Penelope was asleep in her bedroom.
Drell came into her room and shook her awake. "Pen-Pen, wake up!"
"Ugh..." Penelope groaned and sat up in her bed. "Dad... What is it...?"
"Um, Penelope, there's something I have to tell you." Drell said.
Penelope yawned and stretched. "Can't it wait until morning?"
"It has something to do with Salem." Drell said.
Penelope frowned as she was going to be told first what happened about her temporary History of Warlocks teacher.
"Salem is going to be living in the Warlock's Retirement Home." Drell told her.
"Is he a warlock again?" Penelope asked.
"No, I'm afraid he still has to live out his sentence until it expires," Drell replied.
"But, who's gonna teach us history until Mr. Snipe comes back?" Penelope then asked.
"I don't know." Drell frowned.
"Oh, Daddy..." Penelope sighed.
"Don't worry, Penelopepuss, Daddy will think of something." Drell cooed.
Penelope smirked. "Uncle Skippy?"
"No, no, I'll find someone to teach in Salem's place." Drell said.
"I'm suggesting Uncle Skippy..." Penelope smirked.
Drell narrowed his eyes.
"Uh, good night..." Penelope sunk in her bed and snored quickly.
Drell rolled his eyes before exiting his daughter's room. Penelope glanced to him as he left and went back to sleep.
"Hmm... Who could replace Salem until Snipe gets back?" Drell hummed to himself.
Skippy shrugged, then pointed to Drell himself as a suggestion.
"No, no, no, not me." Drell shook his head.
Skippy then held himself with a superior smile.
"Definitely not you..." Drell sighed. "No offense, Skip, but you're bit of a pushover when it comes to Penelope."
Skippy had to nod in agreement, Drell had him there.
"I'll find someone, but right now, let's get some sleep." Drell said.
Skippy nodded before zapping himself in his night shirt and night cap with a teddy bear which wore a similiar outfit to what he wore, only without pants. He then yawned and stretched as he went off.
"Good night, Skippy." Drell said before he magicked himself into his own pajamas.
Skippy waved tiredly to the strong warlock. Drell patted Skippy roughly on the head and went to his own bedroom.
While Drell was sleeping, there was a glow of a teleported entrance which woke him up. "Enchantra...?"
"I've heard about Salem," Enchantra told him. "Have you found a replacement for Witch School teaching until Mr. Snipe returns from his family holiday?"
"Enchantra, I'm exhausted," Drell slightly glared to her. "I had a date with Hilda and I'm fresh out of ideas, come back tomorrow."
"Okay, okay, I'll let you get some sleep and then in the morning, you will have to tell his students the bad news." Enchantra said.
"Understood..." Drell nodded.
"Good night, Drell..." Enchantra patted the warlock on the head before leaving.
"Phew!" Drell sounded relieved that Enchantra was gone. "That lady gives me the willies!"
The next day was going to be a big shocker for Sabrina and the others, except for Penelope since she was already told from her father. Sabrina however changed her attitude, she was going to take Salem's lessons more seriously, but unfortunately, Salem would not be there in class. The magic students were on their way to their magic training classes as Cassandra was already there, being the early bird she was due to her abilities to teleport without having to use the stairs and door like Sabrina usually did due to being a half-witch. Cassandra was then startled as Atticus appeared there, having teleported there.
"Hi, Cassandra." Atticus smirked to the brunette witchling.
"You are ruining my fun." Cassandra glared.
Atticus laughed as he took his seat.
"Nice to see you decided to show up for class." Cassandra said to Sabrina.
"I had to stay up late, but go ahead," Sabrina replied easily. "Ask me anything you want about the Wildebard of Weisenhiemer and how he defeated the Black Hound of Bavaria 1129. I can even spell Weisenhiemer!"
"Trust her, she really can, I helped her study while studying myself." Atticus smiled.
Suddenly, there was a poof which made them all look to the front of the room, but they did not see Salem.
"Drell?!" the students except for Penelope asked.
"Where's Salem?" Sabrina asked her step-uncle.
"Yeah." Atticus added.
"Because of problems with the class, Salem has resigned as your teacher and has gone to the Warlock's Retirement Home in the Netherworld." Drell replied as he adjusted his glasses.
This news shocked everyone, but Penelope, since she already knew.
"And while I look for a new teacher, your homework continues... DOUBLED!" Drell said before conjuring up textbooks and made them fall into everybody's arms, but they fell on top of Cherry and made her fall to the floor. "Sorry about that, Cherry."
"Gee, thanks." Chery groaned.
"Be thankful it didn't kill you..." Drell leaned back. "Now run along and report to the library.
"Yes, sir." Penelope said.
"Good girl..." Drell replied.
"My back..." Cherry groaned in pain.
Drell sighed. "Atticus, fix her back, will you?"
Atticus used his magic and Cherry's back was instantly fixed.
Cherry then stood up carefully. "Phew!"
"I can't believe Salem retired." Sabrina felt oh-so bad.
"Well, maybe if you hadn't goofed off in class all the time..." Cassandra suggested with a shrug. "Who would've thought that fur-ball would actually be a good teacher?"
