Hexley Hall
In castle Enchancia, Sofia and Madeline were in their room, playing with Clover.
"Clover says: Spin in a circle!" Clover declared.
"Here goes." Sofia giggled.
"Wait for me!" Madeline grinned.
They both span around. Sofia was a little off-balance, but avoided bumping into her sister.
"Nice!" Clover grinned. "Clover says: Hop in the air as high as you can go!"
Sofia and Madeline both jumped their highest.
"Is that really the highest you can go?" Clover snorted. "Come on!"
"Wait, let's try that again." Sofia jumped, but went no higher. "Ohhh, I wish was a rabbit."
"Me too." Madeline sighed.
Both girls Amulets started to glow. In a flash of light, Sofia turned into an orange and white rabbit, while Madeline became a brown and white rabbit.
"What just happened?" Sofia asked.
"I didn't wish to be small." Madeline frowned.
"Whoa, girls!" Clover gasped.
"Our Amulets must have done this." Sofia realized.
"Let's hope they can undo it." Madeline declared.
They both held their Amulets and said "I wish I was a person again". They both returned to normal.
"I didn't know you could do that." Clover frowned.
"Neither did we." Sofia admitted.
"Ever since we freed Princess Elena from our Amulets, they've been doing strange things." Madeline recalled.
"What do you think is going on?" Clover asked.
"I'm not sure." Sofia declared. "But we need to find out."
"And I know just who can help." Madeline smiled.
Over in Cedric's workshop, the royal sorcerer was putting up a painting of a building.
"Oh, Wormy, my faithful raven, look at that." He smiled. "Good old Hexley Hall, where I was teamed with the best sidekick a sorcerer could hope for."
"Wish I could say the same..." Wormwood muttered.
"It's missing something, isn't it?" Cedric mused. "I know! It's missing you! I'll just add your picture to the portrait!" He waved his wand at Wormwood. "Entabo paintobo!"
Wormwood was put inside the painting.
"That was not what I meant to do!" Cedric gasped.
"Of course not." Wormwood growled.
"Don't worry, Wormy." Cedric declared. "I'll get you out of there. Leavario paintobo?" Nothing happened. "Exitus paintobo?"
Sofia and Madeline then entered the workshop.
"Mr Cedric, we need your help." Sofia declared.
"One moment, Princesses." Cedric frowned. "Can't you see I have a magical emergency on my hands?"
"Sorry." Madeline apologized.
Wormwood crashed into the painting in an attempt to get out.
"Ooh." Sofia groaned. "We did the same thing once in Enchanted Art class."
"Oh, well you don't happen to remember the magic words to get someone out of the painting, do you?" Cedric asked.
"Sure." Madeline smiled. "Outo paintubo."
"You are quite right." Cedric smiled awkwardly. "I was just testing you, and those are, in fact, the magic words. Well done!" He waved his wand at the painting. "Outo paintubo!" Wormwood returned to his perch. "There you are! Absolutely fine, just as I promised, Wormy!" He then turned to Sofia and Madeline. "Very well. Now, what's this about needing my help?"
"It's our Amulets." Sofia revealed. "They turned us into rabbits, then back again."
"They've really been acting strange lately." Madeline added.
"Are you sure you want to ask him for help?" Wormwood scoffed. "Caw!"
"Stop your squawking, Wormwood!" Cedric hissed. "The Princesses are trying to tell us something extremely important about their Amulets."
"I'm not sure if you knew this or not, but there used to be a Princess trapped inside our Amulets." Sofia declared.
"And after we freed her, the Amulets changed colors." Madeline pointed out.
"A Princess? Trapped?" Cedric gasped. "The Amulets changed colors?" He went over to a book, and started flipping through the pages. "None of that is in my book!"
"It was a big secret." Sofia told him.
"Ever since the Amulets changed color, they've been acting different." Madeline frowned.
"The powers inside them must have changed as well." Cedric mused. "But how?"
"There must be a way to find out!" Sofia declared.
"Yes." Cedric agreed. "If only we knew!"
