Ashley grabbed the jar, then all of a sudden, the house began to shake, it sounded like the house was coming down. Ashley tried to teleport, but instead, she got a magic hangover from too much teleporting.

The house's shaking grew more immense, Ashley threw the jar on the floor to free Flabber, but it didn't break.

"It's reinforced with magic, Ashley!" Flabber said. "We've got to get out of here!"

Ashley had an idea. She went up to the wall and took off her key necklace. She pointed it aganist the door and turned it, making the stones in the wall open up. Ashley put her necklace back on and jumped.

Flabber and Ashley looked back at the house, astonished. The house was lifted off the ground by a pair of giant chicken legs at the bottom of the cottage. Ashley saw the cottage door open and saw the old woman, whose once sweet and charming face was now deformed and ferocious-looking.

"So, you saw through me already, dearie?" the hideous woman cooed in a vile voice.

"Wasn't hard, Baba Yaga." Ashley replied.

"It doesn't matter, with you and that phasm in my possession, I shall be the most powerful witch in the world!" The Baba Yaga shrilled a vicious cackle as she commanded her house to stomp on them.

Ashley ran as fast as she could, holding Flabber close to her chest.

"What are we gonna do?!" Flabber wailed.

"Don't worry!" Ashley said. "I've got an idea!"

Ashley ran past the skull fence, she turned back and pointed at the fence, blasting it with a surge of magic. The fence began to bend and twist itself as it came alive, pulling itself out of the ground and wrapping around the house's legs and giving them strong jerks.

The chicken-legged house began to loose balance, Ashley aimed her magic again and the skulls on the fence glowed, then the skulls started biting into the legs, the pain became too great and the house toppled over, crashing to the ground.

Baba Yaga emerged from the dust and rubble of her wrecked home.

"How dare you destroy my precious house, you little greenhorn..." the wicked witch hissed like a viper. She pointed a wooden stick at Ashley and fired a blast of blue fire.

The blaze engulfed the whole area where Ashley stood, when it died down. The Baba Yaga gasped when Ashley was still standing and unharmed, and Flabber was right beside her with a pile of broken glass of broken glass in front of his feet.

Flabber grinned. "Thanks for that."

Ashley cracked her knuckles. "Let's close the curtain on this magic show."

But Baba Yaga frowned coldly at her. "Go ahead. Do me in and you'll wipe out more of our kind!"

"What do you mean?" asked Ashley.

"The Baba Yaga are members of the witch family. Ever since the Dark Ages were over, there are barely any witches left in this world."

Ashley's eyes widened, Flabber gasped and looked over to Ashley, but to his surprise, Ashley just glared at Baba Yaga, then grabbed Flabber by the arm whispered something in his ear.

Ashley and Flabber nodded at each other, clasped each others hand and fired a ray of green and pink magic at the old witch, she screamed as the blast lit up her whole body and it exploded in a magic mushroom cloud.

When the smoke cleared, a little creature flapped around the ground. Baba Yaga was now a blue, balding chicken. She cawed and cock-a-doodle dooed as she flapped away.

Flabber doubled over, laughing. "A chicken! How fitting!"

Ashley laughed as well. "I know, Baba Yaga or not, she still had to be stopped." She took both of Flabber's hands. "Now let's blow this dead zone."

They closed their eyes and a sparkling, golden glow covered their bodies, filling the entire graveyard with a goegeous light before leaving it for good.

Ashley opened her eyes, and sighed in relief to see herself back in the parlor again. "Well, that was quite an adventure."

"Yup! That was something, all right!" Flabber blubbered. "But we sure showed that old hag, am I right?!" Flabber held his hand out for a high five.

But Ashley frowned and crossed her arms. "I think you're forgetting who's fault this was..."

Flabber gulped and winced a little.

"Why did you want me to do that spell, Flabber?! We could've been that lady's collector's items, no thanks to you!" Ashley scolded.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Flabber was on his knees at this point. "I didn't know that the page was smudged!"

"Even so, why did you insist on doing it?! What was that spell really for?!"

"It was suppose to take us to Sunshine Skulls resort!" Flabber answered.

Ashley blinked. "What?"

Flabber twiddled his fingers. "Well, you and I don't really spend a lot of time together and you've been working so hard and I wanted to make it up to you."

Ashley was dumbfounded. "You...what?"

The phasm looked down. "But I guess it just fell flat on my face, you're more annoyed with me now than you ever were..."

Ashley knelt down and patted his back. "Oh, Flabber. I'm not annoyed. I, I just never thought you would do that for me."

Flabber looked up. "Really?"

Ashkey smiled and nodded. "But there are better, and more simpler ways to have fun. And no matter how overworked I am, I'm never too busy for the friends that I love."

Touched, Flabber sniffled and wiped a tear from his eye.

"Aw, you gonna cry, Baby boo?" Ashley teased.

"No, just my allergies." Flabber looked away.

Ashley reached up and gave a little tickle on his neck. Flabber jumped and yelped. "OH! Please don't do that! I'm too ticklish!"

Ashley rolled her eyes. "Well, you shouldn't have said that..." she tackled Flabber and tickled all over his sides.

Flabber squirmed and laughed. "Eee! OHHOHOHOHAHAHAHA! STOHOHOP!" he snorted and laughed until he jumped back hard against the wall.

Ashley stared. "Wow, you're more ticklish than I thought...you okay?"

Still one with the wall, Flabber gave a thumbs up and pulled himself out. "Yeah, I warned you, I'm too ticklish."

Ashley rubbed her chin. "Tell you what, I know something just as fun we can do."

In Ashley's room, the witch was painting her nails chatting with Flabber, with his pompadour held in a giant curler.

"So like, Ashley! You knew she was a Baba Yaga from the start!" Flabber said with a valley girl voice.

"That's right, I remember in a book saying that the Baba Yaga live in a cottage with a skull decorated fence. Once I saw it and sensed you were in the house, I had a feeling she kidnapped you. Besides, what kind of old lady lives in a graveyard?"

Flabber sighed, "Please, like, that couldn't have been a more obvious setup. Gah!"

The two giggled and shared a few laughs, enjoying every minute of their time together.

"Flabber, am I really the only witch in the world?" asked Ashley.

"Well, that depends." Flabber said. "While it's true that the Baba Yaga are rare, actual witches haven't been seen for centuries! Most people say they've pretty much died out."

Ashley looked down, but smiled. "Well, at least I've got the best teacher."

With that said, she hugged him. Flabber hugged back, feeling proud, not because he had a great student, but because he had one of the best friends he ever had.