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Season #1 Episode #13: The First Day

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Inspector:
The magic at Glandus High was tasty. But I hope yours will be more filling.

Principal Bump:
[running between Amity and the inspector] Amity, stay back. She's an impostor!

[Principal Bump draws out a spell circle. The inspector inhales, swallowing the spell circle and draining his magic. His skin turns gray and he collapses. Amity tries to cast a spell, but her magic is also drained, and she falls unconscious next to Principal Bump.]

[Cut to King's classroom, where he is writing on the chalkboard.]

King:
Assume a coefficient of ten, carry the two, solve for Y, and that is the way to steal a pie from a windowsill! [he has drawn himself stealing pie on the chalkboard] Also you can eat trash.

Student #1:
Finally, some skills we can really use.

King:
[pulls out a slice of pizza] And now, for my next lesson--

[loud growl]

King:
Seriously? It's not even fifth period yet.

[Cut to King opening the doors of the auditorium.]

King:
Excuse me! Could you keep it down? Mr. King's trying to mold young minds here!

[The inspector is sucking more life out of Principal Bump.]

Principal Bump:
Ugh. Only 300 years until retirement.

[The inspector looks at King.]

King:
I can see that I'm interrupting, so I'm just gonna... [screams and runs away]

[Cut to a hallway, where Luz is no longer in a trashcan.]

Luz:
[sighs]

Willow:
Don't worry, Luz! Once we talk to Bump, we'll get everything sorted out.

Luz:
I know, but what's the point if people get hurt on the way?

Gus:
That is a fair question. Here's another question. What the heck is that?! [points]

[The Oracle Teacher is running away from the inspector, which is taking over most of a hallway. The teacher stops and casts a beam of light. The inspector slurps the beam of light up like spaghetti. The teacher falls, drained of magic.]

Willow, Luz, & Gus: [scream]

Inspector:
[laughs] More cute morsels!

Willow:
We may be cute, but we're nobody's morsels! [summons carnivorous plant]

Gus:
Time for a power-up!

[Gus gives the plant buff arms. The plant launches itself at the inspector. It catches the plant with its tail and eats it. Willow and Gus both fall, drained of magic.]

Willow:
[tries to draw another spell circle] I feel... so weak

Luz:
[runs in front of her friends] Eat this!

[She grabs her notepad and activates a light glyph on it, then throws it in the inspector's mouth. The spell activates, and the inspector screams, spewing out shredded paper.]

Luz:
[picks up Willow and Gus] I'll get you guys somewhere safe!

Inspector:
It burns! It burns!

Luz:
[bursts into the Secret Room of Shortcuts] Guys! I need your help!

Viney:
Oh. You're back.

Luz:
I'm sorry for hurting your feelings, but please listen! [falls, drops Willow] Argh! Willow...

Viney, Jerbo, & Barcus: [gasp]

Viney:
What happened to them?

Luz:
Something horrible is loose in the school.

[Luz opens a door to show the inspector draining more students' magic.]

Viney:
Don't let it see us! [closes the door] I think that's a greater basilisk. I heard about them in a class. My cousin at St. Epiderm said she saw one, but those things should be extinct.

Luz:
It must've attacked the other schools, and now it's come for us. We have to do something.

Jerbo:
But if Bump catches us mixing magic again--

Viney:
He'd kick us outta school.

Luz:
Hexoleos are out there gettin' hurt, and we're the only ones who can save them. We're troublemakers, right? So let's go out there and make some trouble.

[Viney, Jerbo, and Barcus share a look. Cut to a hallway, where the inspector drains Amelia of her magic.]

Inspector:
Hungry! Still hungry!

[An ice glyph is thrown in front of the inspector. It activates, summoning a pillar of ice that throws the inspector back. Luz hops in front of it wearing a cloak.]

Luz:
From humblest of beginnings, a hero will rise. I've trained with a secret society to discover the power of mixing magic! I am-

Inspector:
Dinner!

Luz:
Wah!

[Luz ditches the cloak and runs. The inspector slams into the pillar of ice. It rights itself and chases after Luz.]

Luz:
Viney! Do the thing, do the thing!

[Puddles flies through the halls and attacks the inspector.]

Viney:
Attagirl, Puddles! Jerbo, now!

Jerbo:
On it!

[An abomination opens a door in the floor as Jerbo summons several thorny vines. The vines latch onto a door handle in the ceiling. The inspector claws at Puddles and throws her, then falls through the opened door. Luz hops in after it, sending it through the door in the floor of the Secret Room of Shortcuts. Cut to the auditorium, where Principal Bump sits up.]

Principal Bump:
Must find help.

[The inspector falls onto the stage.]

Luz:
Wooh!

[Luz falls through the ceiling after the inspector, landing on its stomach and flipping off of it to land on the stage.]

Luz:
It's all you, Barcus!

Barcus:
[barks, grabs the inspector's palm]

Inspector:
Where am I?

[Barcus dumps a potion onto the inspector's hand. He squints at it, then his eyes glow.]

Barcus:
[yips]

Inspector:
What's he doing? What'd he say?

Luz:
He's reading your palm, and your future looks bleak.

[Jerbo's abomination pulls at a rope that Puddles cuts with her beak. The rope drops sandbags onto the inspector's stomach. All of the magic it ate is released and returned to the proper witch. Everyone gasps as they get their magic back and wake up. Magic flies through the air as it returns to other schools. Back in the auditorium, Viney heals Puddles's scratched claw.]

Puddles:
[warbles, flies off]

Luz:
AH! [hugs Viney] You did it! You were amazing! You guys--

Principal Bump:
Are in so much trouble. Leaving your homeroom, mixing magic and-- is that a secret hideout?

[Willow and Gus duck away from the open trap door.]

Luz:
Yeah it is. But let's think about this, Principal Bump. Why would kids in the detention track need a secret hideout?

Principal Bump:
I don't care to know the ins and outs of rascality. [pulls out rule book] But if the Emperor's Coven can send an actual inspector this time--

Luz:
Okay, you need coven money. But if you have to hurt your students to get it, what's the point? They saved Hexside. They should be allowed to study what they wish.

Principal Bump:
B-but-- [hugs rule book]

Gus:
Do the right thing, ya dingus.

Principal Bump:
Alright, I'm smart enough to know when I've made a mistake. Which tracks would you like to be in?

All:
[gasp]

Viney:
Healing and Beast Keeping!

Jerbo:
Plants and Abomination!

Barcus:
[barks]

Principal Bump:
Then so be it. [changes their uniforms to reflect their new tracks] But if any of you cause more property damage, I'm feeding you to the choosy hat. [to Luz] And you?

Luz:
Oh, I still can't choose. Maybe it's crazy but I wish I could study a little bit of everything. Whoa.

[Luz gets a full magical-girl transformation sequence as her uniform takes several colors to reflect the different tracks.]

Luz:
What's going on? What is this? Whoa-ho! This is so cool. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna study everything!

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