Grape and Axel made their way up to where Lilith should have been, where her room was, where she would have been, if it wasn't for a certain human that Lilith had captured and brought to the bridge.
'Crap'
Axel and Grape looked on from a window that surveyed the bridge, Lilith stood there, Luz sitting behind her in a bubble.
"She's waiting for the Owl Lady, isn't she?" Axel rhetorically asked.
"One of the most powerful witches," Grape murmured.
"I don't think she'll show," Axel commented.
"Really?" Grape replied, "I heard The Owl Lady had grown to like the human," she recounted.
"Are you sure?" Axel asked in response.
"Yeah, I mean The Owl Lady signed the human up for school," Grape told Axel.
'She did? Why?'
Axel continued to look out the window while rapping his fingers on the windowsill.
'The Owl Lady is an evil witch, so why did she put Luz through education?'
Looking at Luz, Axel wondered what The Owl Lady was thinking.
'Maybe she isn't, no The Owl Lady is a witch, there must be something that The Owl lady was getting out of Luz going to school'
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It wasn't that long before The Owl Lady had shown up to fight Lilith for Luz.
The battle was fierce, and The Owl Lady had Lilith on the back foot. However, Lilith turned the battle around by taking Luz as a hostage.
When he saw that, Axel had almost thrown out a glyph to see if he could stop Lilith, but before he could do anything, it was The Owl Lady herself that saved Luz.
However, in her effort to save Luz, The Owl Lady had run out of magic. Which caused her to turn into an owl-like beast.
'She can do that?'
Lilith easy captured the owl beast, leaving Luz to fly away on the staff The Owl Lady once wielded.
"Ms. Lilith finally got what she wanted," Grape commented.
'This, this is good'
With a nod, Axel turned around and started to walk away.
"Where are you going?" Grape asked.
"To my room," Axel replied continuing to walk away.
'The Owl Lady is away from Luz, Luz probably has the way back to earth, all I need to do is find the portal, and destroy it!'
With a smile underneath his mask, Axel walked down to his room, happy that things have gone right, and knowing in his heart that this was the will of God.
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A new day had dawned, and Axel was noting down yesterday's activities in his notebook. He still had around an hour or so before breakfast started.
Though, as Axel was writing down his thoughts, he heard a commotion coming from the castle.
Out of curiosity and wanting to say something if another scout asked Axel about the noises, Axel collected himself along with his glyphs and headed down to the noise.
Walking down a hall, Axel saw several scouts had been frozen in ice, tied up by vines, and others trying to avoid a fire.
'Looks like glyphs, has someone else-'
"Hyaah!" Luz yelled out throwing an ice glyph at Axel's feet and quickly activating it.
Before Axel could even say anything, his body was frozen in ice.
"Come on!" some kind of fuzzy weasel on Luz shoulders said.
Quickly, Axel took out a fire glyph and slapped it on the ice causing it to melt. Looking back, Axel saw Luz continuing to run somewhere.
"Luz!" Axel called out.
"Axel?" Luz asked turning around.
"Why are you breaking into the Emperor's Castle?" Axel asked.
"What are you doing working in the Emperor's Castle?" Luz asked in response.
"Having a job isn't weird," Axel replied.
"Are you actually working in the Emperor's Coven?" Luz asked suspicious.
"If you're asking me if I hate specifically wild witches the answer is no," Axel replied.
"Oh good," Luz sighed.
"So what are you doing here?" Axel then asked Luz.
"We're here to save Eda!" the weasel on Luz shoulders said proudly.
"Who is Eda and who are you?" Axel asked in response.
"This is King," Luz said pointing to the weasel.
"I'm the King of the Demons!" the weasel said proudly.
"An Eda is the witch who's been taking care of me," Luz explained.
'But the witch who's been taking care of her is'
"Are you trying to break The Owl Lady out?" Axel asked.
"Yes!" Luz said excitedly, "Now come on lets-"
"Luz," Axel interrupts, "Why help her?" he asked.
"Cause she helped me, and she needs help," Luz responded.
"Does she have the way back to earth?" Axel asked.
"Yeah, she does, why?" Luz asked.
'So all I need is to get The Owl Lady to give up the key, but how can I'
Axel then took a long look at Luz.
"What? Do I have something in my hair?" she asked.
'The Owl Lady likes Luz, doesn't she?'
"How about this," Axel said, "We get the key, open the door back to earth, we go through, destroy the key, and make sure nothing can follow us," he explained.
"I can't do that!" Luz exclaimed, "I can't leave everyone behind!" she told Axel.
"Look if you want to take King with you that's fine," Axel replied.
"It's not just King! It's Eda, it's Gus, it's Willow, it's Amity. I'm not leaving them behind!" she replied, refuting Axel's words
"First thing first we have to get out of here," Axel said.
"Not before we free Eda," Luz said.
"We'll talk about that in a minute; we have to move before-"
Before Axel could finish speaking, almost twenty scouts came around the corner ready to put up a fight.
"We shouldn't have stayed still for so long," Axel murmured.
"You started it," Luz pointed out in a whispered tone.
"Well you-"
"Stand down human!" the one of the scouts in the hall said pointing a spear at Luz.
"The situation's taken care of," Axel said stepping in front of Luz, "I now escorting the human," he said grabbing Luz's hand, "Please move out of the way," he said.
"And where are you taking the human?" a guard captain said while stepping out of the crowd, "The cells are back there," they asked.
'Crap, he has rank over me'
"The human wishes to see The Owl Lady, I wish to show her what the witch has become," Axel told the guard captain.
"And how will this help?" the guard captain asked.
"Stay here for a minute human," Axel said to Luz before walking up the guard captain.
"Hmm?" the guard captain exclaimed.
"Look, this human wants to see The Owl Lady, and she's not going to stop hurting scouts until she gets what she wants," Axel told the guard captain, "So I'm hoping that once she sees that The Owl Lady has become a beast, she'll give up and go back," Axel said.
"That doesn't sound exactly up to protocol," the guard captain replied.
"Probably not, but do you how many scouts are you willing to get hurt to force her back in prison?" Axel asked pointing to the several scouts that had been defeated by Luz.
Luz, not able to hear what was going on but seeing Axel and the guard captain turn to her, just nervously waved.
"I understand," the guard captain replied, "Return to your posts!" the guard captain yelled to the other scouts.
The scouts, some disappointed that they couldn't fight and others happy they didn't need to do anything, began to disperse along with the guard captain.
"Come on," Axel said, "Time to see The Owl Lady," he told Luz.
"Well, I could get there without you," Luz replied following Axel.
"I doubt you know your way around this castle," Axel said in response.
"The map helps," Luz said taking out a pencil drawn map.
"Where did you get that from?" Axel asked.