Timmy stood at the door to the attic, looking at the mountains of boxes and suitcases, furniture and clothes that Tabitha has been storing away for the last 300 years. Where would Timmy find this secret scroll? Timmy remembered something Tabitha once told him about wind chimes and moonlight. When you were in trouble and the moon was full, as it was that night, let the moonlight shine through the crystal prisms and ask it to show you what you're looking for. Timmy never knew whether or not his princess was pulling his leg, but her house was full of such magic and bizarre things that he decided to give it a go. Timmy followed Tabitha's directions chanting a spell Endora used on Bewitched. Suddenly, a ray of moonlight hit the wind-chime crystals just like in "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Timmy saw a beam of light cut through the darkness of the attic and pinpoint a spot in the furthest and darkest corner. The spell worked! Now Timmy would know what was on the scroll.

Timmy found the ancient box containing the scroll, and after a deep breath and a sip of a martimmy, Timmy slowly lifted the top off. Dear reader, Timmy hopes you never experience what Timmy did at that moment. The cries of pain and anguish coming from that box will haunt poor Timmy to the end of Timmy's days. What's worse is that Timmy recognized the voices of the tortured souls coming from the scroll! They were the voices of Sheridan and Luis. Timmy could hear Luis calling to Sheridan, his voice full of fear that she was lost to him. He could hear Sheridan's moans of pain, her prayers that Luis would rescue her. Their anguish! Their misery! Timmy's eyes welled with tears. Whatever the future, whatever the summer of 2001 had in store for Luis and Sheridan, it would bring grief to them beyond measure. Timmy's curiosity overcame his fear, and Timmy slowly lifted the scroll from where it had lain undisturbed for centuries. It was at that moment that long bony fingers grabbed Timmy by the shoulders. Timmy screamed as he had never screamed before. When Timmy got his courage back and turned to face whatever had Timmy in its grasp, Timmy was relieved to see it was only Tabitha. Timmy told her that she had scared the stuffing out of Timmy, but Tabitha only glared at Timmy with an anger that Timmy had never seen before. Tabitha was furious that Timmy had touched the secret scroll. Timmy tried to explain that Timmy had to know what the Dark Forces had in store for Luis and Sheridan. Sheridan had only just come back from the dead at Christmas! After all they went through, what more could happen? She and Luis were finally so happy. Tabitha didn't see the romance the way Timmy did. She grabbed the scroll from Timmy, but the anguished cries coming from its folds only intensified. Tabitha shouted at the scroll for the voices to be silent. What awaited them was written long before the first dawn ever broke over Eden. Tabitha snarled at the scroll with a hatred Timmy had never seen in her.

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