Chapter 9: Hooty’s Moving Hassle Part 2

They join hands and Willow explains that according to the Conjuring books that she read they have to make a connection with the doll and say the incantation and Gus corrects her in saying that it's a figurine. They close their eyes making the incantation and Luz states that she doesn't know the words.

There were laughs at this, "They would be lucky to animate a wooden tick..." Boscha laughed as some just shook their heads.

"You could have practiced this before." Amity told Luz who just sighed.

Hooty notices the Moon and there is a flash inside the Owl House taking out all the lights, they open their eyes with Gus telling the figure that it's his cue. The floors start shaking and Hooty's eyes start glowing bright blue.

"I swear..." Eda warned with fire in her eyes and the three just gulped.

The ground house is raised off the ground with giant chicken legs.

Most mouths were wide open and Eda muttered that to do this must take powerful magic. "You just got a lucky fluke..." Boscha muttered as Amity looked at the three with a look that was impressed.

"You are filled with surprises, aren't you?" Amity asked simply as Luz smiled.

Luz asks if the house just hiccup as a book lands on her head, Gus asks the figure what it did squeezing it activating the phrase saying that a real man never takes accountability.

"A motto that I can get behind..." Eda muttered once she got over her shock.

Willow states that she thinks that they might have animated the house by accident shocking Luz, she opens the door and stops herself from walking over the edge as the legs start walking.

"Before today, I never knew it was possible to be impressed, proud, angry and concerned all at once Mija." Camila told Luz who took that as a compliment.

The door closes as Luz calls Hooty saying that he has to stop and Hooty states that by the power of moonlight he has risen. Gus says that he must be in some kind of trance.

"He is bad enough when he is not entranced..." Eda muttered as Luz told her that she was so sorry.

Gus is about to fall over as Luz and Willow catches him by his hands with Willow saying that the magic must have spread to the house rather than the doll and Gus once again corrects her.

"I think you should have priorities in order son." Perry told Gus who was looking i fear along with Willow's dads.

They start glowing light blue as Luz commands Hooty stop just as the house is about to walk over the cliff.

There were some collective sighs of relief. "Despite what the day we met might suggest otherwise, I wouldn't want anything to happen to any of you..." Amity admitted to Luz who smiled at that.

Gus asks how they did that and Luz tells them to hold hands again which they do so and gets the house to walk backwards. Willow says that they are controlling the house using the power of friendship, actually probably the Moon.

"Power of friendship; sounds like the sappy nonsense that makes a mockery out of real magic..." Eda said as some human fans of media using the power of friendship looked offended.

Gus asks what do they do now, Luz says that on one hand they should probably stay put and Gus retorts on the other hand they should probably take the giant house on a joy ride.

"Taking a house on a joy ride, how has it gotten to the point where I am able to say that?" Camila asked in disbelief as Luz comforted her, watching these episodes might be starting to take a toll on her poor mother.

Luz looks up at the moon and says that they will have to be back before the moon sets.

"Okay Luz, you didn't exactly be the responsible person for much longer but now I am shifting most of my blame of this incident onto your weird friend who was interested in owning a useless bucket! Not that you losing heat from this either Luz!" Eda said with a raised eye as Gus shrinked in his seat.

"Come on Eda; give him some slack! I am sure that this will be the last he has an irresponsible idea, not like he is going to get us into trouble by sneaking me into Hexside and lying about the ban being lifted." Luz spoke up as Cornholio coughed for a second.

The house walks and is spotted by the lead demon hunter.

"Okay, seeing them earlier... Should have known that they were being set up for a role in the plot, otherwise why would you just introduce them early in an episode of a TV show if you don't plan factoring them into the plot... That's TV show 101!" Luz muttered as she and Eda grew concerned.

"Who's hoping that they get that freak of nature house..." muttered the human girl from Luz's audition and Eda gave her a death glare before any agreements could be made.

"Come on, Hooty isn't so bad! I have been showing him songs from my phone; he really likes Little Miss Perfect..." Luz said but then appeared in her lap was a backpack with Hooty's head on it freaking everyone out except for Cornholio who grinned and took a bow.

"Thanks Luz, things turn out alright for you since they have so far! Does anyone want to hear the rest of my story about the sparrow?" Hooty asked as just about everyone glared at Cornholio who didn't look like he had any regrets about what he had just done.

