Cherry and the Twitches

chapter 26

The Darkness was controlling Coventry and getting worse by the minute. Salem and the others were fast asleep now though.

'Salem Saberhagen....' Sombra's voice called.

"Huh?" Salem opened an eye. "What now?"

'I have a proposition for you...' Sombra told him. 'What if I turned you back into a warlock?'

"You're bluffin'..." Salem scoffed.

"No, I can really turn you back into a warlock." Sombra told him.

"Yeah... Yeah..." Salem chuckled. "And I'm the Queen of the Nile..."

Sombra then transformed Salem back into his warlock form.

Salem blinked, he looked into a floating mirror and saw himself with his wavy black hair and golden eyes, wearing old fashioned clothes like what Drell would wear. "Hey..." he smirked, feeling great. "You didn't bluff..."

'And this can be permanent...' Sombra told him. 'But... I'm afraid it'll cost you...'

"I'll do anything, anything!" Salem told him. "Just tell me what you want and I'll pay the cost just let me stay as a warlock!"

Sombra chuckled. 'Aren't you an eager kitty... Well, you have to choose... Your life back as a warlock... Or to live forever with the Spellman family for another 67 years...'

"Between them?" Salem asked, even if Hilda, Zelda, and Sabrina weren't his real family, they treated him as one of their own.

'It's your life or theirs...' Sombra told him. 'You can either stay a cat even in the afterlife or you can continue to live your life as a warlock and leave them behind...'

"Well, it would be nice to be a warlock again... But, Hilda, Zelda, and Sabrina have treated me like their own family, so... I'm sorry, Sombra, but I'd rather spend my life as a cat with the Spellmans." Salem told him.

'Very well...' Sombra told him and turned him back into a cat. 'What a shame... I thought you were into world domination.'

"Hey, I learned my lesson!" Salem huffed. "And my family back home still loves me! I walked my daughter down the aisle of her wedding and I attended her baby shower!" he then sniffled as he wiped his eyes with his tail. "I can't believe I'm gonna be a grandfather..."

"Oh, brother." Sombra rolled his eyes before he groaned and held his chest.

Salem then went back to sleep with the others. Zelda was sleeping too until she felt something and she sat straight up, her eyes shooting open.

"What is it, Zelly?" Hilda asked her sister.

"I feel something." Zelda said.

"The stick up your butt?" Drell deadpanned.

"No..." Zelda shook her head. "It's some powerful magic source returning to Coventry!"

"Alex and Camyrn must be in Coventry!" Penelope gasped.

"Could it be!?" Drell hoped himself.

"I wish there could be some way to tell..." Skippy sighed softly.

"I know they're back, I got a good feeling about this, guys!" Zelda told them.

"Well, let's hope they defeat the Darkness, Sombra, and Ben Ravencroft." Drell said.