"Hexley Hall! Caw!" Wormwood flew off his perch and landed on the painting. "We could go to Hexley Hall!"
"Hush, Wormwood." Cedric frowned. "I am trying to think of someplace we can go that would have more information the Amulets!"
"Hexley Hall!" Wormwood repeated.
"Mr Cedric, what about this place?" Madeline pointed to the painting.
"Hexley Hall!" Cedric gasped. "Of course! The school library is filled with books all about magical objects! Surely one of them will tell us more about your Amulets. Ha-ha, another brilliant idea by Cedric the Sensational!"
"By me, you mean." Wormwood grumbled.
"Can we go right now?" Sofia asked.
"Right now is perfect!" Cedric smiled. "It's a three-day weekend, so there won't be any pesky students to get in our way. Come, Wormy. It's time we go back to school!" As Sofia and Madeline left the workshop, he whispered "We're going to learn all about the Amulets's secrets, and maybe even discover how I can finally get it for myself!"
The group toom a flying coach to Hexley Hall. Cedric emerged from the coach, wearing his old school robes.
"Oh, Hexley Hall." He grinned. "My old sorcery school. I learned everything I know about magic behind these walls."
"All three spells." Wormwood sneered.
"Wormwood, what's going between you and Mr Cedric?" Madeline asked. "You've been complaining about him non-stop."
"And it's not very nice." Sofia added.
"Because he's a non-stop buffoon." Wormwood scowled. "How would you feel if you were assigned to a bumbling fool of a master who does nothing but humiliate you? I've had enough of it!"
"Well, we've never heard Mr Cedric say one bad thing about you." Madeline pointed out.
"Why would he?" Wormwood asked. "I'm perfect!"
Cedric stopped at the main doors, which had a pair of large statues on either side.
"Gentlemen, if you'd please?" Cedric asked.
The statues sprang to life, and opened the doors.
"Wow." Madeline gasped.
"Thank you!" Sofia told one of the statues, which smiled at her.
They entered the school and made their way down the main hall, which was filled with all sorts of enchanted objects.
"I've never seen a school like this!" Madeline declared.
"Me neither." Sofia added. "It's like Royal Prep, only-"
"Better." Cedric smirked. "Much, much better."
A cloud of purple smoke suddenly erupted in front of them, an older sorcerer wielding a scepter emerging from it.
"Cedric, my old friend." The sorcerer smiled. "What a pleasant surprise! Please let me take your coats." The sorcerer waved his scepter, and Cedric and the girls' cloaks flew off their beds and onto a coat rack. "Can I get you something to eat? A snack? Popcorn, perhaps?" He conjured up a bowl of popcorn for Cedric.
"No, thank you." Cedric declined. "Princess Sofia and Princess Madeline, this is the headmaster of Hexley Hall, Grimtrix the Good. And boy, is he good."
"Ooh, Cedric." Grimtrix smiled. "Still assisting the royals of Enchancia, I see." He tapped his scepter on the ground summoning a chair that he sat on. "Now, why don't you tell me what you and the Princesses are doing here on a Saturday?"
"Well, um..." Cedric mumbled. "Princess Sofia and Princess Madeline need to consult some books for, er, ah... a homework assignment for, oh, let me see... their alchemy class at Royal Prep?"
"Can't even tell a silly white lie properly..." Wormwood scoffed.
"Hello, Wormy!" A weasel suddenly appeared behind him, startling the raven. "Still a bit skittish, I see? Just like the old days!"
"And I see that you're still a weasel, Wriggley." Wormwood retorted.
"Listen friend, we should celebrate your return to Hexley Hall." Wriggley suggested. "Some of the old gang still live here at school, assisting professors and such. Let's all get together for a little reunion, grab a bite, catch up."
"Why?" Wormwood scoffed. "So I can listen to you all brag about how brilliant your masters are? No thank you! That's one thing I do not miss from our school days."
"Oh, come on now. It won't be like that." Wriggley smirked. "Besides, we can meet in the conjureteria!"
