"Happy Birthday dear Darla, Happy Birthday to you..." the Fudo family and other guests sang.
Darla blew out the candles and everyone cheered for her as the cake was then cut and shared in the room for everyone who came to the birthday party which was for her.
"Mm, cake." Maisy smiled.
"No one gets cake until Darla gets the first piece." Emily reminded.
Darla had already eaten it which made everyone laugh and they could then share the cake for her birthday.
"Here, Dimples..." Cherry handed her present.
"Thank you, Cherry." Darla smiled as she took it and opened it up to see a ballerina tutu with tights and slippers. "Wow! Where did you get this?"
"It used to be mine back in the orphanage..." Cherry cringed.
"Wow, really?" Darla smiled.
"Yes... Don't tell anyone..." Cherry replied.
Darla hugged her. "Thank you so much!"
Cherry shuddered. Jessica waited until she would give her present, she just hoped Darla would appreciate it just as much as she did.
"Darla, have you ever wanted to go and meet someone from outer space?" Atticus asked.
"I've thought about it sometimes..." Darla admitted. "I've always wanted to be in a sci-fi movie back in my Hollywood days."
Jessica smiled and held out her present. "I hope you enjoy this, I read it all the time when I was your age."
Darla took the present and opened it up to see it was a book titled 'Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century'. "I love it!" she then smiled.
"It was my favorite when I was your age." Jessica smiled back.
Darla flipped through the book to see it took place in the future and on a space station. "Oh, I'd love to go into space like Zenon," She soon found a spell in it. "A spell!"
Jessica and Atticus smiled to this.
"Hey, Cherry, wanna-" Atticus was about to ask.
"No." Cherry said flatly as she ate her piece of cake.
"Alright." Atticus shrugged.
"Cherry, you came to my party, the least you can do is join us..." Darla pouted.
"I said no." Cherry said as she ate her cake.
"Pleeeeeease?" Darla batted her eyelashes cutely.
"You're adorable, but no." Cherry replied.
Darla then used the puppy eyes trick.
"That doesn't work on-" Cherry was about to say until she looked into Darla's blue eyes.
Darla sniffled while puppy dog pouting.
"Oh, fine." Cherry sighed, giving in.
"Yay!" Darla hugged Cherry. "You're the best best friend ever!"
Amber pouted with a glare.
Darla's eyes widened before she smiled nervously to her best friend. "I mean Atticus's best friend."
"That's what I thought." Amber said.
Darla then hugged her best friend.
Amber hugged back. "I wanna come too."
"Can she please?" Darla asked Atticus and Jessica.
"Of course, she's your best friend!" Jessica smiled.
"Yay!" Darla cheered.
Amber and Darla shared a high-five together.
"So, uh, what's Zenon about?" Darla asked Jessica.
"Yeah, what is Zenon about?" Amber also asked.
"It's basically about this girl who lives on a space station with her parents in the future and she then goes to live with her aunt." Jessica explained, having memorized the story by heart ever since she was a little girl.
"Why?" Darla asked.
"As her punishment." Atticus said.
"Punishment?" Darla frowned. "Was she a troublemaker?"
"You could say that." Atticus said.
Darla looked worried.
Atticus took the book for a moment and flipped to the last page and bookmarked it for after the birthday party.
"Ooh, I think the clowns are here!" Emily put her hand to her ear when she heard honking.
"Clowns?" Cherry's eyes widened.
"You'll love this one," Patrick promised with a smirk. "Everyone to the backyard."
Everyone came into the backyard and Drell and Skippy were dressed like clowns.
"Kill me, just kill me right now..." Drell groaned to Skippy.
For once in her life, Cherry was actually not scared; she was actually going to enjoy this. Everyone then went to sit down while Cherry stood by Drell with a wicked smirk.
"I'm so gonna kill Patrick for this..." Drell grumbled as he took out a balloon before looking down to Cherry. "Don't you have pants to soil?"
"Nope." Cherry giggled.
"You're not scared?" Drell asked.
"Uh-uh..." Cherry laughed. "I think I might enjoy this."
Skippy came with a cream pie and smushed it in Drell's face. Drell glared and then uppercut Skippy for that which sent him flying across and over the fence. The warlock then smirked and patted his hands together. Skippy wobbily came back over before falling flat on the ground. Darla didn't like of how Drell treated Skippy like that. Drell laughed.
