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Season #1 Episode #7: Lost in Language

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Luz:
Please, just listen to me.

Amity:
Just go away before things somehow get worse.

[loud footsteps]

Luz:
Huh?

[The monstrous form of Otabin created by Edric's drawing snarls as it steps into the aisle. His heart beats loudly, his book pulsing with it.]

Amity:
Otabin?

Otabin:
With claws and fangs and breaking bones, I found a friend to make my own. [grabs Amity]

Amity:
[grunts] Luz! [screams]

Luz:
Amity!

Amity:
Luz!

Luz:
Amity. Huh?

[Looks down at Amity's diary. Cut to Amity getting slammed against a giant book.]

Amity:
[grunts, gasps]

[Otabin is holding a large needle, threaded with a giant ball of thread. He raises the needle and lowers it in Amity's direction.]

Amity:
[yelps]

[He sews her arm into the book.]

Amity:
Huh? [gasps] Why are you doing this? I've been reading you since I was a kid. I know you're not like this. Someone changed you.

Otabin:
But friends are what I've always sought. And now a friend my claws have caught.

[A rumbling attracts both their attentions. A purple cloud rolls in, a figure in white robes and hat landing with it. The cloud blinds Otabin for a moment.]

Amity:
[gasps] Azura?

Luz:
[holding Amity's diary] Close. [pulls at the robes] Is a drawn okay? I kind of interpreted the descriptions.

Amity:
Luz!

Luz:
Ah, right. [writing in the diary] The good witch, Luzura, grabs her trusty staff. [a staff rises from the pages and she grabs it] All right, beloved work of children's fiction. Let go of her.

[She runs at Otabin, yelling and grunting while swinging the staff around theatrically. Otabin catches the staff before she even gets close enough to hit him and throws it behind him. He grabs the diary and gently closes it. Luz's Azura costume disappears.]

Luz:
[chuckles nervously] Not an Azura fan, are you?

[Luz grunts as she's slammed into the page opposite of Amity's. Otabin sews one of her arms in.]

Otabin:
Making friends, taking friends, never be without my friends.

Luz:
You fiend. You can't rhyme friends with friends.

Amity:
Great work, Luzura.

Luz:
Hey! I was trying to save you.

Amity:
Well, it doesn't matter. We're gonna be stuck together forever.

[Luz looks at her sewn in arm, numb. She moves it, the page going with it, and brightens back up.]

Luz:
No, we aren't. Follow my lead. [slams her feet against the book] One.

Amity:
What are you doing?

Luz:
Two. Three.

[Amity and Luz both yell as the book goes down, hitting Otabin in the head. When he recovers, the book is gone.]

Otabin:
[running after them] Come back!

[Cut to Luz and Amity running through the library, still sewn to the book. They duck behind a small shelf.]

Amity:
[grunts] Now what?

Luz:
I don't know. I didn't even think that would work. I was all like "roaaar."

Amity:
[stares at her and chuckles]

[Luz grins. The moment is ruined when Otabin's needle pierces the page next to Luz's head and she yells.]

Otabin:
Friends. [growls]

[He uses the needle and thread like a fishing line, pulling the book towards him. Amity and Luz both yell as the book is tugged over the shelf and onto the floor. Luz tries to tear at the string keeping her arm down. Amity grabs onto a ladder, then hooks her legs around it, pulling her arm free and launching her into a return cart.]

Amity:
Luz!

Luz:
Me!

[Otabin grabs the book and pulls it completely toward him. Luz tries to kick at his chest. Otabin grabs the needle and pulls it through.]

Otabin:
You squirm and fight, and scream and shout. But friendship always will win out.

Luz:
[whimpers as the rest of her limbs are tied down]

[The thread wraps around Luz's head. Otabin slowly pulls it tight, and Luz braces for it. Amity rides in on the book return cart.]

Otabin:
[looking up] Huh?

Amity:
[screams]

[Otabin is launched into a bookshelf, which falls on him. He struggles under it. Amity pulls the string keeping Luz down off the book.]

Luz:
Oh. Third dimension how I've missed you.

Otabin:
[shoves the bookshelf off of him] We must stay friends until the end. There is no tear I cannot mend.

Luz:
Gulp.

[She yells as Otabin grabs her again. He wraps the thread around her.]

Amity:
[gasps, pulls a pencil out of her pocket and writes in the giant book] "Luz has to right a wrong."

[A giant magic eraser rises out of the book. Amity catches it.]

Amity:
Luz, quick. [tosses the eraser]

[Luz catches it and erases Edric's drawings on the page of the book. Otabin returns to normal, and everything falls to the floor. Luz catches Otabin and places him on his feet. Amity walks over and picks him up.]

Otabin:
I'm so sorry. I don't know what came over me.

Amity:
Hey, it's okay. We're still friends.

[Amity nods to Luz, who closes the book. Otabin disappears, making Amity look sad. Luz walks over to her and grins.]

[Cut to morning as Luz and Amity leave the library.]

Luz:
What an adventure. Thanks for helping clean up.

Amity:
This never happened.

Luz:
Wait. It doesn't make up for reading your diary but would you wanna borrow this? [holds out Azura 5] I noticed you only had up to four.

Amity:
[takes it] Thank you. [starts to walk away, stops; sighs and turns around] Maybe you aren't a bully. I haven't exactly been the friendliest witch either. I'll think on that. [walks away]

[Luz grabs onto her messenger bag strap as she watches Amity leave. Cut to Luz entering the Owl House.]

Luz:
Hi, guys. I'm...

[Everyone is asleep, snoring, on the green couch, Eda holding the baby bats and King on her lap.]

Luz:
home. [smiles at them]

[door bangs open]

Hooty:
Ding dong!

Luz:
Hooty.

[A giant woman's head with bat wings crawls into the living room.]

Luz:
Whoa. You must be Mama.

Bat Queen:
Yi Yi. Mama is I. And I is the Bat Queen. [whistles]

[The baby bats fly away from Eda, settling into Bat Queen's hair.]

Bat Queen:
Aah! Snuggle dumplings.

[She throws up a treasure chest, which opens to show several hundred snails. Bat Queen spits an Aztec death whistle on top of the snails.]

Bat Queen:
For troubles. Eda is owed one.

[She squeezes back out of the doorway and flies away. Luz closes the door.]

Eda:
[sleeptalking] Ah. Sweet babies. [wakes up] Babies? Where are the babies?

[Luz mimes flying away.]

Eda:
Oh. And I just taught Junior how to pick locks too.

Luz:
Your night looks very successful. Look at all that money you made. And look at this cool whistle that scary woman gave you. [spit drops off the whistle] I'd wash it before you use it.

Eda:
Yeah. We did it all for the money.

King:
I miss my babies. [hugs Eda]

Luz:
I actually got you something from the library.

[She hands Eda a book titled "Coping with Empty Nest Syndrome."]

Eda:
[chuckles] Thanks, kid. So, how was your night?

Luz:
Good. Then bad. Then maybe good?

[door squeaks]

Hooty:
Hey, you wanna hear about my night?

Luz:
Ugh. No!

Eda:
No!

King:
That's not a thing anyone ever wants.

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