I don't own any of this Paranorman belongs to Laika, all other characters belong to their respectful companies. And The Stand belongs to Stephen King.


June 28

The Mystery Shack is quiet. There were no tours being run for any gullible tourists, there were no cars or buses driving on the road, there were no sounds of Soos sweeping the floors, there was not even the sounds of Stan groaning after getting up because he is dead in his bed.

In fact everyone else in Gravity Falls is dead from Soos who's leaned forward on his computer desk, to Lazy Susan who's lying next to her mailbox where her mail is pinned under her hand.

The only two people who were still alive here were Dipper and Mabel who are in the den collecting their thoughts of this whole ordeal that tragically struck the town. Dipper is on the floor and Mabel is on the chair, both of them were also in grieving since this flu had taken away both their grunkles.

It was Dipper who had found Grunkle Ford's body. After discovering the state Stan is in, Dipper rushed into the lab to get Ford, only to find him dead as well. It was a horrible shock for him, both of his grunkles were dead along with everyone else in Gravity Falls from what he knew.

Mabel took it worse as everyone one she loved is dead from this horrible flu. Not only were both of her grunkles were gone, but also her two best friends Candy and Grenda who just a week ago gave her a purple unicorn, bracelet, that she wore on her wrist that she now swore to never take off, ever!

Dipper had tried look up any information on this, to see how far this pandemic had spread, but he couldn't go on the computer as the internet is down and the TV just showed white static. If the internet and TV channels were down, then this flu epidemic truly did spread out everywhere.

It still didn't make sense on how he and his sister were immune to something that deadly and contagious. It's really strange and it made him wonder that if they were immune to it? Then were there others that were immune to it as well? If so then how were those people handling this?

Dipper now looks up to his sister who's completely silent with tear stains on her cheeks. He never seen her act like this before, the only time that her behavior was like this was just before Weirdmageddon began.

Slowly he got up to his feet, Mabel just glances over to him silently. "Hey Mabel, how to are you holding up?"

Mabel makes what sounds like a sad puppy whine as she looked to her feet. "I know how your feeling. I can't believe that both of our grunkles are gone along with Soos and Wendy." Dipper sighed as his gazed turn to the armrest. "Looks like this isn't going to be our best summer, and now we're alone. Forced to look out for ourselves."

The twins go quite, what are they supposed to do now? They were the only ones alive in this town of the dead, there were no cops, no firefighters, or anyone else to help them. They were indeed now on their own.

"Do you think mom and dad are alright?" Mabel meekly asked. Dipper didn't want to answer her as he had a strong suspicion that their parents had also fallen victim to the flu. Mabel however can see it on his face, she began to openly weep causing Dipper to reach over and pulled her into a tight hug. "It's ok Mabel."

"How is it okay? Everyone we ever loved is dead!" Mabel cried.

"True, so very true. But at least we still have each other." Dipper calmly told her.

Mabel cries some more, it was a very sad, painful cry that could be heard all over the quite shack.


As the sun began to set for the day, Dipper and Mabel changed locations from the den to the kitchen. Throughout the day Dipper comforted his sister as she cried her eyes out which is evidenced by the large stain on his shoulder and the stain that went down his back.

Now they sat at the kitchen table, waiting for cans of spaghetti that is being cooked in the microwave to be ready. Waddles sat next to Mabel looking up at her while oinking softly, Mabel gave a small smile down at her pet pig for at least the flu didn't affect pigs. "I'm ok Waddles. I'm just going through intense emotions."

Waddles oinks in response.

"Well Mabel, what are we going to do now?" Dipper spoke up.

"What do you mean?" Mabel questioned.

"It's obvious we can't stay here. Excuse me for what I'm about to say, but the shack is going to get very smelly and frankly I don't want to stay in a town that's full of dead people." Dipper explains.

"Can't we just bring them back as zombies?" Mabel asked with a little bit of hope in her tone of voice.

"No Mabel. Remember what happened last time I conjured up zombies?" Dipper cautioned.