"That's still here?" Wormwood gasped. "Oh, how I've missed being able to conjure anything I want..."
"So it's settled then." Wriggley nodded. "I'll pick you up around lunchtime." She slipped away.
"Yes, I suppose I could find the... time?" Wormwood realized Wriggley was gone.
"Wormwood, we have work to do!" Cedric called.
"Can I walk you to the library?" Grimtrix offered. "Help you find the books you need?"
"No, no." Cedric refused. "I'm sure you're very busy doing good deeds, and all that. We can find the library ourselves."
"In that case, happy reading!" Grimtrix vanished in a cloud of purple smoke.
"Finally." Cedric groaned. "He's even more annoyingly nice than I remember. Bleurgh! Now, the library is right up the stairs!" He pointed to a staircase with only two steps.
"But... there are no stairs." Sofia frowned.
"Oh, but certainly there are." Cedric walked over and stood on the stairs. As he stepped on the second one, the first flew up for him to move forward. "Well, are you coming, or aren't you?"
"Oh, right!" Madeline nodded.
"Wait for us!" Sofia declared, as they joined Cedric on his stair.
Soon, they were in the library, which was quite large, and filled with hundreds of books.
"Ah, the library!" Cedric smiled. "I studied for many a test in here!"
"And failed most of them." Wormwood smirked.
"Now, what we need to find is-" Cedric started, before a glowing outline of a hand pressed against a mouth and shushed him. "Ah, yes, the shusher. I remember you." He lowered his voice to a whisper. "Now girls, there thousands of books in here. One of them must mention the Amulets of Avalor."
Cedric stood on a wheeled ladder.
"Take me to the books about magical objects-wahhhh!" Cedric yelped, as the ladder speed off down the aisles, then stopped. "Wait, I-ahhh!" The ladder shot upwards.
"It pains me to call him my master." Wormwood groaned.
As the ladder stopped, Cedric saw a book and picked it up. The ladder then pulled him back down.
"Look, look what I found!" Cedric returned to the girls. "A book about the kingdom of Avalor, which has an entire chapter on magical jewelrey!"
"Great job, Mr Cedric!" Madeline declared.
"Yeah, nice find!" Sofia agreed.
Wormwood cawed flatly.
Cedric opened the book and placed it on a table.
"That's the ancient civilization of Maru!" Madeline pointed to an illustration.
"Our Amulets were made there." Sofia added.
"Yes, and it says here that long ago, Meruvian sorcerers made jewellry with special magical properties." Cedric read. "With time and practice, those who wear the pieces could unlock unbelievable power!"
"But we never did anything to unlock our powers." Sofia frowned.
"Princess Elena just gave them to us when she thought we'd done a good deed." Madeline added.
"Ah, you mean she used to when she was inside your Amulets." Cedric corrected them. "But now that she's gone, you are in control of the powers!"
"We are?" Sofia gasped.
"You gave yourselves the power to turn into a rabbit, not Princess Elena." Cedric declared.
"Can we turn into any animal we want?" Madeline asked.
"Let's find out!" Cedric urged.
"I want to be an elephant." Sofia held her Amulet. However, nothing happened.
"You try something, Princess Madeline." Cedric suggested.
"An ostrich!" Madeline attempted, with the same results.
Sofia and Madeline then looked at Wormwood.
"I want to be a raven." They said at the same time, and both changed into ravens.
"Fascinating." Cedric mused. "It appears you must be looking at the actual animal you wish to transform into."
"I can't believe this!" Sofia cheered, flying in a circle.
"Me neither! Squawk! Squawk!" Madeline cawed. "Okay, I'm ready to be myself again."
"And so am I." Sofia agreed, as they returned to normal. "That was incredible."
"Yes, it certainly was." Cedric agreed, walking over to Wormwood. "Oh, Wormy. Who knows what powers we could unlock, or what we could do with those powers." He whispered.
"You'd probably just bungle it." Wormwood growled.
"Ah, Princesses, the Amulets are more powerful than ever!" Cedric returned to them. The shusher shushed him. "Sorry!" He lowered his voice. "For once, I agree with that wretched shusher. We must all keep quiet about the Amulets' powers."
