6In the late days after the team visited him everything went as usual, Sabrina going to both Witch School and High school, Enchantra pissing Salem to turn her life upside down and other things, with some exceptions; Buddy was visiting him in secret to help getting food for the park, as well as another time when he manage to get to the Witch School during one of Sabrina's magic challenges, he had to stay with Veralupa and Ambrose till she reached the finish line, and an other time when she put a leash on him and walked in the park. When the animals saw him in a leash he was feeling very annoying, but after she called the name she gave to him everyone began to laugh maniacally except for Andie and Buddy. The team was also visiting him weekly to see if his leg was healing.
With the passing weeks he began to feel that his leg was beginning to heal and he will manage to go back to the park but there was another thing that he was feeling, with the time he spend at the Spellman's Brew he began to get attached with Sabrina and her aunts and he didn't knew how to express his gratitude for what they did for him.
It was now Saturday in the morning; Sabrina just went to the Witch World for her magic lessons leaving him alone in the back room of the shop while Salem was in the shop probably playing with his toy mouse, eating or sleeping. While he was there, he began to check if his leg was better, once he putted it on the floor he was feeling that he was feeling no more pain and he can now walk, jump and climb better then ever. After five minutes he heard a voice.
"Hey, seems you are feeling better now." Grayson said and the rest of the team followed him.
"Yeah, my leg is better now." Surly said.
"Great, so that means you can come back to the park now, right?" Jamie said.
"Oh, right." He said with a small tone while turning his head around with a sad expression on his face.
"Everything is all right Surly." Andie asked concerned.
"Oh, ahh, yeah everything is fine….Its just." He couldn't continue.
"You become attached with the witches." Johnny said.
"Yeah" Surly admitted.
"Hey you don't need to be ashamed for admitting this." Andie said with an encouraging smile on her face and Buddy agreed.
"Yeah, the truth is that I like to stay here with them." Surly said before Jimmy began to say.
"And let me guess, you would like to stay here a little more, right?"
"Well."
"Come on Surly, if you will stay here for more time you will begin to speak like them." Mole, who was on the table said before he accidentally slipped.
"You look like a dragon that stopped his wings in the air and crashed on the ground." Surly said.
"Hey this was a good one." Johnny said and Jimmy approved.
"See, you will soon began get witching." Mole said while getting on his two feet.
"Mole's right, even if most of the park will still be glad for not having to see you; your place is in the park not in here." Jamie said.
"I know, it's just I don't want to heart Sabrina's feelings." Surly said.
"Her feelings, rather Zelda's, it seems like she likes you the most." Johnny said.
"Hey, you have to admit that even she is a great person." He said.
"All right it seems that you give us no choice." Johnny said and they began to approach him and Surly together with Buddy began to went back a few steps till they were very close to the door were the portal was. And Just in that moment Salem entered and asked.
"Hey, what's going on here?" He said and the team turned behind and got scared.
"Wait! No, no wait!" Surly said but all the team bumped into them and opened the door of the portal and got into it.
"Woops." Salem gasped.
…..
In the Witch World the portal opened in the sky and the team falls from it and crashed on the ground, after a few moments everyone began to get up from the ground.
"Ehh, what was?" Mole was beginning to say but he stopped and noticed the surroundings.
"Guys, why I can see stars during daytime?" He asked while watching at the purple sky with multiple suns and planets.
"What do you mean Mole?" Andie asked before noticing the surrounding area that was not like in the park or anywhere else, after that Surly got up and knew where they are and also observed the team's stress and their questions.
"Where are we?" Johnny said.
"What is this place?" Jamie said.
"This isn't the park." Grayson said.
Everyone was stressed about the place where they have landed and no one seem to knew what is going on but right in that moment Andie saw that Surly wasn't as concerned as others.
"Surly, what is this place?" Andie asked and everyone's attention moved towards him who seem to have a smirk on his face.
"You want to know where we are." Surly said and everyone yes.
"We are in Witch World." Surly said with a calm voice.
"WITCH WORLD!" Everyone said in unison.
"Yap, Witch World." He said.
"Tell us that you know how to get back in the normal world." Mole said.
"I told you that I was here several times and yeah there is a way out." Surly said before continuing.
"We have to get to the witch school." Surly said making everyone a bit doubtful.
"Look we know that you like Sabrina but come on we need to find a way out." Grayson said.
"Yeah, I wanted to say that we need to get to the witch school and find Sabrina's broom, after we find her broom we can use it to get back." Surly explained.
"Now that sounds more logical." Grayson said.
"But how we will get to the witch school?" Jamie asked.
"I told you that I was here several times and I know how we can get there." He said before continuing.
"We need to go through the forest till we find the road that gets us to the witch school." Surly said.
