Tom and Jerry had one of their infamous chases. Robyn came to the staircase and slid down the banister with a laugh.
"Hey, Robyn." Patch smiled.
"Hey, Patch." Robyn stood up then.
"Settled in okay?" Patch asked.
"Yeah," Robyn smiled. "It reminds me of the good old days."
"Cool." Patch smiled.
"We used to come here all the time." Robyn smiled at the house, even if it was rather creepy compared to the other houses in the neighborhood.
"Then your dad got his lawyer?" Patch guessed.
"Wow, you got it right on the dot." Robyn said.
"I just assumed since when we first met, you were with him and Figg." Patch replied.
"Daddy's old lawyer had 'other commitments', whatever that means..." Robyn explained.
"Commitments are like responsibilities." Patch said.
"I don't know what happened, but after Daddy met those two, my whole life was turned upside down," Robyn pouted. "Daddy thought that Figg lady would be a good guardian for me since she was a grown woman and would be like a motherly substitute, but turns out she was just sucking up to Daddy to make herself look good!"
"I always hated that woman." Patch said.
"You and me both..." Robyn had a nasty glare. "I never liked her from the start, but no one would help me, running away was the only option I had and then I met you guys."
"Well, I guess it was fate that we met." Patch smiled.
"I suppose so..." Robyn shrugged.
Tom then became in the shape of an ottoman from a trick by Jerry during the chase. Robyn sighed and shook her head.
"Yeah, they're at it again." Patch sighed.
"Cats and mice, what can you do?" Robyn shrugged as her new pets chased each other as they had been doing for what had felt like their whole lives.
"They'll be going at this for at least a few minutes." Patch said.
"So it seems..." Robyn rolled her eyes slightly.
Tom and Jerry kept chasing each other throughout the living room.
"This is getting annoying." Patch said.
"What do we do until they stop?" Robyn asked.
"See if you can do any spells?" Patch shrugged.
"I dunno, I never tried or thought about it before..." Robyn shrugged. "Would I even have powers?"
"Well, there's only one way to find out." Patch said.
"What do I do?" Robyn asked.
"Try to do a spell." Patch suggested.
"How do I do that?" Robyn tilted her head.
"Well, just think of a spell, but it has to rhyme." Patch said.
"Umm... Okay..." Robyn wanted to try it, but she wasn't too sure.
Patch gave her an encouraging smile.
"But how should I start?" Robyn asked.
"Well, is there anything you have ever wanted?" Patch suggested.
"I guess a new dress." Robyn said.
"Try it then." Patch suggested.
Robyn shrugged, she shut her eyes and held out her hands. "'Don't make me into a pig sty mess, let me dress for success'!" She was then in beautiful red dress after a flash of light.
Patch turned away from the brightness, but then looked back with a smile.
"Did it work?" Robyn asked.
"See for yourself." Patch suggested.
Robyn went to the nearest mirror and saw herself in her new dress. "Wow!"
"Looks like you do have magic powers." Patch smiled.
Robyn looked at her hands and the new dress, this felt like a dream, but it was so real, so it had to be true. "I don't believe it..." she whispered to herself.
Patch then brought Robyn over to a glass. "Repeat after me."
Robyn walked over and she nodded once.
"To make an object disappear." Patch started.
"'To make an object disappear'..." Robyn repeated.
"Tap it twice." Patch continued before he tapped a glass next to the glass he had for Robyn.
"Um... Do I say that or do I do that?" Robyn asked then.
"Both." Patch said.
Robyn repeated the first thing she said, then added the other part. "'Tap it twice'..." she then added, tapping the glass twice.
"And then say 'oh, dear'." Patch said, finishing the spell.
"'And then say 'oh, dear''." Robyn then finished the spell herself.
Both glasses then disappeared.
Robyn then saw the glass disappear. "I wonder where it went."
"You can never tell with a disappearing spell." Patch smiled.
"Cool." Robyn smiled.
"Think you're gonna like being a wizard?" Patch asked.
"I think so," Robyn smiled. "I just wonder why Daddy never told me before."
"I guess he wanted you to have a normal life." Patch guessed.
Robyn merely shrugged, then looked to the telephone, her father promised to call when he would make it to the site in Egypt, but the phone still hasn't rang, so she was anxious to hear from him. "I hope he makes it there okay..." she whispered to herself.
"It's okay, Robyn, I'm sure he's alright." Patch said.
"I suppose so..." Robyn smiled to him. "I'm just glad I get to see him more now."
"And I'm sure he feels the same way." Patch said.
Robyn sighed a little.
"Hmm..." Patch tried to think of a way to distract Robyn to soothe her worries about being away from her father, then smirked. "Hey, Robyn, check this out!"