"I won't tell anyone." Madeline whispered.
"Neither will I." Sofia nodded.
"Good, then let's read on-" Cedric started, before the shusher shushed him again. "Oh, you hush!"
As Cedric tried to shoo away the shusher, he slipped and fell against a bookcase, knocking down several books. Wormwood shook his head.
"Well, Wormy." Wriggley suddenly appeared. "I came to fetch you, but this is far more entertaining. So, are you ready to go? Or are you busy helping your master with... important work?" She chuckled nastily.
"Oh, let's go." Wormwood took off, Wriggley followed.
The two them soon reached another room, where a dog and a cat were residing.
"You remember Chester and Pumpkin?" Wriggley asked.
"Hey, Wormy's back!" The cat smiled.
"Bird-brain, old buddy!" The dog grinned.
"Really, Pumpkin?" Wormwood flew over to the cat. "You can conjure anything you want in the conjureteria, and you chose a ball of yarn?"
"What? They're fun!" Pumpkin batted the ball around.
"You haven't changed a bit, cranky-wings." Chester scoffed.
"Yeah, what are you gonna conjurate if you're so good at it, Wormwood?" Pumpkin dared.
"Well, I haven't given it much thought." Wormwood admitted. "It's been a long time." He walked over to a blue sorcerer's hat. "I would like a large piece of the world's best peanut brittle!"
"As you wish!" The hat spoke, glowing brightly.
Wormwood moved the hat aside, revealing some peanut brittle, which he ate.
"I must admit, I quite missed this place." Wormwood declared. "I'm rather sick of eating bird seed, you know?"
"I'll take the usual." Wriggley told the hat, which rose to reveal a viking boat hammock. "So tell us, Wormwood, what has Cedric been up to since our school days."
"Oh, a little of this, little of that..." Wormwood said awkwardly.
"Like doing magic tricks at birthday parties?" Wriggley taunted.
Pumpkin and Chester chuckled.
"Word on the street is your master isn't exactly the best sorcerer in the kingdom." Chester declared.
"That is simply not true!" Wormwood protested. "Cedric does very important things for the King... sometimes! Mostly. Well, he did it once."
"How sad for you." Wriggley sneered. "Meanwhile, our masters have been up to all sorts of important things."
Wriggley: At every winter tournament
My master wins first place
All: Our wizards are the best
Our wizards are the best
Wriggley: He's won so much
He had to make a bigger trophy case
All: Our wizards are the best
Our wizards are the best.
Wriggley: I feel such pride
When I lurk beside
The best sorcerer
A girl could ask for
All: Our wizards are the best
Our wizards are the best
Way better than the rest
Our wizards are the best
Wriggley: His master conjured up a spell
For never-ending play
All: Our wizards are the best
Our wizards are the best
Wriggley: And his guy just was added to
The Wizard Hall of Fame
All: Our wizards are the best
Our wizards are the best
Wriggley: We feel so sad
That your guy's so bad
The worst sorcerer
A bird could ask for
All: Our wizards are the best
Way better than the rest
And they pass any test
We don't say this in jest
You oughta feel impressed
In case you haven't guessed
Our wizards are the best
"You think your masters are so great, do you?" Wormwood scowled. "Well, I have news for you: Cedric is this close to getting his hands on the Amulets of Avalor, two of the most powerful magical objects in the world, thank you very much! And once he gets them from Princess Sofia and Princess Madeline, then we'll see who has the most powerful master!"
"Are you telling me there's a pair of super-powerful Amulets here, in Hexley Hall?" Wriggley smirked.
"Hanging around those Princess's necks?" Chester asked.
"My master would really like one of those!" Pumpkin chuckled.
"So would mine." Chester smirked.
"No, wait!" Wormwood stuttered. "I wasn't supposed to tell you anything!"
"Oh, but you did!" Wriggley gloated, as she and the others left the room.
"Stop, come back!" Wormwood yelled after them. "Oh, what have I done?"
