The dance was still going on.
"Hey, guys," Sabrina poked her head out. "I'm all for dancing with royals, but don't you think we ought to be looking for the tree?"
"You're right, this world is just distracting us." Atticus said.
"Mind if we cut in?" a voice asked.
Sabrina and Nicole gave polite smiles as the goblins sent from Spella danced with them, dismissing their princes.
"Haven't seen any half-witches, wiccan boys, or mortals, have ya?" the first goblin asked as he danced with Sabrina.
"About your height and age?" the second gargoyle added.
"Those two must have been sent by Spella." Atticus whispered.
A clock then suddenly tolled which reminded Cherry and Atticus of one of their first ever adventures.
"Hey, sorry, midnight, gotta catch up to our ride." Cherry said before running with Sabrina, Nicole, and Atticus.
The goblins then kept dancing and this time, with each other, having been too distracted.
They ran out of the ball and ended up back into the realm's forest, back in their school uniforms.
"Okay, we're back." Atticus said.
"That was the last door." Sabrina said.
"And no Tree of Wisdom." Nicole added.
"Maybe it's just a myth?" Cherry shrugged.
There was then a snarling heard from nowhere.
"We gotta hurry if we wanna be back for breakfast." Sabrina suggested.
"Agreed." Atticus nodded.
They wandered through the realm's forest and seemed to be getting lost the more they traveled. Nothing at all looked familiar. The littlest noise sounded frightening when you were lost in a place that you had never been around before.
"How is it that we can't seem to find the Tree of Wisdom?" Atticus asked.
There was an owl hoot.
"What was that!?" Nicole trembled.
"Just a night owl, nothing to be scared of." Sabrina reassured.
There was then a caw heard.
"And that?" Nicole was scared again.
"J-Just a crow..." Cherry was getting scared now herself. "Nothing to be scared of."
There was then a roar heard that none of them had ever heard before.
"And that...?" Nicole looked terrified.
"That was something I've never heard of." Atticus said with widened eyes.
This made the four of them scream and run off one way. There was a very small beetle climbing onto a rock and had let out the scream.
"Is it coming!?" Sabrina looked back in fright once they ran to a safe distance.
"I don't think so." Atticus said.
"We should be fine." Cherry said.
"Do you guys really think so?" Sabrina looked back. "Do you really think we're okay? 'Cuz I'm thinking, maybe I was wrong..."
Suddenly, they all started to sink.
"'Brina!" Nicole gasped.
"I know it was my idea to come here, but maybe it wasn't such a good idea." Sabrina continued.
"Sab!" Cherry said then.
"We should've stayed back and faced our problems, 'cuz when I brought us out here, it's been going over our heads." Sabrina then finished.
"You've got that right! Because we're sinking in quicksand!" Atticus told her.
They were sinking fast.
"We gotta reverse the magic and get ourselves out of here!" Sabrina warned.
"But we're half-witches, 'Brina," Nicole reminded. "What're we gonna do!?"
"If all four of us use our magic on a vine, we can climb on out." Atticus said.
Sabrina looked up and found one on a high branch. "There it is!"
"Release your magic, guys!" Cherry urged.
"You too, Cherry." Atticus said to her.
"But I told you, I'm not a witch, my mother was adopted!" Cherry reminded him.
"Just do it! I believe in you!" Atticus told her.
"Together!" Sabrina suggested for teamwork for them to all combine their magic.
Cherry tried to concentrate with Sabrina, Cherry, and Atticus. The vine glowed slightly, but eventually, the vine wiggled and expanded as they were up to their necks in the sand. And where it was being brought to them with the help from all four of their magics.
"Yeesh..." Cherry looked exhausted from that.
"We did it!" Sabrina exclaimed.
They all cheered for themselves before grabbing onto the vine and getting out of the quicksand.
"We actually did it!" Atticus cheered.
Once they got out of the sand, they made it to a solid surface on dry ground.
"We're safe," Nicole smiled. "We're all right."
"Yeah, but I kinda wish we had a shower." Sabrina smiled sheepishly.
Lightning flashed and it instantly started to rain.
"Ask and shall receive." Cherry muttered.
"Yep." Atticus nodded.
The rainwater then cleaned them right up and the quicksand had vanished instantly.
