Chapter Text
"Ow!" Amity said as she bumped into something, more like someone, but it almost felt like a wall.
She had arrived early like she always did, there wasn't a day she showed up late unless an emergency caused the delay, she took her books, and walked towards the classroom, even though the lecture wouldn't start until minutes later, and that was when she turned the corner and crashed into the figure. The force of the impact was enough to make her lose her balance and fall backwards, also dropping her books.
"Ah mierda!" She heard from the other person.
Before she could lean down too much, she felt two strong hands quickly placing themselves on her back and pulling forward, successfully keeping her from falling down and allowing her to regain her balance, but as an immediate consequence, the person she bumped into had to bring her close to themselves, in her case, too close for Amity's taste. She found herself looking straight into big hazel eyes, having to tilt her head up as it seemed like the person was taller than her.
Amity didn't like having other people touching her, or being this close, it was innappropiate for her to allow it, so she usually kept a safe distance from others, the young witch was stunned for a moment because of the sudden action, but once she realized the hands were still holding her, Amity quickly gathered herself and quickly changed her surprised gaze into a glare, frowning deeply before pushing the taller person away.
"Watch where you're going!" Amity hissed, taking a look at the girl in front of her. Darker skin, long hair, beanie? And for some reason she wore a big jacket with a stripped shirt underneath instead of the uniform. Amity then decided she was done with analyzing her and shifted her attention to the books she dropped and the few notes that fell from them, she'd have to organize them again "Great... " Amity mumbled, crouching in order to pick her belongings up again.
"Sorry about that" The girl said with raised hands, kneeling down to help Amity gather the notes "I was looking at the ceiling, admiring the school you know?" They both got up.
Amity kept frowning "Spacing out while walking isn't exactly a good idea".
"At least now i can do it while looking at your eyes instead" She responded, smirking.
Did she just flirt with me? Who does she thinks she is?
It was only then that Amity noticed the round shape of the girl's ears, making her slightly widen her eyes.
"A human in the boiling isles?" she wondered, almost sneering in disbelief "What are you even doing here? This isn't a tour building" her voice grew even more annoyed than before.
"Nice to meet you too" the human said with an unimpressed look, then offered the papers back to Amity, who took them back rather harshly "Yoink" the human said to that, grinning.
"What?" Amity felt a little anger actually spark inside of her.
"Nothing, it's a human thing".
Amity's eyebrows twitched "Well, whatever other human things you have, i suggest you take them with you and remove yourself from this school".
"Well excuse me" She was quick to respond "I'm a student of this school now, so you can get used to me".
Amity turned into a mix of shock and irritation "What?? I wasn't notified of that!"
The human girl shrugged, unfazed "My mentor kind of did a bunch of stuff so i could get in, while i escaped detention" she shivered at the memory before going back to smirking "And all of that just yesterday, kinda sudden, huh?"
"So you were the one who detroyed the actual detention!' Amity pointed at her in disbelief and indignation, she then gave a step forward, never breaking eye contact or easing her frown "And you speak as if you're proud of it?"
"Hey it's not like i had a choice! And i think getting out of that literal hell hole is quite impressive" the human also stepped forward, being an arm away from Amity and staring down at her "Now if you're done being abnoxious" she offered a handshake "What's your name, your highness?"
"I'm not- " Amity looked down at the hand as if it was the most out of place thing, then back at the taller girl's eyes "You already damaged the school's property before you even stepped in as a student, the last thing we need is another deliquent".
The human couldn't hide her light frown this time, she was still smiling, although it fell a little "That's not the right answer, princess".
"I don't take little lessons from you".
"My arm will get tired" The human said, raising an eyebrow, hand still extended as she looked at Amity with those annoying, bright brown eyes.
If it was outside of the school, Amity might have told her to put that hand away, but in hexside, as the top student, she would swallow her pride, a handshake certainly wasn't that much to ask.
"Amity Blight" She grabbed the human's hand and gave a brief, single shake, however when she tried to let go, the human's bigger hand held her own tightly.
"Amity... " she bent down, smirking and slowly rolling the name out "That's a nice name, but at least wait until i'm done saying mine" She wasn't wrong, but the newly reinforced grip on Amity's hand made her tense up, it was firm, but still gentle and warm. The sudden politeness of her tone was in contrast with the gesture, specially because she stared at Amity for two whole seconds before speaking again "Luz" She softened her hold, then slowly shook Amity's hand in return "Luz Noceda".
Amity pulled her hand back, holding her books against her chest like she was doing before they bumped into each other, she then gave a light nod, slightly tilting her chin up in a display of pride.
"Now that wasn't so bad, was it?" Luz straightened her back, smirk turning into an amused grin.
"Don't push my patience" Amity hissed "That was basic education, something i hope you have".
Luz scoffed before eyeing Amity from head to toe "And you're a noble?"
Amity rolled her eyes "You could say that" she wasn't really lying.
"Geez. You have just as much beauty as you have prissy jackass energy" Luz said with that stupid lopsided smile.
Amity didn't know exactly what "jackass" meant, but she didn't need to understand that word to know it was supposed to be offensive.
