I only own my OC, Taylor, I do not own any of the ParaNorman characters.
Taylor soon was in a dark void, then sees Norman lying down.
"Norman!" Taylor cried.
Norman woke up and saw Taylor, then suddenly the dark void dissolved into a building, and they both saw what the seven victims might be when they were alive.
"Taylor, what's going on?" Norman asked.
"I don't know," Taylor replied.
Judge Hopkins who was on the podium soon said, "Agatha Prenderghast of His Majesty's province of Massachusetts," Norman and Taylor looked in fear, as Hopkins continued, "on this day, you have been arraigned for the horrible crime of witchcraft," Norman shook his head, while looking at the other members, as Hopkins continued, "witnessed by those whose testimonies have been heard. You have, by this court, been found guilty!"
"No!" Norman said while backing up from them.
Taylor soon said while resting a hand to Norman's shoulder, "Norman, this is a memory, they can't see or hear us."
Judge Hopkins soon said, "And it is passed on you, according to your grievous crimes, execution!"
Taylor and Norman cringed, but then heard a little girl sobbing, they turned, and saw Agatha, who was in chains.
She soon said, "No! No!"
Hopkins soon asked, "Do you have anything to say for yourself?"
Agatha looks up, and replied, "I was only playing."
"Aye! With fire! You were speaking with the dead!" Hopkins said.
"Wait! No!" Norman said, despite what Taylor said earlier, and tried to save Agatha while the people circle around her.
Hopkins soon said, "I'll not risk torture on these good people."
"No, you can't do this!" Norman said.
"I didn't do anything wrong!" Agatha said.
Hopkins soon said, "You are to be taken to the place of execution where you'll be hanged by the neck until you be dead."
Taylor and Norman suddenly saw Agatha begin to glow yellow, and she said, "Stop! Leave me alone or I'll make you sorry!" She soon glared, went all yellow, and shouted, "I'll make you all sorry!" Soon blasted around them until it was completely bright.
Taylor soon took off her goggles, and saw some smoke from the book, which had a hole in it. Norman soon woke up and saw the book. He picked it up, then gasped when he saw the zombies, who were just looking at them. Taylor might have a feeling about something. She put on her goggles and set them to Median Vision.
Norman soon backed up from them, looking at them, Norman saw the zombie Judge Hopkins looking down, Norman then asked, "How could you? She was just a little kid." He paused then glared, and said, "She was no different than me." Hopkins soon moved forward with an open mouth, but Norman said, "Keep away from us!"
Judge Hopkins backed up, put his hands together, and said, "You must stop the curse."
Norman and Taylor were surprised, then Norman asked, "What? You don't want to kill me?"
Hopkins replied, "You can speak to the dead," he waved his hands to the other victims, and said, "To us," then looked up and said, "To her," then looked at Taylor and said, "And so can your friend thanks to her new ability."
"Median Vision," Taylor said.
"Yes," Hopkins said, he bows his head, and said to Norman, "We need you to read from the book to send us all back from the grave."
Norman soon looks at the book, and said, "But it didn't work! It's a fairy tale! Just a bedtime story," Norman soon looks at the destroyed book, and figured it out, jumped up, and asked, "That's it, isn't it?" The zombies backed up, but Hopkins backed away in a corner away from the zombies, as Norman said, "A bedtime story to keep a little girl asleep for another year." He soon looks at the book, and said, "And now you need my help because I'm the only one who can read it to her." Norman paused, then said, "Here's your book!" He threw it at Hopkins, which hits him, and it fell apart, then said, "Try reading it yourself." Hopkins didn't react, but then Norman, asked, "Why did you do it?"
"We were scared," Hopkins replied.
"Of what?" Norman asked.
"Of her," Hopkins replied, he moved to the other zombies, and said, "I believed we were doing what was right," he soon stopped, turned back at Norman and Taylor, and said, "I was wrong. Now, this is our punishment." Norman looked at him, as he continued, "We thought we knew our way in life, but in death," he groans in shame, then said, "we are lost." He looks at Norman, and asked, "Please help us."
Norman looked at him, then said, "Every year, someone reads the story at her grave," he looks at the book, then said, "Before me, it was Mr. Prenderghast, and before him, there were others, but the curse doesn't ever go away." He looks at Hopkins and the zombies, and said, "Nothing gets better. It's not enough."
Hopkins looks at him, then asked, "What will you do?"
Norman replied, "Something nobody ever did before," he looks up to the sky, and said, "I've got to go talk to her, but first," he turns to Taylor and said, "There is something you need to explain, Taylor Fearbrave."
Taylor looked, and said, "You're right Norman, I will tell you my story about why I am here."
Taylor soon told Norman the story of her adventures so far, starting with the break-in at her apartment that she and her brother, Shadow lived in, knocking him out after a battle, and taking the documents from the Nightmare Files, then getting friends, Tess, Qwark, and Bentley, who helped her get the Dark Diamond. Soon she started defeating the members and helping people that were centered near them. First was Dr. Angus Bumby, who tormented as a child a girl named Alice Liddell, which Norman soon knew that story was sort of like a dark version of Lewis Carroll's stories, Alice Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Next was the Dark Gentleman, who was after a girl named Alyssa Hamilton, who was becoming a type of warrior called a Rooder. The third one was Lorenzo Belli, who wanted the Azoth of a girl named Fiona Belli. Then was one before Agatha, The Beldam, who wanted to sew buttons to the eyes of a girl named Coraline Jones. Taylor during her stories even told them how each member was defeated, with them now dead and gone, saving the Beldam, who was now trapped in her world, and she will never be released due to the key gone forever.
"And that now I was planning to fight Agatha, but now, since I know she is just a little girl who was upset, for something some people caused and were cursed," Taylor said, looking at the zombies, and said, "No offense."
"None taken," Hopkins replied.
Taylor then continued, "I wished to tell you early, but then you would've thought I would be as crazy as what the town thinks you were."
Norman soon said, "Well, after all this entire thing, I believe you," he goes to Taylor and said, "And I will allow for your help to talk to her."
Taylor and Norman now know the zombies mean them no harm, but now they plan on going to talk to Agatha. Anyway, if you're reading this, thank you for reading. If you want to know when the next chapter is, follow me or the story, write a review, but please no flames, add it to you favorites, and as usual, and if I get to it, the story will continue in the next chapter. SEE YA!