Wormwood quickly returned to the library.
"Princess Sofia! Princess Madeline!" He called. "Wouldn't you still have your Amulets?"
"Of course we do." Madeline nodded.
"What are you talking about?" Sofia asked.
"I found more boo-ahhh!" Cedric yelped, as the ladder slid away. He crashed into another bookcase, spilling more books.
"Let us help you with those." Madeline said, as she and Sofia rushed over.
As she did, the three others peeked around a corner.
"Ooh, here comes the Amulets!" Wriggley smirked.
Wriggley moved in and nuzzled against Sofia.
"Aww, whose cute little pet is this?" Sofia picked her up.
"Sofia, that weasel is dangerous!" Wormwood warned.
"Don't be silly, she's adorable!" Madeline declared.
"Tee-hee! Aren't I?" Wriggley tugged at Sofia's Amulet.
"Oops." Sofia pulled the Amulet free. "Careful, that's my necklace."
"Not for long, Princess!" Wriggley tried to pull off the Amulet, causing Sofia to drop her.
"They're after your Amulets!" Wormwood declared, as Chester and Pumpkin joined them.
"What?" Madeline gasped.
"Run, girls!" Wormwood urged. "I'll hold them off!" As the girls moved away, Wormwood blocked the pets. "Scram! Scram, all of you!"
"Mr Cedric, those animals are trying to take our Amulets!" Sofia declared as she helped Cedric up.
"What?" Cedric gaped. "We must get you out of here! Come on, Wormy!"
They all left the library, the animals right behind them. Cedric closed the doors and locked them.
"They're just animals." Cedric frowned. "How would they know about the Amulets at all?" He led them into another door. "We'll be safe in here."
They entered a room with several potions.
"Where are we?" Madeline asked.
"This is the potion room." Cedric explained. "It contains every potion ever created. Perhaps one of them will help us elude those criminal creatures" He picked up a green bottle. "Hmm, what is this one?"
He opened the bottle and dabbed some potion on his finger, causing him to float upwards.
"Oh no, a floating potion!" He yelped, as his wand also floated away. "Not what I was looking for! It's alright, I can reverse it, if I can just reach my wand!"
"Wormwood, why were you worried about those animals taking our Amulets, before they even showed up?" Sofia asked.
"Yeah, were you the one who told them about this?" Madeline added.
"I didn't mean to do it." Wormwood spluttered. "It was a mistake. Cedric makes them all the time!"
Overhead, Cedric struggled to grab his wand.
"Of course he makes mistakes." Sofia nodded. "Everyone does."
"But the other animals were going on and on about what a fool Cedric is!" Wormwood protested.
"That's what you've been saying all day too." Madeline pointed out.
"Don't you see that when someone's your friend, you accept them, flaws and all?" Sofia asked.
"Almost... got it!" Cedric reached for his wand, but knocked over a bottle. "Oh no!"
The liquid spilled all over Wormwood.
"How many indignities must one raven suffer?" He groaned.
"Oh, it's only a little spill, Wormy." Cedric scoffed. "I'll find you a towel-ahhh! I understood that... Wormwood, y-y-you can talk?"
"You can understand me?!" Wormwood gasped.
"I can." Cedric picked up the bottle. "This must have been a speaking potion. Which means from now on, I'll finally be able to understand all the lovely, sweet things you chirp while we're in the workshop!"
"Yes, all those... charmingly sweet things I always say about you!" Wormwood said awkwardly.
"I think it's great!" Madeline smiled.
"Me too." Sofia agreed. "Now that you can understand each other, I'm sure you'll get along even better!"
"Your wand!" Wormwood pointed.
"Got it!" Cedric grabbed it."Thank you, Wormy. This speaking potion is already coming in handy. Oh, and so will this floating potion. Reverso!"
Cedric fell down, landing float on the floor.
"Oh, perhaps I should have found the "soft landing" potion before doing that..." He got up.
Grimtrix entered the room.
"I heard some commotion." He declared. "Do you need a hand with anything?"