"Great, then let's go." Grayson said and they began to walk slowly through the forest. They have walked for at least three hours and during that time they watched how the witch world was, in the most cases the team was thinking that the witch world would be scarier and grimmer, but for them it was just only stranger, while they were walking.
"Well it seems it isn't as scary as I imagine." Jimmy said.
"So Surly, what exactly lives in here." Mole asked a bit nervous.
"Well here they are living mostly witches and wizards, from what I know," Surly said.
"Oh, good to know." Mole said.
"Together with trolls, gnomes, ice giants, birds that have the power of making someone to forget everything, as well as fire breathing dragons and living gargoyles together with other magic creatures." Surly said making Mole to get more stressed, after a few minutes Surly stopped and everyone did the same.
"Someone must climb in the trees and watch if they see the witch school." Surly said.
"This is the work for me." Grayson said and climbed in a tree and started to watch.
"Wait I'm coming as well." Surly said and began to climb.
"Come on Surly, I think I can handle it plus your leg was injured." Grayson said.
"Yeah, but it is healed now." Surly said.
"Besides, he is more the expert here." Andie said and they began to watch for the witch school, after a few minutes Surly saw the witch school.
"I can see it." Surly said and Grayson turned around and see a giant building like castle with sharp roofs on top, the tallest tower being the headmaster's office.
"It isn't very far as well." Grayson said and they climbed down.
"The witch school is some steps forward we will be there in no time." Grayson said and everyone began to cheer.
"So that means we will be there very soon." Jamie said.
"Let's go." Andie said and everyone began to run as fast as they could when they get on the main road of the witch school.
"There it is." Johnny said before continuing. "And we are almost there."
They all went towards the school as fast as they could when Surly said.
"Wait, wait." And they all stopped.
"We have now to cross the bridge." He said and the team looked at the school and saw a bridge that seems to be made out of earth.
"Why it has a bridge?" Andie asked.
"Take a look for yourself." Surly said with a small smirk and Mole, Grayson and the Bruisers went near the bridge and took a closer look and they saw that the school was on soil that was making it.
"The school is floating in air!?" Mole said shocked.
"The whole earth here is floating in air from what I saw the other times I came here." Surly said.
"What kind of crazy world is this?" Mole said.
"A world completely upside down." Grayson said.
"Now, let's go." Surly said and they began to cross the bridge.
"So how we will manage to go through the school?" Jamie asked.
"We will sneak through the school and try to avoid being spotted by any of the wizards especially by Shinji and Enchantera." Surly said.
"Sounds like a good plan for me." Johnny said and continued to walk till they arrived on the other side. Once there Surly heard Sabrina talking with Veralupa and they all went behind a wall.
"Boy I will be glad when I go back home to sleep." Sabrina said yawning.
"Don't worry; we will all go home after four hours if nothing bad will happen." Veralupa replied.
"Hey Surly that girl that talks with Sabrina is." Grayson said.
"Yeah that girl is Veralupa, she is half witch, half werewolf." Surly said making a bit confuse Andie.
"What do you mean half witch, half werewolf?" Andie said.
"One of her parents was a witch and the other was a werewolf." Surly said.
"What, kind of world is this?" Mole said stressed.
"Don't worry, she is actually a nice and kind-hearted person if you don't annoy or provoke her." Surly said.
"I wonder what we will do now." Sabrina asked, but then noticed that Veralupa began to sniff something.
"What is it?" Sabrina said.
"I sense…squirrel." Veralupa said.
"Oh, I hope Fluffy didn't come here by accident again." Sabrina said concerned, making the team except Buddy and Andie to giggle of the name Sabrina gave to Surly.
"There are actually three squirrels." Veralupa said, shocking Grayson and stop giggling and Andie to get shocked.
"It also smells of three groundhogs." She said, scaring the Bruisers.
"A mole and a rat." Veralupa said and she together with Sabrina went to check, but when they arrived at the place where the smell came from there was no sign of the animals.
"Strange, I could have sworn it was coming from here." Veralupa said.
"We'll check later, maybe we will find something." Sabrina said, and they all went to the class.
"Boy, now that was close." Grayson said.
"Let's continue." Surly said and they entered the school, while they were walking through the school's halls, Surly was thinking of how they will find Sabrina's broom to take them home. From what he knew, the only way her broom would come was by whistling, but there should be a chamber where they are keeping them.
"Man, this place is huge and a little upside down." Johnny said.
"How will we find the brooms?" Jimmy asked.
"It should be here somewhere, every time I came here they were usually whistling and their brooms are flying to get them." Surly said before continuing:
"So there should be a room where they are keeping them."
"Or if we don't find where they are, we will wait until Sabrina finishes her classes, she whistles for her broom to come after her and you will distract her attention for us to get on it." Jamie said.