"You come any close to me and I will end your weird little existence, am I clear?" threatened Amity in a dark voice to Hooty who retreated back into the backpack.

Eda is walking through the Night Market and says that she needs that elixir as her curse increases. Eda asks a figure kneeling down in an alleyway where to find a Grimhammer, his eye opens up revealing a creature who points in a direction. Eda goes to a stand covered by purple curtains as the figure's tongue eats up the creature in the eye socket.

This grosses out not just the humans but also most of the Boiling Isles residents, "It's stuff like this that makes me hate Night shift at the market..." muttered Steve.

The house stops as they notices Boscha walking by not noticing them, Boscha is calling her mother saying that she is going to a Moonlight Conjuring and she can't come with it being sad that she is asking.

"I was never invited honey..." muttered Boscha's mother and Boscha looked at her in disbelief.

"You brought her over?" Boscha exclaimed with a glare to Cornholio who was looking at his phone with headphones in

He took them out and said "sorry about that, sometimes I pause reality here so I can watch stuff and I have been catching up on Loki on Disney Plus and I must have accidentally unfroze reality here..." A millisecond later his phone had disappeared and he asked "so what were you asking?"

Boscha pointed to her mother cross and Cornholio said "well the more the merrier they say."

The bird that she was using to call then flies away and she then notices the house with Willow asking what to do.

The humans looked at her oddly and Boscha asked "what? Don't you have anything like that in your boring human world?"

"I wonder how you can even try to market a phone that can fly away from you..." muttered Hal.

Luz calls out to Boscha saying that she is a jerk using an illusion megaphone that Gus made, Boscha is showing disgust about a talking house giving her a lecture and will just tepee it just like she did to the rest of the neighbourhood.

"Boscha... You are supposed to be living by the family name and you are pulling juvenile pranks like this?" chided Boscha's mother and she just put her head into her hands in embarrassment with laughs from this.

Luz says that she is no mere house as the house then raises scaring her off.

Boscha just humphed at this.

Gus said that he has never pranked anyone before and now has a taste for it, Willow suggests that they follow Boscha to Amity's house and show her the Conjuring and to show her who has got no talent.

"Willow, how did your friendship break down to the level that you would want to do this?" asked one of Willow's dads and she had her arms folded up.

"You should be asking Amity that since she was the one who decided that she couldn't hang out with someone with no talent..." Willow replied as Amity just looked guilty.

Luz notices the moon going down and says that they should probably hold back, Gus points out how Amity is updating her Penstagram with #HUMANSCANBITEIT.

Just about every human was glaring at Amity's direction and she tried not to get noticed.

This convinces Luz to do it as they are excited with the house walking.

"Seeing them, I thought they would be good friends for you Luz but I never imagined they would be bad influences on you." joked Camila and Luz giggled along with Willow and Gus.

"I should be Luz's only bad influence!" Eda shouted only for Camila to glare at her.

Eda checks out the stand saying that she seeks Grimhammer, the stand revealing its name as Mud & Sundry opens up and Tibbles Grimhammer greets Eda as he walks up onto the counter.

People started laughing, "I wouldn't be so sure to laugh him off... I have been to the Night Market and he is actually a tricky sort to watch out for." Boscha's mother said and Eda laughed it off.

"Sure sister, sure..." Eda said sarcastically.

Tibbles shows what he has including jelly beans which have King excited with Tibbles saying that they are lethally delicious; Eda then tosses the jelly bean from King's hand upsetting him.

King looked disappointed at that.

Tibbles introduced his full name and King laughs that he wants to be called Tibbles.

This got a lot of laughs in response.

Eda gives him the vial saying that she needs more, Tibbles says that lucky for her he is all stacked up exciting her. Eda offers ten snails and Tibbles says to add 2 more zeroes to make it a deal.

"A thousand snails... I only charge that much for my most valuable stuff!" Eda shouted in outrage.

"For half that, you sold my parents a hair dryer that broke down after an hour!" yelled one of the Hexside students as Eda sat down trying not to get noticed.

Eda asks what kind of game is he playing and Tibbles replies capitalism where everyone wins except her.

"Can't be much worse than how it is in the human realm..." Hal muttered as Luz looked at him.