"Who in the Titan's name do you think you're talking to?"
"A prissy jackass?" Luz repeated playfully.
Amity pressed her teeth together, close to exposing her fangs, but she wouldn't give in to such a primal instinct because of an annoying human, she stomped closer to Luz, and pointed a finger close to her chest "Listen here, Noceda. I don't know what your deal is, but if you think i'll bow down to a weak, dis- "
Something about what Amity said seemed to have triggered the human, because before she could finish, Luz had removed her accusing hand by grabbing her wrist, and glaring down at her.
"Say that again, Blight" She demanded.
Amity didn't want to admit that the change of tone in the girl's voice sent shivers down her spine, but that reaction meant she already managed to poke a nerve. Smiling in a challenge, the young Blight refused to repeat herself, not out of compliance, but out of pride, not allowing herself to look shaken or show any weakness whatsoever, instead she simply continued, eyelids relaxed.
"-Disrespectful deliquent, then you're really wrong" she finished, pulling her wrist out of Luz's grasp, then proceeded to walk past the taller teen "And be thankful i just let you touch me with no further consequences".
Luz scoffed once again, incredulous, and only watched as the green haired witch walked off. First day and she already made an enmity, not so great, what's wrong with this girl?
- - -
Little did they know that their next encounters after that day would be way less civil.
"Noceda!" Amity nearly shouted at the human who sat on the floor across her, both covered in dust.
"Blight!!" Luz, exclaimed before coughing.
"What were you thinking?!"
Luz got up, just as Amity did the same "What was i thinking?? You were the one who added ghost spit too fast!"
"No no" Amity retorted, coughing a couple times "If you hadn't removed the sludge when i said you shouldn't have, the friction wouldn't have caused a whole explosion!"
They were attending to the potion class at the same time, Amity was in the abomination track, however, the abomination teacher was absent for personal reasons, and the subject coincided with something similar to the making of a more resistent abomination mass, so the students from the abomination track could attend if they wanted, a few showed up while others went home earlier since it was supposed to be their last class that day, and just for her luck, Amity was forced to pair up with the human, it was fine until they started diverging methods, wich turned into a heated argument, the teacher watched as they bickered for a whole minute before their potion started glowing white, eventually culminating into a small explosion, no one got hurt, but both girls were blaming each other for their failure, wich left the other students sharing surprised glances as they watched.
"You're supposed to keep stirring it, dumbass... " Luz snapped.
Amity didn't back down "And you're supposed to follow the list correctly, you uncompromising fool!"
"That's enough!" The teacher stood up, finally managing to shut them up "You two caused this dusty failure of a potion, so you two will stay here and clean it!".
The two students stared at each other in shock, then back at the teacher "Wait- But she- " They both said at the same time.
"No discussion" The woman raised her hand and interrupted them, just after that, the bell screamed outside, warning that it was time to leave "Oh! School is over! The rest of the class can head home, don't forget to show the details and your notes to the abomination teacher tomorrow".
They were left alone in that damn classroom.
Turns out magic dust is harder to clean than Luz thought, wich only slowed down their progress, for the most part they stayed in silence, grumpy faces as they avoided each other, but sometimes when Amity thought she wasn't looking, she'd take a glance at Luz, she didn't understood this person, humans can't even do magic, what dirty tricks did she use to get in?
At some point when they were almost done, they were both gathering the dust in one spot, then Amity used to much force with the broom and threw some of it on Luz's shoes and on a bit of her legs, making them gray with the powder.
"Thanks a lot, let me help you out" Luz snapped, moving to huffle Amity's hair with her dusty hand.
Amity immediately growled and slapped Luz's hand away "What's your problem?!"
"What's your problem?"
"That was an accident, you idiot!"
Luz didn't seem convinced, grinning just to make her angry "Then why didn't you apologize?"
"Why would i apologize to you of all people?" Amity seethed, frantically patting the dust off and putting the loose strands of her hair back to it's wild position.
"Holy shit you're full of yourself" The taller girl invaded Amity's personal space, that same smug and provocative smile plastered on her face "If you have a problem with me, then just say it, sweetheart".
"I am not your sweetheart. And what do you mean by if?" Amity retorted "Everytime we're together you get me in trouble! This place is not for you, Noceda, that's my problem with you, you give witches a bad name" She crossed her arms, looking up at Luz with her usual mean look.
Luz laughed incredulously "So prejudiced jerks like you are okay" she then pointed at herself with both hands "But I'M giving witches a bad name?! Wake up, Blight! You probably have your mommy and daddy tell you everyday that you're better than others, and that it's okay to step on people's faces with your dirty little boots because they should feel flattered, but i'm sure even i am better than you!"
That was it.
Amity fumed, then shoved at Luz's shoulders, making her give a couple steps back "Watch what you're saying, human!"
Luz glared back at her "Why should i?!" She shoved Amity in return, her superior strength having a way stronger impact as the green haired witch stumbled and had to hold on a table to keep herself from falling, if it wasn't for the rush of adrenaline, she would have seen Luz wince at the scene, she didn't meant to push her that hard.
