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Season #2 Episode #3: Echoes of the Past

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King:
And that's how I would annihilate my enemies. Who needs due process, am I right?

Lilith:
[gestured toward a wall carving] What does this image represent, my lord?

King:
Uh, it's hard to remember. But that handsome devil looks familiar, huh?

[Luz approaches them.]

Luz:
Tour's over! We gotta go! Now!

Lilith:
But there's so much to learn.

Luz:
This environment is not conducive to learning. It's conducive to death!

King:
Ah, you saw the horrifying monstrosity room. Don't worry, they can't hurt you.

[The hissing is heard again. Everyone looks up and sees a fleshy rock monster, alive, crawling along the ceiling. It rotates its head down to look at them.]

Luz:
That one can. Let's go!

[Luz grabs King and runs for the entrance, but the monster jumps in front of her and blocks her way. It changes its right arm into a claw and swipes at her. Lilith attacks it with ice magic, pinning it to a pile of rocks. All three start running.]

Luz:
Dang, girl, you've been practicing!

Lilith:
You may admire my progress when we get out of here alive!

[The monster slides through the ice spikes and gives chase, running along the walls and ceiling before again pouncing in front of Luz and Lilith. It stands tall, turns its head and changes its left arm into an axe. It prepares to strike, but an explosion at the head puts it on the ground. Eda jumps in from the rocks, wearing belts armed with explosive potions.]

Eda:
Get out of here! [grabs a potion] I'll hold it back and meet you outside.

[She tosses a potion at the monster.]

Luz:
Eda! We can fight it together!

Eda:
You can't beat this thing. Go!

[Luz and Lilith look at each other, and they make haste for the exit. Eda grabs another potion from her belt and tosses it in her hand.]

Eda:
It's been a while. Miss me?

[The monster leaps at Eda, turning the screen black.]

[Luz and Lilith run out, but stop and turn toward the entrance.]

Hooty:
More running, less stopping!

Lilith:
Edalyn said to wait here!

Luz:
We can't let her fight it alone! We have to go back!

[Everyone hears explosions from within. They all look at the door with frightful anticipation, a terrified King clutching Luz. Eda walks out, clutching her a wound on her shoulder.]

Lilith:
Edalyn!

[She runs up to Eda and holds her up.]

Lilith:
You're hurt. What of that horrible creature?

[It climbs up and hisses, brandishing an axe-arm. It swings down on Eda and Lilith, but gets a blue forcefield appears the tower and the outside. The axe-arm goes limp on the outside, and the monster pulls it back inside.]

Eda:
It can't get past the entrance. We're safe now.

Luz:
That thing must be guarding this place against intruders.

King:
But it's my castle. How could we be intruders?

Luz:
Uh... u-um...

King:
[starts wising up] You don't believe this is my castle.

[Luz looks the other way as sweat runs down her temple.]

King:
Luz, you think I would lie to you?

Luz:
King, I...

Eda:
You aren't lying. You just don't know the truth.

[Eda falls to her knees. Lilith starts bandaging her arm.]

Eda:
It's time for me to tell you how we really met.

[A flashback begins, taking place on the island eight years ago. Boiling rain is falling; a younger Eda flies down on her staff and sets foot on the shore.]

Eda:
[voiceover] Eight years ago I was looking for a place to hide from the Emperor’s Coven. I never knew this place existed and it just... appeared out of the mist. So, I landed.

[Young Eda looks at the holes the burning rain is making on her cloak, then notices the ruined tower in the distance.]

Eda:
[voiceover] Now, I was one hot tamale, but the boiling rains were even hotter. I needed shelter.

[Cut to Young Eda entering the ruins, just like in the cold open.]

Eda:
[voiceover] But when I found it... I wasn’t alone.

[She notices that shadowy figure running past her. She readies her staff.]

Young Eda:
Who’s there? Reveal yourself!

[She turns around and gasps as she see what was trailing her. From behind a small rock formation, a small, furry creature with a skull mask on its head jumps out and wags its tail. It's King as a baby! The baby King tilts his head, and Eda lowers her staff. King then picks up a crescent-shaped rock and puts it on top of an incomplete figure.]

Young Eda:
Did you make all these? What are you?

[She starts petting King, who happily wags his tail.]

Eda:
[voiceover] I assumed you were just some stray dog. But then...

[The two look up and see the monster towering over them, brandishing its axe-hand. Young Eda grabs King and bolts, barely avoiding the axe swing.]

Eda:
[voiceover] ...that thing was gonna kill us both, so I picked you up and bounced.

[Young Eda and King are fly out of the ruins. Approaching its magical boundary, the monster fashions its limbs into a bow-and-arrow and fires at them. The stone arrow hits King, breaking off his left horn and rendering him unconscious. Young Eda, having fallen off her staff, continues her escape on foot, grabbing King and his broken horn.]

[Cut to Eda looking sympathetically at the baby King as the flies away from the island.]

Eda:
[voiceover] Against my better judgment, I took you home with me.

[Cut to a little later at the Owl House. Young Eda looks on as Baby King stacking piles of household objects, similar to the rocks in his castle.]

Eda:
[voiceover] I’d gotten you the collar, ‘cause... well, that’s what you do when you get a new pet. But then...

[Young Eda looks on as Baby King stacks household objects upon one another, similar to the rocks in his castle. He completes one stack and stands proudly.]

Young Eda:
[snorts] Ah, look at you. A King amongst his subjects.

Baby King:
King... King! [he falls down]

Young Eda:
[surprised] It spoke. [to King] Yeah, that’s right. A king. You know what else kings do? They command armies and eat delicious feasts.

[Baby King claps and makes happy noises. Young Eda continues spinning kingly yarns to Baby King as he looks up with big, attentive eyes.]

Eda:
[voiceover] And that’s how you got the idea you were some despotic overlord.

[Fade back to present, with Eda finishing her story.]

Eda:
Oh, but you were finally happy. So I kept playing along with it.

King:
[in disbelief] Y-You’re lying!

Eda:
I’m not.

[Eda takes something out of her hair, revealing it to be the broken piece of King's horn. King is shocked and curious about this, and he slowly takes it from Eda's hand. He gasps, and the camera zooms into his eye, revealing forgotten moments of his life flashing before him.]

[Transition to a flashback of baby King in the temple, standing on a pile of rocks and presenting himself to his army of little rock figures.]

King:
[voiceover] My army?

[Transition to another flashback, showing baby King grabbing a small insect and eating it.]

King:
My feasts!.

[Transition back to the present, with King still holding the peace of horn.]

King:
My life...

[He looks down at the piece of horn, panics and throws it down.]

King:
AAH! No! Keep that thing away from me! It's messing with my head!

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