| Incidents and Family Secrets | |
| Season 1, Episode 4 | |
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| First Aired (USA) November 1, 2020 (FF) November 2, 2020 (AO3) | |
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"Incidents and Family Secrets", alternatively known as "Course Study and Family Secrets", is the fourth chapter of Luz Clawthorne: Hexside's Number One Delinquent Witch, as well as the fourth chapter of Luz Clawthorne overall.
Synopsis[]
Luz and Amity plan out their first tutoring session; Luz learns something new about Eda; Amity suffers a shocking experience.
Plot[]
"Well, guess these kids, and the teaching staff, are now afraid of me." Eda said as she saw one student looking at her as he ran off in fear. After Luz manages to calm Eda down from her temper, she escorted her out of the building.
"At least you got to keep your job, who knew that putting the fear of the Titan was a requirement." Luz states. "Still, did you have to shake Professor Quivers?"
"Well, I can’t help trying to look out for you and all…” Eda looks at Luz, the old owl lady looks concern for her daughter "I just...don't like that this happened to you."
Luz sighs, understands her mother’s intentions "Look, Mom, all they did was wrote an unoriginal and uninspiring hate message and they’re too cowardly to face me upfront about it. It's not like they confronted me and beat me up and call me a round-eared freak to my face."
Luz scoffs it off but notices her mom's worried look. She places her hand on her mom's shoulder. "Hey, I'm fine. You're the one who've taught me to not let mean words on the wall upset me. If I'm upset about it, they win."
"Guess I did taught you that." Eda replied, smiled at her daughter being brave, until she saw Luz take her wallet. “Hey!"
“Taught me too well.” Luz replied with a smirk, handing her mom’s wallet back to her.
"Are you sure you'll be okay, kiddo?" Eda asks after retrieving her wallet, thinking she taught her daughter too good when it comes to pick pocketing.
"Positive." Luz assures her, "Like you said, us Clawthornes are tougher than we look."
"Good and remember to always listen to whatever your tutor teaches you. Whatever problems you've had with this… Amy girl, tolerate her as much as you can." Eda told her as her hand pats her daughter's head "No pressure and all, got it?”
"Yes, mom." Luz said as she blushes in embarrassment when her mom pats her head.
"Good, now I'll be heading off while you wait for your tutor. Make sure to be back home before sunset. We'll be having roasted turkey tonight!" Eda declares as she pulls out her staff "Once I learn how to roast a turkey. Bye, honey!" she says as she flew off from the campus.
Luz waits as she picks up a gumball and chews on it. She starts chewing and blew her gum until it pops. She hears footsteps as she took notice a gang of monsters coming at her.
“We’re looking for the one called Luz.” Spoke one monster with his eyes in horizontal form, purple skin, large jaw and tongue-like hair, wearing a red tunic uniform.
“What do you buttfaces want from me?” Luz asked, which ticked off the monster with a literal butt-shaped face.
We’re from Hogwash School of Magic, and we’re here to take you down after what you did to our leader, Larry Coppers!” the buttfaced monster spoke while holding up a picture of a pale witchling boy with glasses, having a swollen face looking all beat up.
“Oh, I remember him, he was pretty much that obnoxious, high-class student thinking he’s the chosen one just because he’s got a horseshoe scar.” Luz rolled her eyes, remembering how this obnoxious witchling kept pestering her about how he’s the “chosen one” and she respond with her bat to his face, while she continued “Seriously, this is what happens when you pressure some poor kid with high expectations for your own needs. Not healthy that way.”
“How dare she mocked the chosen one!” cry out a brown-haired witchling girl.
“Let’s teach her a lesson.” Spoke the frog-faced boy while pounding his own fist.
“Can we do this outside of campus? I’m kind of meeting someone.” Luz told them.
“Fine, into the woods we go.” Spoke the purple jaw guy as his gang and Luz walk over to the woods where no one can see them.
About 30 minutes later, Amity came out of the school. Her friends left for shopping, so she has to stay behind to meet up with Luz. She doesn’t see the human girl anywhere ‘Where is she? Don’t tell me she left?’ she thought, looking mad thinking Luz had ditched her. However, she hears the screams and cries follow by an explosion. “What in the…!?” she looks to see the purple explosion cloud in the woods, as she saw a flying brown-haired witchling girl who fell by the steps.