Darla firmly went over to Drell and put her hands on her hips. "That's not a very nice way to treat your friend."
"Eh, he'll live." Drell shrugged.
"Darla, would you like to see me juggle a clown?" Atticus smirked.
Darla was confused at first, but then she got an idea why he asked that question. "Yes, please!"
Atticus cracked his knuckles which made Drell back up and he grabbed Skippy, holding him out as a shield. Patrick soon got Skippy out of the way and where Atticus then started to juggle Drell. Skippy smiled weakly to Patrick before passing out. Darla started to enjoy this as did Cherry.
"This is the best birthday ever!" Darla giggled and clapped.
"I'm so glad Atticus and Patch dragged me here!" Cherry agreed as she posted this all over the internet on her phone.
"You better not post this!" Drell glared.
"Now, who wants to see me give Drell the clown a bear hug?" Atticus asked.
"Oh, no..." Drell looked fearful then.
"Do it!" Cherry beamed.
"Well, by popular demand..." Atticus said before bear hugging Drell.
Drell yelped out and groaned in pain. "Why me...?"
"Because of how mean you get to be towards others." Darla smirked.
"I'm innocent!" Drell whined.
"Sure..." Darla rolled her eyes.
"After this, I'll take you to Zenon's world." Atticus smiled to his little sister.
"Yay!" Darla smiled.
Atticus smiled as he continued to have fun wit Drell for Darla's birthday.
A while after Drell and Skippy left back home, the party was winding down.
"I never did open your present..." Darla said to Amber once she took a gift in her lap.
"Sorry it's not as special as everyone else's." Amber smiled weakly.
Darla opened it up and saw it was a homemade trinket. "A bracelet?"
"Not just any bracelet," Amber held out her wrist to show a similiar one around it. "A friendship bracelet, we wear this forever and we'll always be best friends."
"I love it." Darla smiled as she put on her birthday present from her best friend.
Amber smiled back. "This way, we'll be best friends forever as long as we wear these bracelets."
"Best friends forever." Darla agreed.
"So, you girls ready?" Jessica asked.
"You mean I can go too?" Amber asked back.
"Of course." Atticus said.
Amber beamed at that. "Oh, thank you guys!"
"Hey, you're Darla's best friend, it's the least we can do." Atticus smiled to the girl.
"So then, who's going to read the spell?" Darla asked.
"Are you coming with us?" Atticus came to his parents with the book in his hands.
"Well, it would be a good experience to see what it would be like to be in a space station." Patrick said.
"What adult doesn't dream of space as a child?" Emily smiled. "Well... We didn't of course, since he grew up in the Middle Ages and I grew up in Never Land with your Aunt Athena until she met Triton."
"So then shall we?" Atticus asked.
Patrick and Emily looked to each other before nodding and looking back.
"All right, space trip with Mom and Dad!" Atticus cheered.
"So, who is going to read the spell?" Amber asked.
"Please, allow me..." Patrick took the book. "I'm the man of the house after all."
"Okay, Dad." Atticus smiled.
Patrick took a glass of punch and cleared his throat. "Hocus Pocus and all of that... Salem is the coolest-" he then did a double take. "SALEM!"
Salem chuckled sheepishly as he was on his way back to the Spellman house.
"That warlock drives me crazy sometimes." Patrick sighed.
Emily then scratched out Salem's markings and pointed to the right spell.
"Thank you, dear," Patrick smiled. "'Let us travel without a trace, To the distant future where people live in space'."
And with a flash of light, they were instantly transported to the space station. Their clothes and appearances changed a bit to fit in with the sci-fi theme.
"Why do we look different?" Darla asked.
"To blend in with the theme of the story," Jessica beamed. "Ooh, I can't believe we're going to meet Zenon, this has been a dream of mine since I was a little girl!"
"Where can we find her?" Amber asked.
"Come on, I'll lead the way!" Jessica giggled in excitement, she felt like she was eight years old again.
"Lead the way, Sis." Atticus said.
Jessica nodded and eagerly led the way.
"Wow, who knew Jessica was such a sci-fi geek?" Cherry muttered.
"She's always been a sci-fi girl." Patrick said.
"Geek." Cherry smirked.
Atticus then nudged her which made her whimper in pain slightly.
"I take back my last comment." Cherry groaned.
Atticus patted her on the head then.