The start of the show has HB and Miss Cackle telling Mildred that she can't keep Tabby and that she must change Tabby for a regular witch's cat. After Mildred leaves Miss C tells HB that she has to go with them on retreat because Cackle is sure that HB is going to burn out. The witches get ready to leave on their trip and have to go get their cats. Mildred switches her new cat, Ebony out for Tabby. On their trip their Tabby (who doesn't like flying) starts yowling. At the retreat (they go to visit the wizard that Mildred helped change back from a frog) they find Loppy there as a wizard's apprentice. The wizard tells them about the history of his and how a dragon lord then a powerful wizard lives there. Later in her room Mildred goes for a walk trying to find a place to let Tabby out so that no one will see her and know that Mildred switched places. She finds Loppy practicing magic and tells him about switching Ebony for Tabby. So they go and hide Tabby down by the dock because i