“You’ll pay for that, human!” she cries out after getting up and run away.
Amity was curious, seems Luz didn’t ditch her but wonder what’s going on in the woods ‘Is this one of those fights again?’ she thought as she thought about getting a teacher, but the staff already went home. ‘If it is Luz,’ she decides to rush in to find what goes on in the forest. Once she got there, she saw many other monsters in the other school uniforms. ‘These are Hogwash students…they’re from one of the worst secured schools with the most death rates.’ She thought as she witnesses Luz taking on the students…with cards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkhe6cCUMe4
One squid-faced and a butt-faced student gets launched up to the sky after Luz throws out two cards that has Earth glyphs. The larger, cyclops Hogwash student charges at Luz, who jumps up before she grabs the human. Luz slams her bat at the cyclop’s one eye, as well as placing a fire glyph card on her back as she shouts, “Explosive Spell!” which explodes at the Hogwash student’s back.
‘Whoa.’ Amity thought in shock, she has heard about Luz fighting against other school’s gangs from rumors, but she’s never seen her in action before. ‘She’s got skills…and is she using cards? How can she cast spells using them?’ she thought as she saw the purple jaw leader about to attack Luz with a wand. “Luz, look out!”
“Huh? Amity?” Luz looks at the mint haired girl after she punched the mouse guy. The purple jaw guy raises his wand at Luz from behind. However, that distraction of Luz turning her head facing Amity has save her when he shoots a blast towards Luz, dodges the blast which hits another gang member, who got transformed into a large snail. “Wow, glad that didn’t happen to me.” She comments while glaring at the leader “You have no honor, you know that?”
“This was for Larry, you little-“ purple jaw didn’t get to finished when Luz threw three cards that were burning, then immediately exploded in front of him “GAAAAAHHHH!!!!” he cries out as he is blasted back, crashing onto a tree, knocking him out.
“For a big guy with two downward eyes, you rely on magic than your own strength.” Luz comments as she twirls her bat, surrounded by the Hogwash gang who are knocked out, as some ran away. “Most of you have weak magic since you’re restricted to one Coven, while I was trained by the most powerful witch in the Isle! So remember my name, you bunch of soy witches, cause none of you can handle this wild child!” she then turn to Amity, who hid behind a tree “Like the show, Ms. Perfect?” she asks with a smirk.
Amity shook her head from the amazement of the fight, while glaring at Luz “You know, you could get in trouble for this.” She states while Luz walks over to her.
“Tsh, whatever,” Luz replied with an uncaring tone, “I’ve been in lots of trouble with gangs like this. You should see what I did with the gangs from Spellman Academy, Wizaldo, Merlin Meadows, Undead Woods, Zombidia-“
“Let’s just…look, Luz,” Amity interrupts, looking at the wild human girl “I can not say anything about the fight that happened at the woods far from the school, so do you want to get tutored or not? We can both make a schedule in when and where we should meet, as well as many subjects you're having trouble with."
"There are no subjects I have trouble with, I know some spells." Luz states while holding up her cards.
“I never seen cards like those around here, not even the ones old witches use to play.” Amity comments, curious about those cards.
“You like them? They’re my own creation.” Luz states while holding up each card with a different spell glyph “I used to only draw glyph but rather than keep drawing spells, I can just make cards. When I’m out of them, I can make new ones. They’re made out of this material my mom use to help me make these cards, and sometimes we restock them to make more.”
“Wow, that’s…creative.” Amity comments, in truth she’s amazed but she doesn’t want to show it “I mean, a little unorthodox method.”
“Well we can’t all draw circles, now can we?” Luz asks as the two are far from the forest and are at the tapestries row.
"A-Anyway, Principal Bump gave me a list of your past homework fails before the detention track." she said, holding up a list.
"Of course, there'd be a damn list." Luz muttered.
Amity look at the list, surprised to see that all the spells that aren't finished. "You didn't finish any defense spells, as well as history?"
"No circle drawings in the air, remember?” Luz points out, waving her finger around creating an imaginary circle which pops out nothing at all.