"Cool!" Atticus smiled.
"Next time, be more specific." Nicole advised.
Once they were cleaned off, they went through town, still looking for the Tree of Wisdom.
"If only we had some sort of sign..." Sabrina muttered as they wandered.
There was suddenly a sign that said 'Tree of Wisdom: 500 Feet'.
"What're we waiting for?" Nicole rhetorically asked. "Let's go!"
The four kept running and following the signs they could have used forever ago.
"Finally!" Atticus smiled. "We're going to see the Tree of Wisdom!"
They came to see a tree with a sqawking bird who listed rules and there was a line for them to wait in in order to visit this sacred tree.
"I didn't know it'd be so popular." Sabrina shrugged.
"Next," a cat who walked on his hind legs in blue clothes turned to them. "Names please?"
"Sabrina Spellman."
"Nicole Candler."
"Cherry Butler."
"Atticus Fudo."
"I hope our names are on the list." Atticus whispered.
The cat took out something, then looked to the blonde witchling again. "Sabrina Spellman? Salem's Sabrina?"
"Uhh... Yeah?" Sabrina shrugged.
"Hey, Thaddeus!" the cat called out to a buddy of his. "Come over here!"
A thinner and gangly cat walked over.
"It's Salem's housemaid." the chubby cat told him.
"Excuse me, what?!" Atticus asked.
"Yeah, Salem told us all about her." Thaddeus smiled.
"How you wait on him hand and foot and obey his every command." the chubby cat chuckled.
"He told you that, did he?" Sabrina narrowed her eyes, she was going to have a word with a certain warlock turned cat after this was all over.
'I am so going to have a word with that cat.' Atticus thought to himself with a glare.
"Next!" the bird called.
The two cats then stepped back and allowed the four visitors to go to the Tree of Wisdom.
"Maybe this tree is nice." Atticus whispered to Cherry.
"Mm..." Cherry hummed lowly with a small shrug.
The tree glared to them as they walked over to it. Nicole and Sabrina held each other in slight fear.
"W-W-What do we do?" Nicole shivered.
"I-I don't even k-k-know!" Sabrina felt scared now.
The bird cawed. "State your wish!"
"Go on, girls." Atticus said, pushing Nicole and Sabrina forward a bit towards the talking tree.
"You're why we're here." Cherry added.
"Um, hey..." Sabrina weaky waved.
"Uh, yeah, hi." Nicole added, bowing her head respectfully.
"Aw, hurry it up, will ya!?" the tree demanded. "I got leaves here and they're itchy! Oh, boy, is it itchy, would ya help me with a fancy scratch?"
"Sure." Sabrina said, going over to where it was itchy for the talking tree.
The tree struggled.
Sabrina tapped a spot. "Is it here?"
"Oh, that's it!" the tree looked relaxed now. "That's nice... That's nice... Thank you, thank you... So, what can I do for you kids?"
"Basically, we, uhh..." Nicole stammered.
"Spit it out!" the bird demanded.
"Well, let's say we have these friends, right?" Sabrina started over.
"Right, a couple of friends, with a little problem..." the tree replied, feeling like he knew Sabrina meant her and Nicole.
"That's it," Sabrina said. "You see, they're sorta half-witches, and-"
The bird cawed nastily. "Half-Witches!? Do they know their witchcraft?"
"Yes, yes, they do," Atticus nodded. "Well sort of."
"Does it matter?" Cherry asked.
The tree looked to his bird friend.
"Yes, yes it will," the bird flew down and looked sharp in warning. "If they wanna get out of the realm alive!"
"We better go." Nicole whispered.
"And fast." Sabrina added.
"Wait!" the Tree of Wisdom told them.
"Yes, sir..." Sabrina and Nicole said in shaky voices.
"Come back here!" the tree demanded.
Sabrina and Nicole came back as instructed.
"I know who the half-witches are," the tree glared at them. "The half-witches are YOU."
The bird cawed and went back to a top branch as the two cats decided to leave then.
"Not only that, but there's also a mortal who was raised in the magical world and a half-wiccan!" the tree then looked to Cherry and Atticus.
"Hi." Atticus and Cherry said nervously while waving at the talking tree.