"Yeah, or that." Surly said and they continued walking till they heard a whistling and they hid. After a moment, he saw that the one who was whistling was actually professor Giest who was carrying his books for the next class, they waited till he passed.
"He doesn't have feet why he doesn't have feet?" Mole asked.
"I don't know, even I was thinking why he doesn't have feet." Surly said.
"Well at least there is no danger now." Andie said, but after a moment they heard a noise from behind, Surly saw it was Enchantra's gnome servant Spoogent and immediately went to hide. The gnome heard the noise, turned around, but he saw nothing and kept walking.
"Who was he?" Andie asked Surly.
"It was Enchantra's gnome servant Spoogent, he is always put to do lots of things, but if you ask me, he should take a bath." Surly said and they continued till the bell rang and everyone went to hide. After a few minutes a witch with a strange hat, wearing a long blood-red dress and a strange emulate, was passing.
"That's Enchantra." Surly whispered.
"She truly looks wicked." Andie said.
While Enchantra was passing, Grayson wanted to take a closer look, but in the next moment he slipped and fell in front of her.
"Oh, it seems that mister squirrel visited us again." She said and took out her wand, Grayson tried to run from her, but she cast a spell and locked him in a cage.
"I will call Sabrina to take you back." Enchantra said, while taking the cage and went to her office. After she left, the team got out from the hiding places.
"We have to save Grayson." Jimmy said.
"Yeah, there's no telling what Enchantra will do to him." Johnny said.
"All right, new plan, we save Grayson then we search for Sabrina's broom, from what I know, she took him in her office." Surly said.
"We go to her office and rescue Grayson." Jamie said.
"All right, her office is this way, but we also need to make a diversion, in order to make her leave the office." Surly said.
Enchantra was now in front of two black grey doors that lead into her office, the doors opened and went to her stone desk and placed the cage where Grayson was and said.
"You will now stay quite in here while I will go after Sabrina to take you." She said and went to the door before turning around and said.
"And no rodents like tricks." She said and left.
"I have to worn you; the team will come after the park hero." Grayson said and began to watch outside through the cage's bars. Enchantra's office was a bit creepy, near the main door that leads outside were two statues of her that seem to look at each other, behind the desk was a large rhomb shape mirror that was on a yellow window that was stretching all over from one end to the other, with a bookcase above that contains books of all kinds of spells and potions together with some sculls, as well as three red rugs, one stretching from the door to the desk and other two who were near it.
"This place is giving me Cripps, but I would like two statues of me." Grayson said to himself. After several minutes the team arrived in front of Enchantra's office.
"Here we are." Surly said.
"Great, how we will open the door?" Jamie asked while looking at the door, in that moment Jimmy and Johnny came up with an idea, they went back a few steps and charged at the door but instead of opening it, they crashed into it.
"Nice plan, but maybe I can try to jump to get to the handle." Surly said.
"Yeah, if you don't jump too low and crash." Johnny said and Surly went a few steps behind to get a running jump and began to run, before he jumped to the door's handle and in the next second he crashed in Enchantra's office.
He looked behind him and saw that the door didn't opened, after that he remembered that they can go through the walls.
"Surly you came after me." Grayson said happily before asking.
"Where is the rest of the team?"
"I am getting them right now." Surly said and went back to the door.
On the other side of the door the team was shocked thinking of how Surly vanished when he tried to jump to the door's handle.
"He wanted to jump to the handle and now he disappeared." Jamie said annoyed.
"There, should be a logical explanation." Andie said and in that moment Surly's head appeared on the wall.
"I am right here." He said making the other completely stupefied but Andie almost fainted.
"Surly, why is only your head?" Andie said still shocked.
"I forget the fact that here you can go through the walls." Surly said.
"Wait, go through the walls!" Mole said.
"Hey it's a magic school." Surly said calmly.
"You know, it truly would be interesting of going through the walls when going to the nut store." Johnny said.
"Yeah, I have to admit that I am not sure how they do it, but if I managed you can manage as well." Surly said.
"All right let's try." Jimmy said and he together with Johnny jumped and made it in the office and in the next moment all the team entered in her office.
"Guys, boy it's great that you have come." Grayson said while Surly climbed on her desk and began trying to open the door.
"We know, now let's get you out of here before she comes back." Surly said.
"Wow, this place truly is creepy." Johnny said.
"Especially with those statues." Jimmy said before Jamie heard footsteps coming from outside.
"Guys, someone is coming." Jamie said and everyone went into hiding, but Grayson was still in the cage. The doors opened and Enchantra entered together with Sabrina.
"Sabrina I think you know why you are here." Enchantra said while turning around to face her.
"Well, no, can you tell me why?" Sabrina said and she went to her desk and showed the cage with the gray squirrel in it.
"Well let's just say that your squirrel returned again." Enchantra said showing the cage to Sabrina.