Amity continues to read, looks confused when the note says "It also says that you need help in 'writing' with its underlined twice. Especially asking you to write your name."
"I don't see how that's a big deal." Luz said as she grabs a notebook from her own bag, writes down her name and show it to Amity "My writing's just fine."
Amity's baffled face says otherwise, seeing the crooked and jagged writing in how Luz writes her name "That's your writing!? He meant figuratively and literally!?"
"Hey, at least I know how to read. That's something Eda taught me." Luz replied.
A little Luz in a little witch outfit is sitting on her seat while Eda taught her ABC's.
"Okay, here's one. T is for..." Eda lures Luz to say what the T stands for.
"Tax-evasion!" Luz replied cutely.
"As well as U is for...?"
"Undead!"
"Such good memories." Luz said in remembrance.
"It also says you need to pick what Track to be in order to pass, what spells do you know?" Amity asked.
"Well, I know how to do the basic elemental spells I've learned over the years in being homeschooled. Such as light, fire, ice, and earth spells. I know re-animation spells, I'm practicing talking to beasts, and working on getting my bat to levitate so I can use it to fly." Luz held up her bat as she continued "So that I can ram my enemies in the face." she said punching her own fist, making Amity sweat drop nervously.
"A bat?" Amity asks in confusion "I thought that's a support stick? It doesn't resemble a bat! And you do use it as a weapon!" she points out after seeing what Luz can use with the bat.
"It's uh...what I call my support stick, Ol' Batty." Luz states while changing the subject as Amity narrows her eyes in suspicion "And for that matter, I don't believe in the whole coven system.” She says this making Amity look at Luz as if she had two eyes “Like, why seal all but one kind of magic when you have so many opportunities to learn more than one? That's why I'm in the Bad Girl Coven."
"The what?" Amity asked as Luz hands her a flyer, which shows a picture of Luz doing a pose as if she jumps, having her left arm around by her right leg as her right arm is under her left leg.
"How do you like my pose?" Luz asks with a smirk, crossing her arms as each of her two fingers sticks out in Vs. "Cause after I graduate, I'm going to be a badass but cool witch of both worlds!" she said striking a pose, crossing her hands in rock n'roll gestures, while sticking her tongue out, like as if she is a KISS member.
"That's... some life goal, but I highly doubt you'll get there in your position." Amity told honestly, causing Luz to stop posing to glare at the mint-haired girl "If you want to pass this school, you have to think of something realistic after graduation once you decide on a coven."
"Gee, way to put a girl's dreams down." Luz said with her hands in her pockets "Then what kind of “realistic” thing you want to do then, Little Ms. Perfect?"
Amity tries to not get mad at the remark, as she simply response "I have my career already set, I aim to join the Emperor's Coven."
"Of course, you want to join the government." Luz rolled her eyes.
"Well, if you want to learn all kinds of magic, the Emperor's Coven can grant you all access to all types of magic." Amity states.
"Yeah, but the downside is that they arrest and lock up innocent witches and demons who don't join the system as they truly believe that all magic should be free for everyone!" Luz counters while walking around the mint haired girl.
"But that's not the proper way to do magic!" Amity argues, as Luz hands her around Amity's shoulder. Getting to her personal space.
"All of that proper magic business is all just "proper"-ganda," Luz waves her hand up, giving a saleswoman-like pitch "You gotta stop thinking like a sheep and act more… free like a horse. Don't you want to be that horse, Ms. Perfect?" she whispers to Amity's ear, making the Blight girl blush as she gently moves Luz's hand from her while stepping away.
"L-l-look, just tell me what days you are free so we can schedule for your tutoring." Amity sounds nervous, looking at her bag while Luz was facing the other way. ‘I don’t need it. I don’t need it…’
"Okay...what days are you free?" Luz asks her.
"I'm sorry what?" Amity asked in confusion, her eyes shifted to Luz.
"I'm asking what days you’re free. If you're not too busy and all, just come by to my place, I live up the hill from the town. Does that sound good to you?" She turns around facing Amity, who relaxed when Luz looks at her with crossed arms.
"Oh, um...I guess I can find some room for my schedule. Nixing some extra-curricular activities and I can cancel some shopping trips with my friends. Is this Saturday good for you?"