Mabel remembered alright, she remembered how a bunch of zombies and a zombie Soos nearly feasted on their brains, and how they just managed to beat them by doing a musical number with Grunkle Stan. "Your right, conjuring up zombies isn't a good idea. But where exactly do we go? Do we go home or what?"

"I think we should go somewhere else. I don't wanna to see the state of our hometown." Dipper stated sadly.

Thinking about it, Mabel knew that she didn't want to either. "But where can we go?"

"I don't know, but somewhere. I'll think about where to go tomorrow."

The microwave beeps indicating that their food is ready. Dipper got up and took out two plates, then he took out the cans and puts the spaghetti on the plates, turning around he discovered that Mabel is gone.

Dipper looked around in confusion, for how could Mabel just disappear like that without him hearing her? "Mabel?"

"Here I am!" Mabel comes into the room with a CD player, she places the CD player on the table. "I figured that we could listen to music while eating."

"Sure, I guess that's fine." Dipper places their dinner on the table, Mabel meanwhile puts in a CD, she presses play and the song, "Bad Moon Rising", began to blare through the speakers as the two ate their spaghetti.

"Well this is a fitting song." Dipper commented as he used his fork to twirl up his spaghetti. Mabel meanwhile wagged her index finger to the song. "Catchy though."

The two ate their food as the song continued to play out into the evening.


June 29

The early morning sun began to rise in the horizon, the grey, cloudy skies lit over the now erie, quiet town of Blithe Hallow.

The town is still; in main street the traffic light changed in the desolate street. At the middle school a couple of kids and one adult laid in various places in the school yard.

Mrs. Henscher in her pajamas and green mask on her face, laid on her back on her front steps.

Sheriff Hooper laid on her side, right next to her motorbike which the police radio is hung out and clenched in her hand.

Salma is in her bed with the sheets kicked away from her and her glasses laid shattered on the floor.

Many other residents laid dead in their homes including Crystal as they had been too sick to go out.

Blithe Hallow had basically become a town for the ghosts, who ironically are the ones who are being lively as they had seen everything going down.


Norman walked through town later in the morning, he stopped next to Witchy Weiner uncomfortably as he stared at Alvin who's laying against the wall with his neck puffed up and a great deal of mucus that had came out of his nose.

Norman quickly looked away from his former bully as he walked passed his body. Now away from him, Norman scanned the street for anyone that could still be alive, but he saw no one but some of his ghost friends.

It was ironic that years before, he wanted to be alone as he had always liked being with the dead more than the living, considering that the dead were more nicer to him. However now he's wishes that he could take it back as he's the only member of his family that's left; his mother died two days ago, then his sister fallowed yesterday. His grandmother is still there in the house, but she became mute as she still sat on the couch looking into nothingness.

"Hello!" Norman called out, but he received no answer. Could he really be the last one alive in Blithe Hallow?

"Norman!" An all to familiar feminine voice called out. Aggie floats over next to his side visibility frighten from the bodies she had seen, not to mention the great amount of people suddenly showing up in the afterlife.

"Oh, hi Aggie." Norman continued to scan down the street for anyone. "What's going on? Why is everyone dead?" Aggie asked in fright.

Norman scanned the street one more time, before he answers her. "Some type of lethal flu came around." Norman now sadly sat down on the curb. "It killed my dad first, then my mom and sister went next." Norman sadly places his chin on his hands, thinking about all the events that had happen to him for the past days.

Aggie sets herself down next to him feeling very sorry for her friend. She knew exactly how it felt to loose a love one, and considering she came from a time where it was easy to be killed by a serious sickness, Aggie could feel more sympathy for him and for those that got killed by this sickness that Norman had mention.

"I'm very sorry for your loss Norman. Are they still around your house?" She asked him for at least he can still see and talk to them, even if they weren't in their bodies.

"No, they all went to the afterlife as I think the way they died wasn't horrible enough for them to remain, or had any unfinished business to take care of. The only one who is still there is my grandma, but I think she's been traumatized by it since she watched her own son, which is my dad, die." Norman let out a deep sad sigh.

Aggie now felt terrible as she had unintentionally made her friend sadder, gently she placed an arm around him. "What are you doing now?"

