Boiling Gems (The Owl House x Steven Universe)

Summary: Friends, such lovely things to have

Gwendolyn flew in close, landing in front of the house. "Oh Hooty." She smiled gently at the guard bird. "I brought you some delectable Echo mice." She dangled the creatures from her fingers.

"Treets!" She figured out how to bribe the guard quite a while ago. She didn't join the beast keeper coven without learning how to manipulate animals, demon or otherwise.

"Just eat up dear." She petted the demon as she walked up to the door, knocking on it.

She was sure of it this time. From the fountain of eternal youth, it would revert her owlet back to before she had a curse to begin with! Sure, there was the side effect of a second puberty, but something was better than nothing, right?

Gwen didn't blame Eda for being so difficult. That nasty curse just ruined everything and forced her daughter to drive away any and all signs of hope. Her baby was practically bone thin half the time and wanted by the emperor's coven. Couldn't the people see that all her daughter needed was a little help and not persecution?

She knocked once more on the door, tapping her foot. Come on, don't be out … she didn't need to search the whole city again.

The door opened … to reveal no one? "Hey there." She turned to the small voice, looking at a young boy looking up at her, brown eyes gazing into hers. "Can I help you?"

Gwendolyn looked back at the bird demon. Sure enough, it was Hooty, and if Hooty was here then it had to be Eda's house. "Uh, yes, this is Edalyn Clawthorne's house, correct?"

"Depends." His eyes narrowed. "… Seriously, it depends on who's asking. I have to read a response list." He bright out a sizable piece of paper that traced all the way back into the kitchen.

She idly glanced at the list inside of the house. Ex boyfriends were to be told she moved to the elbow, ex girlfriends were given an address to a hotel, Emperors Coven were to be told she was spotted in the skull, and debt collectors were to be told she was boiled alive. She looked at her own name. "Left for the human world, never returned …" Gwendolyn frowned.

"Again with the human realm, she needs to come up with a better story than that. People won't buy it forever." The boy rolled his eyes. "You're not here to kill her are you?"

She raised an eyebrow. "I'm her mother."

The boy was silent for a few moments. "… Seriously?" He asked with curiosity.

"As serious as a bile-sack attack." Gwen answered.

"That is serious." He nodded, turning to the stairs. "Mama, your Mama is here!" … MAMA!?

"Tell her I'm dead! Or in jail! Both are believable enough!"

"I opened the door, she can hear you!" The child , the poor, poor, child shouted back.

"WHAT!?" Stumbling could be heard as her daughter fell down the stairs. "Lead with that next time, I still had time to jump out the window."

"I came here for a cure …" She dropped her bag to the ground. "But now I see the curse has gone to your very soul."

"Curse, what curse?" The obviously defenseless and helpless soul asked far too innocently.

"The curse of a grandma kiddo." Her corrupted Owlett walked up and ruffled the innocent child's head. "Why don't you head upstairs, I saw King working on a new army he's been needing a commander for."

"Alright." The child ran up the stairs, leaving Gwendolyn and her poor Edalyn.

"Oh little witchlet. I know times are hard for you and you get by with what you can, but that's no excuse to start kidnapping children." She hung her head down low and whipped away the incoming tears. "I may have been too late to save you after all."

"Oh for the love of titan, you too!?" Edalyn growled out. "Why is that everyone's go to option!?"

"It's just …" She shook her head. "I never thought you'd find someone to settle down with you …"

"Settle nothing, I'm raising Lucci all on my own." Eda snapped back.

Gwendolyn raised an eyebrow. "I'm no expert, but I know we still haven't gotten asexual reporduction down with magic …" She tightened her hand along her palasmin. "Do I need to pay an abandoner a visit?"

"Save your breath, Gwendolyn. There's no need to kill anybody… not yet at least ." Her daughter mumbled that last part.

"Oh I see, you don't know who the father is." Now that sounded like the owlett she knew. "I know you're frivolous but I thought you'd be more responsible than that."