The bird seemed to smile evilly down to them.
"So, what's the big deal about being a half-witch, adopted mortal, or even a lower level wiccan?" the tree smiled to them small. "I got a cousin who's half-peach."
"Really?" Sabrina asked.
"Got another one who's half-oak." the tree added.
"You do?" Nicole asked.
The bird looked guilty then. "Well, as long as we're confessin', I'm half-pigeon myself."
"It's about Nicole and Sabrina though," Cherry explained. "They were wondering if you could make them full witches."
"Hmm..." the tree stopped to think. "You sure about that?"
"Yes." Sabrina and Nicole nodded.
"You don't wanna be a half anymore?" the tree continued.
"That's right." Sabrina smiled.
"Not two halves, you wanna be a whole?" the tree kept asking. "All right, if you're sure you're sure, step back a little."
Nicole and Sabrina held each other's hands and backed up as far as they could. The tree then recited a spell to make Sabrina and Nicole into whole witches like everybody else instead of half-witches due to having one mortal parent.
"Um, sir, would you mind if I also stood next to them?" Atticus asked, having a feeling he knew what would happen.
"Why?" the tree asked. "You're already a wiccan!"
"I know, but I also know what's going to happen to one of them." Atticus whispered to the talking tree.
Cherry was getting antsy from impatience. "Just change them already! I wanna go lie down for a while!"
The storm clouds from the spell got impatient themselves. Atticus then said nothing more and stood in between Sabrina and Nicole as the spell was going to change their lives forever. Suddenly, they were all zapped and the magic was going to work into them so they could get what they wished for. But what they didn't know was that this was going to be granted at a price.
"Now behold!" the tree announced as another storm came from his spell recital.
Black and smoky clouds surrounded Sabrina, Nicole, and Atticus then.
Sabrina stepped out first and looked to the palm of her hand to see a whole star, much to her excitement. "I'm... I'm whole!" she then cheered and flew in the air to celebrate and giggled.
Nicole laughed and then joined Sabrina as she was a full witch now too.
"But, where's Atticus?" Sabrina, Nicole, and Cherry asked before they saw the smoke clear to see a statue of Atticus in a brave stance, showing he wasn't afraid of what would happen to him.
"Atticus...?" Cherry asked in slight worry for her best friend, she then glared at the Tree of Wisdom. "What happeend? What have you done to him!?"
"Yeah!" Sabrina and Nicole added in.
"I'm sorry, but it's the rules," the tree replied. "Two halves make a whole and we can't have any mortals running around the witches realm, and the boy wanted to sacrifice himself so the half-witches would get their wish!"
"Turn him back!" Cherry demanded.
"No exchanges, refunds, all sale's final!" the bird glared at them.
Cherry bowed her head, feeling the worst since her oldest and bestest friend was now turned to stone, then she glared with tears in her eyes. "Why didn't you tell us?" she then demanded. "Why didn't you stop them?"
"True wisdom cannot be told, only heard." the tree replied.
"What the heck does that mean?!" Cherry glared.
"Never mind it, Cherry, we'll change him back ourselves," Sabrina suggested, glaring that the tree had turned Atticus into stone. "Come on, Nicole, we're full witches now!"
With that, Sabrina and Nicole then zapped at Atticus to turn him back to normal, but their magic kept bouncing off of Atticus, not doing anything.
"You'll need more magic than that!" the bird taunted them. "Only a magic amulet can turn back a wisdom spell!"
"A magic amulet? Where are we suppose to get one of... Wait a minute." Cherry said, getting an idea where they could find one.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Sabrina asked.
"You bet!" Cherry agreed.
"What?" Nicole was lost however. "Where do we get the amulet?"
"Salem!" Sabrina smiled. "He's got an amulet!"
"Your stuffed cat?" Nicole asked.
"Um, Salem isn't exactly a stuffed cat, he's, um, he's actually a real cat and where he's a cursed a warlock." Sabrina told her.
"What...?" Nicole asked, both surprised and alarmed.
"Look, I don't have much time to explain, but Salem's the only one who can help us right now." Sabrina urged.
Suddenly, the two goblins rushed over to try to stop Sabrina, Cherry, and Nicole and bring them back to Spella as requested.