"I'm trying to see if there's anyone else alive, so far my search has turned up with nothing." Norman replied lowly.

"I can help if you want?" Aggie offered.

Norman looked to her with a small smile. "That would be nice. Just give me a few minutes I still need to collect my thoughts."

Aggie smiled gently. "Of course, take all the time you need." The two sat at the curb for a good few minutes. As they sat there Norman could feel her stroking his back with her hand, although it was cold the feeling was gentle.

The two then got up and went on with the search for anyone that may still be alive. Their search leads them to the town square where the town hall stood proud over the literal ghost town. "Hello! Is anyone here!?" Norman called out, Aggie floated sightly above him, scanning around for anyone.

"Is anyone here?!" Norman calls out again.

Suddenly another familiar voice called out to him. "Norman?" Looking over to where the witch statue used to stand before Aggie ripped it out of its foundation, the two saw Neil who's hair is uncombed and looked to have been crying, standing there with the look of at first surprise of seeing another living human being, to complete utter happiness.

Neil runs over to Norman and gave him a large hug that lifted Norman off his feet and made it hard for him to breathe. "Norman! I thought that I was the only one in town left alive! You wouldn't believe it, through I guess you already do as we're both in the same situation."

"Um Neil?" Norman stated with a struggle.

"Yes Norman?"

"I'm glad to see you to, but your kind of crushing me." Norman choked up.

"Oops sorry." Neil quickly released his best friend, Norman landed on his feet and coughed out some held in air. Beside them Aggie giggled from the whole scene that unfolded in front of her ghostly eyes.

After Norman caught his breath, he looked to Neil with his own smile. "Neil, you don't know how happy I am to see you." Neil grins brightly. "Same here."

Neil then looked over to the post office where he can just see a man slumped backwards against the door. "Can't you believe this flu? It came from absolute nowhere!"

"I believe it Neil. I witnessed it first hand." Norman replied sadly.

Neil then got sad himself. "So did I, I lost my parents and Mitch because of this flu." Neil sadly sat himself down onto the road, his cheerful expression is replaced by glumness as he thought about all the times he spent with his family.

"Oh Norman! How could this have happened?!" Neil cried out, beside him Aggie floated down next to him feeling very sorry for him.

"I don't know Neil, but what I do know is that we're alive somehow. That must mean something in order for us to survive through this flu." Norman stated.

"Maybe it's just luck." Neil pointed out through a sniffle.

"Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I really don't know about it." Norman replied. Just then the sound of a growl came out from Neil's stomach, Neil glances down to it for a brief moment before looking up a little bit embarrassed. "Sorry I didn't eat anything since yesterday, I was just too sad."

"That's ok Neil. You wanna go get something?"

"Yes! But how can we get food? No one is around to give us any?" Neil question.

Norman grabbed his hand and pulled Neil up to his feet. "I don't think that's going to be a problem."


It felt odd to be in a empty convenience store, the lights buzzed above Norman and Neil as they looked for anything to eat. Aggie meanwhile looked at the newspaper rack, where she read the top headline. "Superflu sweeps nation! Government goes mute!"

Neil goes over to the front counter where the hotdogs are still being rolled inside the machine. Neil licked his lips as he stared at them, his belly rumbles some more. "Hey Norman! Are you up for some hotdogs?" He called out to his friend.

Norman who is looking through the chip aisle at the time, poked out his head. "Sure Neil, that would sound great."

Neil went behind the counter, he quickly found the buns and the tool to get out the hotdogs. He took out two hotdogs for each of them, then before leaving the counter he placed some money in the cash register, it was a silly gesture as no one is going to be collecting money again, but it was just a force of habit on Neil's part.

The three kids then left the store and sat down on the front table. Aggie didn't eat a hotdog for obvious reasons, but she sat next to Norman watching the two eat their food, Neil finished first as he had been very hungry.

After finishing up Neil looked around, he saw how the trees were in full bloom, the sky is now clear from any clouds, and a nice breeze brushed past him. It felt alarming on how peaceful it's being, despite the numerous deaths that the town has suffered. It made Neil realize that nature doesn't care for whatever happened to anyone, no matter how horrible it is, it will just keep on going as it always does.

