They all then came back inside the mansion after memorizing the way back to the gypsy within her crystal ball. Ezra and Emma met them inside.
"All right, now we went to Hell and back to get this thing," Jim told Leota as they showed the key they had retrieved. "Where's the door out of here?"
"First, you must find the trunk." Leota replied.
"Trunk? What trunk? You never said anything about a trunk." Atticus glared as two shadow figures appear behind them.
"Not door?" Jim asked then.
"No, not door, trunk." Leota replied.
"She's right, the key doesn't go to a door, but to the trunk up in the attic." The boy told them from behind.
The others flinched and looked over.
"Children..." Ezra and Emma whispered once they saw the boy and girl who dressed like they were from ancient times compared to this century.
"They look just like us." Mo said, referring to herself and Atticus.
Atticus slowly nodded.
"Who are you guys?" Cherry asked.
"I'm Thaddeus." the boy said.
"And I'm Josephine." the girl then said.
"We were going to be Edward and Elizabeth's children." the boy then explained who they were and why they were there.
"Were?" Mo asked.
"We were killed before we could get adopted and before we could tell Edward about what really happened to Elizabeth." Thaddeus said.
"You were killed?" Atticus frowned.
"Yes," Josephine frowned back. "We knew too much... We found out what really happened to Elizabeth, but we had to be disposed of which destroyed Edward. He lost his love and the children he could've raised as his own heirs, so he took his own life."
"Who killed you?" Drell asked, surprisingly enough, not having known himself.
"Ramsley," Thaddeus frowned. "He was also the one that poisoned Elizabeth."
"Ramsley..." the others whispered.
"The butler did it..." Cherry mumbled. "How cliche..."
"Yeah." Mo nodded.
"Okay, tell us everything while we're going back up to the attic." Atticus said as he picked up Madame Leota as she was now just a crystal ball.
"Easy!" Madame Leota warned Atticus.
"Don't worry, I'm very careful with crystal balls." Atticus said.
"We better get started." Thaddeus said.
"Right." Josephine agreed.
"This is bad luck," Madame Leota warned Atticus. "This is very bad luck! I'm getting nauseous!"
"Oh, be quiet!" Atticus scolded.
"So why did Ramsley kill her?" Mo asked.
"Jealousy?" Cherry asked.
"Find the trunk and you will find your answer." Madame Leota stated.
"Alright then." Atticus said.
"Come along then." Emma said as she closed the door of Madame Leota's room.
The walk to the attic was a long and yet annoying one. Leota's ball glowed as they came into the dark as night attic.
"Please be careful with me, I'm fragile, very, very fragile." Madame Leota told Atticus.
"Sheesh, she's worse than you." Atticus said to Cherry.
"Thanks, I guess." Cherry shrugged.
"I think I see it." Mo said.
"That's it." Leota said once they came across a trunk on one side of the room.
"Now we're in business." Jim approved.
Atticus handed Madame Leota over to his grandfather before going over to the trunk. Ezra gently held the crystal ball as the boy went to the trunk. Cherry handed the key to Atticus to unlock the trunk.
Atticus accepted the key and then unlocked the trunk, after doing that, he opened it to see a whole bunch of stuff inside. "How am I suppose to find it in here? It's full of junk." he said.
"Find the thing that must be read," Madame Leota recited. "Lest your hearts be filled with dread."
Atticus started to look through the trunk to see if he could find anything red. He rummaged through and through until he spotted a colored red envelope. "It's a letter."
"What's it say?" Drell leaned in.
Atticus opened it up to see what the letter said. "'Yes, dear, I love you and I will marry you, and we'll raise Thaddeus and Josephine as our very own children since I have always wanted to be a mother and I know you would make a wonderful father for them that they never knew about having. I will love you for all of eternity. And tonight, at last, we will be together. I do. Forever yours, Elizabeth'."
"She really didn't kill herself." Emma said.
"She wanted to marry him." Ezra added.
"Yeah, and somebody gave him the wrong letter." Atticus replied.
"Yes, well done, Mr. Fudo..." Rasmely suddenly appeared which made Thaddeus and Josephine frightened instantly. "I must say, I'm impressed, clearly you are more clever than you appear to be for a child."
"Thanks, I am a junior detective, now, why'd you kill her?" Atticus asked.