"Could you not judge me?" Her owlet asked.

"I came here for the last six years, once every year, and you never mentioned I have a grandchild. You tell me."

"Yeah, because you'd bring up the curse and scare the magic out of him." 

"Not if I can cure you." She remembered why she came. "The fountain of youth, with it we can-"

"Mom no, not another cure." She said with a face that looked afraid and shameful. "I just … I just need them to be calm and happy. He doesn't need to know I'm struggling with this."

The girl always felt so ashamed with herself, Gwen knew it. Hurting her father, ruining chances. It would be so much simpler if she could just accept the hands offered to her. "Tell me Edalyn, does the idea of your child not being with you cause your heart to ache."

"I mean, he goes out with his friends at times, and he's happy so it's fine." She waved off. "It's not like he has plans of leaving me forever and making the house empty and quiet with nothing but my own thoughts." Ah, looks like she was already experiencing the empty nest withdraws. Unhealthy, but the dedication and need to be a parent was there.

"Whenever you teach him something new, do you feel like you've achieved the biggest reward on the planet when he applies it?"

"My heart squeezes and I want to give him treats even if he needs to avoid an addiction at a young age." 

"You're actually being health conscious, my titan you really are a mom." The old woman never thought she see the day. "Fine, I won't push a cure…..for now." Gwendolyn sighed. "But only if you catch me up on everything I've missed so far."

"Fine, fine." The woman sighed. "Come on in, I'll pull out the photo album." 

"An invite inside the house this time, my aren't you becoming courteous?" She teased. "So Lucci?"

"Lucifer Clawthorne, yep. Figured he should get an appropriate name for being the Owl Lady's kid."

She raised an eye. "How is 'Lucifer' an appropriate name?"

"It's from the human realm. You'd laugh your socks off if you learned the meaning." Eda giggled.

"Something tells me I probably won't with your track record." So she had a grandchild now … maybe she could try and stop him from growing up to be a criminal just like his mother.

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Willow laughed as she threw another snowball. "Take this!" She shouted, throwing some more snow at the two. Willow hardly went anywhere else that was outside of Bones Burrow, but with Lucci's mom offering a trip to the Knee, neither she or Amity could refuse.

"Oh no you don't." Amity raised an abomination to attack. "Behold, the power of four hands!" She laughed, throwing even more snowballs.

"Oh is that how you wanna play it." Willow grinned, using plants to make a third arm. "Then how about we …" She looked around. "Where did Lucci go?"

"Up here!" They both turned up, seeing the boy smile … while riding on a makeshift cloud of bubbles, each one containing a snowball. "Hey Mama, you said this is called checklate, right?"

"It's pronounced checkmate!" The woman/renowned criminal shouted as she watched from the sidelines with a cup of something hot in her hands. "And never announce victory until you bury your enemies alive!" Please mean that in a non-literal sense.

"Right, my bad." He nodded. "Alright then, checkmate!" With a snap of the finger, the raining snowballs came forth.

"Ahhh!" Amity shouted as she was forced to use her abomination hands to cover herself in a dome of goo. "Willow, take cover if you want to live!"

Willow moved some of the few plants that could grow with the cold, forming a dome around herself as she heard a hail of snow envelop her. "That's thirty points to me!" Lucci's voice came from beyond the snow.

There was only one obvious counter to such an event. "REVENGE! " Focusing on all the power she had, she reached deep into the green of the isles, forcing herself from the cold white depths by growing an entire tree, shooting her upward. "My turn." The tree bent to her will, using it like a giant shovel to scoop up a giant boulder of snow and catapult it right on top of Lucci.

"Oh, so that's what Mama meant by gloat-" Lucci didn't finish, cut off by the large pile of snow enveloping his body. A few seconds of silence later his head popped out, smiling and laughing. "You're awesome Willow!"

"Yeah, maybe I am." She wondered. Willow was always told to focus on using other forms of magic, but plant magic felt more…magic to her, as weird as that sounded. She heard a lot more praise from her friends when she used plant magic at least.