Norman just then finished his food himself, like Neil he also looked around at the beautiful summer day. "It's quite." Norman exclaimed.

"Yeah, makes you think that everyone is on vacation and we were forgotten like Kevin from Home Alone." Neil adds.

In the sky a flock of birds flew above them, tweeting amongst themselves as they went towards a telephone pole. "So what do we do now?" Neil asked.

"I don't know Neil, I really wasn't expecting all this to happen." Norman replied.

"We can basically do whatever we want. We can even go around the town naked." He stated causing Norman and Aggie to look at each other with bewilderment, Norman glances back to Neil. "Um, let's not do that Neil."

"Your right too strange." Neil said.

"Maybe you can salvage what's left, and do your best to live out your life." Aggie exclaimed.

"I guess we can do that Aggie." Norman said. Neil didn't know what Aggie said, but he supposed that it was a good idea since Norman had agreed to it. "Whatever we're going to do, can I at least stay at your house for the night Norman? I don't want to be alone."

"Of course Neil."

"Hooray sleepover!" He cheered.


By nine-o-clock that night the power went off. The three had been in Norman's room when the lights and everything else electronic abruptly turned off.

Earlier while Norman and Aggie went to the Babcock's house, Neil had went back to his own house to collect whatever he needed. By the time Neil got there it was late in the afternoon and both Norman and Aggie were already inside. Neil happily knocked on the door which Norman answered and let him in much to his joy.

The three spent the rest of the day gathering their thoughts; Neil and Norman thought about their futures now that they were on their own, and Aggie thought about how she is going to help Norman and his friend. Aggie didn't want to leave them alone like how this superflu had already made them alone from their families who are most likely worrying about them in the afterlife right now.

Much later, just before the power went out. Norman and Neil sat on the floor playing a board game that Neil had brought with him, while on the bed Aggie watched in amusement.

Neil just threw the dice when the lights went off, but since it was summer the room hadn't gone completely dark as there is still some light before the coming dusk engulfed it. It still caught them in surprise, especially Neil who yelped in surprise. "Great scots! What happen to the lights!?"

"The power went out." Norman answered calmly.

"For how long?"

"I believe permanently."

Neil's eyes widened in surprise. "What? That can't be true?!"

"I'm afraid it is Neil."

Neil babbled in panic. What are they going to do, now that the power is off? How are they going to survive winter with no heating? How are they going to eat with no microwave, toaster, fridge or oven? This was a disaster!

Aggie didn't see what the big deal was? Before her death, she had survived just fine without all this fancy technology that Norman had in this time.

Neil meanwhile continued to babble loudly while pacing around the room. "We're doom! Utterly doom!" Norman grabbed him by the shoulders, stopping him mid-pace. "Neil, it's going to be alright!"

"But how? We have no power!" Neil cried.

"I assure you that everything will be alright." He told him.

"You sure?"

"I don't know, but we can't just give up because the power went out."

"Why you say that?"

"Because from the zombie apocalypse movies I watched, even if the end seems bleak and hopeless. You mustn't give up on survival."

"But there aren't any zombies." Neil pointed out.

"Still, we can't give up on our own survival." Norman replied.

"That's some pretty good advice Norman." Aggie commented.

"Thanks, I learned a lot from zombie movies." Norman stated with a little bit of pride.


Norman found himself back in the cornfield, the familiar melody of a guitar played through his ears. Traveling through the field, Norman kept a close eye out for that man he had seen last time, he would hate to run into him out here.

The house of Mother Abigail came into view with the said person on her rocking chair. Mother Abigail immediately noticed Norman coming out of the field, she places her guitar down to her side and calls out to him. "It's time to go Norman! Time is short!"

"Where do I go?' Norman asked.

"Hemingford Home, Nebraska. If I'm not there when you make it, I believe you know where to go then."

"Boulder, Colorado." Norman replied under his breath. Mother Abigail smiled and nodded for he said the right answer. "Bring all your friends."