"The Boiling Isles is a great thing but with how more dangerous things are compared to the human world; do you think that Capitalism can't be much worse there than it is here?" Luz asked and Hal muttered that he hates that she is probably right and doesn't want to think about how.

Eda notices the Hexas Hold Em cards and asks if he plays, Tibbles claims that he is just using them as a coaster not knowing what the game is called and Eda offers a deal: she wins and he gives him the elixir and he wins then he can take something of her.

"Eda! You are supposed to be the more experienced and wise mentor and even I know from watching TV that the guy is obviously trying to hustle you by faking ignorance!" Luz shouted in disbelief and Camila was surprised since Luz had beat her to the punch, she was about to let her have it herself.

There were murmurs of agreement and Eda spoke up saying "listen Luz, you don't know the residents of the Boiling Isles as well as I do nor do you know the game like me! So jsut sit there and worry about your future punishment instead of me destroying this little loser at Hexas Hold Em!" There were giggles hidden behind hands as Luz just looked at her scared, "Nothing to worry about, tell you what in the off chance that you are right then I will not give you anymore grief about the stunt you and your friends will pull and I will forgo any punishment that my future self gives your future self." Eda told her as Bump shook his head, how could she be so smart and dumb at the same time?

Tibbles says that she is on calling it fun as Eda smirks. The house walks through the streets of Bonesborough and they reach the gates of Blight Manor.

"Oh do we get to see your little human friend here Amity?" Emira asked with agreement from Edric as Amity looked panicked.

"I promise you that your siblings do not appear in this episode." Cornholio said with Amity being relieved and the twins being disappointed. "Wait for the next episode for that..." Cornholio thought in his head.

Willow wants to show Amity what a real Conjuring looks like before the house is caught by a rope.

They looked alarmed and Eda glared at the direction of all 3 kids.

Luz points out the giant crossbow with the lead demon hunter firing a hook with another rope to keep the house locked in place.

Camila kept Luz close to her as Luz looked afraid as did Willow and Gus who had their parents look at them in concern, now they don't have the luxury of knowing that the events had already happened to know that things will be alright...

The lead demon hunter then jumps to face them and says 'knock knock' with them looking afraid.

"Who's there?" Hooty asks sticking his head back out and was being petted by Camila and a glance from Amity showed him that it wasn't a good idea to give it another try at being near her.

"Hooty, we are so sorry that this will happen... To make it up to you we will hear the rest of the story with the sparrow when we get out of here..." Luz told Hooty apologetically.

"Don't worry about it Luz, hoot-hoot!" Hooty squealed happily as he then coughed out the sparrow that flew away and Cornholio had it disappear.

"Wait, this will happen in the future so how did..." questioned Edric realising that.

"The sparrow incident happened a few days before Owlbert led Luz to us; we ignored Hooty when he tried to tell us the story." King explained as the audience had their mouths wide open in shock.

"So that sparrow was just in his mouth for at least a few weeks..." Emira asked disgusting most of the audience with this idea.

The house is being carried by the demon hunters on a plank with wheels; Luz, Willow and Gus are tied up inside as Luz is trying to get the door open with her foot and call for Hooty. Hooty still in his trance state says that the only way is to get the three of them to hold hands. Luz asks Willow to help out with Willow who just puts her head down and apologises, the house stopped as they go on their sides with the lead demon hunter entering. He then throws the three of them out and states their plans to sell Hooty as exotic meat; Luz tries to claim that he would taste terrible.

"Hey, I am a refined taste hoot-hoot!" Hooty squealed indignantly.

"I was trying to save your life buddy or rather will... This is confusing..." Luz told him.

"Though I wonder how he would taste..." Edric asked before being slapped on the shoulder by Emira with a glare to her.

Hooty still in his tranced state states that he is a refined taste.

"Okay; 3rd time at least this has happened! This is getting weird..." Skara muttered with several other people muttering in agreement.

Tom asks what to do with the three of them and the lead demon hunter says to throw them over the cliff. At the cliff Gus asks him to wait and asks if tossing kids over a bridge was really what he wanted to do with his life, Tom says yes and it's been his dream since he was a boy.

"I should be for following and living your dream but... Just no." Hal said as even the Boiling Isles residents were taken aback.