Lucci stopped laughing when an abomination grabbed him. "Oh Luuuucciiiii." Amity greeted as she held a snowball. "How about I shove one down your throat!"

"No, I don't want brainfreeze!" The boy was helpless as her best friend chased her new friend across the snowy top, unbeknowingly heading toward a downward slope.

"Hey guys, watch out!" She shouted to the two.

"Watch wh-aaaaahhh!" Amity cried out as the two of them fell forward. Dang it, why did Willow have to be so far away? Maybe if she grew a vine she could grab the-

"Wohooo!!" Lucci shouted. That was a weird way to cry out that you were in danger. "Instant sled!" A bright pink light shined as her two friends began sliding down the hill. She looked over to see that they were riding on a … pink sled? "My shield is awesome!"

"He has a shield?" Willow asked Eda as she watched the two slide down, resuming the fun they were currently having.

"Yeah, but it was always wonky. I think he finally got it down pat." The woman smiled. "You go Lucci! I'll make my own and show you how Mama rides faster than awesome itself!" The woman looked at the tree Willow had grown. "This'll do." And chucked a fireball right at it

"…..Wwwwwwwwhhhhhhyyyyyyy...?" Willow groaned painfully, a small part of her dying as she saw her hard work go up into ash.

"Needed something to carve with, obviously." Lucci's mom snorted as she carried out a rickety looking slab of wood and tossed it on the ground. "Hop on unless you want to get left out and become a frozen piece of lettuce."

"What's a lettuce?" She asked, slowly getting onto the makeshift sled.

"Something you'll never know about unless you feel like paying." The woman cackled as she leaned forward. "Now hold on tight, I'm going to use fire to boost our speed to turbo."

"Wait, that doesn't seem like a good ideaaaaaaaa!!!" They began flying forward, the snow melting under them as they flew right past Lucci and Amity, their sled constantly being assaulted with embers. "Lucccccciiiii! Yyyyyooour moooom iiiiiiisssss Crraaaaaazzzzzzy!" She managed to shout as they passed them

"I know! Isn't it the best!?" The boy laughed as he followed their slushy trail, after she and the psycho woman crashed into a snowy pile. "I love this group! We need to have a group name to cement our friendship forever!"

"How about runaways?" Amity suggested. 

"Cool name, but I like living with my parents, my kind and non-control freak and or criminal parents." Willow brought.

"I always found myself a teen at heart." Eda smiled. "You guys can name it whatever, me and Lucci have to head back home soon."

"Aww, do we have to?" The boy complained.

"Now Lucci, you know what happens when King and Hooty are left alone too long."

"I still don't know how they turned the living room into a desert by making rockcorn." Lucci shivered. "Guess it'll be a while before we can find something cool enough to reflect the trio of Lucci Clawthorne , Amity Blight, and Willow Park."

"Lucci, Amity, and Willow…huh…" Amity's eyes widened as she pounded her fist into an open palm. "How about team L.A.W? We look like regular kids that obey the rules when we really do anything but."

"That sounds awesome!" Willow smiled brightly. "Team LAW for life!"

"But Mama, you said to never cheer for the law." Lucci said innocently … titan her perception was warped.

"Right, never taught you about irony." Lucci's mom chuckled. "Don't worry, this will be the one exception. It'll be funny when you shout it out to some Emperor goons."

"Speaking of the Emperor's Coven …" Amity looked nervous. "Your um … sister is … teaching me magic."

Eda looked at her with a blank expression, before snorting. "Ha! Classic Lilly trying to one up me the moment she sees I have a kid. So typical."

"Does this mean I get to play with my aunt instead of running from her?" Lucci asked.

"When it comes to this family, that's basically the same thing." The criminal woman patted the boy on the head. "We'll be seeing more of her from now on, that's for sure." She turned back to Amity. "Just don't try to turn my son in and we'll be good."

"He doesn't point my parents in my direction, I don't point the law in his. A blight always holds up their end of the deal." Amity was so awesome. Loyal, smart, fun, protective … it made her feel warm in her chest to be around her. 