"Boulder, Colorado." Norman mumbled in his sleep through out the night.


When morning came on June 30. Neil and Aggie were surprised to see Norman not in his bed when they both woke up, they found him in the kitchen sitting at the table. The two were even more surprise on where he said he needed to go.

"You wanna go to Nebraska?" Neil exclaimed in shock as he truly never expected that. Neil figured that they would just live out their lives here, not travel across the country.

"Where's Nebraska?" Aggie asked as she figured that it was somewhere close by, perhaps the next town over.

"Hold on." Norman got up and went into the living room, he returned with a map that he had spread out on the table and pointed Nebraska to Aggie. It was not hard to say that the young ghost was shocked on how far Nebraska is from Massachusetts.

"Why do you wanna travel that far?" She asked him.

Norman didn't answer right away for his two friends might not take what he had experienced seriously. Then again the three had weirder experiences, not to mention Aggie caused the said experience. "I've been having dreams."

"Dreams?" Aggie and Neil said at the same time.

Norman nodded, "These dreams about a elderly woman who lives in a small home surrounded by a cornfield."

"Do you think the place and this woman is real?" Neil question.

"Yes Norman, what if it's just a meaningless dream?" Aggie added.

"I don't think it is. I just got this strong feeling that she's real and that I need to go there or to Boulder if I arrive there too late." He explained to his two friends who just looked at him with a lot of questions on their faces.

"Look, I know it sounds crazy." Norman began, "But I just have to get there, the dreams may not mean anything at all, but I need to see for myself." The three kids were silent for a few seconds until Neil broke that silence. "Well if your sure, then I'll come with you."

"You sure Neil?"

"Are you kidding? A country wide adventure with no telling what's around the corner, not to mention something supernatural tied with it. How can I not join?" He explained happily.

"I would like to come to." Aggie said.

"You sure?" Norman asked as the thought of that man came to him. If the woman was real, then that man might be as well and he didn't want Aggie to have an encounter with that man. Not to mention could she even leave town?

The young ghost nodded however, after having her own set of thoughts. "Yes, I never seen the rest of the country in my life. Plus," Aggie looked down shyly, fidgeting her fingers as she thought about what to say next. "I want to make sure that your safe."

Feeling touched by that Norman nodded. It was official then they were going to leave Blithe Hallow and go to Nebraska.


Norman and Neil had stopped at the convenience store and took whatever they needed for their long journey. Then when the three got to the edge of Blithe Hallow they were surprised to see military trucks blocking the road with the bodies of soldiers that laid next to the vehicles and the drivers slouched over on the steering wheels.

Aggie while ignoring the bodies of the soldiers, is struck with awe over these trucks. "What are these vehicles?" She asked Norman.

"There military trucks." Norman replied with a sense of bewilderment in his voice.

"Why are there military trucks here?" Neil question, Blithe Hallow wasn't anywhere near a military base and the small town shouldn't really matter to the military.

Norman can only give his best friend a shrug, as he doesn't know either. "I don't know Neil, but it doesn't matter we should get going." With that the three went past the trucks; Norman and Neil went around them while Aggie just went through the truck on the right.

Behind them Blithe Hallow their former home, now belongs to the ghosts.


Norman, Neil, and Aggie weren't the only ones who left a town. At the same time Mabel and Dipper just reached the Gravity Falls billboard. They planned to leave yesterday, but a strong thunderstorm had delayed them.

They were originally going to Canada for maybe the flu didn't reach up there, but the two had been having a strange dream about an elderly woman in Nebraska. The dream shouldn't have mattered, they could've easily dismissed it as just a strange dream, but the two had this strange feeling that it was important to go to the woman. They checked a map at the library and did see that the place where the woman lived did exist.

"Well Mabel, you ready to go towards Nebraska?" Dipper asked his sister as he looked at the Gravity Falls billboard for perhaps the last time.

"I sure am Dipper! I can't wait to eat some fresh corn! Ain't that right Waddles?" Waddles oinks in reply, Mabel patted him on the head.

The two with backpacks of supplies on their backs, then began their walk down the road, passing by many cars that were on the road with their drivers inside.