"No, no, no!" Sabrina got worried.
"Guys, use your new magic to get us out of here!" Cherry panicked.
"Oh, that's right, we're whole witches now." Nicole smiled.
"Hurry!" Cherry panicked, she then patted Atticus's stone head. "Don't worry, we'll be right back."
Sabrina and Nicole got Cherry to join them and they all transported away before the goblins could grab them or take them away. Unfortunately for the goblins, they missed their chance in grabbing the three of them. They could only blame each other.
"Fool!"
"Idiot!"
This amused the Tree of Wisdom.
"Oh, thank goodness, they made it..." Hilda wiped her forehead in relief once she saw that while carrying the jar while Drell and Skippy were now on top of each other due to being grubs.
"Yeah, but, Atticus, he's-" Drell frowned.
"Don't worry, I'm sure Atticus knows what he's doing when he does that..." Hilda said. "He always has a few tricks up his sleeve."
"Yeah, Atticus is brilliant for his age." Skippy agreed.
"You're right." Drell smiled.
"Be careful, Sabrina..." Hilda whispered as she held the jar in a hugging way.
Drell slid up to the side of the jar. "Hey, Hilda, whatya say you and me meet up at Cupid's house and uh, try that little love test again?"
"You mean like when Harvey and Sabrina kissed and he turned into a frog?" Hilda asked.
"Yes, the very same..." Drell nodded.
"But... We failed that test..." Hilda reminded him. "It was the 94th anniversary of our 32nd break-up too. Drell, I don't know..."
"Please Hilda, I'm sure that this time, we'll pass it for sure." Drell begged.
Hilda frowned, taking a deep breath. "I'll think about it."
"He didn't take it well after you left Hilda," Skippy said. "He was really heartbroken..."
"It was Valentine's Day," Drell listed. "Our break-up... I still obviously loved you... We were in a place of love... My old flame for you was still burning until you blew it out..."
"And I'm sorry for making you feel that way." Hilda frowned.
"Believe me, it hurt me more than it hurt you..." Drell said.
Skippy coughed at that.
"What happened after I left?" Hilda asked.
Drell took a deep breath. "Well..."
*Flashback*
Sabrina came with Zelda after she took the test of true love once she found out Harvey was her true love which meant she could kiss him and change him back into a mortal.
"Here..." Drell glumly handed the cage that Harvey as a frog came in as he lay down on the couch. "Take your frog and go."
"Where's Aunt Hilda?" Sabrina asked.
Zelda shushed her niece about mentioning Hilda while Drell looked depressed.
"I'd rather not like to talk about it." Drell frowned.
Eventually, Hilda came out of the second door with a giddy giggle and she left without even saying anything to Drell.
A tiny man with wings in a diaper with sapphire blue eyes, slicked up violet hair, a pink shirt with red hearts on it arrived. "I'm back from my mother's! Thank you for watching the place until I came back, Drell."
"Whatever..." Drell got up off the couch and lugged himself back home.
Drell came home and took a deep breath as he looked depressed. Skippy was ironing his robes for him. Drell hugged Skippy and started to cry. Skippy could tell that it didn't go so well for Drell, so he decided to comfort him. Drell started to sob noisily. Skippy shushed him and stroked his back while holding him.
This would always be known as Drell's worst day ever. Skippy pouted up to Drell.
"How could it be worse?" Drell looked at him, knowing what he was thinking. "You wanna know HOW it could be worse!?"
Skippy's eyes widened, he then ran away. Drell snarled and zapped Skippy with lightning from his fingertip as the smaller man ran away like a coward.
*Flashback ends*
"Oh, dear..." Hilda said.
"Believe me, it hurt me worse than it hurt you." Drell said.
"I beg to differ..." Skippy muttered.
"Well... After this mess, we'll go to Cupid's and see if we can try again," Hilda agreed to Drell's idea. "Drell, I'm so sorry..."
"Hilda, I love you like a crocus because you pop up and are full of life and delight like the flower on the first day of Spring, and if you give me another chance, I could make you one happy witch." Drell promised.
Hilda sniffled to that with a smile and hugged the jar again. While that was going on, Sabrina, Nicole, and Cherry then reappeared back in the Witch's Academy.