Courage and the ghosts reappeared in the middle of Courage's livingroom. Courage collapsed in a heap of dizzy fur and two of the children who had been waiting for them quickly approached him. Soon he fell into a dreamless slumber.

Mr. Worth took Alena's hand and soon the little girl's energy was restored. Mr. Worth then disappeared to rest for a while.

Courage awakened to find that it was already well past four in the morning. He was feeling much better but Mr. Worth still hadn't reappeared. Time was getting short. Muriel and Eustace had been asleep for two and a half days now. They still needed to mix up the antidote and hope that it worked. Even with two more days left, Courage was beginning to get nervous. What if there had been enough of that tranquilizer in those apples that it would take less than five days before Muriel was gone for good? He began to pace nervously around the livingroom.

The sun was already shining when a familiar voice startled Courage out of his skin. "Good morning, Courage."

Courage crawled back into his skin and followed Mr. Worth as he gathered the plants and went into the kitchen.

Mr. Worth pulled the piece of paper with the instructions for making the antidote and placed it on the counter. Then took several mixing bowls down and began to place various plants in each of the bowls. Mixing a little of one plant with some of another in one bowl then mixing that bowl with the plants from another bowl. A little water in the biggest bowl ... more plant leaves from a different bowl.. a little more water and leaves from another bowl. Finally, he poured the mixture out into a small pot on the stove and heated it up until the mixture turned into a thick, green liquid.

Mr. Worth poured the warm mixture into two mugs and handed one of them to Courage. "Let's go see if this works."

They went into the livingroom and Mr. Worth motioned for Courage to give some of the mixture in his mug to Muriel. Courage jumped up on Muriel's lap and carefully poured some of the antidote into Muriel's mouth. Muriel coughed and sputtered then swallowed a tiny bit of the liquid then started snoring again.

Mr. Worth watched with a concerned look on his face. "Give her some more of the antidote."

Courage did as Mr. Worth told him but still no effect. Mr. Worth went back into the kitchen and re-read the instructions. "Hmmm... according to this, the antidote should be working."

They went back into the livingroom and Courage gave Muriel the rest of the liquid that was in the mug. Still, Muriel kept snoring.

One of the little girls was watching. "The story says that the person can only be awakened by a kiss."

Mr. Worth shrugged and looked at Courage. "It's worth a try isn't it?"

Courage nodded and moved out of the way.

Mr. Worth sat the mug he was holding down on the table by Eustace then made his way over to the sleeping Muriel. Slowly, he leaned down and gave Muriel a gentle kiss on the lips then took a step back to watch.

Muriel yawned and stretched then opened her eyes. "I feel like I've been sleeping for weeks!"

Courage jumped up into Muriel's lap and gave her a big hug. "Muriel!!"

"Courage! Ye act like ye haven't seen me for days!"

Mr. Worth cleared his throat.

Muriel looked up at him. "Why hello there."

Muriel listened as Mr. Worth told her about the poisoned apples, Katz, Ma Bagge, and the ghost catching machine. "Oh my!! I thank ye for going to all that trouble to make the antidote. But, why is Eustace still sleeping?"

Mr. Worth coughed nervously. "Well, when Courage gave you the antidote, it didn't work .. well, not on it's own." The ghost turned away to hide the fact that he was blushing. "One of the girls suggested that the only way to break the spell was with a kiss .. and ... well ... Courage would have gladly kissed you but .. well.. you need um ...a person and .. well.. I was the only..." The ghost's voice trailed as he looked down at his feet.

Muriel smiled and blushed. "Well, I certainly do thank ye for waking me up. I guess I'll have to be the one to wake Eustace up."

Muriel rose from her chair and gave Eustace the antidote. Of course he didn't wake up so she gave him a kiss.

"What the.. .where am I .. what's goin on here!?"

Courage was so happy to have them both awake that he forgot himself and jumped up in Eustace's lap to give him a hug.

"Stupid dog! What's gotten into you!?"

Courage happily jumped off of Eustace's lap and wagged his tail before running upstairs to join the ghosts in the attic room.

Courage looked up at Mr. Worth and wagged his tail.

Mr. Worth read the dog's mind. "You're very welcome Courage. We all thank you too for helping to save Alena. Do you mind if we rest here for the day? We've been awake much more than we're used to and we're all beginning to feel very tired."

Courage happily insisted that the ghosts stay for the day and even the night if they wanted. The children gave Courage grateful pats and hugs before surrounding Mr. Worth who was sitting in the middle of the room. Slowly the ghosts disappeared.

Courage watched the ghosts disappear then turned to leave the room as he heared Muriel's voice calling to him. "Courage, breakfast will be ready in a few minutes!"

He turned to smile back at the spot where his friends were resting then happily ran downstairs to join Muriel and Eustace for breakfast.