Summary: A sleepover is being haunted by Deja's old favorite...an adorable kids' TV show marionette.
On a tiny white starry night, the Atomoni are enjoying their sleepover with Dot, Onyx, Cora, and Camilla in the cottage's living room. Catalina wore a simple blue dress with a sky-blue star on the chest. Deja wore a pink baby-doll top and a pair of magenta shorts. Sabrina wore a hunter green t-shirt with a black star on her chest area and a pair of dark green shorts. Dot wore a pink nightgown and pink slippers. Onyx wore a black midriff top with red puffy sleeves and dark red and black checkered patterned sweatpants. Cora wore a short-sleeved dark pink nightgown. And Camilla wore a sleeveless dark red nightgown.
Sabrina and Catalina are having a pillow fight, Deja and Dot was painting Cora's fingernails, and Onyx was telling a story about her secret with Camilla.
"So, then, zap! My spell hit Aunt Amelia's pocket watch and it broke into pieces." Onyx said.
"Oh snap!" Catalina gasped. She quickly ducked as Sabrina whacked Deja with a pillow that knocked her off the bed. "The one she got from her father as a precious family heirloom?! She carried that watch with pride!"
"I know. Luckily, I know a spell to fix back. But if she ever finds out, I'll be grounded from magic for a lifetime." Onyx said with a frown.
"Don't worry, you're not the only one hiding something from your creator." Catalina commented.
"Oooooooooh! What did you do?" Dot, Sabrina, Onyx, Cora, and Deja asked in unison.
"I accidentally scratched Zora's car with my rhinestone earrings." Catalina confessed.
[Flashback]
Catalina was walking up to the parking space. She opened the door of Zora's car and took out a file folder. She closed the door and accidentally dropped the folder to the ground. Catalina crouched down to pick it up, unknowingly leaving jagged scratches on the side of the car with her right earring.
[Flashback Ends]
"Oh please. That's nothing compared to that studio blackout two nights ago?" Sabrina asked.
[Flashback]
Sabrina turned the volume on her speakers to "Max" and strummed her electric guitar once, causing a wide blackout around the studio.
[Flashback Ends]
"You know, that explains a lot about the darkness." Deja said. She turned to Onyx. "Speaking of which, Onyx, do you have a spell that remove spray paint? Amalia brought me a brand-new dress last week. It was a bright yellow dress, so I painted it black for my full goth-themed tea party."
[Flashback]
Deja was sitting on her chair in a short-puffed dress completely repainted in black. The tea party has every stuffed animal sitting in chair as Hallow was preparing tea. Dot joined the tea party as she was taking a bite of a frosted cupcake.
[Flashback Ends]
"Whoa." Onyx said surprisingly. "My kind of party."
"I'm glad we had this sleepover." Dot said with a smile. "Thanks for inviting me by the way."
"No problem, Dot." Catalina said.
"Alright, ladies, let's play Truth or Dare." Camilla said.
"Oh, yeah." Deja smiled.
"I'm down." Onyx grinned.
"Me two." Cora beamed.
Then, there was a knock at the front door.
"Who's at the door?" Dot asked.
"It must be the pizza." Catalina said.
"I'll get it." Sabrina said.
Sabrina walked up to the front door and opened it that revealed four pizza boxes with a strange rectangle-shaped package on the top.
"Is that the pizza?" Dot asked.
"Yeah." Sabrina replied. She picked the pizza boxes with both hands and closed the door. She walked back in the living room and placed the pizza boxes on the coffee table. "But there's a package...for Deja."
"A package?" Deja repeated in confusion.
"Doesn't have a name though." Sabrina said with a confuse eyebrow.
"Then, I'll take it!" Deja said.
Deja stretched her tail and snatched the package to her hands. She tore it open and took out a female marionette doll. The doll looked like a very short young girl with a large, round head compared to her narrow body. She has pale peach hair that is wore up in two high pigtails and crimson eyes with oval-shaped irises and dark circles around them. She wore a small black jacket over a dark reddish-ginger dress, vibrant orange gloves that extend to her elbows, and black boots.
Camilla, Catalina, Dot, Cora, and Onyx gathered behind Deja to stare at the doll.
"What the heck is that?" Cora asked.
"Is that...Sardonyx?" Catalina asked with a confuse eyebrow.
"Yup." Deja replied with a smile. "Sardonyx was a famous TV star in some children's entertainment show. It was wildly popular until the ratings dwindled and got canceled as the series got older."
"But is it weird that this doll was mail to you without the name of a person who delivered it?" Cora asked.