As for Lucci..he was a bit out there and morally questionable, but he knew how to have fun and sparked things up a bit. Yeah, being team L.A.W felt like something she'd love to be apart of.

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Boscha was bored with how long this line was taking. She tried threatening her way to the front, as her moms have taught her to do in the past, but now these morons weren't able to be moved in the slightest. Well, except for the boy, he knew his place. "Lucci, don't do what she says, she's a bully." The glasses moron attempted to undo her hard work.

"But she's super cool about it. It makes her look all sparkly and powerful." The boy said with wide eyes as he kept staring at her weirdly.

"I thought you were against it when people tried to force others to do what they didn't like?" The blight, someone her mom said was supposedly rich, asked with confusion. At least she was good enough to make sense for not backing down, unlike glasses here.

"I just never thought someone could make it work for them." Boscha enjoyed the reveling, even if the way the boy did it made things feel a little awkward. "Besides, we're all going on the same turn when the roller ghoster comes back."

"Yeah, but I'm not moving, and if you move, we'd have to deal with her in the cart behind us, and I don't trust her to not spit gum wads at our backs." Blight groaned.

"Wait, I thought the wind would just blow it back?" The boy asked. "Wouldn't stabbing someone from the back be better on a moving object?"

"Why is that the part you question?" The glasses girl asked with exasperation.

"Mama always says there's no such thing as a dumb question, no matter how gruesome it gets." The boy shrugged. "Also she literally has the scars from being stabbed in the back like fifty times."

"As if I'd stab you losers. I'd get the blood on my new shoes, and the smell of lower class is impossible to get rid of." Boscha scoffed.

"And she's pragmatic enough to not hurt us either." The boy spoke with a dopey smile.

"How is this the situation where Lucci becomes the dumb one?" The Blight asked.

"Two words. Coo-tees." Glasses spoke in a whisper. "Highly contagious and the effects are always instantaneous."

" I don't follow." Both Boscha and Blight asked at the same time.

"Of course... I see our group shall forever attract the oblivious." Glasses sighed.

"Next!" The ticket man called out as they walked forward. "It'll be five snails per person."

The boy whose name she refused to remember patted his pockets, turning to his friends. "Sorry, I only have enough for a couple of Pixie Kabobs."

"Then you're fresh out of luck. Next!" The man gestured to her. Finally, some real social justice occured in the world.

"Wait, I have them right here." The Blight pressed over some purple bulbs. "They're family locked, just press the top."

"Alright …" The man complied, only to be hit with an explosion of abomination goo.

"Free for all, everyone, onto the ghoster!" Glasses called out as all the losers behind her started cheering.

"Free ride!" All the kids cheered as they rushed ahead of her in waves.

"Hey, wait, I was here first!" She shouted as felt herself stumble. Boscha absolutely refused to die in a child stampede for a freaking amusement park ride!

"Come on." The boy grabbed her hand and smiled. "If it's a race, all you have to do is get there first right?" He leaned down, jumping over everyone with her in hand as they landed into the cars. "I'm nailing my mobility lately."

"How'd you do that?" For a round-ish guy, that was slightly above average.

"I have active magic that makes me stronger, helps out with cons when I need them." The boy answered as they got into the third row of carts. "Guess we're riding together."

" Greeaat. Cart buddies with a homeless kid. Joy." She sarcastically responded.

"I'm not homeless." He responded. "I live in an owl."

"..." She turned to the Blight and the glasses girl getting in behind them. "Is he on the bad stuff parents say to stay away from?"

"Surprisingly not. His mom's just crazy." Glasses shrugged.

"I mean she's better than most parents for sure." And here she thought the Blight had a brain.

"Hey, We got everyone on the ghoster and no one hard to spend hard earned allowance money. I call that a win." The boy smiled. "I'm Lucci by the way."