"Because the master would not listen to reason." Ramsley replied.
"This is reminding me of Forte now..." Cherry whispered.
"What do you mean he wouldn't listen to reason?" Atticus and Mo asked.
"He had everything in the world," Ramsley continued. "And yet, he was willing to throw it all away for love. I told him it would end badly."
"You're a real cold dude." Jim glared at the butler.
"No, Mr. Evers, I am a rational man," Ramsley corrected. "It was my responsibility for the house. My duty, sir, to see it that the boy did not make a foolish error in judgment. Running away with that girl and those brats would have destroyed this house. It would have destroyed everything. And I could not stand by and watch it all fall to ruin."
"Punch him in the face, Dad and Atticus." Megan said.
"If you poisoned Elizabeth, then what have you done with Thaddeus and Josephine?" Atticus demanded first, wanting to know what happened to the orphaned ghosts.
"Oh, easy, I had to kill them as well by choking them to death." Ramsley said evilly.
"You're a monster!" Drell glared at Ramsley, disgusted at him for willing to murder children.
"Okay, now punch him." Megan glared.
"Yeah, but first, we're gonna tell the master what really happened." Jim argued.
"Yeah." Atticus agreed.
"The master must never know," Ramsley replied. "Edward and his love will be reunited and this curse will be broken."
"Yeah, but it's not her, that's my Aunt Sara!" Cherry glared.
"Yeah!" Drell glared.
"You're busted, old man." Mo looked as aggressive as a mother dog with a puppy who had been hurt.
"Yeah, once we tell Edward about what you did, you are in so much trouble." Drell said.
Ezra and Emma bowed their heads quietly.
"And what she sees in you, I'll never know," Ramsley glanced to Jim. "But that is of little importance now. The only thing that matters is that the master's pain must end. And it will end tonight. The curse will be broken, and we can all finally move on."
"All right, that's it," Cherry growled. "Where is my Aunt Sara?!"
"Getting ready for her wedding of course." Ramsley replied like it was obvious.
"Wedding?!" Atticus asked shocked.
"No! Ramsley, that won't lift the curse!" Thaddeus told him.
"SILENCE!" Ramsley glared at the orphan boy.
This caused the orphan boy to flinch.
"He's right, this won't lift the curse, it'll only make it worse, the only way is to let Edward marry the real Elizabeth." Atticus said.
"Besides, Sara isn't even dead and Edward is." Jim then added in.
"True, but that can be easily corrected," Ramsley replied, even more graver than he was before. "Life, I'm afraid, is such a delicate state."
"You won't get away with this." Mo glared.
"If you put one finger on that mortal's wife, I swear I'll kill you." Drell threatened Ramsley, referring to Jim when he said 'mortal'.
"How wonderful, you're going to kill a ghost." Ramsley mocked. "I don't believe not even a warlock's magic can do such a thing, Drell."
"Wait, Drell's a warlock?" Jim asked.
"Oh, did I forget to mention that?" Drell grinned nervously to Jim. "Well, yes, I am... I'm a warlock, Atticus is a Wiccan, who is also a merboy, Mo is a descendant of Captain Planet, and Cherry is a dream-bender and they all have Equestrian magic."
Jim rubbed his head. "Oh, my goodness..."
"Sorry, Uncle Jim..." Cherry said, knowing this all had to be overwhelming for him to bear.
"Yeah, we'll explain everything later." Mo said.
"Now you're gonna pay!" Cherry glared to Ramsley.
"I don't think so..." Ramsley said. "You may all have magical powers, but I still have the powers of a ghost."
"Leave them alone!" Michael told Ramsley.
"Stop it!" Megan added in.
Rasmley summoned the trunk and trapped Michael and Megan inside of it.
"Let them go!" Jim lunged out for Ramsley, but went right through him since the man was a ghost. "You're gonna let my kids go, leave my niece and her friends alone, take me to my wife, and let us out of here right now!"
"If you want out, fine," Ramsley replied. "Let me show you out..." he then grabbed Jim around his throat with unholy strength and lifted him into the air before throwing him out the window . "Now, for the last time, good night, Mr. Evers!"
"Jim!" Drell gasped.