Tom says that he was a strange child as he threw them off walks off, the rope is caught by a branch. Luz says that if they are not killed now they will be once Eda finds out about the house, Willow apologises to her and admitted that they used to be friends shocking Luz.

"If Amity's brother didn't say anything earlier, this reveal could have been more shocking. I hate being spoiled before the reveal." Luz laughed to Willow trying to lighten the mood and Willow giggled.

"So do you want me to tell you who cursed Eda or should I talk to you about..." Cornholio asked her as Luz started putting her fingers in her ears yelling that she is not listening to the amusement of most of the audience. Amity even flashed a smile at her direction, truth be told she remember yelling at Skara when she ruined the ending of the 2nd Azura book before she could finish it for herself.

Willow explains that they used to play together but when Amity started getting her magical powers and Willow didn't then she stopped hanging out with her.

"I don't know what you expected." taunted Boscha as Willow glared at her and Amity looked down.

"There is definitely more to this story that Amity doesn't want to talk about..." whispered Luz to her mother and she nodded.

"I am sure we will learn when the time comes Luz." Camila said with a frown.

Gus asks if it's the best time as the branch is starting to snap and Willow said that she wanted to prove to her that she was a powerful witch too.  Luz tells her that Amity doesn't know what she is talking about since she brought a house to life and Willow smiles; she says that next to Eda she is the most powerful witch she knows with no offense to Gus which he doesn't take offense to.

Willow smiles at Luz who smiled back, Boscha scoffs at this but Amity turned to Willow and said "you showed your strength with the plant magic, even if you don't do well at the other magic." Willow was surprised and flashed a smile at her former friend complimenting her like that.

The branch is about to snap but Willow gets her hand free and reaches for a nearby root.

"This is going to be good..." Luz muttered in glee and excitement.

At the stand; King says that it was painful to watch as there are card ashes on the counter and Eda looks angry with her cards in hand. Eda calls him a card shark and says that he hustled her.

"Why Edalyn, I wonder who could have predicted that?" Bump asked rhetorically with a smirk on his face as the audience bursted into laughter as Eda was open mouthed. "Now Ms Noceda or should I start calling you by your name Luz; do you want a reminder of what your mentor had said earlier?" Bump asked as Eda angrily pointed her staff at Bump but then a click of Cornholio's fingers caused it to drop to the ground.

"Please behave Ms Clawthorne or do you not want to learn who cursed you?" Cornholio warned her as she relented.

"Wait a second, you offered to tell Luz but not me?" Eda asked as Cornholio just chuckled.

Tibbles says that she forgot about his wild card who turned around showing a muscled demon who rips his shirt off.

"Seriously, are we ever going to get used to this place?" asked one of the human students as the others just shook their heads.

Tibbles chooses King as his prize and takes him saying he will be his tiny servant to model his baby clothes horrifying him.

"Eda!" King shouted angry at his future fate thanks to Eda who just looked sheepish.

"I want him too!" Boscha shouted out with some agreements as King was too busy being scared at the screen to bask in his popularity.

Eda tries to use a spell but her arm gets covered in her feathers and Tibbles uses a spell to tangle her up in chains. She drops to the ground and threatens to bite off his ankles; Tibbles asks if she thinks that he doesn't know who she is.

"Probably should have thought of that..." Eda said mentally kicking herself for being reckless.

He has seen her wanted posters and wonders how much the Emperor's Coven would pay for her to be handed over.

"What kind of dumb question is that? We clearly have the reward money advertised on the posters as you can see!" Steve shouted out loud in exasperation.

"I think he wants to haggle the price." Luz said to his direction causing him to laugh.

"Not a good idea, ask that kid how it went when his father tried to haggle up the reward money for a fugitive!" Steve said pointing to one of the students who just silently pleaded not to ask.

Tom tells the lead demon hunter that they tried to fight back and he handled it while showing off his arm in a flexing motion and the lead demon hunter points out that they were children.

"He was trying to show off with the story..." Luz said shaking her head.

A giant wild flower with Willow, Luz and Gus at the top appears and Willow gets one of the thorned vines to set them free. Willow says that they maybe children but they are also powerful witches as she gets the vines to fight them.

"That is awesome!" Gus said with sounds of agreement.

They get off and gets to the inside of the house. Luz gets them to quickly put their hands together with them glowing light blue, the lead demon hunter notices the house back on its giant chicken legs.

