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Season #1 Episode #17: Wing It Like Witches

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[Trash falls on Willow from above as other students watch. Luz runs up to her.]

Luz:
Willow! What happened?

Willow:
Boscha happened.

Boscha:
[from a second floor window, a trash can upside down in her hands] Hey Willow! I just thought all trash should stay in one spot.

Luz:
That’s it! Boscha! Willow challenges you to... a grudgby match!

Boscha:
[dropping the trash can] She what?

Willow:
I what?

[The trash can falls onto Gus.]

Gus:
[from inside the trash can] She what? Seriously, what’s going on here?

[Cut to the Owl House. Eda is in her old Grudgby jacket, showing a photo album to King.]

Eda:
And here’s when we took down Epiderm High in the semi-finals. [points to photo of her younger self holding a trophy] Oh, I was the youngest on the team, but I had what some call “star power”. AKA, this. [pulls a box out from her hair labeled “Eda’s Rad Cheats”] This is my cheat box. I have all my best weapons in here. Smoke bombs, sock-worms... Mwah. You name it. Oh, I never lost a game with this bad boy.

[The door slams open. Hooty enters.]

Hooty:
Hoot-hoot! Guess who found a special friend in the forest. [He brings in Lilith, wrapped up in his elongated body] It was me. Hoot!

[Hooty releases Lilith, who falls to the floor.]

Eda:
Lilith.

Lilith:
Edalyn.

Hooty:
[pops up between them] Hooty!

Eda:
Ugh. Scram, Hooty.

Hooty:
Okay!

[Hooty's body retracts back into the front door, which then promptly slams shut.]

Lilith:
Why are you in your old uniform?

Eda:
No reason. It’s laundry day. What are you doing here?

Lilith:
[summons scroll, clears throat, reads] Edalyn Clawthorne, you are hereby under arrest by the order of the Emperor of the Boiling Isles—

[Eda uses her magic to roll up the scroll, which smacks Lilith in the face.]

Lilith:
Ah!

Eda:
You were saying?

Lilith:
Come on! I have to bring you in. It’s time for you to join the coven. The Emperor has big plans for the Isles, and he wants you to be a part of it all.

Eda:
[picks up the photo album; sarcastically] Ooh, Aah. What an incredible opportunity for me.

Lilith:
What are you even looking at? [grabs the photo album from Eda] Grudgby pictures? Feeling sentimental?

Eda:
Pah! Me? Never. I was just telling King here how good I was. [summons Grudgby ball]

Lilith:
Oh, Edalyn. Not only is the curse affecting your hair, but your memory as well.

[Lilith holds up the picture of young Eda, unfolding it to reveal a young Lilith with an even larger grudgby trophy, and several medals.]

Eda:
[groans] Ah, tell you what. I’ll go with you peacefully to the Emperor...

Lilith:
Really?

Eda:
Sure. If you beat me at a game of Grudgby. Luz is always challenging people to things. Why not me?

Lilith:
Hmm... Game on.

[Cut back to Hexside.]

Willow:
Luz, what are you doing?

Luz:
I’m just following Amity’s advice. Boscha only speaks in Grudgby terms. Trust me, I have a plan.

[Luz walks up to Boscha, who is exiting the building.]

Boscha:
Okay, maybe it’s the altitude of the second floor, but I thought I heard you say that Leaf Girl wanted to challenge me to a Grudgby match.

Luz:
That’s right! We’ll settle this once and for all on the field.

[Students flank both of them. Willow runs up between them.]

Willow:
Or we could just talk about our issues.

Boscha:
Let’s do this.

Willow:
Oh, no.

Luz:
If Willow’s team wins, you don’t get to pick on her anymore.

Boscha:
Fine! And when we win, Willow and your team will be our water gofers.

Luz:
Ha! That’s not even a punishment. I love water.

Boscha:
And we get to use you as target practice.

[Boscha throws the ball and kicks it, sending it straight through a tree trunk. The hole smokes.]

Boscha:
See you after school, losers.

[The Banshees leave. The entire tree catches fire.]

Oracle Student:
Whoo-hoo! Willow verses Boscha!

Amity:
Luz, this isn’t a good idea.

Willow:
Yeah, I’ve never even played Grudgby before! How am I supposed to beat Boscha?

Luz:
But you’re the better witch. I don’t know much about sports, but I know about sports movies. We, too, are a ragtag team of lovable misfits joined together to defeat a powerful enemy. With a little team spirit and a training montage, we can win.

Willow:
Well, if you think this’ll work, then I’m in. How about you, Gus?

Gus:
In seasons past, [holds up a pair of flags] these flags have waved in support of Grudgby greats. Now they will wave for the greatest: Me! [waves flags]

Luz:
What about you, Amity?

Amity:
Me? On a team with you? Running around in cute uniforms? Sweating? [Amity blushes heavily, then runs off] I gotta go!

Luz:
Huh? Well, I guess she’s out. In any case, let’s get training!

[Cut to Luz, Willow, and Gus at the Hexside Grudgby field.]

Luz:
So, how exactly do we play Grudgby?

Gus:
Well, [He summons a miniature illusion of the field to demonstrate] there’s a ball, and you score by getting the ball through the other team’s goal. [the illusion dissipates]

Luz:
That sounds easy.

Willow:
It is, except...

[Willow summons a leaf and blows it onto the field. The leaf is quickly ripped to shreds by fire, vines, ice shards, and rock spikes that emerge from the field.]

Luz:
Oh, right. Boiling Isles. Should have predicted this.

[Luz sets her phone to play motivational sports music. She puts a sweatband on.]

Luz:
Alright! Every great sports story includes a training montage.

Gus:
[raises hand] What’s a “mon-tage”?

Luz:
Well…

[Montage:
Luz explains to Willow and Gus what a montage is using a chalkboard; Luz shows the two a football movie on a TV; the three of them have a tea party in animal onesies. Cut back to the Grudgby field.]

Gus:
Oh, I get it now. Wait, were we just having a tea party in animal jammies?

Luz:
What happens in the montage stays in the montage! Now let’s hit the field.

[Luz blows a whistle, throwing a Grudgby ball at Gus and Willow. It hits the ground. Willow prepares to kick it, but a giant tentacle burst from the ground, throwing the ball. Willow catches it.]

Willow & Gus: [yell]

[They both across the field and away from the tentacle. A giant hand bursts from the ground, grabbing Gus. Flaming Grudgby balls follow Willow.]

Oracle Student:
[from the bleachers] Woo! Go Willow!

[Willow runs the opposite direction. A trampoline emerges from the ground and launches her backwards.]

Oracle Student:
You’ll get ‘em next time!

[Willow lands next to Luz, who hasn't moved at all.]

Willow:
[sigh] I need a cup of water.

[Gus walks up to them and falls on the ground.]

Luz:
Now for our big finale! Let’s try... [activates a plant glyph] the Thorn Vault. [puts glyph on ground]

Willow:
Luz, wait-

[Willow and Gus are launched into the air by a column of thorns. Willow summons a large plant to break their fall. Gus rolls right off of it.]

Gus:
[groans]

Willow:
Gus! Talk to me Gus!

Gus:
I, I think something’s broken. [pulls out his flags, now snapped, and gasps] My flags! I never should have tried to play. You were always enough for me. [sobs]

[Willow looks down to see her hair clip, now snapped in half.]

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