"Sabrina, I hate to say this, but for once, Cassandra's right." Atticus said.
Cassandra then left to go to the library for their homework assignments.
"I guess I tried to take advantage of Salem." Sabrina hung her head.
"Then you know what we better do then, right?" Atticus asked.
"Let's go then." Cherry agreed.
Drell stood up and walked over to them.
"Look, I know we need to go to the library, but-" Mo spoke up.
"I can take you there," Drell offered. "My parents live there now."
"You knew that we would decide to get Salem back, didn't you?" Atticus asked with a knowing look.
"Yep." Drell nodded.
"Why didn't you say anything?!" Cherry shook him.
"I didn't want to make it easy." Drell said.
Cherry face-palmed. "Guh..."
Drell snapped his fingers and made a door to the Netherworld appear.
"Alright, let's get going." Sabrina said.
Drell nodded and gestured for them to go before him. Sabrina, Atticus, Mo, Penelope, and Cherry all went through the door/portal to take them to their destination. Drell seemed to step back as they were on their way into the Netherworld to find Salem and bring him back home.
They were in the Netherworld, but seemed to be lost as they didn't know the way to the retirement home. There was a sign in front of them as they came into the creepy and gray Netherworld woods.
"There's so many..." Sabrina said. "I don't know which path to take."
"Well, that would depend on where you'd want to go, would it?" the sign spoke to the visitors.
"Do you know which way we need to take to get to the Warlock's Retirement Home?" Atticus asked the sign.
"You can go this way or you can go that way." the sign replied, not being much help, pointing both left and right.
Sabrina narrowed her eyes. "What's the fastest way to get there?!"
"Hmm, don't know, but you could try that way." the sign shrugged before pointing down one way.
"Thanks." Atticus, Mo, Penelope, and Cherry smiled before going down the path the sign pointed to.
"Hmm... I wonder if I should've told them that that way leads to the Gray Area..." the sign then pondered, but then shrugged. "Oh, well, they should've asked."
The path they took began to look scary. There was rumbling thunder and illuminating lightning.
"I hope the retirement home isn't far, this place is kind of scary." Mo shivered.
"I don't think it's so bad..." Cherry said with a calm smile as they walked along.
"Of course you're not afraid." Penelope rolled her eyes.
Cherry stuck her tongue out. "Nyah!"
"Let's just find Salem and get out of here." Sabrina said.
"Why does this place seem familiar from our textbook?" Atticus asked, curious.
"I was just thinking the same thing..." Penelope shivered.
They soon started to run to make it to the retirement home even faster.
"Gee, I hope that sign knew what he was talking about." Sabrina commented.
"Same here, this place is creepy and scary." Mo added.
Penelope began to run as neither of them liked the looks of this place and ended up in front of rustling bushes. And where the four of them began to hear growling coming from the bushes.
"Please tell me that was someone's stomach." Mo became instantly nervous.
"Who's there?!" Sabrina called to the bushes.
They soon continued their way until something jumped out from behind the bushes. It appeared to be a black dog demon with beady red eyes.
"YOW!" Mo flinched. "Erm, nice doggy...?"
"I had to ask..." Sabrina moaned in dismay.
"Wait, we know who you are." Atticus said to the black dog demon, referring to himself and Sabrina.
"That thing looks like a panther ate a werewolf..." Cherry commented. "What is it?"
"He's the Black Hound of Bavaria," Sabrina told the dog demon. "Atticus and I read about him in our textbook."
The Black Hound of Bavaria began to come at them, looking hungry.
"Hold it, buster," Penelope glared at the dog demon. "My daddy is Drell, the most powerful man in the universe, and if you hurt me, you're gonna be in big trouble!"
The demon dog didn't seem threatened as it continued going towards them.
Penelope screamed and hid behind Cherry. "Block the bad doggy, block the bad doggy!"
"You truly are Drell's daughter." Cherry groaned.
"Thank you!" Penelope said.
"That wasn't a compliment..." Cherry glanced at her.
"Whatever, Daddy's plaything." Penelope scoffed.
"STOP! CALLING ME THAT!" Cherry groaned.
The demon dog seemed to go straight towards Sabrina and Atticus since they seemed to have their homework still in their hands. He then bit onto the papers and shredded it hungrily.
"Oh, great, a dog literally ate our homework." Atticus groaned.
"I think we're next on the menu..." Mo got nervous as the black hound snarled and crept closer to them.
"Oh, no, we're not." Atticus said as he rolled his sleeves, telling the others that he was going to teach this demon dog a lesson.
The black hound roared in their faces.
"Okay, you've forced me..." Atticus looked ready to fight.
"I suggest that we cover our eyes." Mo said.
"This might get gruesome." Cherry agreed.
The three of them covered their eyes as Atticus began to fight off the demon dog with all of his strength, not holding back. The hound snarled and swatted his deathly razor sharp clawed paw in the Wiccan boy's face. Atticus wasn't going to let this demon dog get in their way as he started to fight it off even by punching it, not caring if he hurt the creature. The hound snarled as he pounced on top of Atticus. Atticus glared at the hound before sending it flying out possibly into space with one uppercut with his full strength.