"Yeah, but I'm gonna keep it anyway." Deja said. She patted the sleeping Hallow on the head. "I'm a loving collector of plush animals and dolls, but Hallow will forever be my favorite of them all. Nothing can replace him."
"Alright. Now that's outta the way. Let's start Truth or Dare." Camilla said.
"Ooh, I got one." Dot said. "I dare all of us, except for Deja, to head to the kitchen and eat any dessert in the fridge."
Dot, Camilla, Onyx, Cora, and Sabrina cheered as they quickly sped into the kitchen.
"I'm more of a spicy lover." Catalina said to Deja with a shrug. "But what the hey."
As Catalina sped into the kitchen, Deja placed the Sardonyx doll down and stood on her feet.
"What?! Hey!" Deja shouted. "I need those desserts for tomorrow's tea party!" She looked down at Hallow, who was stretching his limbs. "Hallow, make sure they don't devour our whole tea party's delights."
"As you wish, Lady Deja." Hallow said with a nod.
Hallow stood on his four feet and hurried into the kitchen.
"A tea party sounds very lovely!"
Deja jolted in surprise at the sound of that feminine voice. She looked around until she saw Sardonyx eating a pepperoni pizza whole.
"Hiya, Deja!" Sardonyx greeted with a friendly wave.
Deja backed away to the wall near the couch in shock.
"You're alive?!" Deja cried out.
"Why, yes I am!" Sardonyx replied with an evil smile. "Wanna play with me?"
"Girls, get back here! Sardonyx is real!" Deja screamed.
Catalina, Sabrina, Dot, Onyx, Hallow, Cora, and Camilla peeked into the kitchen.
"Deja, what's wrong?" Dot asked.
"It's Sardonyx!" Deja hollered. "I know I said that she's a TV puppet doll, but it turns out she's real!" She pointed her finger forward at Sardonyx. "She's really real!"
Catalina, Sabrina, Dot, Onyx, Hallow, Cora, and Camilla looked at Sardonyx sitting on the coffee table while being perfectly fine.
"Uh, Deja, are you sure you're okay? Because Sardonyx is looking just fine." Catalina said.
"I'm telling you she's real!" Deja said. "I swear! I saw it!"
"Oh-kay." Onyx said. "When you're done playing with that doll, you know where to find us."
Catalina, Sabrina, Dot, Onyx, Cora, and Camilla walked back into the kitchen. But Hallow ran up into Deja's arms.
"Well, if they won't listen to me, I got other ways to get that doll to talk." Deja said with narrow eyes. She looked down at Hallow. "Hallow."
Hallow nodded his head in agreement.
When Deja and Hallow looked back at the coffee table, Sardonyx was gone. Their eyes widened wide in shock, knowing that they have searched anywhere for that doll.
Dot, Cora, and Camilla finished eating the last slice of opera cake as they headed out to the kitchen.
"Hey there, Camilla, Cora, and Dottie!"
"So, not funny, Deja." Cora said as she rolled her eyes.
"If you're trying to do a Sardonyx impersonation, it's not working." Camilla said.
"And you know darn well to not call me Dottie." Dot said threateningly.
"Oh, I'm not Deja, ladies. Look down."
Dot, Cora, and Camilla looked down and saw Sardonyx waving at them with a giggle. They started screaming and fell to the floor as Sardonyx generated vibrant orange puppet strings from her back and began charging over them.
Sabrina danced around with her wireless headphones in her bedroom while Catalina was fixing her hair in the bathroom. Sabrina then started screaming that made her crash onto Catalina to the floor.
"Hey, come on, Sabrina! What's the big idea?" Catalina demanded.
Sabrina looked behind Catalina and pointed her shaking finger while whimpering in fear. Catalina slowly turned around to see Sardonyx standing in the hall with puppet strings rising around her.
"OMG! Deja was right all along!" Catalina gasped.
"You're alive?!" Sabrina exclaimed in shock. "All this time you were alive?!"
"You two are funny. Let's have some fun together. No strings attached!" Sardonyx said with a giggle.
Sabrina and Catalina began holding each other tightly as they screamed out loud in terror. Sardonyx merged puppet strings into two thick ropes and extended them to wrap them tightly. Catalina and Sabrina kept screaming just as Sardonyx pulled them straight towards her in rapid speed.
Onyx was levitating in mid-air inside the attic with her wand.
"Which spell should I work on today?" Onyx wondered. "I already completed my liberation spell and my immobilization spell. So many spells, so little time."
Onyx looked surprised to see Sardonyx sitting right in front of a circular mirror as she paid no attention to the razor-sharp strings on the doll's back.
"Oh no. It's Sardonyx." Onyx said sarcastically. "Nice try, Deja. I'm not playing."