"And I don't care." Boscha responded, closing her two main eyes and used her third eye to occasionally look back at him. "Don't expect me to talk to you after this. My parents say I shouldn't play with trash."

"Weird. My mom says that anything people thow away can be sold back for a higher price on suckers." What a weirdo. She was glad she'd never speak to this dork again after today.

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Eda walked with Lucci through the streets. "So that's how houses get fixed." Lucci looked at a couple of people from the construction coven. "I always thought they just magiced them back to normal."

"That's basically how it works, but there's a couple of extra steps to it." Eda explained as she pointed down. "These people channel magic mainly through their bodies to increase strength. After that, they focus all that power into moving the ground around them to make specific shapes."

He tilted his head in confusion. "Why can't they just wave their arms and fix it all at once?"

"Magic is more of a paint brush than a paint roller kiddo. What you're talking about would probably drain someone dry before they're finished." She'd never thought she'd smile by explaining all the non essence she tried to ignore as a kid. Was this why teachers were still around even when there were too many brats to handle? 

"So whenever you use magic, you drain yourself too?" Lucci asked, and Eda had to bite her tongue to prevent herself from reacting too much. She managed to avoid bringing up the curse this far, and she didn't plan on stopping anytime soon.

"Magic doesn't just pop out of nowhere Lucci. We get it from bile sacs on our hearts." She explained. "You … I'm pretty sure all your magic is inside of that little gem of yours." Maybe she should find a measuring machine to figure out how much energy it actually stored up. "It's more draining on those suckers because they joined a coven and limited their magic. I however never joined one, and can mix every form of magic to make it easier."

He nodded. "Like Abominations and Plants …" He looked around at the construction workers. "It's kinda cool I can do what they do without getting tired at all." Lucci smiled. "It's like a … what did you call it, Life Rack?"

"Life Hack." She corrected him with a laugh. Teaching him human idioms was hilarious, half because he still didn't believe her about the portal door, which was ironic in many ways. "Anyways, these guys take things a step further and create these little power patches they put on stickers for a power boost, and those things sell big on the night market. So you remember the plan?"

"Play a song and distract them while you take them." He recited as he took out the old lute she used to play with Raine.

"No need. We sell free samples at Coven Con. Lots of people love them." … Eda slowly turned to meet the face of Mason … a Coven Head ! "Owl Lady, a pleasure."

"I um … think you have the wrong person." She needed to find a way to get Lucci out of here fast.

"Oh don't worry about that." The man chuckled. "Believe it or not, I'm actually a fan of yours."

"You're what now?" Maybe she got wax in her ears. Or the feathers were growing early.

"Construction is a mixed business. Because it's advanced so far, we've made houses that are stable enough to the elements, but that's caused sales to slow down considerably." He spoke seriously. "But when a woman causes constant property damage everywhere she goes?"

"You get free business as long as I'm on the loose." She snorted at the irony. Helping a Coven Head, wasn't that something? "And they say crime never pays."

Lucci looked back and forth between her and the man. "So he's a good guy?"

"I'm a reasonable one." Mason laughed. "Although you ironically cause too much civilian damage, which means good old Hettei is working overtime … I swear the voodoo dolls she keeps are getting a bit too realistic." He shivered.

"Voodoo, I mastered that back in magic kindergarten." Eda recalled with a chuckle. "I suppose I can't rely on all you coven dorks to be just as tolerant?"

"Nah, the Emperor's Coven is loyal to Belos through and through, but the rest of us are free form and do as we please." Mason explained. "The current Bard Head is so senile he doesn't even know you exist."

The mention of the Bard coven brought up a minor flashback to Eda's youth. Out of all the bridges her curse burned away, her relationship with Raine was then one she desperately wished she could rebuild. "What's a Bard?" Lucci asked.

"Oh.." Eda shook herself out of the mental tangent she was on. Those happened a lot since taking in Lucci. "They're another one of the nine mane covens. They work with sound magic basically."

"Like music?" Her kid poked at the lute in his hands. "So if I'd played this, I'd make music more magical than it is?"

