"Everybody dance now!" Sabrina's phone rang. She had set the song Everybody Dance Now as her ring tone and some days she regretted it.
"I didn't do it!" Sabrina shouted sleepily but when she noticed it was her phone she felt a little embarrassed.
"Hello?" she answered. She looked over to the other side of the bed and looked up; Casper was still asleep… and floating. She smiled as she got out of bed and heard the voice of a familiar person,
"Good morning Sabrina. Are you ready to come home?"
"Aunt Wendy!" Sabrina exclaimed as she made her way out of the room. Before she did though she took one look at Casper. "Can I have two more days? A new friend of mine is about to have a party."
Although Sabrina could not see Wendy, Sabrina knew her aunt had smiled.
"Why not? Make sure you go downstairs too, there is something really special down there."
"Where's the basement?" Sabrina asked at the same time her aunt hung up.
By the time Casper was up Sabrina had made breakfast by scratch and proud of herself for not burning anything.
"Good morning." Sabrina said as a surprised Casper sat down at the table.
"What are you thinking about?" Casper asked. He had formed the habit of making meals for any humans that stayed in the house since Kat and her father first moved in.
Sabrina cleared her throat and said in a tone with high authority,
"The first day of Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead is usually in remembrance of children who had died. So, I've asked Aunt Wendy, if I could stay two more days; today and tomorrow in other words. There is no one else in this house but you and me. We can do whatever you want; you have to Witch's Word." Sabrina put one hand on her heart and the other in the air and it make Casper laugh.
"I can do anything?" Casper asked just to be sure.
"Anything." Sabrina said resting her elbows on the table. "Go nuts, have a party, get drunk." (To this Casper laughed.) "Anything you want for the whole day and no one is here to stop you."
Casper smiled at Sabrina then left the room happily shouted "Woo!" leaving Sabrina alone in the kitchen. Then she came to realize something.
"I have nothing to do!" she said to herself.
Sabrina had no idea where Casper had gone but she decided that she could look around the house to know where everything is and if she got lost she had a GPS app on her phone… just in case. Sabrina walked into the library and stood there for awhile sinking in the sights. She walked up some metal stairs and into a reading chair. She sat in the chair and relaxed a little. Sabrina grew tired of how next to no light was in that spot and pulled the chain on a nearby light. To her surprise the chair started to move at a quick rate.
Sabrina let out a scream as the chair spun around twice at the metal stairs, the stairs changed into a roller-coaster type track, and rushed down the track into an 'unknown' basement. She then came to a small alley way that started to come to live as the chair based a spark starter. She noticed that a hose was about to spray her and she covered her face with her hands, and her magic made the machine disable. The horrific ride stopped at a desk and Sabrina absorbed her shock and surprise for a few minutes.
Her curiosity got the better of her and she started to look at the dust-caked papers on the desk. She accidentally knocked her hand on a book label 'Frankenstein' and tried to move it out of the way. Much to her surprise, however, to book didn't move. She opened the cover and found a big red button inside instead of the usual paper."
"Oh, the irony. A big red button, everything bad happens when you punch in a big red button." Sabrina sarcastically said to herself then continued to press it. The room started to shake and rumble as a machine came out from the pool in the middle of the room.
As the room ended rumbling and the machine was in full view, Sabrina got up from the chair and walked over to the main controls of the machine. She saw 3 bottles on a small rack, 2 had a red liquid inside them and the last one was empty all together. Sabrina had no idea what they were or what the machine did but all she could think was 'Ambrosia' the elixir that Greek gods had used to stay immortal and in the Sims 3 Ambrosia could be made to,
"Bring ghosts back!" Sabrina exclaimed out of nowhere. She took a closer look at the bottles of red liquid. She even picked one up.
"I wonder if I can duplicate it…" she wondered out loud to herself. She set the bottle down on the rack and closed her eyes to concentrate. The red bottle did double and it was full too, and Sabrina was proud of herself.
"You did a great job." Casper said from behind her. Sabrina was startled and fell off the railing of the machine and Casper acted quickly and caught her.
"Thank you." She said as Casper set her on the ground again. "On both accounts."
"My father made those potions and the machine. He made it to make me a boy again. He called it the Lazarus."
"That almost reminded me of a twisted Pinocchio story." Sabrina said with a little smile. "But my magic may have seemed like it worked but it may not have been the same."
Casper nodded sadly at the fact. He then told Sabrina how to get back to the library.
"So your father studied the Lazarus effect?"
Casper nodded.
"I think so. But I was still a kid when I died so I didn't pay much attention."
"Good point." Sabrina said nodding her head to the side. Then she looked up at the bookshelves.
"Hey, Casper? Can you get that book labeled 'Greek Mythology' for me real quick?"
Casper looked at the bookcase and back at Sabrina. "I think so." He said before he went to get the book. He dropped the book in front of Sabrina and she caught it before it dropped on the table with a horrible bang.
Sabrina flipped the pages as fast as she could until she came on the page that she was looking for.
"Right here, this is what I thought of when I saw those bottles." She said showing the page to Casper. It read,
'Ambrosia is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the Greek gods (or demigods), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whoever consumes it. It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves. So it may have been thought of in the Homeric tradition as a kind of divine exhalation of the Earth.'
"I'm not one to be rude, but what does this have to do with what my father's invention?"
"Nothing much really, but I was reminded that in the Sims 3 base game (if certain needs are met) a Sim can make Ambrosia and bring a playable ghost back to live without out turning them into a zombie."
"Wow." Casper said in awe.
"Now, I'm smart enough to know that your father couldn't have gotten the idea from the Sims 3 because the Sims 1 didn't come out until late 1990/early 2000, nor where computers invented until 1960-something. But I do have a feeling that he knew about both Ambrosia and the Lazarus effect."
"You really think so?" Casper asked full of wonder.
"Kind of…" Sabrina said a little unsure but determined nonetheless.
As Sabrina was getting comfortable in bed Casper was thinking hard about their discovery earlier.
"Sabrina…" he started not sure how to start the subject, "Can witches make Ambrosia and then do whatever to it?"
Sabrina lay in bed and thought about it.
"Aunt Wendy knows how to. She told me about it when I was on a Sim series wiki. She said that it helps witches look younger, like Botox and the Fountain of Youth. I bugged her so much that she helped me learn how to make it too." Sabrina smiled at remembering how she bugs her aunt.
"Do you think we can try to do it tomorrow?" Casper asked.
"Maybe." Sabrina said shutting her eyes and peacefully going to sleep. Casper gave her a small kiss on the cheek and wished that he had enough guts to kiss her on the lips.