"Yeah, sure. I'm not busy there." Luz said with a shrug, "Is that all you need?"
"Ah yeah, that should be it." Amity concludes.
"Great, we can meet up at my place up the hill. I'll see ya there Saturday." Luz said as she walks out, but not until Amity spoke up.
"Wait, there's one more thing," Amity said, wondering if she'll put the right words, wonder if Luz will comply as the human girl stops "I know who wrote on your locker.” A eyebrow raised from Luz as Amity explained “Boscha and Skara are responsible for it." Luz was more still at the moment she said this, Amity wonder if she's angry "B-But they're willing to apologize to you for it, as long as you apologize to Boscha for her eye, which should be fair. Is it fair to you?"
Luz didn't express an emotion, not much for Amity could tell behind her. The young daughter of the Owl Lady just sigh, finally spoke "Why telling me about this?"
"Well...even though you can be, well, a pain at times, but...you didn't deserve something like that happening to you. I just thought that you needed to know." she explained to Luz whose shoulders express a relaxing motion. Luz in response looks down while rubbing her head.
"Huh...well... I'll have some time to think on the apology part." Luz respond, as she turns her head up to the side facing Amity "But thanks for telling me that, Minty."
Amity turns away. "Y-Your welcome, I just thought you have the right to know." Her expression was emotionless, her usual standard facial feature.
"Just don't act snobbish when you get to my place, alright?" Luz asks her as she walks out.
"Whatever, if you want to pass." Amity muttered after Luz walks away home. 'I can deal with this. A Blight never steps down something this challenging.'
"What?! She's coming here!?"
It's dinner time as Luz, Eda, and King eating roast turkey while talking about their day...Eda has scared off the students and teachers for the rest of the school year. Luz simply tells that Amity is coming here on Saturday since it's free time.
"Yeah, Amity's coming over this Saturday." Luz states while eating her veggies along with her turkey. "So, we need to at least keep the place tidy."
"But Luz, she's your mortal enemy!" King shouts “How do you know she can be trusted?”
"I know she can be a pain, King, but still... in order to continue Hexside...I have to learn from her." Luz explained.
Eda smiled. "That's the spirit, teaming up with your enemies is hard but with a common goal working together will be like conquering the biggest potion gang!” she states as the two looks at her in confusion.
"Well…I guess that’s fine with you, Luz. But if she dares attack you...I will release my Inner Rage." King declares while munching on his roasted turkey.
"Pfft HA-HA! You'd show her your inner rage, King." Eda laughs as she eats her food while drinking her apple blood "Ah, I remember back in Hexside I had to deal with my own Ms. Perfect."
"Really? Who?" Luz asks while drinking some water.
"Eh, it's a long time ago. Not worth to mention." Eda states as King snickers.
"Yeah, I'm sure your sister isn't worth talking much." King mentions as Luz spit take her water at the mention.
"KING!!!" Eda scolds King.
“Wait, she didn’t know?” King asks in confusion.
"Hold up, you have a sister!?" Luz exclaimed in shock, slamming her hands on the table. "How come you've never told me about her?!"
"I never thought of bringing it up." Eda said rolling her eyes "Besides, telling you about my sister and you'll just wonder through Bonesborough and everywhere in the Isles to look for her."
"Uh yeah, who knows how many birthdays she's missed when you kept me in the house throughout my childhood." Luz states.
"I at least get you some outing once in a while when you were little." Eda points out, making Luz look down in a grumble.
"And look where it got me." Luz muttered, making Eda realized what she brought up.
"Oh, oh no... Luz, I didn't mean to-"
"It's okay, Eda. You didn't mean to reopen what happened." Luz said as she stops eating "What happened wasn't your fault. I should've kept my hood up back then and-"
"It is my fault, Luz." Eda said as she turns to the floor, guilt ridden "I thought if I turn my back for a minute while you were playing with the other kids back then, I thought you'd be fine...but..." her fingers clench on the table, starts remembering what they did to their daughter.