"Yeah, but this isn't my squirrel, Fluffy is a purple squirrel, this one is gray." Sabrina said.
"Well if this is not your squirrel you can go." Enchantra said.
"Ah, what you will do with him?" Sabrina asked concerned.
"Don't worry I know exactly what to do with him." Enchantra said and Sabrina left.
"I think I will tell professor Giest to make soup out of you." Enchantra said horrifying Grayson and everyone who was hiding, but after a minute of thinking.
"No, I will better use you for my potion." Enchantra said and placed the cage on her desk before leaving and everyone went out from their hiding.
"This woman is purely mad." Grayson said panicked.
"She is always like this Grayson." Surly said and managed to open the door of the cage.
"Can we get out of here, this place gives me creeps." Mole said.
"Guys, Enchantra is returning." Jamie said.
Enchantra entered in her office and went to her desk, when she arrived she saw that the cage was open and the squirrel was missing.
"Where could that fluffy tailed rodent go?" she said in an angry voice before she went outside, but she didn't notice that the window was opened.
The team was outside the tower holding one another in a straight line: they were holding each by their legs, not to fall, Johnny being the one that was holding the wall.
"All right, I have to admit, this was a bad idea." Mole said.
"Guys, I don't think I can hold any longer." Johnny said while trying to hold as much as he could.
"This is not going to end well." Jamie said, but then he came with an idea.
"Surly." She shouted and he heard her.
"Try you to whistle to call the broom." Jamie said.
"What! But I told you that only Sabrina can call the broom." Surly said.
"Yeah, but maybe if you spend time with her maybe it will come to you as well." Jimmy said.
"All right I will try." Surly said and began to whistle but he didn't saw the broom.
"It's not working." Surly said.
"Try again and don't stop whistling." Johnny said and Surly whistled again. Buddy who was at the bottom saw the pink broom with black and white spots coming from the distance and draw his best friend to see it.
"There's the broom." Surly said and Andie noticed and said.
"Guys at my counting, jump." Andie said and everyone was prepared.
"One…two….three." and everyone jumped on the broom who crashed on the next roof together with the team.
"Wow, now that was an experience." Johnny said.
"Yeah but at least we have the broom." Jamie said.
"Sorry broom." Surly said.
"You know he can not hear you." Mole said
"Well then, everyone on board." Grayson said and the team went on it.
"I will be in front." Surly said.
"Hey, why you to be in the front." Jimmy complained.
"Because I watched his owner and I know how to drive it." Surly said.
"Hope so." Johnny said.
"Are you sure you know how to drive this thing." Mole asked concerned after he went on it.
"Like I said, I watched Sabrina many times; I don't think it's that hard." Surly said before continuing.
"Everyone ready?" all still concerned they said yes.
"Let's go." The purple squirrel said and once they began to fly all of them began to hold the broom tight, after several seconds in the air they began fell no more fear.
"Hey, it's not that bad." Jimmy said excited.
"I still don't know what to say about this." Mole said while holding the broom.
"Come on Mole, it's not that bad." Surly said in a surfing position with his right leg in front and the left back.
"Maybe for you but I rather prefer my position." Mole said. They were slowly starting to fly from the witch school till Jamie heard an explosion and looked back.
"Guys look, there is a fight." Jamie said to the others.
"Let me guess, Shinji provoked Veralupa again?" Surly said.
"No, it seems that they are fighting together against another wizard." Mole said.
"And it doesn't look like professor Giest or Enchantra." Jamie said making Surly to turn around to see. He stopped the broom at a safe distance to look what is going on. He saw Veralupa, Shinji, Sabrina, Londa, Zonda, Ambrose, professor Giest and Enchantra fighting with a wizard wearing a long black coat, red pants, black shoes and a black wizard hat. The wizard had white skin like a dead person and the eyes were read, surely was an evil wizard. While they were staying there they heard him talking in a grim tone.
"At last I found you Sabrina Spellman."
"Look I officially don't know who you are or what you want." Sabrina said.
"I am Hozard I came to have my revenge of what your father did to me." He said making Sabrina to get shocked.
"You knew my father?" Sabrina asked.
"Manny years ago I challenged your father in a competition to take his position, I could have almost won but your father was sneaky as a snake and bit me. After this your father banished me in a witch prison and limited my magic abilities, when I escaped tree days ago I sworn that I will not rest until I will find and destroy the most priceless object he could ever have. You, and now I finally found you and can take your powers." Hozard said.
"Not if we have something to say." Veralupa said and everyone began to cast spells towards him, but every spell they cast was deflected in another place or to another wizard.
"That was funny, my turn." Hozard said, took out his wand and cast a spell that put everyone on the ground. Sabrina took out her pink wand from its support on her witch pink witch dress with black stripes and tried to fight, but Hozard manage to avoid every spell she cast, the team was watching horrified from the broom.