In the forest the dogman that Dipper had injured watched the twins walking down the road. The dogman had been drawn to town by the smell of rotting carcasses, but upon seeing the twins passing by, he narrowed his eyes in anger at Dipper.


Coraline had a bad couple of days; first her parents had died, then her sleep kept getting plagued by a series of strange dreams consisting of an elderly woman named Mother Abigail who told Coraline to come see her in Nebraska, then to top it all off the power went out yesterday just after a strong thunderstorm came down.

Coraline is currently sitting underneath the fireplace in the room where the small door leading to the Other World is in. After the incident with the beldam, Coraline stayed very clear of this room, but due to the recent events that happened to her, Coraline just didn't care anymore.

"Looks like you won after all." Coraline muttered bitterly towards the door.

"Meow"

"It's nothing, I'm just muttering to myself." Coraline told Cat as he came into the room. Cat parked down next to her, looking at her with his cat eyes. Cat had never left after her parents finally succumb to the superflu, Coraline appreciated him for that as he had been by her side all this time for comfort.

"Meow?"

"I don't know what to do? I lost my parents and this time I couldn't save them. The powers out so I can't use anything that requires electricity, which means that I can't do any cooking and the food in the fridge is most likely rotting by now."

Coraline let's out a long sad sigh. "What's worse is that I may be the last living person in this whole town."

Cat looks at her in sympathy, but then his ears had picked up something. He trained his ears to the sound that came from outside, he jumped up on the windowsill to see who is making that noise. Listening carefully Cat recognized that sound, he paws at the window getting Coraline's attention.

"What is it Cat?" Coraline then heard the sound, the sound then stopped and a few seconds later there's a knock on the front door. Surprised Coraline got up and went over to the door, she didn't open it for how did she not know that it was some sort of creep who survived the superflu, and the moment she opened the door the creep would stab her in the guts with a big, rusty knife.

"Is anyone home?" An all to familiar voice called out. Coraline smiled for the first time in days, quickly she opened the door to see Wybie with the look of utter surprise from how fast the door had open, but the surprise quickly left him and is replaced by a relieved smile. "Oh my God! Coraline you don't know how happy I am to see-"

Coraline hugged him tightly cutting Wybie off. Wybie is in utter shock as Coraline had never hugged him before, Cat is even in shock by Coraline's action. After a few more seconds Coraline released Wybie from the hug, pulling away she caught site of his stunned face. "What?"

Wybie points at her slowly. "I never thought you would hug me." Coraline smirked, "Don't get too used to it." She gives him a playful punch on the shoulder. "You have no idea how happy I am to see you."

"Likewise Jonesy." Wybie took a glance to Cat who looked right back up at him from inside the front hall. "I see he's with you."

"Yeah, he's been comforting me."

"Oh" Wybie exclaimed uneasily. "I taken that your parents."

"Yeah" Coraline sighed, "Did your grandma?"

Wybie nodded sadly, the two went quite, both thinking about their loved ones that had been taken away by that virus. Coraline then glances past Wybie to Bobinsky's body that is starting to have worms on him as well as more flies that came to feast and lay maggots.

Wybie noticed where Coraline's gaze had fallen, he didn't want to look at the body as it was just too freaky, it nearly made him ride away from the Pink Palace upon first seeing it. "I can't believe this happened." He heard her muttered.

"What?"

"I said that I can't believe this happened! A super version of the flu that basically killed everyone we know! God, how could this even happen in the first place?!"

"Well Coraline from what I saw on TV, the government is responsible for it?" Wybie informed her. Coraline is silent, processing on this information he gave her. "What?"

"Yeah, when it looked like my grandma was getting better. We were watching her favorite show and the host David Bangor said that the government made it, then near the end some soldiers came in and silenced him."

Coraline at first couldn't believe what she had heard, but then like lava coming out from a active volcano she could feel herself boil with rage. The government! Their own government! Made the flu that killed her parents, Wybie's grandmother, and everyone else in the Pink Palace, and instead of finding a cure for it, they just covered their own skins. "Why those!" Coraline punches her door hard, Wybie backed up as with how angry Coraline is, it's best to stay out of her range.

