It seemed to be a typical day at lunch in school. Cherry sighed as she read a book that her mother gave her and she removed her glasses, rubbing her eyes, not exactly crying though, but felt emotional by the tone of the book.
"Hey, Cherry." Atticus greeted.
"Huh? Oh... Hi..." Cherry replied.
"Are you okay?" Atticus asked.
"I guess so..." Cherry said as she rubbed her eye, putting the book down for right now.
"You sure?" Atticus asked.
"Just reading a book that Mom gave me." Cherry said.
Atticus picked up the book to see it. "Memoirs of a Geisha?"
"It's a story about a poor Japanese girl who has been sold along with her older sister into a life of servitude by her parents." Cherry informed.
"Whoa." Atticus said.
"It's pretty heartbreaking..." Cherry said. "You know my mom, she loves sad stories and movies."
"Yeah, I know." Atticus nodded.
"You got creme soda? I'm parched." Cherry said.
"Wait here..." Atticus said, going to the vending machine to give her a soda.
"Hmm... This is nice..." Cherry smirked. "A slow day at school... A great lunch with a good book... No adventures..."
"But knowing our lives, this won't last long." Atticus said.
Cherry puffed air from her cheeks. Two figures came behind her.
"Time you have, but no patience." One voice said behind her.
"Drell, if you're trying to scare me, it's not gonna work anymore." Cherry muttered.
"Cherry, I think you should take a look at who's behind you." Atticus said.
Cherry soon took a look around and saw the warlock, but he was with someone and did a double take.
"I wanted to surprise you guys..." Drell said. "Cherry... Atticus... This is a friend of mine... Samurai Jack."
"It's an honor to meet you." Atticus said as he bowed to the samurai.
"Likewise..." The samurai bowed back.
Cherry soon bowed herself, dropping down from the chair.
"There's a tournament coming up in Japan, I was gonna take you two, but if you're so bored of me..." Drell said, trying to guilt trip them.
"No, no, please!" Atticus begged him.
"Hear that?" Drell smirked to Jack. "Usually when I want them to go somewhere, I have to drag them, kicking and screaming."
"No, you usually just send us to our adventure without even letting us say if we want to go or not." Cherry said.
Drell gave her an annoyed glare.
"Uh... I mean... I wanna go too!" Cherry said nervously.
"You don't mind going with them, do you Jack?" Drell asked Samurai Jack.
"Of course not," Jack replied. "They seem like a pair of children who could learn a lot on this journey."
"They usually do." Drell said.
"So, are you coming too?" Cherry asked.
"Yes, but I'll mostly be busy..." Drell replied before whispering loudly. "I wanna surprise Hilda for our anniversary of our fifth date out of the United States!"
"Okay." Cherry said.
"Don't tell her!" Drell replied before stepping back with a smile. "I'll come pick you guys up."
"When?" Cherry and Atticus asked.
"Right, see you then." Drell said before leaving.
"Does he usually do that?" Samurai Jack asked.
"Unfortunately, yes." Atticus said.
"If you could teach him a lesson about that, that would be fantastic!" Cherry added.
"You two are very interesting children, and I thought I've seen just about it all in my time..." Samurai Jack. "I didn't have the easiest life, especially when it came to facing one of my greatest foes."
"Oh, trust me; I know how that feels." Atticus said.
"Well, I'd like to see you try to face an evil, shape-shifting demon, sending me into a future where evil was law." Samurai Jack replied.
"You make my evil uncle who once was an evil king sound like an easy guy to beat to this guy that shape-shifts." Atticus said.
"You have an evil uncle?" Samurai Jack asked.
"He hates me!" Cherry replied.
"Why?" Samurai Jack asked.
Cherry opened her mouth before pausing. "Uh... Why does Sombra hate me again?" She then asked Atticus.
"He thinks I'm wasting my times making friends with you and that it'll be harder for me to become his heir to The Crystal Empire, so he wants to get rid of you so I'll have no choice but to join his side, apparently there was a chance before we became friends, but you 'ruined' everything." Atticus explained.
