Cherry and the Twitches

chapter 24

Meanwhile, a mouse had entered the cell where the witches and warlocks were.

"Oh, boy a snack!" Salem grabbed the mouse by the tail.

"DIBS!" Drell shoved him and took the mouse for himself, then ate the mouse.

"GET ME OUT OF HERE!" Cherry's voice was heard then.

"Who said that?" Salem asked.

"ME!" Cherry's voice called.

"Hm?" Drell wondered.

The mouse tried to open Drell's mouth before it could be swallowed. "HEEELP!"

"Cherry!" Hilda and Zelda realized, then took her away from Drell.

"Cherry, you're a mouse?" Penelope rushed over.

"I think I'm actually a rat..." Cherry shrugged. "But one thing for sure, I don't wanna be Drell's or Salem's next meal."

"Drell, spit her out immediately!" Hilda told him.

"I'm hungry..." Drell folded his arms. "Besides, she owes me."

Cherry yelled as she was nearly eaten again.

Skippy took out a piece of board, then firmly hit Drell with it in the back, making him cough up Cherry in the middle of the floor.

"Yuck!" Cherry grunted in disgust of the slobber.

"How in the world did you get turned into a mouse or into a rat?" Salem asked, curious.

"Ben's been using his magic against me," Cherry explained. "He turned me into a mouse and I found a way out of the cage he put me in... It wasn't easy, and I ended up here... Can't you guys turn me back to normal?"

"Well, we would, but we don't have our powers," Penelope explained. "What with being kinda dead and all."

"You guys are dead!?" Cherry asked frantically.

"As a doorstop," Drell replied, then smirked to her. "All right, now that that's settled... I don't care if this is afterlife or not... IN YOU GO!" he then opened his mouth wide, dangling Cherry by her tail to eat her alive.

But he then saw everyone there glaring at him, telling him that he shouldn't eat her or else pay for his action.

"Oh, fine..." Drell folded his arms, not going to eat Cherry this time.

"What kind of warlock eats mice anyway?" Cherry scoffed.

"The same kind who has a friend that forgets to buy him groceries one day and decides to eat his pet rodent!" Drell replied firmly, sending a glare to Skippy, then smiled. "They taste like chicken."

"Amen, brother!" Salem praised with a thumb's up, despite having paws now.

Penelope held Cherry in her hands. "Can't you do anything?"

"What can I do?" Cherry sighed. "I'm not even a witch... We're all doomed... DOOMED, I TELL YOU, DOOMED!"

"You've got to try something." Salem said.

"What's the point?" Cherry sighed. "We're all dead... We might as well just give up if Alex and Camryn can't do anything... Go ahead, Drell, eat me... Don't even hesitate, just do--"

Drell grabbed her and put her in his mouth.

"WHOA!" Cherry held onto his tongue. "I didn't mean it!"

Drell just kept his mouth shut. Skippy kicked against him again.

Cherry jumped down and crawled onto Hilda's shoulder. "MAKE HIM STOP!" she pointed to Drell, telling Hilda since she was dating him.

"Would you stop trying to eat Cherry?!" Hilda told him. "Just because her name is food doesn't mean she is!"

"I'm hungry, I really am..." Drell held his stomach.

"You're dead!" Skippy told him.

"Doesn't stop me from being hungry..." Drell frowned. "I was gonna eat some ham in the fridge!"

"Guys, we're going to get through this," Zelda soothed with her eyes shut. "If I know Sabrina and her friends, they can get through this... Sabrina is Edward's daughter."

"Zelda's right." Hilda smiled.

"Unfortunate for Edward..." Drell mumbled.

"If you make one more remark, we are through!" Hilda threatened.

"Well, good thing I'm already dead..." Skippy sighed.

Penelope looked to her 'uncle'.

"You don't wanna know..." Skippy smiled apologetically to her.

"I just want this to be over with..." Cherry groaned. "This is the worst thing I ever got myself into..."

"Worse than that time you were invited to a house with murders?" Skippy prompted. "Worse than when you were shrunk down to three inches tall in a rainforest filled with fairies? Worse than--"

"Okay, this is one of the worst things to ever happen to me!" Cherry shut him up.

"Wow, Cherry, you've been through a lot." Penelope said, shocked.

"Don't get me started..." Cherry scoffed.

"And then Drell comes into your life just to enjoy seeing you suffer..." Skippy smiled innocently.

"Hey, if it makes you feel any better, you're my favorite victim," Drell shrugged innocently. "I'd never let something kill you though."

"You're a little late in that..." Cherry said to him.

"Hey, I was killed before you." Drell retorted.

Cherry looked at him, unable to come up with something to say to back that up, so she stayed quiet after that.

"There has got to be someway out of here." Salem said.

"Couldn't have Ben turned you into something less appetizing?" Drell dangled Cherry by her tail again, but not eating her. "Like spinach... Or a pile of crayons..."

Penelope tried to think of something. "Come on, brain... Think!" she hit her head with her tiny fist.

'Forget it, the only way out is to beat the Darkness... Artemis and Apolla are still separated!' Sombra's voice taunted.

"They'll get back together soon!" Penelope huffed. "Show yourself, you horned horse! I'll rip that horn off and cut open your guts with it and make your guts into dog chow!"

"Whoa!" Drell smirked. "That is so my daughter."

'Oh, I would like to see you try, witchling." Sombra's voice chuckled.

Penelope growled and shook her fist. "I may not have powers right now, but I know you'll be stopped!"

Sombra just laughed at them and his laughter faded.

Zelda frowned and looked out the window as it felt like doomsday for all of them. "Hurry up out there, guys..." she whispered in sorrow.