Robyn turned her head, then saw Patch juggling books from the shelf, which made her clap and laugh. Patch then turned into his human form and continued to juggle the books. Robyn was surprised that Patch had a human form, but continued to watch as she was entertained. This seemed to keep Robyn from being sad. Tom had accidentally chased Jerry down into the basement. Robyn laughed, enjoying her entertainment from Patch.
Patch smiled, then turned back into a puppy and noticed that Tom and Jerry were missing. "Uh, Robyn, where are Tom and Jerry?" he asked.
"Huh?" Robyn looked around, then saw the chasing duo had gone. "I thought they were right here."
"Unless..." Patch paused to think, then his eyes widened slightly. "Oh, no!"
Down in the basement, Chip was hard at work, pouring a milk carton and some cheese into his boiling pot. And where hopefully, he wouldn't get any interruptions. Robyn cracked the door open as Patch was next to her foot and they looked the long way downstairs. Chip hummed and muttered as he was at work and not paying attention to anything else around him. Patch and Robyn then secretly and quietly went down the stairs. Chip mumbled in frustration and looked at his book as he continued to work.
'He must be making something big.' Patch thought to himself.
Robyn kept an eye out for either Tom or Jerry or both. Luckily, Tom wasn't too hard to find as he was now behind a motorized scooter.
'Why do I feel like that's a bad place to hide?' Patch thought to himself once they spotted the tom cat.
Chip was now ready to use his magic ring's magic to see if the potion would work. Robyn hid herself away, she was sure Chip wouldn't take kindly to trespassers, even if she was a guest, she had not been invited down here. After a few seconds of waiting for the right moment to use the ring's magic, there was a bright light, but a puff of smoke came from the potion. Patch backed up slightly from the smoke, at least it wasn't harmful smoke like from a house fire.
"What the? What happened? My potion puffed out? Let's see here." Chip said before looking over his book to find out more about the potion.
A frog hopped on Chip's table, lightly ribbiting, but not being annoying.
"Huh, this milk is from the market," Chip observed the milk he had which the potion's recipe called for. "Let's see..." he then tried again. But to his dismay it didn't work as the book said the potion made no substitutions. "Darn!" the wizard grumbled. "Looks like there really is no substitute... Old Chip's gonna have to do this the hard way."
Tom looked at what he was hiding behind and decided to have a little fun. It looked like fun and he made engine like noises as he pretended ride on top of it.
"Tom!" Robyn whispered loudly.
However, the scooter bounced with the cat and he had ended up in a pile of coal.
"How many magical items does Chip have?" Patch whispered.
"Hard to say..." Robyn whispered back with a shrug.
Suddenly, the coal shovel came alive and pried open the furnace, shoveling the coal into it.
"I guess that's another one of 'em!" Robyn's eyes widened, worried for Tom now.
"We better save him." Patch whispered.
Robyn nodded. The shovel kept shoveling for coal and seemed to pull Tom out on the scooter.
Robyn held Tom in her arms, getting him off the scooter, but the scooter was then thrown next to Chip's work area. "Oh, my..."
Chip glanced to his scooter, then turned to see the cat, puppy, and his niece were in the basement.
"Uh, hey there... " Robyn smiled nervously.
"We are so sorry, me and Robyn were only coming downstairs to get Tom out of here and back upstairs." Patch told him.
"You better," Chip sounded firm. "Now listen, I'm not mad at you, but my potion's not working the way I hoped for it to. I used store brand milk, but it needs natural milk."
"So, what's your plan?" Robyn asked.
"I gotta jet over to Calcutta to milk a cow." Chip explained.
"Do you need us to watch over your ring?" Patch asked.
"I would appreciate it," Chip gave a nod to that. "It's very important that nothing happens to that ring!"
"Oh, Uncle Chip, are you sure it's a good idea to leave us home alone?" Robyn sounded worried and nervous.
"Don't worry, I'll be like your own personal guard dog." Patch assured.
"I'll reward you if you do a good job," Chip settled the deal then. "Now, I'm only letting Tom and Jerry stay here for Gilbert and Robyn's sake, so don't make me be disappointed once I get back, Robyn, you be good and call me if there's trouble, you have my number," he said before putting his ring back in the box and on a shelf. "Calcutta, here I come!" he called as he then got on his scooter and flew off, right out of the house.
Tom glanced at that and then shrugged. "I'm just gonna pretend that didn't happen."
"Tom, it's important that we make sure that ring doesn't leave that ring box." Patch said.
"Right!" Tom saluted. He then went to find a broom and held it like an armed weapon and marched like a soldier to keep guard of the ring.
Robyn rolled her eyes with a smile at him.
Jerry snuck in and decided to tiptoe and sneak the ring for himself, unable to resist as he saw Tom, Robyn, and Patch were busy. He decided to sneak past them, but then caught the scent of his favorite food...Cheese. He dodged blinking eyes in a jar and a tentacle in a can and followed the sweet and savory scent that was cheese. And where to him, it was mesmerizing and he couldn't resist.