"She's not playing." Sardonyx said with an evil smile. "But I am."
Onyx looked at the talking doll silently in shock and passed out to the floor before quickly waking up and clutching her wand with wide eyes.
"OMG! Deja was so not kidding." Onyx said.
"Alright, witch girl. Let's play!" Sardonyx said with a giggle.
"And why would I do that?" Onyx asked in confusion.
"Because that's why!" Sardonyx called out.
Sardonyx generated puppet strings from her fingers and wrapped them around Onyx's limbs to prevent her from moving. Onyx screamed in horror as she was struggling to break free.
Meanwhile, Deja and Hallow stepped out of the kitchen. They walked in the living room and looked around for Sardonyx.
"Deja! Hallow!"
Deja and Hallow looked up to see Cora, Dot, Camilla, Catalina, Sabrina, and Onyx tied up in puppet strings at the ceiling.
"We're up here!" Dot called out.
"Can you two untie us?" Sabrina shouted.
"Help us!" Cora yelled.
"Who put you girls up there?" Deja asked.
"It was Sardonyx!" Camilla replied.
"She took us out and tied us up here!" Catalina said. "And you were right about her being alive, by the way!"
"So, where is she?" Deja wondered.
"I'm right here, Deja!"
Deja and Hallow quickly turned around to see Sardonyx, who was looming over them with her puppet string-like tentacles on her back and a wide grin on her face.
"O! M! G!" Deja exclaimed. She narrowed her eyes in a threatening manner. "Let my friends go, Sardonyx!"
"Oh, don't worry about them." Sardonyx replied. "It's just you and me now. We can be play together as your new favorite doll in the world."
"Look, I love dolls with a passion, but nothing and no one can replace my Hallow!" Deja said. She looked down at Hallow. "Hallow, take her down."
"With pleasure." Hallow said as he stood on two feet in a fighting stance.
"Bring it on, kitty cat." Sardonyx said.
Sardonyx grabbed Hallow with one of her puppet strings to pick him up high in the air and began smashing him mercilessly into the ground before sending Hallow crash against the kitchen table. Sardonyx then directed her string tentacles rushing forward to strike Hallow at full force.
But Hallow quickly evaded the thrusting strings and surrounded his arms in a purplish-black aura that took the form of large claws. He launched forward and released a barrage of rapid slashes at the string tentacles.
Sardonyx giggled maliciously as she jumped high in the air and flailed her string tentacles around to strike Hallow repeatedly. But Hallow dodged out of the way with remarkable speed and delivered a powerful punch that sent the doll crashing to the ground.
Camilla, Catalina, Dot, Onyx, Cora, and Sabrina all gasped in surprise.
"WOOO-HOOOO!" Sabrina shouted excitedly.
Sardonyx backed away from Hallow with a painful groan.
Onyx wrestled her arm out of the puppet strings and held her wand in her wand.
"Deja, catch!" Onyx shouted.
Onyx tossed the wand down at Deja, who caught it in her hand.
"Remember I told you my immobilization spell!" Onyx said. "Use it!"
"Hallow!" Deja shouted.
"I'm on it!" Hallow nodded.
Sardonyx jumped towards Hallow and unleashed all of her string tentacles forward to attack him. Deja charged forward and created a pink force field that surrounded herself and Hallow to block Sardonyx's lashing strings. Hallow jumped into the air and spun around at rapid speed before diving straight into Sardonyx claw-first that sent the doll crashing onto the floor.
Before Sardonyx could get up on her feet, Deja jumped into the air and aimed the wand to paralyze the doll in a pink aura, making her levitate in mid-air.
Camilla, Catalina, Dot, Onyx, Cora, and Sabrina cheered for Deja and Hallow's victory.
Sardonyx looked at Deja, who was standing towards her. Hallow hopped onto Deja's head.
"Please, Deja! I beg you! Don't send me away to the studio's storage room!" Sardonyx begged with fear in her eyes.
"Don't worry, I got something special for you." Deja grinned.
Deja aimed her wand at Sardonyx and trapped the doll in a square-shaped crystal prison. She then sent the crystal prison into her bedroom.
"Ha, I'm glad that's over." Deja said with a smile.
"That's great, but you can get us down now." Cora said.
Deja lifted her wand and fired a pink energy beam that disintegrated the chains, sending her friends to fall down to the floor in a pile. She then waved the wand around and made everything go back to normal.
"Let's never speak of this again." Catalina said.
"Agreed." Camilla, Dot, Onyx, Sabrina, Cora, and Deja concurred.
"Now, let's go eat pizza." Deja said.
Camilla, Catalina, Dot, Onyx, Sabrina, Cora, and Deja resumed their sleepover.