Cherry, Atticus, and Mo rushed to the window. Jim flopped from the window and landed hard on his back on top of his car which made the alarm go off.
"Ooh..." Cherry, Atticus, and Mo cringed at that, that looked very painful.
The shutters then started to close.
"You let him go..." Cherry looked firm to Ramsley. "You can't stop us!"
"Yeah, there'll be no way to get rid of us!" Mo said.
"We might not be able to kill you, but we'll do much worse and you can't stop us from stopping that wedding!" Atticus finished fiercely.
"That's right." Drell said.
"You all think so?" Ramsley glared firmly to them. "You may all be magical, but you can't kill someone who is already dead, and I'm afraid you're all going to be disposed of." he said before shooting a blast to them which made them black out.
The four were instantly knocked out and were in a very dark room.
"Ugh... My head..." Atticus groaned. "Where are we...?"
"Hey, you're awake..." Cherry knelt next to him.
"Cherry... What's going on...?" Atticus asked.
"Oh, nothing much..." Cherry shrugged. "EXCEPT THAT WE'RE STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!"
"This is bad, this is really, really bad." Drell said.
"What happened?" Atticus asked.
"That's the thing, we don't know," Mo said. "We tried using our powers, but we've all been stripped of ours."
"I bet this is Ramsley's handiwork." Atticus glared.
"I'd say you're right..." Drell said as they were trapped. 'But we're doomed, doomed I tell you DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMED!"
Cherry slapped his face. "Calm down, we're gonna get out of here, we always do, Atticus will think of something!"
"I-I'm not sure if I can..." Atticus mumbled before bowing his head in self doubt.
Meanwhile with Edward, Sara, and Patch...
Edward opened the door to take Sara and Patch into a vast empty room which looked like a dark and lonely ballroom.
"Is this a ballroom?" Patch asked.
"Yes," Edward replied as he walked them inside. "This house has waited so long to have its shroud of darkness lifted. And tonight, for the first time in, oh, so many years, I believe it may be possible that the story will finally end| ? Do you believe that love is about second chances? About forgiveness?"
"Yes, I do." Sara replied.
"Everyone deserves a second chance." Patch smiled.
"Don't you remember?" Edward then asked Sara.
"Remember?" Sara looked curiously to him. "Mr. Gracey, are you all right?"
"Don't you recognize me at all?" Edward approached her.
"Mr. Gracey, what's wrong with you?" Patch asked.
"I thoguht bringing her back to Gracey Manor would help her remember!" Edward grew animated.
"Remember what?" Sara asked. "Mr. Gracey, you're scaring me."
"When it happened!" Edward turned to her as he seemed to be losing all sense of reality now as he took Sara's hands. "When we spent our last moments together, when we danced together for the last time before you... Before you killed yourself! But now that you're back, at long last, we can be together and we can become the parents we'd always dreamed of becoming with those charming children we discovered! Why do you not remember?! You're my world, my life, and I have loved you as I did in life!"
"Let me go!" Sara got out of his hold and ran off, feeling very nervous and disturbed by Edward's behavior.
Patch ran off as well since there were ghosts all around them now.
"You are her!" Edward suddenly appeared at the bottom of the staircase. "You are Elizabeth! You must be!"
Sara gasped as she ran up the stairs with the puppy.
"No, she isn't!" Patch told him.
"Can you not sense inside your heart?" Edward asked as he came from one side of the stairs. "I am your one true love! And now, we can finally be together, don't you understand?!"
Sara kept running with Patch.
"Elizabeth, please listen!" Edward urged.
"I'm not Elizabeth!" Sara called back as she ran down the hallway.
"Quick, inside the bedroom!" Patch told her.
Sara nodded to the puppy and she ran into the bedroom and waited for him. Patch quickly went inside and leaned against the door so Edward wouldn't be able to come in.
Edward looked devastated once he was shut out. "She doesn't remember..." he breathed shallowly in heartbreak, still deluding himself that Sara was his long-lost love. "It can't be her..."
"It is her, sir, she just doesn't remember yet," Ramsley said before straightening Edwards bow tie. "You had best get ready."
"But she doesn't remember," Edward whispered sharply. "The children don't seem to either."
"In time, they will, sir," Ramsley replied. "I assure you, they will."
Edward then walked off before Ramsley nodded and dematerialized.