"Yeah, that." Cherry then said.
"You uncle actually sounds like Aku." Samurai Jack replied.
"Aku... That's your villain, right?" Atticus asked.
"Oh, yes..." Samurai Jack nodded. "My sworn enemy back when I went on various adventures to stop him so that I could get back home to the past."
"And you succeeded, right?" Atticus asked.
"Believe me, it wasn't easy," Samurai Jack said with a nod. "I hope you two never have to meet him."
"We hope so too." Cherry said.
"You seem like the strong type..." Samurai Jack said to Atticus.
"Careful, you'll bruise his ego, he even has his own sword." Cherry smirked.
"It's true, I really do." Atticus added.
"Perhaps you'd also like to enter the martial arts tournament in Japan." Samurai Jack smirked before unsheathing his own sword to show them.
Cherry yelped and ducked down under the table since the sword surprised her.
"Ever since I met Goku I've always wanted enter martial arts tournaments, so yes." Atticus nodded.
"You could learn martial arts too..." Samurai Jack said to Cherry. "You seem a little jumpy."
"Me? Jumpy? Nah..." Cherry said as she soon stood up and dusted herself clean. "I can take care of myself."
"Oh, really?" Atticus asked before looking behind her. "Oh, hi Drell."
"I'm not falling for that." Cherry deadpanned.
"Hello." Drell's voice smirked.
"GAH!" Cherry yelped before glaring. "I hate it when you do that!"
"Cherry, you'll also be in the tournament." Drell smirked before he left.
"WHAT?!" Cherry asked. "You can't do that to me! You... I... Ughh!"
"Come on, Cherry, martial arts would be great self defense." Samurai Jack advised.
"Fine." Cherry groaned.
Eventually, it was after school and it was time for most students to go home.
"Here we go." Atticus smiled.
"I'm glad it's vacation time..." Sabrina said. "Maybe I'll go to the spa with Aunt Hilda and Aunt Zelda for a while."
"That sounds nice." Mo said.
"You guys wanna come over? It's been a while." Sabrina offered.
"Sure." Cherry said.
They soon went to go home with Sabrina while Salem was pacing around on the front porch, looking both impatient and hungry.
"Hey, Salem." Patch greeted.
"There you are, where have you been all day?" Salem complained to Sabrina.
"It's a school day." Sabrina told him.
"Oh... Well... Could I have a snack then since it's after school?" Salem smiled innocently.
"Alright." Sabrina rolled her eyes.
They soon went inside of the Spellman house.
"I think he forgot, he definitely forgot, he hasn't done anything for me." Hilda pouted.
"Maybe he's making a surprise for you." Zelda told her sister.
"You think so?" Hilda asked.
"Try not to worry too much..." Zelda smiled.
"That's easy for you to say, Zelda, you don't have to worry about having a broken heart." Hilda pouted.
"Gee... Thanks." Zelda deadpanned.
"Uh, is everything okay?" Atticus asked.
"Drell's being a pain." Hilda pouted.
"This is news?" Sabrina asked.
"How is Drell being a pain this time?" Atticus asked.
"We have a special anniversary coming up and he hasn't even done anything or sent me anything yet..." Hilda complained. "I even had a special dinner planned for us!"
"We better go see Drell." Patch whispered to the others.
"Hilda, please try to calm down..." Zelda smiled nervously to her younger sister.
Atticus and the others soon snuck up to the linen closet.
"You want this, don't ya? Don't ya?" Drell teased Skippy as he held a sandwich out of his reach.
"Drell?" Atticus asked as they came in.
"Oh, hey, guys..." Drell said, putting the sandwich down for right now.
"Hilda's mad at you..." Cherry said. "It's kinda scary."
"Did you forget about your anniversary?" Mo asked Drell.
"No way!" Drell replied. "I'm giving Hilda a trip to visit Japan while you guys go with Jack. It's a surprise."
"Ohh." The group smiled.
"I just wanted to surprise her when it was time to go..." Drell smiled back. "Hilda loves to travel, so I wanted to take her there."