"Hold up eager beaver, bard magic is more than just plucking strings and singing." That was without mentioning whether or not Lucci COULD use magic in that way. "It's all about finding the right notes to make the right effect happen. Otherwise the area around becomes 'wiibly wonky'." She made vague hand gestures. "You gotta know exactly what you want before trying it."

"What I want, huh?" Lucci strummed the lute a couple of times, closing his eyes as he took a deep breath. He began to play a dramatic tone, kinda similar to that 'dun dun dun dunnnn' song she heard once in the Human World. He had talent, keeping the melody going.

As he played, it seemed almost like pink pulses came from the lute. "Hey, watch out!" They turned to see a line snap, sending stone pillars falling down onto a man.

"Wait, Lucci, are you doing.." Eda didn't get to finish as another pulse of pink was sent through the air, causing one of the stone structures the workers were crafting to crumble into boulders that threatened to run them over.

With the song reaching a tone that seemed relatively more tame, tinier slabs of rock and stones had a pink glow eminare around them and began moving like they were marching, stomping over more construction coven members as they marched in single file.

Then the music began to grow higher again, as the building began to unfurl itself at the roots. "Alright, I'm okay with you blowing up buildings here and there, but destroying my work is a very fine line you know." Mason deadpanned.

"Oh relax, my kid's just figuring out his talents. He'll tone it down in a minute." She was still wondering what the hell was happening right now. Lucci's rock powers were enigmatic as it was, and here he was performing bard magic like it was no big deal. There was no possible way Lucci could be human, regardless of being found on earth.

As the music collided once more, the materials began to meet, slowly piling on top of each other as they began forming a new structure. As the music neared its climatic end, it started to slowly form … into Eda, rocking a pose. "Whoa, I still look good." 

Her little rascal finally opened his eyes after all that, a little sweat beading from his forehead. "Did it sound good?"

"Kiddo …" She ruffled his hair. "You did awesome." New talents every day from this little guy.

"What should we do boss?" A Construction Worker asked.

Mason sighed. "Just say it happened while I was on my break, I'd rather not be blamed for this myself." The coven head took a long sip of coffee. "Go now before I wonder if the extra work is worth it."

"It probably won't be." She laughed as she hopped herself and her son on Owlbert. Finally, a suit that won't try to catch them at every opportunity. Nice change of pace considering she actually had people to live for now.

Bleak? Yes. Depressing? Absolutely. There were some days where she was tempted to just let the curse take its course and just live like a wild animal forever.

But Lucci…he was more than just extra insurance for removing feathers off her back. He was her son, and she was his mom…which was why she would never let him go to the human world. Never, ever again.

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"So let me get this straight." Lucci listened as Willow tried to wrap her head around something. "You have stretchy shapeshifting, shields, super strength, bubbles, and the ability to mess with bard magic." She questioned him.

"Yep." He answered as the three of them climbed up a nearby tree.

"You could totally be in the Emperor's Coven if you gave up being a criminal." Amity brought up. "You wouldn't have to work as hard as I do at least."

"Nope, super boring." He groaned. "Aunt Lilly isn't even fun when she tries to 'save me' from Mama." Ever since they first met she's tried to get him away from 'the bad influence'.

"All the talent goes to people who don't want it." Willow muttered.

"But your super talented Willow. What are you talking about? "Lucci asked.

"Well …" She muttered. "Papa got traumatized by plants after one of them ate grandma, so he tries to keep them away from the house, calling them 'evil' and stuff."

"That's dumb. How can plants be evil? That's like calling magic evil. It's just natural nature." Lucci countered. "You love doing plant magic right?"

"Of course!" Willow answered as they've used her magic to make steps grow out of the bark of the tree.

"And as agreed upon with all members of L.A.W, we do whatever we want regardless of what everyone else says."

"Yeah, like, like …" Amity looked around, before gazing at the sky. "I'm gonna drink some fruit straight from the source, blood and all!"