"If their flu didn't get them! I would like to give them a what for!" Coraline shouted. Wybie wanted to say something, but he was too afraid of accidentally saying the wrong thing that would get Coraline to go after him, so he decided to keep quiet and let the anger leave her system.


Later the two sat on the garden bench, much of the the initial anger left Coraline's system, but most of it is still there as she sat there with Wybie next to her and Cat laying underneath the bench.

Wybie looked around at the garden, some debris from yesterday's storm is leftover on the pathway. "We should pickup some of those branches." He commented.

"What's the point, it's not like anyone else is going to see this garden." Coraline snarks.

"It was just a thought." Wybie meekly replied.

"Well I don't care!" She snapped, Wybie flinched from the unexpected shout. Coraline looked at him with narrowed eyes, but then let out a sigh which slumped her body a bit. "Sorry for snapping at you like that. I'm just troubled by this whole ordeal we went through."

"It's ok Jonesy, I'm not exactly keen on this whole situation either." He replied.

The two said nothing else and just continued to look at the garden in front of them. They both wondered what's next for them, obviously they should stick with each other as that would increase their chances of survival in this new post-apocalyptic world. The thought of that dream with Mother Abigail soon came to Coraline, it sounded crazy but maybe they should head for Nebraska.

Why? Coraline wasn't sure, but a very strong gut feeling told her that she had to. Silently Coraline turned to Wybie, "Hey Wybie?"

"Yeah?"

"How far can your bike go, before it needs to be refilled with gas?"

Wybie thought for a moment. "That depends, if I don't go too fast I say at about thirty miles. Why do you ask?"

"I want to go somewhere."

"Oh where to?"

"Nebraska."

Wybie thought that she was joking, after all why would Coraline wanna go all the way to Nebraska. But looking at her, he could tell that Coraline is one hundred percent serious. "Why would you want to go Nebraska for?"

"I know it might sound silly, but I've been having these dreams." Wybie suddenly lifted up his hand, interrupting her. "Wait, do the dreams have this elderly woman at a small house in the middle of a cornfield?"

Coraline nods. "How'd you know?"

"I've been having them to." Coraline blinks in surprise. "Really?"

"Yes, they started just after grandma died. I figured that the dreams were just figments and nothing important, but they're not aren't they." Wybie said.

"Considering that we both had it, I say no, the dreams definitely something and while I ignores them to. I now want to see if she actually exists." Coraline glances over to the Pink Palace. "Besides I want to get as far away from here as much as possible."

Wybie wasn't so sure however as he had been in this town for all his live, he never went beyond the town's borders for his grandmother wouldn't allow it. Although she is dead now, he felt nervous about leaving as what could the rest of the country be like in the aftermath of the superflu. "I'm not so sure about that Coraline."

"Come on Wybie, would you really want to stay here with dead people or come with me to find a woman that appears in our dreams." Coraline exclaimed.

"Well to be honest."

"Listen" Coraline interrupted as she poked him in the chest. "I'm not going alone, I'll knock you out and drag you with me if I have to."

Wybie certainly didn't want that, so he nodded with a sheepish smile. Coraline smirked on his answer. "Good, now come on."

The two with cat behind them walked over to Wybie's motorbike. As Wybie got it up, Coraline had rushed into her home and after awhile she came back out with a bag full of non frozen foods, water, and whatever else they might need.

Coraline then got on the bike as Wybie got himself ready, Cat had jumped into her open bag as he is going to. Not only because he was going to be alone when they left, but also because he sensed a dark presence that could be dangerous for both children.

"Come on Wybie! Let's get going already!" Coraline commanded playfully.

"Still not too late to just stay here." Wybie meekly said only to receive a glare from Coraline. "Right, thought that wouldn't work." Wybie starts up his bike and drove away from the Pink Palace, Coraline looked back at it until it got cut off by the trees.

On their way out, they drove past town where the aftermath of the riots is very clear. Wybie also had to swerve past cars that littered the roads, he has to keep doing this even when they finally got out of town.