"No-no-no-no-no, it's nothing!" Cedric declared. "We just had a little trouble with a potion!"
"Might I offer some assistance?" Grimtrix asked.
"We're fine, thank you!" Cedric edged Grimtrix back out of the room. "Sorry for the disturbance!" He closed the door.
"Maybe we should have asked for his help." Madeline suggested.
"Isn't he a good sorcerer?" Sofia asked.
"Yes, annoyingly so." Cedric frowned. "But we cannot allow yet another person to find out you have the Amulets of Avalor! We must leave Hexley Hall right away. Follow me!"
They rushed down the halls, reaching the enchanted staircase.
"Quickly now!" Cedric urged.
As they reached the bottom, Wriggley appeared, and snatched Madeline's Amulet.
"My Amulet!" Madeline gasped.
"No!" Cedric yelled.
Wriggley dashed away, slipping through a gap in the wall.
"She has Madeline's Amulet!" Sofia declared. "All because you had to tell those Animals about it, Wormwood!"
"What is she talking about, Wormy?" Cedric asked. "You had nothing to do with this, did you?"
"Well... I didn't mean to tell them." Wormwood cringed. "It just... slipped out!"
"How could you?" Cedric gasped, betrayed.
"It was a simple mistake." Wormwood flew backwards.
"That was no mistake." Cedric growled. "It was part of a scheme for you and your animal cohorts to the Amulets for yourselves!"
"No, no, no, no!" Wormwood protested, hiding behind a banister.
"I can't believe you'd betray me like this, Wormwood." Cedric declared. "After everything we've been through. We. Are. Finished! Go find yourself a new master!"
"I'm so sorry!" Wormwood apologized. "I should never have told them! I'm... I'm an even worse bungler than he is! I've got to fix this..."
"Not to worry, princesses." Cedric smiled. "I remember where this leads: The Wandatorium. We can find the weasel there."
"Let's go!" Madeline nodded.
They soon reached a room filled with all kinds of wands.
"This is it." Cedric declared. "The Wandatorium!" He spotted Wriggley climbing up through a grate. "Ah-ah! We've found that sneaky pest!"
"Hurry!" Sofia yelled, as they chased after Wriggley.
"Give me my Amulet back!" Madeline yelled.
"Or we shall take it back!" Cedric drew his wand.
"Go ahead!" Wriggley taunted. "I dare ya!"
"Alaka-whaa?" Cedric yelped, as Wriggley leapt up and snatched his wand. "That weasel's got my wand!"
"Can you use one of these?" Sofia pointed to the other wands.
"Oh, they're special wands, that each cast only one spell!" Cedric revealed.
"Try this one!" Madeline threw Cedric an icicle-shaped wand.
"And ice beam wand." Cedric mused. "Oh, let me see... Glacia expandica!"
Wriggley dodged the beam, which created a patch of ice where it hit.
Wrigglet dodged more shots, and Sofia threw Cedric another wand.
"Trapezo webius!" Cedric incanted.
Wriggley dodged again, as a web appeared where she just was. Wriggley jumped down to a nearby grate.
"She's going to get away!" Sofia threw Cedric another wand.
"Zapezius!" Cedric fired at Wriggley who moved away from the grate. "Zapezius! Zapezius! Zapezius Zapezius!"
Wriggley kept dodging the blasts. Then, Wormwood flew into the Wandatorium, landing in front of Wriggley and blocking her path.
"Just try and weasel your way past me, Wriggley!" He held out his wings.
Wriggley ran the other way.
"Way to go, Wormwood!" Madeline cheered, throwing Cedric another wand.
"A stand-still wand!" Cedric smiled. "Stop goes the weasel!"
Cedric fired a beam at Wriggley that froze her in place.
"Ha-haaa!" He cheered.
"Got it!" Madeline reclaimed her Amulet.
"You know Mr. Cedric, Madeline would never have gotten her Amulet back if it wasn't for Wormwood." Sofia pointed out.
"Sure, he made a mistake, but can't you give him another chance?" Madeline asked. "Remember, none of us are perfect."
