Appreciation Society thinks, passes as Human Artifact?" Mattholomule asked, gesturing to the items on the table. With a confused look Gus walked over to the table.
"Because at my old school, we had real treasures." Mattholomule pushed aside Gus and his collection, with a smirk..
Gus quickly went over and grabbed his stuff as Mattholomule emptied his bag onto the desk, showing off his human artifacts. It consists of a rock painted to look like a cellphone, an egg with a skull painted on it and a shoe made out of mud
and leaves.
Despite all of it being obviously fake, the other members of the club gasp in surpise and awe as they leaned closer to it.
"So real." Bo Said as she looked at the Egg labeled human skull
"Wow!"
"-I wanna touch them."
"Go ahead." Mattholomule smirked and crossed his arms. "In my club, we didn't have any dumb rules."
Gus gasped in response and turned to his list of rules pinned to the chalkboard, "Shh. He didn't mean
that." He whispered as he softly stroked the piece of paper.
Gus glares at everyone touching Mattholomule's human artifacts, before takin them away, earning protest from the others in Response.
"Well, this isn't your club. Thankfully." He said, slamming the shoe against the table. It fell apart, leaving pieces of mud and leaves Back.
"Exactly, who thinks I should be president?" Mattholomule suggested with a smirk, raising his hand up as the others cheered out their approval.
"I do!"
"Mattholomule for prez!"
"T'm an undecided voter" The Bard Track student simply said, crossing his arms. "I wanna touch all the objects first."
The club members continued to talk over each other while Gus glanced at the phone and picked it up. He
weighed it for a bit before suddenly gasping.
"These are fakes!" He exclaimed and turned to Mattholomule, which made the others gasp out in shock and
Matthomule began to stammer Out a response.
"You can't prove that!" Mattholomule breathed deeply, hastily recovering his composure. "You're just trying to distract these human appreciators. You're afraid of getting kicked out of office. It's your word versus mine."
This Statement made the other students to whisper to each other, unsure of who to believe.
"I don't know what to believe in anymore.."
"... My faith in Gus has been broken."
Gus slowly back up into the blackboard as they continue to mumble to each other. He felt a piece of paper unser his hand and turned to look at a newspaper clip with a picture of Luz and Yn on it. Luz was
blocking the camera with a weird expression since she was caught off guard while Yn was oblivious
to it, staring at butterfly. A sudden idea came to Gus.
He smiles as he looks back at the others. "What if I brought in some experts?"
"Yeah, right" Mattholomule scoffed, rolling his eyes. "Who can you find that's a bigger human expert
than any of us?" He gestured at himself.
"How about real humans?" Gus replies, smirking as the others begin to mumble in excitement.
Mattholomule glanced at the others before crossing his arms, glaring at Gus. "Yeah. Uh-huh. A-And you've never brought your friends here. Why?"
"Well, they're busy. They've got jobs." Gus answered before regaining his confidence. "But l'll bring them in tomorrow. They'll prove l'm right." He smiled at them with a prideful Smile.
"Ah, sure you will, Augustus. Sure you will." Mattholomule scoffed, causing Gus to lose his smirk.
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"Gus, we'd Love to go to school with you, but I don't know how we can." Luz Said as she and Yn were rummaging through some boxes in the living room.
Yn already kind of turned back normal, but not fully. His tail, claws and horns were gone, but there were still a few scales that littered his body. He had some under his right eye and on his bracelet arm, which he covered with the sleeve of his hoodie. Luckily almost no one would immediatly see the scales since all of them were the same color as his skin. And his e/c eyes still had a weak orange hue.
He glanced up at Gus and sighed softly. "Bump banned us from Hexside, remember?" He asked, gesturing to his and Luz's banned poster, that were proudly hanged up next to the large wanted poster of Eda. "And I don't think he is changing his mind anytime soon. He'll probably, literally get us killed if we step into the school once again."