"This will not end well for her." Mole said.
"We have to do something." Surly said very horrified.
"Surly think again, we are animals we can't put ourselves with that wizard." Jamie said to Surly who was watching the scene very concerned for Sabrina.
"Jamie's right if we interfere we will not succeed." Andie said while watching before continuing.
"I'm sorry Surly." Andie said in a sad tone, in the mean time Hozard manage to cast a spell that knocked out Sabrina and another to disarm her and Surly saw it.
"Now, I got you." Hozard said in an evil tone and began to intone the incantation.
"Surly we can't do anything now, we are sorry." Johnny said in an apology. Surly watched back, in that moment he remembered all the time he spend with Sabrina, Salem, Hilda, Zelda and all her wizard and human friends all the good times that he spent with her, in his mind he couldn't just let her down for all the kindness he received from her, and the team noticed.
"Surly, what are you thinking?" Andie asked and in the next moment to everyone's surprise he jumped from the broom and began to run as fast as he could to save Sabrina.
"Surly are you nuts." Jamie shouted to him.
"Surly don't do it." Andie said worried.
"I….have to do it." Surly said and jumped on the next roof, Hozard is almost finishing the incantation and Surly tried to hurry up, in the next moment he jumped on the ground and tried to go much faster and the wizards saw him.
"What the. You, again!" Enchantra said, Surly jumped on Shinji's head and jumped as high as he could, just in that moment Hozard finished saying the incantation and a reddish light came out from his wand towards Sabrina who got her hands to her face, but then Surly jumped in front of her and the light touched him.
"YES, YES, I will now have your powers and…." He stopped when he saw the purple squirrel was in the ray.
"NO! NO, you silly rodent you destroyed my plans." Hozard said, and in the next moment he was now feeling that his powers began to fade, he began to get weaker and weaker, Sabrina and the team was watching in full horror what was happening in front of their eyes, and after a moment the light faded and Surly was now on the ground. All the wizards and the team saw that Hozard began to age more and more and said.
"No, no, no." Hozard said in a more aged tone till he completely turned into dust. Sabrina eyes then went towards the purple squirrel on the ground that saved her, the one that took care of it while he was injured; she took him in her hands and from her emerald green eyes tears began to drop, and everyone noticed.
"We are sorry Sabrina." Veralupa said trying to comfort her.
"He…he saved me, this…this shouldn't have happened to him." Sabrina said sobbing.
"We know." Veralupa said, she was felling very bad for her loss, behind her, Londa and Zanda were felling the same for what happened both of them hoped that they could have done something.
"You're not just a rodent." Shinji said in a silent shameful tone he always considered the squirrel as another rodent like the mice and the rats, he now sees that he was wrong.
The team was now feeling very bad about what happened, they were all now feeling sad for what happened to Surly, Buddy and Andie were feeling the most powerful they had never felled so much bad since what happened when they get the nuts for the winter but they also knew that they have to leave even if this will do only bad for Andie and Buddy.
Enchantra had also to admit that the squirrel saved Sabrina and her plans were safe as well, but even she was not feeling so good for what happened and said in a calm tone.
"I have to say that if it wasn't for him you could have died."
"I…I know." Sabrina said sobbing while hugging Surly and turned her head towards professor Giest who was on her right side and asked.
"Wha….What should I do now?"
"Well, the only thing you can do is to get him in the place where he should be get." Professor Giest said and Sabrina watched the purple squirrel again, she knew that she should take him in the park.
Later in the human world
Sabrina returned from the witch school and told her aunts what happened in the Witch World, after she explained everything her aunts put the squirrel in a box for tomorrow to bury him in the Liberty Park, Salem was there as well to say farewell to Surly even if he was a rodent Surly became a close friend. Several hours later Sabrina was in her room together with her aunts who are trying to comfort her, during the day she tried to forget what happened and spend all day doing her homework's for both schools in order to forget what happened but with no use what had just happened left her completely heartbroken. The team also returned to the human world and all of them went back to the park except for Buddy who stayed behind to watch what will happen.
"I only wished I could have done more for him." Sabrina said in a sad tone.
"We know that dear, we are really sorry for what happened to him." Hilda said.
"But why he saved me?" Sabrina said.
"He surly saved you because he cared about you and he might want for you to go on." Zelda said before continuing.
"Don't worry I think he is now watching you from a better place in heavens." After saying this Sabrina, Hilda and Zelda went to the opened box where the squirrel was to pay him a last tribute to it. While there, Surly was beginning to move slowly and to open its eyes to see Sabrina and her aunts. Sabrina saw that the squirrel was beginning to move and to open his eyes meaning that he is still alive, she couldn't believe it and Surly said slowly.