"Phew..." Cherry wiped her forehead. "Thanks, Atticus, let's get out of here and find that cat."
"Oh, why couldn't we have stumbled across the Catatonic Canary of Karhtoum?" Sabrina groaned.
"I don't know." Mo shrugged.
"I hope we're almost there." Penelope panted.
After running for a while, they finally got to their destination.
"Salem! Help!" the students yelped as they ran over to the Warlocks Retirement Home.
"Wha?" Salem looked up from the porch he was sitting on next to a very aged warlock with a very long white beard.
"Salem, I think we might have made a demon hound seriously angry." Cherry told him.
"Demon hound?" Salem asked.
"It's the Black Hound of Bavaria," Atticus explained.
"I'm a cat," Salem folded his arms as he stood up to them. "Or have you forgotten? Cat magic doesn't work well against a magical dog. It's a species thing."
"Oh, great." Atticus groaned.
The demon hound they were talking about was now heading back down to the ground rather fast that its fur was on fire.
"IT'S BACK!" Cherry flipped out. "WE ARE GONNA DIE!"
"I wouldn't be too sure about that, Cherry, I think it's the other way around for that mutt." Salem said.
"There better be..." Cherry held out Salem for self protection.
"Say, aren't you the Wisebard of Weisenhiemer?" Sabrina asked the elder warlock in the rocking chair. "There's a picture of you in our textbook. Of course, your beard was shorter then."
"Hard to find a good barber since the Black Plague." the warlock smiled to her.
"So, if that hound survives the crash and flames, then you can help us defeat it." Atticus smiled.
"Yeah, you were the one who sent the Hound to the Gray Area in the first place!" Sabrina added in as Salem clung to the top of her head in fright.
"I'm retired, you youngsters handle it." the warlock replied as he decided to head inside the retirement home.
"Are you kidding me?!" Penelope complained.
"I'm 1,000 years old, Missy," the warlock replied. "Can't do everything. Too much excitement around here..." he then yawned slightly. "Maybe I'll take a nap before lunch."
"I guess this means no green gelatin for dessert today." Salem gulped.
But then they felt the ground shake as the demon hound crashed onto the ground.
"Lime or kiwi?" Sabrina asked Salem about the gelatin.
"Who cares?!" Salem hopped off her head, then zipped away.
Atticus went up to the demon hound to see its corpse was now just a skeleton. "Yuck..."
"Is is it dead?" Mo asked, frightened.
Cherry walked over next to Atticus. "As a hammer."
"Don't you mean as dead as a door nail?" Penelope asked.
"Don't twist my words..." Cherry narrowed her eyes to the witchling.
"Salem, will you please come back and be our teacher again?" Sabrina asked.
"Hmm..." Salem hummed to the blonde witchling.
"Please, Salem, me and Sabrina really did study last night and you're a great teacher." Atticus begged.
"I'm sorry I thought I could coast through your classes," Sabrina added in, deciding that an apology was owed. "I know you really did have to treat me like any other student. And now that I've actually studied the History of Warlocks, well, you know, it's kinda fun, and useful."
Salem smiled to that.
"So, whatya say?" Mo asked. "Will you come back and teach the class?"
"Or stay here and be bored for the rest of your life?" Atticus asked.
"And give this up?" Salem replied, then jumped down in front of them with a smile. "In a heartbeat."
"Then let's get out of here." Penelope smiled.
"Come along then, good job with the Black Hound, Atticus." Salem replied.
"Well, I wasn't going to let him have any of us for dinner and besides, he had to pay for eating both mine and Sabrina's homework." Atticus said.
"Oh, really now?" Salem asked.
"Yeah..." Atticus sighed about their homework going to waste. "I guess it was worth it... Sorry, Salem."
"It's okay," Salem smiled. "I'll be back as your teacher tomorrow."
"Thanks, Salem." Sabrina smiled and hugged the black cat.
And where the next day, he really would with two homework assignments that were shred. They left the Netherworld and by tomorrow, everything would go back to normal in school until Mr. Snipe's return.
"Good boy..." Drell told Salem.
"Great," Salem smiled back. "Say, you wouldn't happen to be interested in decreasing my sentence, would ya?"
"If you keep trying to ask me in decreasing your sentence, I'll increase it." Drell threatened.
"Uh, I was just kidding!" Salem spoke up nervously with a sheepish chuckle. "Heh... Take a joke, old man..."
"Just be thankful I sent them to the Netherworld to get you back." Drell said.
"Oh, um, thank you, sir." Salem smiled easily then.
"I take it you're going back there to get Sabrina's and Atticus's homework, right?" Drell smirked.
"Shh," Salem put his paw to his mouth. "I'm saving that as a surprise." he then smiled to confirm Drell's sneaking suspicion.
Drell smiled back before zipping his lips.
"Thank you, Drell." Salem smiled to the powerful warlock.
"Still not decreasing your sentence, Saberhagen." Drell warned.
"Uh, y-yes, sir..." Salem replied anxiously.