"But nothing." Eda scoffed, rummaging through some stuff herself. "Bump did you two a favor. There ain't nothing for you at that dweebus factory." She turned to Gus. "No offense dweebus."
"It's okay. I come from a long line of dweebuses."
Gus said, nodding his head.
Luz slammed her box down, making it clatter. She stands up and faces Eda while crossing her arms. Yn stopped what he was doing and looked at them with a raised eyebrow.
"Well, I would love to go some day. Better than unpacking boxes in the Eda Coven."Luz said, a clear look of annoyance present on her face.
"I Kind of agree with Luz." Yn said raising his Hand. "I want to learn more about what I maybe am, and leaned some magic while I'm at it. Luz wants this too by the way. And I think school would be the best place for this."
"Oh, you think you're clever, huh?" Eda scowls, putting her hands on her hips as she stood up and looked at the two teens.
"As a matter of fact; I do think I'm clever. I teached myself all the spells that I know and I am studying a type of magic that not even you could use." He smirked at Eda as he stood up and crossed his arms.
This made Eda narrow her eyes at the Teen. After a few seconds she began to smiled.
"You mean the type of magic that you barely can use?"
Yn narrowed his eyes at her, but continued to Smile.
"Oh come on guys. Not now!" Luz Said and Gus gave her a confused look.
"Has this been going on for some time?" He asked, tilting his head. Luz nodded.
"Yeah, they had some arguments about the whole learning from her stuff. They're at eachothers throat since then."
"Barely? I think you forgot that you will never even use one Dragon spell. So I'll always be one step ahead of you." Yn said with a teasing tone. They just glared at eachother for a moment.
"Oooh! Fight! Fight! Fight!" King cheered, jumping on a Box.
"Can it King!" Yn and Eda shouted at King, before the older Witch looked Back at the Teens.
"Anyways, it's the Bad Girl Coven, Not Eda Coven. And second... I guess you don't want in on the shirt Order huh?" Eda asked, pulling out a piece of paper with a drawing of a puprle shirt on it. On it was a small version of Eda riding on her staff like a skateboard and the words BAD GIRL COVEN written in bold letters with lightning surrounding them.
"I don't care about T-Shirts Eda!" Luz retorted, glaring at Eda. "I want to learn Magic! And they teach that at Hexside!" She gestured to Gus.
"I actually do want a T-Shirt. But that's beside the point." Yn muttered.
"I mean, yeah, well." Eda suddenly growled and turned to leave. "I don't wanna hear another word about Hexside, unless it's Hexside is on fire and let's grab front row seats!" And with that, Eda angrily slammed the door shut as she left the house.
"Oh, boy." Yn sigh, looking at the door. "Seems like er really set her off this time. Oh, Well." He said with a shrug.
"Aw, look what you did." King said in a sympathetic tone before smirking. "I'm gonna go rub it in. Nyeh!"
King jumped off from the boxes and went over to the door, following after Eda.
After he left, Luz sighe
and dejectedly sat on the couch
Sighing, Yn sat down next to her and gently pat her head. "There, there. I'm
sure Eda will see reason... some day."
"I wish." Luz grumbled in response as she curled up to his side.
"L-Luz, a-about the ban." Gus stuttered, nervously wringing his fingers together. "I, uh, used my H. A.
S. presidential authority to pull some strings. You've two been given a full pardon!" Gus said, making both teens perk up.
"You mean..." Yn raised an eyebrow, looking at Gus as Luz looks at him, expectantly.
"I got the ban lifted!" Gus said with a small smile.
"Oh my gosh. Yes, yes, yes!" Luz cheered, excitedly shaking Yn excitedly back and forth.
"Luz, can you chill for a second?" He grunted, head dizzy from the shaking.
Much to his relief, she actually stopped and turns to Gus.
"Of course, we'll be there tomorrow! This will be great!" Luz jumped on the couch, pumping her fists into the air.. "I get to see the school and save the president"
"Great! I'm ll see you two tomorrow!" Gus said, moving over to the door.