"Not even I, it seems..." Wormwood admitted.
"Since you put it that way..." Cedric mused. "What do you say, Wormy? Shall we team up once more?"
"We shall indeed, sir!" Wormwood perched himself on Cedric's arm.
As Sofia picked up Cedric's wand, Grimtrix entered the room.
"What is going on in here?" He asked.
"We didn't want to have to tell you this, Grimtrix." Cedric sighed. "But your weasel stole Princess Madeline's Amulet!"
"Actually, that was me!" Grimtrix announced. "I sent Wriggley to retrieve those Amulets!"
"You?" Cedric gasped. "But... why would you do such a thing?"
"I couldn't let you leave with those precious Amulets, now could I?" Grimtrix smirked.
"You knew about our Amulets this whole time?" Sofia asked.
"Let's just say I like to keep an eye on my vistors." Grimtrix pointed to the crystal ball atop his scepter, which showed Sofia and Madeline turning into ravens in the library.
"I don't understand." Cedric frowned. "You did something bad? But you've always been so... good!"
"Well Cedric, there comes a time when a sorcerer grows tired of living under the rule of Kings and Queens." Grimtrix conjured up a throne, and sat upon it. "And then he sees that he himself should be the one to rule. But I never saw a way to make that happen, until the Amulets of Avalor practically fell into my lap! Now, hand them over."
Two beams of magic emerged from Grimtrix's scepter, and started pulling the Amulets over to him, Sofia and Madeline still attached.
"No!" Madeline struggled.
"Mr Cedric, help!" Sofia threw Cedric his wand.
"Stoppicus!" Cedric raised his wand.
"Shush!" Grimtrix smirked.
The shusher suddenly covered Cedric's mouth.
"You of all people should understand, Cedric." Grimtrix declared. "Aren't you tired of being a glorified jester for King Roland?"
"His spell is too strong!" Madeline groaned.
"Why don't you just give me those Amulets?" Grimtrix asked.
"Never!" Sofia growled.
"Ha-ha!" Chester chuckled, as he and Pumpkin entered the Wandatorium. "We've found the Amulets!"
"Uh-oh, looks like Grimtrix found them first." Pumpkin frowned.
Sofia and Madeline looked at Chester, then said in unison "I want to be a bulldog!" The two became bulldogs. They dug in their claws, holding fast.
"What's this?" Grimtrix stood up, struggling.
"Your spell doesn't feel so strong now, Grimtrix!" Madeline declared.
"Take... that!" Sofia groaned, as she and Madeline pulled hard enough to thrust Grimtrix's scepter out of his hands.
The scepter hit the the floor, the crystal ball shattering on impact. The shusher faded away from Cedric's mouth.
"My crystal ball!" Grimtrix yelped.
"I wish to be myself again!" Sofia and Madeline said together, returning to normal.
"Look out behind you, Princesses!" Wormwood pointed.
"Now's our chance!" Pumpkin snarled, as he and Chester jumped.
Cedric poured a potion over himself and the girls.
"The floating potion!" Madeline recalled.
The humans floated upwards, avoiding Chester and Pumpkin, who collided with each other.
"Out this way!" Cedric urged, as they flew through a window. "Come on, Wormy!"
"I hope you all learned never to underestimate my master again." Wormwood briefly stopped to taunt Grimtrix and the animals. "I certainly did."
"Great job, Mr Cedric!" Sofia declared, as they descended by the coach.
"Now let's get out of here before Grimtrix catches up to us!" Madeline added.
"Right, Princesses." Cedric nodded, opening the coach door for them. "Here you are."
Wormwood caught up to them.
"Oh Wormy, I'm glad we're better together again." Cedric smiled as Wormwood perched on his shoulder.
"As am I." Wormwood agreed. "I realize now that neither of us is perfect..."
"But you're perfect for each other." Sofia smiled.
"Yes, indeed." Cedric beamed. "The perfect team."
"Just like me and Sofia." Madeline grinned, as they got into the coach together.
The coach flew off into the air, leaving Hexley Hall behind.