Eda rushes to find what the other kids are doing to her daughter, "LUZ!" she cries out as she grabs the kids to get them away from her "LET HER GO, YOU BRATS!!" she cries out, as she sees Luz all beaten, holding her stomach in pain and sees the bruises on her. "Luz, I'm here, I'm here!" she hugs her daughter as she picks her up, she glares at the other kids who has been picking on her. Wasting no time, she calls for Owlbert to have her fly back home where she can heal her daughter.
Eda held her forehead with her elbow on the table, guilt stricken by the memory "You were so scared and frighten, I didn't show up in time. I'm supposed to protect you, and what happened at school... if things like that happens there-"
"Mom, it's okay." Luz went to Eda, holding her hand over hers "I don't blame you for that incident, and what happened at school, I can take care of myself. Besides, I'm tougher than that."
Eda smiled at Luz "Yeah, really puts this old witch to shame. If I ever find who wrote that hate crime on your locker, I'm going to make them dig their own graves." she said darkly, her motherly instincts showing.
"No, you won't." Luz told her, deciding to not rat out the perpetrators.
"Well I won't be mercy on those brats, or the teachers if they don't fess up." Eda said as she looks at King who turn his head "Feeling left out, King?"
"N-no! I just have something in my eye." King mumbled, hiding his tears over the moment.
"Oh, come here." Luz grabs King in a hug, "You can just say that you want to join in a tender moment, King."
"I don't do tender! It's for cheesy teen dramas and soap operas suburban church moms go crazy over! The king of demons doesn’t do tender!" King declares trying to struggle from Luz's grip. "Besides, weren't we talking about your sister before?"
"Yeah, I would at least want to get to know her." Luz told Eda, who looks down in silence. "Eda?"
"I don't know, kid. I haven't seen my sister in years, and it's not like I don't want to see her again...let's just say...she's difficult." Eda wince.
"How difficult can she be? She can't be worse than Hooty." Luz points at Hooty who's eating a bowl of cereal.
"Hey, did someone mention me? The greatest character in the story? I can reveal all the times I've helped take care of Luz and all-" he is hit by some mash potatoes to the face "Ak! Why you throw that at me, Luz!?"
"I'm reminded how much of a childhood nightmare you are." Luz said in monotone.
"Tsk, typical that they didn't wait for me." Amity muttered, having to walk home alone at sunset since her siblings decides to ditch her after school. Boscha and Skara also went home early, as Amity was busy coming up with a scheduling plan with Luz. 'Okay, I can cancel some of my after-school classes. I'm sure Ms. Clawthorne wouldn't be too upset if I miss some just to train Luz. I'll just meet her at the covention next weeks.' she thought while unknown to her, she's being followed by a hooded figure. He wore a black hoodie hiding his face but appears to have pale blue skin.
She felt a sense of dread, as she heard a step as she looks back. The hooded figure was leaning on the wall, looking less suspicious. Amity gets into the defense. She continues to walk as her eyes shifts; the hooded guy is following her again. She turns around as she shouts "Abomination, rise!" as she summons her abomination from her magic circle.
The hooded guy smirks as the abomination went after him while Amity runs to hide. Once it attempts to grab the guy, it turns out to be only to be an illusion. The abomination was then turn to stone as it breaks down, shattered by the hooded guy's spell. “Shatter spell.” He said with a smirk, turning around to follow Amity again.
Amity ran from the guy as she makes a turn to the corner. As she is about to run pass the alley, she got herself grabbed by someone who uses bandage wraps to grab her “AH!” she screamed while being pulled. She is pinned down to the wall; she struggles to get them off of her "Let me go! Hel-" her mouth was literally magically zipped by her grabber.
"Not gonna let you snitch around, girly." spoke the grabber, wearing a stitched-up hood and their voice sounds feminine, appears to be wearing some bandages that covers her body. She brings out and held up a dagger near Amity's neck, frightening the girl "Don't struggle, or you’ll get cut." She said with a snicker when seeing Amity close her eyes in tears.
"Check her bag and see what she has." spoke the hooded guy. The masked bandage girl grabs Amity's purse bag and passes it over to her partner. Amity tries to scream through her zipped mouth but failed. She felt the knife close to her neck, making Amity stop struggling.
“What did I say about struggling, girly!?” she shouts, seeing Amity stop resisting but couldn’t help but shiver “Good little witch.” Her breath hits Amity who felt sick from the rancid breath but felt how tight her captor’s bandages are hurting her.