"Hi, Sabrina." Even if they only heard only a squeak it was enough, Sabrina in that moment was completely overjoyed and took him in her hands and said.
"You're alive." Sabrina said in a joyful tone and hugged him.
"Now that is a true miracle." Hilda said smiling before saying.
"Thank you for saving our niece."
"It seems that you are a true Spellman." Zelda said and all three girls including Salem hugged, from outside Buddy was completely overjoyed that his best friend was alive and Surly noticed him and said.
"Thank you, Buddy." After a minute Hilda took out a camera and all of them were ready to take a picture, Zelda took Surly for Sabrina to hold Salem and Hilda fixed the camera on Sabrina's desk, after fixing it she went near them, she put out her wand and with her magic she made the camera to take the picture.
The next day Surly was now back into full strength his leg is officially healed and he was now feeling like he could move mountains or even magic forests from their places, Buddy also came in to greet his friend and Surly hugged him for this, later that day Sabrina's friend Jessie came to visit her and Sabrina told her what happened to the Witch School. They both saw that the squirrel was now feeling better and they took him on a walk in the park, with the leash on him.
"Man, it is unbelievable that he saved you from an evil wizard." Jessie said impressed.
"Yeah, I know it was truly amazing." Sabrina said.
From a tree above Grayson was watching through the park and in that moment he saw Sabrina with Jessie walking and he saw that Sabrina was holding a leash, and the animal that the leash was holding was Surly, for the first time he was happy that he was seeing him and went to the Bruisers who were in the next tree.
"Guys, Surly is alive." He said and the Bruisers went to see, it was for the first time in the life of the three groundhogs that were happy to see Surly alive, Buddy was there as well.
Jessie noticed the animals near the tree and showed to Sabrina, Surly also noticed and he began to watch Sabrina who noticed and knew what he wanted.
"Sabrina what are you doing?" Jessie saw that she wanted to do a spell asked.
"I am setting him free." Sabrina said and made the leash to disappear.
"His place is here in the park with his friends, he should be with them." She explained.
"You acted with your heart." Jessie said smiling.
Surly before leaving he gave a hug to Sabrina before turning to Jessie, and after that he went to the team who greet him warmly.
"Here's the witch princess's hero." Johnny said.
"Hey Surly what you did there was unbelievable, I mean we all thought you were dead." Grayson said with excitement.
"Yeah I know that was complete crazy." Surly said with a calm tone.
"Crazy? Rather nuts." Jamie said.
"At least you are someone's hero." Jimmy said showing Sabrina and Jessie who were watching.
"What do you think they are saying?" Jessie asked.
"I think that they are talking in their own language." She said.
"Yeah, your right." Jessie said and they began to wave their hands to them and they did as well before the girls left.
"Boy wait till Andie will find out that you are alive." Johnny said making Surly to question.
"Hey, where's Andie?" Surly asked.
"She is at the old mill." Jamie said making Surly to run in that direction together with Buddy.
At the old mill Andie was staying in a corner where she was thinking about what happened to Surly yesterday in the Witch World, Mole and the others were trying to comfort her and tried to make her forget about what happened to Surly but all attends failed, while she was there she was holding the dog
Whistle that remained from the mission of getting the nuts from the nut store the whistle that seemed that Surly gave to her before he left to find food for the park and the one that seemed to be the only thing that remained after he had fallen in the falls and think that he died those things that came to her mind was making her to think that Surly was meaning more to her then just a friend.
Just at the entrance to the old mill Surly was watching her, he was feeling sorry for seeing her sad and decided to make her a surprise, he slowly began to approach her and say.
"It's nice to see you again Andie." Surly said, and Andie who recognize the voice turned around.
"Surly." She said with a large smile on her face and went to him quickly to check if he was in one piece and hugged him, making Buddy to smile at them.
"When I saw you unconscious on the ground after you stop him I thought, that I will never see you again." Andie said.
"I know that, I know." Surly said with a smile on his face and in that moment Mole appeared and recognize what happened before crashing in the wall and they turned around to see him and the rest of the team.
"You know, the only thing I will miss in the Witch World is that I could see during the day." Mole said with a smile and everyone began to laugh.
"Well at least everything will be normal from now on right?" Mole asked.
"Yep everything will be normal." Johnny said when they heard Sabrina's voice and turned around.
"What is she doing?" Jimmy said.
"Let's go to find out." Surly said and everyone went to hear, once they arrived they saw that she was talking with professor Giest in a powder case that was her witch phone.
"So professor, why did you call me?" She asked.
"Oh yeah, I called you to say that I have researched about the spell that Hozard wanted to use to take your magic, I found out that this spell could also have a reverse effect if it is cast upon a human or other non magical creatures." Professor Giest said.
"What do you mean by reverse effect?" Sabrina asked.
