One night, Spear and Fang chance upon a mysterious tribe of primitive shamankas. The hideous-looking women tie a caveman to an altar, and their leader turns into an evil spirit that magically drains the life of the caveman, creating a female baby from it that she gives to one of the witches. The matriarch's pterodactyl mount spots Spear and Fang, who flee from the witches but get captured.
Spear's tied to the altar as the next sacrifice while Fang gets mind-controlled by a witch named Lula. After noticing her spell weaken a bit when Spear calls out to Fang, Lula performs a ritual that allows her to read the duo's memories, which ultimately leads to her learning how they lost their families. After learning of their situations, Lula remembers how she had lost her own daughter (a child given to her by her coven's matriarch)—this ultimately makes Lula realize that Spear and Fang are no different from her.
Just as the ritual is about to begin again, Lula interrupts it—she kills the matriarch's pterodactyl mount and, after using the spell she cast on Fang to free Spear and get him and Fang as far away from the coven as possible, Lula fights the matriarch, ultimately sacrificing her life in the process.
This episode features the following tropes:
- All of the Other Reindeer: Lula the good witch is treated with disdain and dirty looks by most of the other witches of the coven. This is implied to be due to how her own child died by her mistake, and considering how much care the witches give their magically-created spawn, this is probably seen as a huge mark against her.
- All There in the Script: The witches' names are shown in the credits as Lula (the witch who helps Spear and Fang), Kira, Baba, Deena and Haga.
- Ambiguously Human: It's unclear as to whether the witches are primitive humans or a human-like Mage Species.
- Animal Eye Spy: The matriarch can see through the eyes of her pterodactyl, which is how they located Fang and Spear.
- Bittersweet Ending: Lula, the witch who helps Spear and Fang, ends up dying—but on the bright side, she reunites with her daughter in the afterlife.
- Canis Major: In the episode's climax, the matriarch turns into a monstrous dire wolf to attack Fang (and later, Lula).
- Chasing a Butterfly: Lula's daughter follows a red butterfly to the edge of a cliff, where she falls and ultimately dies.
- Commonality Connection: After using magic to gain control of Fang, Lula reads the memories of both her and Spear and discovers how the duo had lost their respective families—Lula then reads her own memories and remembers how she had lost her own child, which learns to her Heel–Face Turn.
- Death of a Child: One of the witches (Lula) lost a child not unlike Spear and Fang, though rather than getting eaten by predators, the child simply fell off a cliff after carelessly Chasing a Butterfly.
- Died Happily Ever After: The episode ends with Lula reuniting with the daughter she lost in the afterlife.
- The Dog Bites Back: Given the Death Glare Lula sends the way of some witches after one hisses at her without any real provocation, it's clear that after losing her daughter she's become somewhat of an outcast, further explaining her decision to help Fang and Spear, thus sabotaging another witch's hope for an unnaturally obtained daughter.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: As wicked as draining the life of others in order to obtain offspring is, the witches are shown to be quite caring and protective of the daughters that the matriarch creates for them, to the point they'll snarl if they see any childless witches eying their daughters for too long.
- Good Witch Versus Bad Witch: Although initially part of the same coven as the other evil witches, Lula goes through a Heel–Face Turn and helps Spear and Fang escape, and ends up duelling the evil matriarch of the coven.
- Heel–Face Turn: After looking into Spear and Fang's pasts and seeing how they lost their families (and then looking into her own past, revealing that she had lost her daughter), Lula turns against her coven and helps the duo escape.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Lula helps Spear and Fang escape from her coven at the cost of her own life.
- Horns of Villainy: The evil witches have deer-like antlers, which Lula (the Token Good Teammate witch) lacks. Apparently, they lose their antlers when they are given a child by the matriarch.
- Human Sacrifice: The victims of the witches are bound to rocks to have their lives drained by the matriarch in order to make babies for each witch.
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Not an actual fight, but Spear yells as hard as he can towards Fang in an attempt to break Lula's control of her. This almost works, causing Lula to find out why the two are companions to each other.
- Killed Offscreen: Lula dies this way, with the last shot of her alive showing her right before her head is snapped off by the matriarch's wolf form. It immediately cuts to Fang regaining control of herself from Lula's magic, which indicates to Spear that Lula lost her life, making him grieve over her.
- Large and in Charge: Most of the witches are shorter than the average human. The matriarch is the size of normal human and gets even bigger when she transforms.
- Misery Builds Character: Once upon a time, Lula took part in the sacrificial ritual and received a child of her own. By losing her daughter, she feels empathy for Spear and Fang, who have gone through the same thing, and helps them escape.
- Mind-Control Eyes: Animals controlled by the witches gain blank, green-glowing eyes.
- One-Winged Angel: The matriarch turns into a giant wolf to attack Fang.
- Outside-Context Problem: While until now Spear and Fang mostly encountered giant beasts and savage hominids, this time their opponents are magic-using, mystical witches led by an Eldritch Abomination-like spirit. They don't really know how to deal with them, and would have been killed if not for one of the witches performing a Heel–Face Turn. Witnessing their ritual, Spear is no less terrified than he was by the Plague of Madness last episode, and only fights the witches when forced to by their pursuit.
- Reused Character Design: With his full brown beard, long brown hair and bulky physique, the witches' first sacrifice looks like a less cartoony version of the Wild Man from the Samurai Jack episode "Jack Learns to Jump Good". Even his high-pitched screams are pretty similar to the Wild Man's speaking voice.
- Shape Dies, Shifter Survives: When Lula takes a hit during her Shapeshifter Showdown with the matriarch, she reverts to her natural form, uninjured but left defenseless.
- Sickly Green Glow: The witches' magic all glows an unpleasant green, as do their eyes when they're using it. Spear and Fang come across their ritual after investigating a column of swirling green light on the horizon.
- Stripped to the Bone: The nameless caveman has his life drained by the matriarch until he's nothing but skin and bones.
- Sympathy for the Hero: After seeing Fang and Spear's pasts and learning how/why they bonded, Lula realizes they're not so different from her own tragedy, and makes her Heel–Face Turn. Even before properly deciding to help them, when painting Spear with the ritualistic markings, she gently tucks his hair behind his ear, clearly no longer simply seeing him as a sacrifice.
- Terror-dactyl: The matriarch of the coven rides a huge pterodactyl. It looks like a Pteranodon, but appears to be the size of a Quetzalcoatlus and its beak is full of teeth. It acts quite hostile toward Spear, Fang and Lula, but it's unclear if it does so at its own will or under the matriarch's control.
- Token Good Teammate: Lula, the witch who controls Fang, is the only one who seems reluctant to take part in the rituals that the coven does—she also stands out from the others by being one of the few witches without antlers.
- Wicked Witch: The episode's antagonists are an entire prehistoric coven of these.