The hooded guy checks what's in the bag after looking out for any witnesses. No one's out to see, which is good for him and his partner. While checking the contents, he mutters "Nothing but books, this one's a nerd." he said as he picks up a scheduling book, finds a certain page as he checks it out.
"Can we steal her boots and a strand of her hair?" the mummy girl asks him.
"I don't get you with the whole stealing boots thing, she's not even your size." the mask guy said after reading the page of the scheduling book, and steal some snail coins from the purse "Come on, we'll just take this and her cash."
The mummy girl looks at Amity, grinning at seeing her frighten as she drops the mint-haired girl down on the floor. Amity's boot is pulled off for her mugger to take and pull a strand of hair as both ran off leaving Amity alone in the alley. "Later, Hexsidean!" she shouts as the two laughs when they got away, leaving Amity scared and alone.
The zipper spell wore off, causing Amity to exhale. "*Gasp*…W-W-What..." she stammers, shaken up by the experience. She felt her neck where the dagger was near and close. She can't comprehend what just happened. What just happened? Throughout this event in a couple of minutes she...she got mugged.
Her mascara was running, she wipes it as she struggles to get her things dropped on the ground where those two thieves left off. She picks up everything and put them back to her purse bag. Her mascara was running from her eyes, she wipes them off. Once she recovers her things, she shakenly walks out of the alley.
Amity has made it home but find no one there. Her parents are probably still at work, as her siblings are elsewhere causing trouble or somewhere. She can’t let them all see her like this. Really, she shouldn’t.
She went straight to her room, drop her bag. She was panting from rushing through her large home. She didn’t know what to say or do. All she can do is wait until her parents come home. But how will they respond that a Blight got mugged by some nobodies? What was their purpose in robbing her? Why did they target her?
All those questions can wait, as of now Amity goes to her bed, lay there. That’s when she cries silently through her pillow.
Over at the tower, where the castle of the Emperor is located. Walking through the halls is a tall, slender woman with pale skin, turquoise eyes, long black hair, and wears a black, long robe. She's next to a Coven witch who wears a mask, reading her a report.
"Snakeweed Vendersnatch, arrested for the crystal balls theft at Hexside. Wendell Jabberwock, arrested for holding wand fights without permits. Stary Watterfly, arrested for magical terrorism over not getting a boyfriend." he lists off while the blue haired witch listens. "Oh, and there's been a prison break a few weeks ago at the Conformatorium, reported responsible of Eda the Owl Lady and co."
The witch woman sigh, "Edalyn...of course. What can you tell me about her accomplices?"
"Well, one's a small demon describe as a... skull-headed derange fox, and another allegedly believed to be a human."
"A human?" the witch repeats, thinking about the past reports about Eda the Owl Lady having another companion over the years. “Why would a human be doing in the isles? For that matter, why would Edalyn have one?”
“Well, some say the Owl Lady raised it as some kind of pet, some say she’s the daughter of the Owl Lady…um, Ms. Lilith.” He told her, the witch scoffs.
“Please, if I know my sister, she’s not motherly.” Lilith spoke, her turquoise eyes flash a look of dismissal. “Edalyn has avoid capture far too long over the years.” She muttered before heading to her quarters.
Cast[]
- Sarah-Nicole Robles as Luz Clawthorne
- Wendie Malick as Eda Clawthorne
- Mae Whitman as Amity Blight
- Alex Hirsch as King and Hooty
- Cissy Jones as Lilith Clawthorne
Additional Voices[]
- Nika Futterman as Female mugger
- Charlie Schlatter as Male mugger
Other Characters[]
- Hogwash Students
- Butt-faced demon
- Brunette witchling
- Frog-faced boy
- Purple large-jawed demon
- Larry Coppers (photo)
Mentioned[]
- Boscha
- Skara
- Blight Family
- Emira Blight
- Edric Blight
- Odalia Blight (not named)
- Alador Blight (not named)
Trivia[]
- The chapter was reposted to include a dedication to Sean Connery as it was published the day after he died.
- Hooty breaks the fourth wall by calling himself the "greatest character in the story".