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Since ancient times witches have been protecting and caring of nature. One of the main ways of protection and care of nature is the Sabbath but it can't be possible without a special ritual which includes cooking the powerful magic elixir and the main ingredient of the elixir is the fern flower.

"You are late... I have almost finished my decoctition. Where is the root of mandrake?" Asked Sabrina's mother Ophelia when young witch came home. Sabrina gave it to her mother and tried to escape as fast as it was possible. But Ophelia stopped her daughter and said "Give me the fern flower too, I will put it in safe untill the start of the Sabbath."

Cole came to the old almost fallen tree and hit it tree times with the magic wand. The bark of tree opened, he took two vessels and closed the tree. The young man put one of the vessels on the ground, came close to the pond and leaned down. Then he dipped the vessel into the surface of the pond and suddenly a green hand emerged from the water and drag him under it.

"Are you crazy? What did you think about when revealed yourself and entrusted this mission to him? Ophelia scolded her daughter. "But what is wrong with it? He will bring us the fern flower and everything will be OK!" Worried Sabrina replied, trying to defend herself. "At least that once per 4 years GM4 (Green monster) awakens in that pond. So right now this monster is awake and hungry and your "boyfriend" has no idea how to deal with it. This is enough to call it WRONG?" Ophelia made Sabrina afraid.

Cold pierced the whole surface of Cole's body. He found himself under the water. It was very dark there because the surface of the pond was covered by thick layer of green ALGAE. Something strong and scary was trying to strangle him. But despite of shock Cole opened his eyes and found small but shining brightly thing that he still held in his hand. It was the magic wand.

He didn't know what was he doing but just wanted to hit that monster with the magic wand. But in the moment when the wand touched monster's skin, magic light brightened the whole pond. Cole shoked again for a few seconds. Because he noticed that pond, that seemed shallow and even almost dried out from the outside, was very deep. But after that touch of the magic wand, monster got stunned for some time. Cole gathered the rest of his power and will and got out from the pond very fast.

After recognizing that monster was not chasing him, Cole took a deep breath. But now he didn't want to come close to the pond anymore. So, he tied a vessel to long branch by his shoelace and filled it with the water from the surface of the pond, by using this new handmade tool. And he opened that tree again to take a new vessel, because he droped one of them while falling down in the pond.

"He is not my boyfriend... Unfortunately..." Sadly said Sabrina. "Ok, probably he already reached to the pond, so now we can't help him. And good that I still have my last vessel of the fern flower in my safe." Said Ophelia but Sabrina stoped her by the words "Actually I took that last vessel of the fern flower few days ago to cook the love potion..."

Cole was going through the forest and was thinking "What a weird day! And what a comely girl Sabrina is. But probably I can't even think about to ask her for a date". So when he saw that stunningly beautiful blossomed fern flower (after pouring out the water from the pond on the bush of fern) he wasn't able to stand there and wait until it dried up. Cole tore off this flower to give it to Sabrina and went to her house following the blue signs on the trees.

"Don't you know that fern flower is not an ingredient of the love potion? Asked Ophelia her clumsy daughter during their flight on the brooms toward Cole. "I know but I thought that adding the fern flower will make it stronger." Answered Sabrina. "What a shame, the daughter of the main witch of the whole country is so stupid and clumsy! The love potion makes victim not free in his/her feelings, it belongs to the bad magic. And the fern flower is the pure blessing that belongs to the good magic, so it neutralized your love potion..." Explained Ophelia.

Sabrina sighed with relief, because it was good to realize that Cole likes her without love potion. But her mother returned young witch from heaven to earth "Don't forget, we will lose almost all our powers and almost everything, including my position if we don't get the fern flower. And other witches will compete to become the main witch."

At first two witches sighed with relief when they saw Cole alive. But their joy quickly disappeared when they came to know that he brought the literally a FLOWER, not the liquid fern flower. Cole gave this flower to Sabrina and said "I just wanted to say that you are more beautiful than any flower, including this one" Sabrina got confused because earlier she fell in love with him and now she just melted by his words. But at the same time she was afraid to show her feelings in front of her mother. 

But Ophelia just stood behind and looking at her daughter. Warm tears flowed over Sabrina's cheeks and she said "Thank you Cole but now we will lose everything that we have because we can't make successful Sabbath this year without that fern flower. My mom will lose her power and position of the main witch."

The silence lasted for one minute and Ophelia said "Actually no, I see that you both really love each other. And there are no magic greater than true love in this world! Sabrina, you will make a great Sabbath and become the main witch!" They created a broom for Cole and together flew to the house in the forest!