"Yeah..and..and I'm going to..to be a super strong plant magic user that'll bury all her enemies alive!" Willow cheered after shaking off her blush that formed half the time Amity talked.

"And I'm gonna become the most wanted criminal who ever lived!" Lucci shouted. "Even taking down the mighty Boolos when the time is right!"

"Lucci, we're talking doing what we want, not doing something stupid even by our admittedly low standards." Amity retorted. "Start smaller than Belos."

"You're putting me in a pickle here, but I'll see what I can work with." Lucci pondered. "What about that Golden Guard guy?"

"I don't know, he's been around just as long as Belos, right?" Willow asked.

"No, it's just the role of whoever Belos trusts the most. They're always a guy for some reason though." Amity pondered. "I think they'll teach more about it at Hexide when we start."

"Hex-what now?" Lucci asked.

"You know, the school where all witches learn to cast spells?" Willow asked.

"… Sch-oool." Lucci tested the word. "Hmm, doesn't sound right."

"Don't tell your mom never told you about school." Amity asked. "I know she hates authority, but there has to be a limit somewhere."

"She only tells me about important stuff, Iike the easiest people to rob and what buildings are okay to burn down." Like a good mama should.

"Well at school there'll be more people our age to talk to." Willow said. "We could totally get some new friends."

"Well yeah, but then LAW would need new letters." Lucci pointed out.

"I figured that the name just stays between us." Amity noted. "We can make new friends, but the main team will always be just us, being best friends and all that."

"Also, if we make enough friends, we could go against coven heads themselves." Willow smiled. "I know we have brute force covered, but other magic can be cool too."

"A whole army of wild witches overthrew the coven system….time it right and I can make it Mama's birthday gift by the time she's sixty or so." Lucci was definitely getting into this 'school' idea. "Alright, I'll join this 'school' and we shall bring magical freedom to all the isles! Nothing shall get in our wa-Ah!" He slipped on the branch he grabbed onto and started to fall down a small cliffside.

"Lucci, you okay!?" Amity shouted down to him as he hit something on the way down.

"... Yeah … we can add super tough to my list of powers!" He shouted up. "… But not immunity to pain …" The boy muttered. "Don't worry, this ball pit broke my fall."

"Ah…that's not a ball pit." Willow pointed out one of the balls…the whitish oval shaped balls. "I think that's a nest."

"Oooh, fresh meat!" Lucci was giddy as he picked up one of the multitudes of eggs around him. "Mom calls the yolks of these things liquid gold you deep fry."

"It says something that food is your current concern with a nest like this." Amity deadpanned.

"What's that supposed to mean?" He asked. Anything that could taste like gold was was great food.

"Animals either lay giant eggs or multiple small ones … do you realize what kind of mom would be guarding this many large ones?" She asked him.

He looked around. There were what looked to be about a hundred or so eggs. Combined with what he knew about overprotective mama's from his own experience…"…A big, scary, over protective one?"

"That is probably what we're dealing with, yes." Willow nodded. "We should climb back out before said mom shows up and thinks we're trying to eat her eggs." Well Lucci was still tempted to … nah. He wouldn't deprive a mama from her children.

"Fine, I'll just steal a sandwich from somewhere el-ah!" He fell through a hole in the nest.

"Lucci!"

"It's okay…there's another nest under here!" Weirdly cubed shaped eggs though.

"Maybe you should watch where you walk before you fall to the center of the isles." Willow joked as she extended a vine to him.

"Maybe I'd figure out why the sea's always boiling if I did." Lucci thought for a second. "Nah, an adventure for another day." He grabbed the vine as he was pulled up. "I hope everyday can be as fun as today."

"Same." Amity laughed. "Between the constant stuff popping up, and the crazy pranks, it's a blast."

Willow giggled. "And we didn't even have a life-threatening situation to deal with this time."

Grrrrrrr

Lucci paused his climbing. "... The Mama came back, didn't she?"

"Keep climbing and pretend you don't notice." Amity warned him. He had such great friends. They would be team LAW forever.