"Nice." Atticus smiled back.
"It's a secret, so SHUSH!" Drell told them.
"We will." Sabrina said.
Skippy soon came up behind Drell and bit his hand with the sandwich, feeling so hungry.
"So when do we leave?" Atticus asked.
"Tell us this time." Cherry demanded.
"I'll see you when I see you," Drell smirked before yelping. "YOW!"
Skippy smiled in relief once he ate the sandwich.
"Just tell us!" Mo told him.
"Hmm... Nah, I like to surprise you..." Drell replied.
"Well, it's not funny!" Cherry complained. "I don't care if you're Head of the Council, you can't keep doing this to us!"
"Yeah, it's getting annoying!" Patch added.
"Then I'm doing my job right." Drell chuckled and walked off.
Skippy looked around and then held up a card to tell them to get ready by tomorrow morning. The group saw this and nodded. Skippy smiled and tipped his hat to them.
"Oh, Sabrina, I'll be over for dinner tonight." Drell then told the blonde witchling.
"Ha-Ha~" Cherry smirked.
Sabrina groaned as she felt unlucky.
They soon came back to the house as Hilda had a black cloud over her head since she was in a bad mood now.
"Uh, Aunt Hilda's gonna be busy for a while." Zelda nervously told the others.
"Drell has a surprise for her." Atticus whispered to her.
"Are you sure?" Zelda asked. "He can be so irresponsible sometimes."
Atticus soon whispered the surprise to Zelda.
"Ooh..." Zelda said. "I just hope he remembers it."
"I'm sure he will." Patch replied.
"Why don't you guys stay for dinner?" Zelda invited.
"No... No... No..." Cherry begged quietly.
"We'd love to, but we have dinner with our own families to attend to." Atticus said.
"Get home safe then." Zelda smiled.
"Don't leave me alone with him!" Sabrina begged, but they were soon gone.
That night, Cherry continued to read her book while her mother made dinner. She soon saw an Ancient Japanese message in the book. "Hmm... What's this?" she asked herself as she decided to look at the message. Once she saw the message, Cherry decided to call her Japanese translator who was also her Spanish translator as well as her best friend.
Atticus and Patch packed together so they would be ready for any surprises.
"Hello? ...Just a second," Emily said on the phone before calling out. "Atticus! Telephone!"
Atticus soon came to the phone at super-speed. Emily smiled and gave him the phone.
"Hello?" Atticus replied.
"I need you." Cherry said.
"What is it?" Atticus asked.
"I need help with translating a Japanese message, it looks ancient." Cherry said.
"Mom, can I go to Cherry's house for a minute?" Atticus asked.
"Sure, honey." Emily said.
"Great, thanks." Atticus smiled.
Emily smiled back.
"Am I on hold?" Cherry asked since Atticus didn't hang up the phone.
"I'll be right over." Atticus told her before hanging up and took off at super-speed.
"That could take-" Cherry said before the doorbell rang. "...Seconds."
"Cherry, you have a visitor!" Michelle called out.
"Yeah, I know!" Cherry called back before answering the door.
"Alright I'm here, so where's the ancient Japanese message I have to translate?" Atticus asked as he came in.
"In the book Mom gave me." Cherry told him.
"Of course..." Atticus replied as he took the book and took a look at the message.
Cherry looked to him and waited for the result, feeling a bit nervous. 'Please don't let it be anything bad.' She thought to herself.
Atticus looked to her.
"Well, what does it say?!" Cherry asked since he didn't say anything. "Is it a warning?!"
"I think it might be a spell." Atticus said.
"Who keeps putting spells in books?" Cherry rolled her eyes.
"There's only one warlock we know." Atticus told her.
"Drell." Cherry groaned.
"Most of this I know..." Atticus said as he took a look. "It shouldn't be too bad. Oh, there seems to be a warning about someone called The Black Samurai."
"Oh, just great," Cherry groaned. "Who's The Black Samurai?"
"Well, apparently, according to this message; he was once a good samurai before been given The Sword of Doom as he was impatient for The Sword of Destiny to be finished." Atticus translated.
