It was finally time for a special day. It was Sabrina Spellman's birthday and Cherry, Atticus, Mo, and Patch had been invited, as well as witches and warlocks who knew the family well or were relations.
"I wonder what we'll have to expect in a witch's birthday." Atticus said.
"Yeah, really..." Cherry said once she was given the package she was told not to open until Sabrina's birthday.
"I hope there's cake without chocolate..." Patch licked his muzzle excitedly.
"Don't worry, Patch, I'm sure you'll get a slice of cake." Atticus chuckled.
"Let's go then." Mo said once she adjusted the ribbon on top of her present.
With that, they were all now walking to the Victorian house.
"So, how did you guys first meet Sabrina anyway?" Mo asked.
"Long time ago before we even met Patch," Atticus explained. "It was dark and stormy..."
*Flashback*
Cherry and Atticus were looking at a map and there were dark storm clouds and they were miles away from home. The lightning bolts had startled them since they were deathly and the two ran up to the nearest house which was Victorian. They ran up the staircase and pounded on the doors, waiting for an answer as they shivered at the sudden rain.
"I hope the family that lives in this house is home." Atticus said.
"Me too..." Cherry said as she shivered from the cold rain.
A woman, wearing glasses, and looked very responsible opened the door. "Yes?"
"H-Hi," Atticus shook slightly. "Um... Could we come in, please? We were looking for something earlier, but we got lost..."
"My, there's a storm coming and you're far from home..." the woman cooed. "Come in, come in..."
The two came in and wiped their feet, they came into the kitchen to see a black cat on the kitchen counter.
"Meow..." the black cat mewed, rather dryly.
"Salem, get off the counter." the woman told her cat.
The cat hopped down and left the room.
"Cool, an actual black cat." Atticus smiled.
"You're not superstitious, are you?" the woman asked.
"Not me anyway." Cherry said.
"I just don't see black cats up close that often." Atticus smiled.
"Well, first time for everything..." the woman smiled back, then looked out the window. "Goodness, the storm's getting worse, I better light some candles!"
"Would like some help getting the candles?" Atticus asked.
"Thanks," the woman smiled. "Hilda, help me light some candles, there's a storm coming!"
"Can't we do it the easy way?" another woman who had violet eyes and looked very gorgeous walked over. "We can do it if we just use some-" she then noticed they had guests and smiled nervously. "Helping hands!"
"And that's what we have right now." The woman wearing glasses said.
"Right..." the woman, Hilda, nodded. "Just what we need!"
Cherry and Atticus couldn't help but notice how strange the women acted to that, but they all went to everywhere they could and lit candles as the storm got worse and worse.
There was a blonde girl about their age who rushed in and leaned against the door, panting heavily and frantically. "Man, I'd swear there's a hurricane out there or something!"
"Yes, it sure looks like it, dear, and we some company while we're waiting for the storm to pass by." Hilda said.
"Company?" the blonde girl looked over, then saw Cherry and Atticus as she wrung her hair into the kitchen sink. "Oh, um, hello... Does my Aunt Hilda teach you violin?"
"No, we were on our way somewhere else, but we ended up here." Cherry explained.
"Oh... Okay... Well, I'm Sabrina, it looks like you already met my aunts, Hilda and Zelda." the blonde girl introduced themselves.
Cherry and Atticus gave their names.
"Weird names..." Sabrina shrugged.
"These are your aunts?" Cherry asked. "Where are your parents?"
"My mom's an archaeologist in Peru and I don't know where my dad is," Sabrina explained. "They got divorced when I was younger and the next thing I know, I'm living with Aunt Hilda, Aunt Zelda, and their cat."
"Well, I'm sure things will get better." Atticus smiled.
"I hope so, sometimes I feel like I'm hexed or something." Sabrina muttered about her life.
Hilda and Zelda seemed to go wide-eyed at that euphemism, but said nothing, it may cause suspicion.
After a while, the power had gone out, but they all still had candlelight.
"We should get home," Cherry said. "My parents are probably worried about us."
"Are you two siblings?" Hilda asked in confusion.
"No, but Atticus lives with me," Cherry explained. "We lost his parents when he was very young and after I found mine, I offered to let him stay with us."
"Oh, dear, we're so sorry to hear that." Zelda frowned at Atticus.
"I-It's okay..." Atticus smiled sadly. "I do wonder about them all the time... I've known Cherry for a long time, she's like the sister I never had, we always look out for each other."
"How admirable of you." Zelda handed cups of hot chocolate with marshmallows to them.
Cherry and Atticus then sipped their cups after thanking the woman. "Thank you, Ms. Spellman."
"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you can't go home right now, the storm is getting worse and worse," Zelda told the kids. "I'm afraid you'll have to spend the night."
"We understand." Atticus bowed his head.
Cherry sighed, she hated being forced to spend the night away from home, but she had no other option. "Yes, ma'am." she added.
Cherry and Atticus gave Hilda and Zelda their soaking wet clothes with Sabrina's and put them in the laundry for tomorrow. Cherry and Sabrina wore loose white nightgowns for pajamas while Atticus wore old-fashioned pajamas that were a little too big for him, buit would have to do.
"Edward's clothes don't fit you that well, but they'll do..." Zelda smiled. "Good night now..."
With that, they all went to bed for the night.