"Yn, we're going to Hexside!"
"I know, Luz... So stop shaking me around!" That's what Gus heard before closing the door behind him.
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Once outside, Gus smiled and jumped up in joy.
"Yes! You did it, Gus!" He said, doing a little victory dance. "You did it, Gus~ You're the smartest You're the best~"
"Sweet moves, little dude." Hooty suddenly said, earning him a yelp of surprise from Gus.
"I always forget you're there."
"I forget I'm here too." Hooty said, tilting his head a bit to the side. "Boop."
Gus stares at Hooty for a few seconds before smiling. "This is gonna work out after all."
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"This is not going to work out at all!" Willow said, almost shouting. Her eyes and voice were filled with worry.
"Well... I feel like I took care of every potential problems." Gus said, nervously rubbing the back of his head.
"You lied to our best friends and told them you got their Ban lifted. That seems like a potential problem!" Willow pointed out with a frown. "And what if Yn finds out about this? We literally don't know how he would react."
"I know." Gus said, nervously fidgetting a bit. "But you don't understand. The members were going mad. They were bloodthirsty. They were touching objects. I
had no choice!"
"Really? What about all the wanted posters around school?" Willow raised an eyebrow, still highly skeptical of his plan.
"What wanted posters?" Gus smirked and pulled the wanted posters out of his bag. He then pulls out a pair of black cowls. "I also got these. To keep them undercover."
"Undercover from what?" Luz asked as she and YN walks over to the two. Gus slammed the cowl backwards over their heads, causing Luz to squeak in surprise.
Yn sighed and turned his cowl around before pulling down the hood. He glanced at Gus and raised and eyebrow in suspicion, crossing his arms.
"Behold your new cowls." Gus nervously said, hastily turning around to the duo.
"Whoa. I love it." Luz said, her voice now muffled.
Yn glanced at Luz and turned the cowl around before pulling the hood down.
Undeterred and hair a little messy, Luz sniffed her cowl, "On the Boiling Isles new things smell old" She cheerfully said.
"And dusty" Yn sneezed, rubbing his nose.
"Yep. Put it on. Hide your ears." Gus nervously chuckles as he gives you a cowl. "Wanna keep you
under wraps 'till the big reveal."
"If you say so." Yn shrugged, pulling up the hood over his head. "I mean. I look like a witch so it probably wouldn't make a big difference."
Willow frowned, which
yn noticed.
'Wonder what's that about.'
"Oh, a showman. I totally get it. You bring the razzle." Luz pulled her hood back up and smiled. "We
bring the dazzle." After that, she threw handfuls of colorful confetti from her pockets as Willow and Gus stared at her, confused.
"Why do you have confetti on you?" Yn asked, tilting his head.
"I thought she normally just had it on her." Willow said.
Yn and Willow looked at eachother for a moment, before shrugging.
"That's for me to know and for you to not find out." Luz said, smiling.
Yn rolled his eyes with a chuckle.
Just then something screamed loudly. Gus rolled up his sleeve and poked his demon-watch in the eye making it stop.
"Nice watch. I need one!" Yn said nodding to himself.
"Trust me. You would not regret it." Gus replied. "But, uh, this was my Alarm. We better get going." He walked up to the school and pulled Luz with him. "See you after school Willow?"
"Bye, friend. Be Safe. Make good choices!" Luz said, waving at Willow.
"Well, I better follow them." Yn said, waving at Willow as well. "We'll talk later." And then he quickly followed Luz and Gus.
"Oh Gus, I hope you know what you're doing." Willow muttered with a frown.
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~[Back At The Owl House]~
"I'm trying to protect them. Hexside chews up anything unique and spits out bland mush." Eda grumbled, picking up a blue flower. She ripped it
apart and she watched as it crumbles into pieces falling to the ground.
"I chew insects. I turn them into mush." Hooty says, looking at the flies surrounding him.