Cherry soon cupped her mouth.
"I guess tomorrow's gonna be more than just a vacation." Atticus told her.
"What is normal anymore anyway?" Cherry replied.
"Fair enough." Atticus said.
"Well, I don't think I'd ever use a sword." Cherry said.
"Not even since Zorro does?" Atticus asked.
"Heh..." Cherry rolled her eyes. "I don't think I'd be very good at handling one."
"You never know until you try." Atticus said.
"Pass..." Cherry said. "Thanks for your help. I just hope this Black Samurai doesn't hurt someone, and by someone, I mean me."
Atticus simply rolled eyes at this.
"You can go now if you're ready to go..." Cherry said before holding her stomach. "Wow... I'm hungry." She soon went to the kitchen for dinner.
"Glad I could help!" Atticus called out to her as he looked at the message one last time and wrote this down for later.
"Sandwiches?" Cherry asked once she saw what was for dinner.
"Sorry, dear, busy day." Michelle smiled sheepishly.
"It's better than nothing." Cherry shrugged.
"That's a good girl..." Michelle patted her on the head. "Oh, how's the book by the way?"
"I'm just surprised how dark it is for Chiyo and Satsu..." Cherry replied, emotionally.
"I know." Michelle said.
Atticus soon went back home while Cherry ate her dinner.
Back at Sabrina's house, Hilda locked herself in her room and refused to come out which worried everybody.
"Maybe we should tell her that Drell has a surprise for her." Sabrina said.
Suddenly, lightning flashed and Drell walked by with a bouquet of primroses.
"She's in her room." Zelda told him.
Drell nodded and knocked on the door.
"GO AWAY!" Hilda demanded.
"Hilda, it's me!" Drell called to her. "Look, I'm sorry I've been so mysterious, but I promise, I'm gonna make it up to you!"
"How?!" Hilda yelled.
"Please open the door..." Drell said to her softly.
Hilda soon came to the door and looked to him.
"Primrose..." Drell said, showing her the flowers. "I got them because they match those eyes I could get lost in for hours on end."
"Where will be going?" Hilda asked.
"Hilda, tomorrow is the anniversary of when we first traveled together and you loved it so much..." Drell said. "So... I want us to go to Japan."
"Japan?!" Hilda smiled.
"I thought we could use a nice little vacation away from home." Drell said.
Hilda soon managed to pounce on him with the power of love with a lustful smirk on her face.
"Hm... I seemed to have won you over..." Drell smirked back, not so innocently. "Mind if I stay for dinner?"
"I wouldn't mind at all." Hilda smirked back.
"Keep it PG, guys!" Sabrina begged.
Hilda soon got up and giggled as she went back to making a special dinner and the black cloud from her head disappeared since she was in a good mood now.
"Whew," Zelda sighed. "Thank you for telling her."
"I'm so sorry, Zelda, I really wanted to make this work out in a good way, besides, would I torture people for no reason?" Drell replied.
Sabrina looked like she wanted to say something.
"Oh, you are so cute, have a cookie." Drell smirked as he put a random cookie in her mouth so she couldn't answer that question.
"Smart." Salem said.
Sabrina glared at the black cat in slight annoyance.
"Just trying to help." Salem shrugged innocently.
They soon had dinner once Hilda had it ready. There was steak which was heart shaped, fruit punch was for drinks, and there were baked potatoes, and the house seemed to be red, white, and pink like for Valentine's Day.
"And I thought you forgot~..." Hilda smiled as she hugged Drell's shoulders and kissed his cheeks.
Everyone else came inside the kitchen and their clothes changed to match the room.
"Whoa." Sabrina said.
Later that night, everybody went to sleep as tomorrow was going to be the big day since they knew now and wouldn't be surprised this time about going on an adventure, and where it was thanks to Skippy that they knew.
Bonus: Vote now for Cherry's Halloween costume for Patch and the Halloween Tree! Shall it be...
A: Go Go from Big Hero 6
B: Catgirl
C: Charmcaster from Ben 10