The excitement picked up some more.

The lead demon hunter is squished and Luz looking out the window notices the Moon is almost down and the house leaves with the demon hunters knocked out. Tom repeats to the lead demon hunter what he said about them being just being children.

Most of the audience bursted into laughter at this.

Back at the stand, Eda apologises to King who is in a huff while wearing an outfit with a leased bracelet around his ankle.

People were either laughing or talking about how cute King looked.

Eda swears that she is done with Hexas Hold Em after admitting that she has a problem, she even eats a card off the ground. King asks if she promises and Eda says off course with a mouth full of the card.

Bump and Camila just shook their heads, "Trust me this is a big deal, do you know what it takes for Eda to admit that she has flaws..." King asked before being clocked on the head by Eda using her staff.

King accepts it as he gets the bracelet off and goes to grab the elixir but there is Tibbles who says the Emperor's Coven is already on its way to send Eda to the Conformitorium and he has another outfit for him.

"Wait, that place is still running?" Luz asked as King looks disgusted at the outfit.

"Take it from me, Warden Wrath is desperate to see you all again and he doesn't plan on having it be a happy reunion." warned Steve.

"Thanks..." Luz told him before realising that she doesn't know his name.

"Shoulder pats for Steve!" Steve said in a congratulatory tone while patting himself on the shoulder.

King says that just because he has a model's body doesn't mean that he can be used like this, Tibbles says that he has the cards stacked against him. The ground was shaking and then the leg of the house stands on the stand dropping an elixir, Luz apologises out the window.

"Okay, with the moon aligned fate has decided to bless your timing..." Bump said in awe at the great timing.

Eda laughs as she gets up and then asks if that is her house.

"Disregarding what you said earlier, I don't think that you should be in any position to punish Luz or her friends for this considering it seemed that they saved you from the predicament of your own making." Camila told Eda with a smirk on her face and high fived her daughter.

"I liked you better when you were judging my every action..." Eda retorted with her arms folded.

King throws her the potion which she takes in her mouth and Eda uses her magic to free herself from the chains to the concern of Tibbles. Eda tells Tibbles that he forgot about the wild card; she and King walks off as Tibbles swears vengeance as his stand falls apart on him.

There were more laughs at this.

The house gets back into place and falls down, Luz asks if they did it as Hooty opens the door and asks if the room is spinning or if it's just him, Luz apologies to him but says it's okay, Eda closes the door glaring at them along with King still wearing the clothes from before.

Luz, Willow and Gus gulped at this.

Luz is worried as Eda says that she is so busted, Willow steps in and says not to punish her and they pushed her into this. Luz says that they don't have to do this and Willow says that she did.

Luz gave Willow a grateful look at this.

Eda says that they are all guilty so they must all be punished and magics up supplies for them to clean the house from top to bottom. Eda then says that it was amazing and she is so joining them for next year's Conjuring.

People were looking towards Eda with wide eyes, "what? I have to give credit where it's due, this was no baby Conjuring!" Eda said.

She gets them to work as she lies on the couch, King says that she can't believe that they animated a whole house and Eda says that it must take some powerful magic.

Eda and others thought that it would be something to think about.

Luz says that she wishes that they could have showed Amity up and Willow says that it's too bad that no one will know of their daring adventures.

"If only you had a daringly handsome all powerful Author sharing your adventures with the Boiling Isles?" chuckled Cornholio.

In Amity's room Skara, Cat, Boscha and Amelia are circled around a doll; Boscha says that it doesn't matter if they couldn't move a doll and they have time for what really matters: Penstagram.

"Willow, with how eventful your Conjuring is going to be and how uneventful Amity's going to be... You think that I can come to yours please?" Skara asked with agreements from other students to the open mouthed glare from Boscha.

"Do you want to be blocked from Penstagram?" asked Boscha and Skara gulped.

They check it as Amity is lying by her window, Boscha yells and its shocked as Amity comes to see; Tiny Nose posts about the picture of the walking house followed by more pictures posted by different users with the last two having the trio visible. Amity and Boscha then face eachother in shock and then shouts 'what' as the morning outside the Manor is shown.

"Well how could that not be the talk of the town as they say?" Cornholio chuckled as the audience thought about how it must have been like to experience it as an outsider.