"It could give all the magic of the caster to the non magical being that was hit, but in my opinion it could not have effect upon a squirrel." The professor said making the team look at Surly.
"Well we will not know for sure, besides what can a squirrel do with magic?" Sabrina said and the team went some steps back.
"The spell can have a reverse effect?" Jimmy said.
"What could that mean?" Mole asked.
"It means." Surly began while taking a small stick in his paw before continuing.
"That now I can do this." He said and turned the stick into a purple wand, shocking the team.
"Great, so now we have a wizard in the park." Grayson said with an uncertain smile.
"And I now can also do this." Surly said and cast a spell on the ground making a walnut tree to rise in two minutes and snapped his fingers for walnuts to appear one by one while everyone was watching him.
"What? The park needed a walnut tree." Surly asked.
"Please tell me you will not always use magic." Mole said in a begging tone.
"Of course I will not do magic in front of humans." Surly said before continuing.
"Besides, where will be the fun if I don't have people to share with and it might be useful in the missions?"
"Well, in a way you have a point." Jimmy said.
"The question is how the park will react if they find out if you, by unknown ways, have now magic powers." Jamie said.
"Look, even I have to admit that it is unbelievable that I now can do magic like Sabrina and her aunts, and yeah the park will now say that I am some sort of freak or something." Surly said before turning to Andie.
"Look, I know that I am now having those abilities of casting spells and charms but just because I can do things like this it doesn't mean I will change from what I was and I know that you are seeing me like a freak and all that but…." He wanted to continue but was cut by Andie, she knew very well that he was right and they must never judge someone just because they are different.
"We have to admit that everyone is strange in his way." Andie said, even if they are uncertain about this. "Besides the most important thing is that we are all together and we should never judge a person by the differences he has."
Grayson, Jimmy, Johnny, Jamie and Mole knew that she was right about this but the main problem was how the park will react if they find out about Surly's new abilities; those thoughts were with mixed feelings.
"Indeed but the main problem is how the park will react when they will find out about his powers, because some of them will be rather creped out then amazed. Like I am right now" Mole said with a gloomy tone.
"Mole's right, we don't know how the park will react if they find, I believe we should wait for a better moment for the others to know." Jamie proposed before continuing. "Till then I think we should keep this only between us."
"I agree." Mole said raising his paw.
"It will not be a problem." Surly said, calmly snapping his fingers for a nut to appear.
"Or it will be." Johnny said.
In the next days the team began its usual work of finding food for the park. For Surly everything was working very well, especially since he had magic powers but he had to admit that this was a bit strange for him at first, he continued somehow to make some things without magic but when it came to dangers they were very useful when they had to escape from street rats, cats, dogs and other things.
He quickly got used to them and became an expert in using them. He was secretly using them to solve some park problems, except one time when a tree went on fire and Surly used magic to put it down, but instead of water snow appeared and some animals noticed him but that wasn't too much a problem only later, when they got used to the fact that Surly was now having magic powers.
In the meantime, Surly and Andie began expressing their feelings towards each other and they eventually started dating, despite Surly`s new skills, for her, Surly will always be a normal squirrel that she will keep in her heart.
It was now Monday a month and a half had passed since Surly returned to the Liberty Park and everything went in normally with not too much disturbance, Surly together with Buddy, Jimmy, Johnny, Jamie and Grayson had just returned with some nut bags from the Nut Store. The last few weeks were very successful especially with Precious who was informed about what happened and was excited about the fact that he could now make magic, at the last meeting she asked him to do so much magic that even he began to get tired by it.
Surly was now at the old mill with Andie, Buddy and Mole to make an inventory of the food they brought, they were now officially prepared for a long winter even if there were 6 months to go.
"Well it seems that we are prepared for the long winter." Andie said joyfully.
"Yeah, for a long winter that will come after 6 months." Surly said.
"It's better to be prepared in time to avoid unpleasant things." Andie said.
"I agree." Mole said making everyone to smile in agreement, after a moment the Bruisers and Grayson came and asked.
"So everything is all right, is there any problem?" Grayson asked.
"No everything is fine we can say that we are ready for a winter that could last more then 6 months." Surly said.
"You mean that we are ahead with 6 months?" Jamie said impressed.
"Yes, and maybe we will refresh the food time by time." Surly said, after a second a piece of parchment appeared out from the air and landed in front of them, Surly took it and began to read.
"What is it saying?" Johnny asked.
"It's a message from Witch School, it seems that professor Giest is sick and they need someone to take his place for a week." Surly said.
"But how it managed to come here? It shouldn't be sent, I don't know, to a wizard?" Jamie said a bit confused.
"Well here it says to every wizard possible so that means…."
"We are going again to the Witch World." Mole said annoyed.
"Actually, I am going to the Witch World to teach the young wizards." Surly said smiling.