"Not only that, Yn's a probably some kind of hybrid. Most likely a dragon of all things!" Eda threw her hands up in the air in agitation and huffed, crossing her arms. "People would kill just to get their hands on one and getting him into school would put him at risk. And I don't want to know what The Emperor's Coven would do, when they find out about him.. I promised to protect him." She mumbled, as her conversation with Yuhria from so many years ago come's back to mind.
"But most oft hat's my beef. Don't they need to draw their own conclusions?" Eda murmured, changing the topic back to the school.
"My beef is insects. They're what I eat." Hooty cheerfully said.
"You're just gonna be unhelpful, huh?" Eda asked, looking at him with a soft smile.
"AllT know is, you taught me and I turned out just fine." Hooty stated. He then turned to the side and sticked out his tongue to get a fly that was walking right next to his head.
Eda stared at him in disappointment and a little bit of concern.
"..I gotta get those kids into school."
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The Trio was walking through the hallways of Hexside.
"Man. I actually kinda missed this place." Yn said with a soft smile.
The come by a student, who was preparing to head to class when his backpack flew off him, making him fall to the ground.
"Hey! Give that back!" He shouted, chasing after his bag as two other students float it between them. They laughed until one of the bullies was
yanked to the side by two guards.
They were dressed in black suits with blue robes. But their most prominent feature is their upside-down, skull-like faces.
The school guard leans down to the bully as a cracking sound was heard and they sniff at the student.
"Trouble."
The other backed away nervously before he is also caught by a hook.
"No! Detention!" He exclaimed as the two bullies got dragged away.
"The only thing I'm guilty of is being too real!"
"That's new..." Luz said as they walked to the hallway.
"Yeah...what's with the creepy dudes?" Yn asked, tilting his head and gesturing to the nightmarish creatures. "Like I'm happy, that they are getting rid of bullying, but that's just plain creepy.
"Well, they kinda showed up after your last visit." Gus explains, nervously gripping onto his bag. "They smell trouble. Literally"
"Is that so.." Yn said, a little bit worried.
All of a sudden, one of school guards stopped and turn to look at the three, tilting its head.
"Trouble"
Gus nervously chuckled and grabbed Luz's hand before running away.
"Okay, time to run for no
particular reason."
"For No reason. Sure." Yn narrowed his eyes and hurry after the two, easily catching up to them.
In his haste, Gus accidentally bumped into Mattholomule. He fell to the Floor and all of the collected wanted posters and his president crown fell out of his bag, spilling out onto the floor. Though, he was quick to collect
them all before Yn or Luz managed to see them.
"Hey. Gus, you alright?" Yn asked, helping the younger teen up to his feet.
"Augustus, you should really watch where you going. Don't want the president of the H. A. S. getting hurt on his last day in office" Mattholomule smirks, picking up the crown and dusting it off.
'Urgh, it's that kinda kid.' Yn thought as he glared at the smug smirk on Mattholomule's face, before he snatched the crown away from him, with a calm face.
"I think you should be watching your mouth, brat. It won't be his Last day. But it will be your's if you're not careful." Yn said, slightly growling out the last part. His eyes briefly flashed orange as He gave the crown
back to Gus.
Mattholomule paled in response,
staggering back before his confidence slowly returned
"T- these must be your humans." He cleared his throat, taking a look at Luz while maintaining his distance from Yn. "Hmm. Looks like a pair of
witchlings to me." He said, gaining a bit of his confidence back.
"Psst. Psst!"Gus whispers to the two and tugged on his ears. "Dazzle."
"Oh." Luz smiled, glancing at Yn. He looked at her and shrugged before nodding or her to go on.
She made a trumpet sound and pullrd her hood down, showing
off her round ears. "Ta-da!"
Mattholomule gasped, "Human!" He said with worry and fear in his eyes. He quickly looked over to Yn who didn't take off his scowl yet. "What about him? He doesn't look human!"