I cannot stand this human. I'm sick of her face. She will regret laying her hands on me.
"I am a Blight!" Amity growled, small trails of fire escaping her mouth for a moment "We only associate with the selected few, everyone understood that until you showed up!"
"You mean everyone let you step on them before i showed up" Luz corrected, strangely calm "But guess what, little miss perfect, i am not like that".
"You... " Amity closed her hand in a fist.
"Luz?"
They both stopped to look at where the familiar voice came from. By the door, was Willow, who had that relaxed look that was so characteristic of her, but with her eyebrows furrowing in worry as one of her hands held the doorframe, how long had she been there? She locked eyes with Amity for a moment, causing the young Blight to frown and avoid gaze while Willow looked down and made a ressentful expression, Luz didn't miss that, Willow then straightened her jacket and decided to not acknowledge Amity, looking at her friend instead.
"I was waiting, is everything cool?"
Luz glared at Amity who did the same, but she patted the dust off of her hands then shoved them in her pockets before smiling at Willow "Cool as ice, i'll catch you in a minute".
Willow still had her eyebrows furrowed, but she just let go of the doorframe and fixed her glasses "Okay, i'll be by the exit".
She left, leaving Amity and Luz by themselves once again.
Amity sighed and drew a circle to make the broom float to her hand, Luz huffed and grabbed the dustpan, then positioned it for Amity to brush the light gray dust in it, once it was done, Luz put the dust in the trash can. They repeated the process a few more times until the classroom was clean, and that would just have been it if Luz hadn't been eyeing Amity the entire process.
"Care to tell what got you staring a hole in my head?"
Luz just shrugged "Misterious past with Willow".
Amity bristled, placing the broom in the corner of the classroom "Excuse me?"
"I'm not blind" Luz curled the corner of her mouth, Amity hated when she did that, it was so mocking "But i'll pretend this time".
She hated this so much "Whatever you mean, it's none of your business".
Amity walked to the cauldron, making a face at the contents in the bottom of it, more dust, but also a bit of sludge gathered, at least she wouldn't have to clean that, the staff is responsible for it, out of curiosity about what the hell it was, and what possibly made it look like that, she tried to poke it with the tip of her fingers, but regretted it as an extremely cold sensation hit from her hand up to her forearm, she hissed and pulled her hand back, jerking it in the process of removing it as soon as possible, it worked, but the little mass hit Luz, who had crept up beside her, when the little sludge hit the human's shoulder, it turned into dust, leaving a light gray taint on the green jacket.
Amity tsked and patted the dust off of Luz's jacket, wich made the taller girl's eyes slightly widen, and to the young witch's dismay and annoyance, the second she looked up she saw the smile slowly creeping on Luz's mouth.
"Seriously?" Luz said, amused "You care about keeping me clean now, Blight?"
"Ugh... " Amity removed her hand and stepped back "I did that by reflex, unlike you i don't dirty people on purpose".
Luz just hummed "You know, you look prettier when you're not being mean".
"Oh please" Amity rolled her eyes, already moving to walk past the human, but flinched once Luz put her hand against the wall, arm in front of her way, stopping the student dead in her tracks.
"I mean it" Luz spoke in a lower tone, leaning a bit closer to the green haired witch's face, for the first time in ages, she didn't sounded like she was trying to anger Amity "Don't you think it would be easier for us to just stop bumping heads?"
Amity's heart skipped a beat, and her mouth hung open before closing again as if she wanted to say something but didn't know what, she found herself staring at those hazel eyes, she didn't know such a simple eye colour could fit so well in someone, even when the human wore her irritating smirks, she could see Luz was... well, good looking? Her persistance and strong attitude were features she could admire in someone, that same fire blazing strong against the odds, the hardwork was also something Amity valued a lot, and also the first thing she noticed about the human that didn't made her angry, the whole way Luz functions is strange, and new and maybe it would even be endearing.
But that should not be the case, not with this witch, she refused to admit any of those things, Luz was an issue, an anomaly in this world, and Amity could never associate with her, because Blights only associate with the selected few, there's a reason she built so many walls, a reason why she needs to be on top, and a reason she keeps distance and bumps heads with Noceda, Amity has a image to keep, and Luz? She's...
"She's bellow your level, Amity"
Her mother's words ressonated within her mind, her expression hardened, and that small moment of loosened up tension ended.
"I don't want to waste my time with you" Amity snapped.
Luz's eyes then darkened "You don't have to be a bitch all the time".
She narrowed her eyes "Screw you".
"Come screw me yourself, you coward".
Amity's mouth fell and her eyes went wide as a faint red warmed up her cheeks, she also backed her face away from the human's, the audacity and boldness of this girl has no limits?
"H-How dare you?? How can you be so vulgar!" She said it as angry and astonished as she could sound, but her reaction only took an amused smile out of Luz, who removed her hand from the wall.
"See you later, Blight" She said, walking away.
This person is...
The most terrible
Foolish
Unscrupulous person she has ever met.
And Amity will teach her a lesson, yes she will.
Amity won't lose this war.