"You, but you don't have the books to teach them." Johnny said before hearing something from above and they saw a flash of light and from it books of spells, charms, potions, magical creatures and plants began to fall like rain landing on the wooden floor of the old mill and one fell on Jimmy and Johnny.
"Well it seems that I now have the books." Surly said with a smirk before the Bruisers managed to get the book off them.
"Yeah but how you will manage to carry them, those things weights a tone." Johnny complained.
"Well, I can do this." Surly said making his wand to appear in his paw and shrinked the books for him to carry and before waving he made a bag to appear and started making the books fly in it.
"Now, time to make a good appearance." He said, making a mirror appear and began to dress up in a magical way; the first set of clothes was a long black robe with black buttons.
"So what do you think?" Surly asked.
"Too creepy" Jamie said and Surly made a red robe with black stripes to appear.
"Too strange." Johnny said and Surly changed in a gray robe.
"It's not your color." Grayson said and Surly changed in a purple robe with stripes on it.
"Hey, now that's better." Grayson said.
"Now, a little voice change." Surly said making the others confused. "Voice change?" Jimmy said.
Surly put his purple wand to his neck a small light appeared and in the next second. "How is it?" he said with a thicker voice, making the others to giggle.
"You won't use that voice, would you?" Jamie said with a giggle and Surly tried again.
"How is this one then?" Surly said with a small voice like a little mouse making the others laugh.
"Hey, it isn't bad if you want to teach the mice." Grayson said while laughing.
"Then I will use this one." Surly said in Grayson's voice making the team to look at him.
"What, it doesn't sound bad." Surly said making Grayson a bit annoyed.
"Hey, now that isn't funny." Grayson said.
"Really? I can get used to it." Surly said making Grayson to get a bit disturbed about this.
"Hey I don't want you to use my perfect voice to make fun of it." Grayson said to him.
"Relax I was only joking." Surly said placing his wand on his throat.
"I will then use my own voice." Surly said in his normal voice.
"And let me guess you will go alone in that upside down world." Mole said.
"Actually, I will take Buddy if he wants to accompany me and help me during classes." Surly said looking at his best rat friend who on hearing this got very excited.
"So what do you say? Will you come with me to the Witch World again?" Surly said, and Buddy went to him very excited to help him. "I will take that as a yes."
"So let me guess, you will not be in the park for eight hours?" Johnny asked.
"Actually with the hourglass of Horace it will be one hour here and eight hours there." Surly said.
…..
At the Witch School all the students were preparing for their magic class, they heard about the fact that professor Gies was sick; they were wandering who will teach them while he is recovering.
"I wonder who will be the new teacher." Ambrose asked.
"Yeah, me too." Veralupa asked before turning to Sabrina who seemed that she was thinking about something.
"Is everything all right Sabrina?" Veralupa asked her best friend.
"What, oh yeah it's nothing too important." Sabrina said, but for her it didn't look like something not too important.
"Come on, you know that you can tell us." Veralupa said encouraging her.
"I was only thinking about Fluffy, since I got him back in the park I began to really miss him and I wonder if I will ever see him again." She explained.
"Don't worry; maybe he will appear some day." Veralupa said.
"Maybe he will appear in a place where you expect the less." Londa said and just in that moment they heard a voice from the teacher's desk.
"Hi Sabrina." She turned around towards the desk to find.
"FLUFFY." Sabrina said in complete disbelief like the others.
"Yes it's me." He said.
"But, how?" Sabrina asked completely confused.
"Remember the spell Hozard wanted to use to take your powers and hit me, it truly had reverse effects and now I have magic powers and I will be your teacher this week while professor Giest is sick, oh and my real name is Surly." Surly said to the class.
"A squirrel as a teacher now this is something we don't see every day." Ambrose said with excitement.
"Indeed it is Ambrose." Surly said and a blue rat went on the table. "Oh and this is my best friend Buddy he doesn't talk much and he will help me during the classes."
"Hum, yeah if we will ever gone a take lessons from a squirrel and a rat." Shinji said in his arrogant tone making the other to get annoyed about this especially Buddy.
"Sorry for this Flu… I mean Surly." Sabrina said and Surly noticed and in that moment he got an idea.
"Is it a bit hot in here?" Surly asked making the wizards confused.
"We can try to open the window if you want?" Ambrose said.
"No, no I got a better idea." Surly said waving his right paw for his purple wand to appear and casting a spell for a bucket full of water and ice to appear in the air amazing the others before dropping it on Shinji making the others laugh about it.
"All right now, enough fun, time for the lesson." The purple said while getting out a book from his bag, enlarged it with a spell and opened it.
"Open your spell books to page 359, after you read, we will practice the spell." Surly said in a serious tone and everyone opened it, while reading Sabrina looked at Surly who seem to smile at her.
"Now this will be interesting." Sabrina said.
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