"Because I'm only half human dumbass." Yn said, pulling off his scowl. "But Luz can Back Up my knowledge, since we've been friends for basically our whole Life."
Luz nodded hastily. "He's right. We two have been in the human realm for our entire lives!"
"So you see. They are not just any humans. They're Expert humans." Gus
proudly declared, sticking by your side.
"They're here to authenticate your treasures." Gus said, putting his crown back into his bag as you and Luz put your hoods back up.
With a smirk, Gus walked past Mattholomule and whispers, "See you at the meeting"
Once the trio left, Mattholomule sank to the floor in distraught and panic.
"Oh, no, no, no, no!" He frantically gripped onto his hair, while muttering. "They can't know I lied. Then they'll never make me president. Huh?"
He notices something on the ground quickly picked it up.
It was one of Luz's banned posters. He laughed as a smirk appeared on his face.
"Ooh, Gus, I have you now."
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"So... Half human?" Gus asked as they continued to walk through the halls.
"Yeah, it's pretty recent discovery." Yn shrugged, not looking at the smaller boy, while walking.
"So I am one of the first to know?!" Gus asked excitedly, earning a chuckle from Yn.
"Actually, No. You are the the last of my friends to know."
"What?! Who did now earlier?" Gus asked almost desperately.
"Well, let's See... Eda, King Luz, Willow... Amity..." Yn started to list the people, who knew before Gus did.
"Even Amity? Aw man..." Gus said dissapointed.
Luz chuckled and patted him on the back.
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Eda looked at the forebonding building in front of her and sighed, the wind blowing through her hairs.
"Ugh, I had this nightmare before...." She groaned as she entered the school.
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"As president of the H. A. S., I should feel bad about dunking on one of our own members. But as a Gus I feel like doing this:" Gus did a little dances, making the two teens smile at him. "-Oh, oh, yeah~ Oh, yeah, what, oh~"
While he was busy dancing in his own world, Yn spotted a trophy case and walked over to it.
"Woah, Luz. Look at all of these!"
"Wow! Who got the trophy for the most bones?"
Luz questioned, turning around to face Gus.
"Wait really? I didn't see that one." Ym said, looking at the trophies again. "Damn. That's impressive."
Just then, a hall monitor rounded the corner and stops, sniffing at the air. Gus hurriedly runs in and dragged Luz and Yn away before they get caught.
"Whoa!" Luz yelps.
"Alright what the fuck is up with you? Everytime we look at something you drag us away. " YN grunted, trying not to trip as he kept up with Gus' short strides. "I understand, that you want us to knock that Mattholomule kid down a few pegs.. Trust me. I want it too. But that doesn't mean you can just pull us around like you please. So. What are you hiding from us?" It kind of hurt him to ask that question, since he wanted to trust Gus. But it just seemed he hid something.
"We don't have time for this right now. We gotta get to the clubroom." Gus simply stated.
"Okay. But next time you have to give us a full tour." Luz said as her smile returns.
"Yeah, next time." Gus nervously laughs, making Yn more suspicious of him.
"Ooh. It's the abomination professor." Luz said, stopping once she spot him. "We should introduce ourselves. Apologize for the incident."
Yn hummed, thinking for a couple of Seconds. "Or... You know... We could Not do that." Yn said, walking away. But Luz quickly grabbed and pulled him to the abomination teacher.
"Hey, Mr. Abomination Professor. The abominominator. Remember us?" Luz said before making groaning noises that were a mix of a bear and a dog
The abomination professor narrowed his eyes at her, trying to remember when he last saw her.
"I don't think he does..." Yn said, glancing at Luz as she continues to make "abomination "noises.
"Oh, wouldn't you know? We suddenly have time for a full tour of Hexside." Gus suddenly said, quickly pushing the two teens away.
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And that's where I finish this chapter! Haha!
Well, I hope you liked it and I'll see you in the next one!