*Flashback Interrupted*
"I don't get it, why didn't Hilda, Zelda, or Sabrina just wave their magic wands and make the storm disappear?" Mo asked in confusion.
"Because we didn't know they were witches." Cherry and Atticus explained.
"Ohh, please continue." Mo said.
"We found out later that night though..." Cherry narrated.
*Flashback*
Atticus and Cherry were sharing a cot in Sabrina's bedroom, thoughout the night, the storm healed, but the two were still spending the night. Cherry woke up with a small yawn and put her now dry glasses on and climbed out of the cot, about to get a glass of water until she saw something really strange. Sabrina was sleeping on her back and was sound asleep, until suddenly, she started to levitate in thin air while she was sleeping. Cherry's eyes widened, she then shook Atticus awake.
"What?" Atticus groaned, then looked too and his eyes were wide too.
The two looked to each other and ran out of the door, accidentally running into Hilda as she got herself some water.
"Oh, my... Dears, is everything-?" Hilda asked before she saw her niece floating in the air while sleeping.
"What's going on?" Zelda came over then.
"Miss, don't take this the wrong way, but your niece is floating..." Cherry said softly.
Instead of accusing Cherry and Atticus dreaming that explanation up, she came to her sister's side and looked to see Sabrina was, in fact, floating in mid-air.
"That is not scientifically possible, how is she floating in mid-air?!" Atticus asked, finding this hard to believe.
Hilda and Zelda smiled nervously. Sabrina seemed to wake up just then, she looked around and saw she was floating which made her scream out loud. After Sabrina came back down on the floor, there was an explanation to be given.
"Okay, we caught pneumonia from the rain and now we're having a fever dream, Atticus... What's next?" Cherry laughed nervously. "That cat can talk?"
"You'd be correct, madame." Salem spoke to her.
Cherry yelped. "TALKING CAT!"
"Salem!" Hilda and Zelda scolded.
"Hey, she was gonna find out sooner or later." Salem kept talking.
The only reaction Atticus had was him fainting and hitting the ground, not able to process of how any of this was logical.
"That... That... Oh, boy..." Cherry wheezed.
*Flashback Interrupted*
Patch and Mo chuckled at Cherry and Atticus's little overreactions.
*Flashback*
Hilda, Zelda, Sabrina, Cherry, and Atticus sat at a table together to discuss what had just happened and how Sabrina was floating in the air. Hilda and Zelda seemed to know all about it.
"Okay, this is gonna be a lot to take in, but listen," Zelda said maturely. "Sabrina, we have something to tell you... You see there are two realms, the natural and the supernatural and it turns out the immutable laws of physics-"
"You're a witch." Hilda interrupted.
Cherry, Atticus, and Sabrina looked to each other in confusion and disbelief.
"No way, how can Sabrina be a witch? The only way she can be a witch is if her mother's a witch or if her father is a warlock." Atticus said.
"No, both parents have to be witch and warlock." Cherry argued.
"Maybe there's half-witches!" Atticus glared at her.
"Stop it!" Zelda scolded them. "Besides, Sabrina is not alone in this. I'm a witch, Hilda's a witch, her father's a warlock..."
"And I suppose my mom's a witch too?" Sabrina added with a scoff.
"I always thought so." Hilda muttered under her breath.
"Let me guess, her mother is a human, right?" Atticus asked.
"We prefer the term 'mortal' in our wording," Zelda nodded to that. "Sabrina, that's also why you're here, so we can teach you magic."
"Why can't her father teach her if he's a warlock?" Cherry asked.
"Well, no offense, kids, but Witch/Mortal Weddings are highly frowned upon," Hilda explained. "In fact, if Sabrina even looks at her mother, she'll turn into a ball of wax unless Zelly or I sacrifice ourselves for her sake, but we haven't seen Diana ever since she left for Peru."
"Says who?" Atticus asked.
"Says the Head of the Witch's Council," Zelda then took out two glasses filled with bubbling green liquid. "Now both of you drink this so you can forget this conversation ever happened."
"What?! No way!" Atticus and Cherry exclaimed.
"I'm sorry, but it's the rules." Hilda told them.
"You know, my grandmother was a witch." Cherry said then.
Hilda and Zelda looked to her in disbelief.
"It's true," Cherry defended. "She was best friends with Eglantine Price."
Hilda and Zelda's eyes widened. "Your grandmother is Malovea Youngblood!?"
"Was..." Cherry said softly and distantly then. "But... She died a long time ago when I was two..."
"That's impossible, a witch can't die." Zelda said to her.
"But if that's true, then how is her grandmother no longer alive?" Atticus asked.
"We weren't even aware she died..." Zelda said then. "But I know she retired from magic after the birth of her first grandchild..."
This was very confusing, let alone the story of Sabrina being a half-witch all this time and revealed to her new friends.
*End of Flashback*
"We eventually got to keep our memories as long as we didn't tell anyone who wasn't in the supernatural realm." Atticus said as they continued to walk.
"So, Cherry, your grandmother died?" Mo asked.
"I was always told that..." Cherry shrugged now, thinking back about that conversation they had. "Mom said she left when I was two and she was never back since, so, I guess she just died during that."
Atticus rang the doorbell once they got to the front door. The door was opened to show Hilda opening it.
"Hey, Hilda." the guests greeted.
"Come on in." Hilda smiled, opening the door and letting them inside.