He followed and followed until he would get a hunk of the food he oh-so loved more than anything else in the world. There was even a cracker on top of the small morsel just for him. Jerry decided to climb up one of Chip's spell books and ate his snack. After enjoying his snack, Jerry saw a shining light and saw that it was Chip's magic ring.
The ring was even more tempting and desirable now after he had his favorite dairy product. He hopped down and saw that Patch wasn't around, so he went to the box and slid the ring on and wore it like a hat.
The brown mouse then took a look at himself through a beaker to use as a mirror and struck poses. "Jerry, my friend, you are one lovely mouse..." he complimented himself before taking a wrapper to wear like a cape and did Miss America waves as he made himself look like a king in his new 'crown', but ,he then bumped into Tom, Patch, and Robyn.
Jerry gave a sheepish smile and a wave.
"All right, hand it over, Mouse." Tom demanded, holding out his paw.
"Uhhh... Later!" Jerry zipped away.
"He isn't making this easy." Patch said.
"Come on, Jerry, give back Uncle Chip's ring!" Robyn demanded.
"No!" Jerry yelped as he ran off. "It's mine!"
"He is being so stubborn." Patch groaned.
"I'll get him!" Tom chased after Jerry, he then closed the spell book, knowing Jerry had to hide himself behind there, but didn't see the mouse. He then looked to see the ring box was now shaking. He put his paw over it and opened the box.
Jerry smiled nervously, but then hopped out of the box and closed it on Tom's nose so he could escape with his new treasure.
"Jerry, don't make this any harder than it has to be!" Patch told the brown mouse.
Tom yanked the ring box off his nose and glared down to Jerry. Jerry smiled innocently to that. Tom then glared and pounded Jerry on the head. Jerry grew dizzy from that and fell right down into a sitting position.
"Jerry, give it back, it doesn't belong to you!" Robyn scolded.
"Aw... Okay..." Jerry gave in, then tried to pull the ring off, but struggled, it seemed to be stuck on his head now.
"Oh, no, it's being tricky again." Patch groaned.
"Oh, well, can't get it off," Jerry shrugged innocently. "Guess I'll wear it forever."
"I'll get it off." Tom smiled evilly as he had an idea.
"How?" Patch asked.
Tom walked off and came back with a broom and grinned, thwacking Jerry on the head with it. However, the ring seemed to be protecting Jerry from getting hit and made the bristles split apart whenever the broom tried to hit the mouse. Tom didn't understand why or how that was happening and then the dust pan flew up in the air and bashed him in the head.
"Ooh, that's gotta hurt." Patch winced.
"Oh, I dunno." Jerry giggled in amusement.
Tom tried to attack the dust pan with the broom, but somehow, the broom came to life and was now attacking the poor cat with the dust pan.
"This isn't really surprising me." Patch said.
Tom was then flung against a bookshelf and several books fell on top of him, giving him a lump in his head. The dust pan knocked a couple of books on top of the shelf and made them fall on Tom's head, making his lump even bigger. The broom then swept the books and Tom away while the dust pan made a glass orb fall on Tom's head, giving him more of a mind-numbing headache.
"Ooh, that's gonna leave a mark." Patch winced.
Robyn rushed over to the cat. "Are you okay, Tom?"
Tom popped his head out, having the orb over his head, then popped it off and looked like he was missing his head for a moment until he squeezed it out. "I guess so..." he then sent a glare to Jerry.
Jerry waved back with a smirk and stuck his tongue out at the cat as he still wore Chip's magic ring.
"How are we going to get the ring off him?" Patch asked.
Tom hopped up on the table and rolled the glass orb like a bowling ball which flattened Jerry like a pancake. He then laughed at the mouse's misfortune.
"Come on, Jerry, give up the ring." Robyn glared at her rodent pet, not even scolding Tom for that.
"Yeah, besides, it doesn't belong to you." Patch added.
"Jerry!" Patch barked.
Jerry ignored the puppy and kept running. He climbed up the books and broomstick until he made it to the end of the window.
"Hey, get back here!" Tom got over his laughter and chased his prey.
"No!" Jerry was angry with them, he climbed out the window and slammed it shut before any of them could go after him. If he couldn't have the magic ring, nobody could.
Tom looked the most fearful.
"What do we do?" Robyn frowned.
"We have to go after him." Patch said.
"I'll drive!" Tom ran over to the broomstick and rode it like many witches did.
"We can't leave..." Robyn sounded worried.
"We don't have much of a choice!" Tom yelped as the broom was going haywire with him.
The broom brought Robyn and Patch with it.
"Whoa!" Robyn and Patch yelped as they joined Tom for the ride.
They made it up the stairs and were now out the front door and looking around for Jerry.