Chapter 1

The Other Last One

~Late 1999, A Day After No Time to Be A Hero; Sabrina's bedroom~

"Oh…dear, god" a 12-year-old blonde groans as she clutches her sore stomach and lies in bed. "Salem, hurry up!"

"Hold on there, half-witch!" a concerned Salem yells softly as he concentrates on levitating a bowl of lukewarm tomato soup slowly towards the young girl's direction.

"Come on, focus!" Salem self-yells in an encouraging tone. Sabrina sneezes; this breaks Salem's concentration and disrupts his levitation spell.

The soup bowl flops onto the carpeted floor and shatters into a million pieces.

"Ow!" a hyper-sensitive Sabrina screams as she covers her throbbing and vibrating ears.

"No worries, girl! That mortal soup wouldn't have helped you anyways" Salem covers up the incident with a witty remark.

"What do you mean? Soup always cures the cold" she asks, perplexed.

"Just wait until you hear about the 'Cure a Cold Soup' from the witch world. It's an obvious name, but hey, I was named after the Witch Trials and our spells end in rhymes. So, what did you expect? Anyways, I'll head over to the witch market to buy you some"

"Thanks, Salem!" Sabrina replies without coughing; it's a miracle she made through that sentence, uninterrupted.

"Anytime, Sab. Now get some sleep" Salem suggests before he starts crawling towards the teleportation shower across the hall.

"How? It's 3 P.M" she explains the dilemma: An inability to fall asleep until the melatonin would kick in at nighttime.

"Just…." Salem improvises an answer: "…Listen to a lullaby on your Walkman". He scampers over to the teleportation shower and yells from the bathroom: "See you in 20!"

Then, dead silence as he, the other last one, in the house disappears. Leaving a sickly Sabrina to nurture herself.

She ascends from the bed, walks over to her study desk, and grabs the following items: A pink-colored Walkman, a pair of headphones, and the cassette tape labelled "Brahms Lullaby" [It's in the public domain]

She puts on the headset, insets the cassette, and hits Play:

"Lullaby and goodnight, with roses bedight
With lilies o'er spread is baby's wee bed
Lay thee down now and rest, may thy slumber be blessed
Lay thee down now and rest, may thy slumber be blessed"

"That's better" she sighs and succumbs to her soft bed and warm blanket

"Lullaby and goodnight, thy mother's delight
Bright angels beside my darling abide…."

Then she dozes off into a shallow sleep to recover from her high fever, caused by jumping in the shivering river several times to save Harvey and unintentionally the school bus from drowning during the time-travel episode: No Time to Be A Hero.

KABOOM!

Sabrina snores in bed until she feels a strong vibration from under the bed. Concerned, she pulls off her headset, pauses the tape, and gets up from her bed.

"Come on!" Sabrina says to herself, worried. Her eyes are wide open yet feel too heavy to keep open due to her tiredness.

"Spellman!" a voice screams from the ground floor, causing the 12-year-old to crawl under the bed for safety and concealment purposes.

'Ok, what to do?' Sabrina thinks to herself before she accidentally lets out a loud sneeze.

"Huh!" the other girl yelps in surprise and make her way towards the source of the noise: A little girl's bedroom that was surprisingly empty.

'There's nobody around here; false alarm' she thinks to herself and turns her back, now facing the door that she would exit through until:

"Ow!" she screams and collapses to the carpeted floor, having been attacked with the tip of a young girl's magic broom.

"Who are you?!" Sabrina demands answers as she clenches her weapon of choice.

"Three hundred years ago, Salem Spellman got me imprisoned for human cruelty" she explains as Sabrina walks over to her table counter to grab a wand; her magic's weaker when she's sick. And, thus she needs a wand to channel her magic under such circumstances.

"Salem's not here!" Sabrina explains as she points her wand at the corpse.

"As punishment, I got stripped of my magic. And, thus I'm here to exact my revenge. Since he's not here, I guess you'll have to do!" she groans as she gets up: "I'm gonna suck the magic outta you, kid"

Sabrina gulps but glares at her. The other girl observes the half-star symbol on Sabrina's free palm.

"I could just suck the magic outta you since you're only a half-witch. But Salem got me arrested, and so I'd like to kill you afterwards as revenge" she sadistically explains her motive.

"Give me your best shot!" Sabrina warns her before she points her wand at the girl and takes a few steps forward, but screams and collapses to the ground for painful reasons.

"Ow!" Sabrina screams as she rubs her bleeding foot, caused by stepping on glass shards from the soup bowl.

"Wow, good job, you idiot!" she laughs at Sabrina and stares at the bleeding cuts on the bottom of Sabrina's feet: "This outta make it less painful" she mockingly comments.

She pulls a blood-stained glass shard out of her foot.

"Owwww!" Spellman screams as blood spurts out of her foot and pausing for a few seconds, but feels a strong pull on her legs.

"Wait, what are you-?" Sabrina asks as she grabs onto the carpeted floor. But, unfortunately, she loses her grip and soon the other girl picks up Sabrina and throws her against the wall.

"Ow!" Sabrina screams as she collides with the wall, breaking her nose, spurting blood all over the wall and onto the ground as she collapses onto it.

"Please let me go!" Sabrina pleads and tears up: "I'm not who you're after! Salem screwed you over, not me!"

"Young girl, I don't care!" she yells and stomps on Sabrina's ulna. The young girl screams as a cracking sound emerges from her forearm.

"What are you going to do to me?" Sabrina cries as the other girl grabs the magic broom, but Sabrina gets no reply as the angered girl slams the broom into the 12-year old's scalp

The painful screams and blood flowing down the head continues as the girl keeps hitting Sabrina with the magic broom until it snaps in half.

Sabrina groans in pain and lies on the floor, feeling traumatized and nearly dead. All hope seemed to be lost until Sabrina stared at an outlet and got an idea.

'Ok' Sabrina thought to herself during the life-or-death situation: 'I don't know if this'll work since I'm sick. But, it's worth a try'

Sabrina grabs her wand with her unbroken arm, whispers an electrocution spell to power it, and points towards the other girl.

"Ha, nice try" she mocks Sabrina as she misfires towards her PC monitor, which ultimately works in her favor since it overpowers and explodes, causing a lot of smoke build-up.

"Huh! I can't see!" the other girl complains loudly as the smoke blinds from the room.

Sabrina quietly casts an invisibility spell on herself and sobs quietly in pain as the other girl finds the window and opens it, reducing the smoke so that visibility is improved.

"Where'd she go?" the other girl screams in frustration before running downstairs, looking around the lower house, and leaving.

The spell wears off and Sabrina lies on the blood-stained floor as she stares at the landline next to her nightstand. She couldn't focus on her levitation spell to bring the landline to her, so she painfully crawled to the nightstand, extended her unbroken arm to grab the landline, and called Salem's cell phone.

"Salem…." She pants as her vision's introduced to hot flashes: "…Hurry; need…you"

"Sabrina, are you ok?" Salem asks, feeling concerned

"Please…hurry….Heavy….bleeding….not that kind of bleeding…., bleeding forehead. I'm gonna die…." She groans as her heartbeat rapidly increases: "Hos…pih…tal needed; don't know their number…can't remember it…can't think right now"

"Jesus, kid. Did you trip down the stairs?" he asks as he runs outside the witch store and stands behind a long line for one of the few teleportation phone booths: A phone that you stand in to get teleported to the mortal world.

"No…" she clarifies as her vision becomes more distorted: "…Girl got out of jail…wanted revenge from you…attacked me instead…she's gone….and I'll be too if you don't hurry….I'm gonna faint-"

"-Oh, my god. Anyone but her?" Salem chokes on his speech in disbelief: "Sabrina, try to keep awake. The ambulance's number is-"

That's all that Sabrina could hear before she passed out onto the floor, hopeless and possibly lifeless if Salem didn't return soon.

To be continued