Final
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Suddenly, Fagner walks out of the room, possessed too and goes on top of her. Angela sees him, throws the chair at him, he defends himself and stops, but soon goes again. Angela grabs her frown and puts it close to her face. She tries to hide her face and runs off back to the bedroom. Walquiria tries to move forward on top of her, but Angela turns and places the image next to her face as well. She also walks away, runs, but goes to the bathroom and bolts inside. Angela comes up to the door and listens to a great crackling sound inside the bathroom, the breaker is over. Angela is startled, she tries to grab the door handle of the bathroom, slowly. She hesitates and does not pick up. The silence continues inside the bathroom. She bends down to try to see the keyhole, she goes slowly, the silence continues, she looks, nothing in there, suddenly she goes back as if scared, but it was nothing. She tries again, looks and sees nothing. She gets up, picks up the door, tries to open it. It's open. She grabs the image harder in her hand, puts it in front of her, and with her other hand slowly opens the door. She looks, there is no one, she enters, slowly, leaves the door open, when, suddenly, something drips in her head, she makes a frightened face, picks up the image, turns her face upwards, raises her arm with the image, but it had nothing. Suddenly, she looks ahead and Walquiria possessed, screams and pushes her, taking her arm with the image preventing him from descending, pushing her back. The two fall and fight. Walquiria screams as Angela tries to frown at her. Walquiria begins with the hand to crush the head of Angela and gives a kick in Walquiria with the leg she falls of the side and Angela, with the image in the hand turns to her and shows the image. Walquiria screams as if in pain and writhes, breaking everything in the kitchen, shouting,
"YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT. I WILL MAKE YOU PAY."
"Get out now! I said get out!"
She runs to the bedroom, opens the door and closes. Angela sees everything destroyed, goes to the bathroom, washes her face and returns. Go slowly to the bedroom, open the door slowly and see Walquiria and Fagner sleeping. It shows the image, but nothing happens. She goes out, goes to the table where she was studying, the table falls, she tidies, puts in place, picks up the study books placed on the table, picks up the fallen chair and sits down, trying to organize everything.
While she was studying, someone knocks at the front door. Two knocks. She is startled and gets a strong hold over the amulet. She gets up and walks to the door. She grabs the door handle and quickly opens it, raising the amulet. It was the reporter, Dominick.
“Oh, sorry,” said Angela. “Who are you?”
“I'm a journalist. I know the whole history.”
“You do? How?”
“Let's just say that someone who cares about you told me.”
Angela thought it must have been Acauã.
“I want to do an interview. With you, or with someone else in the house.”
“My parents are out. It could be them, they’ll be back later.”
“The more people that know about what's going on here, the more help you can get.”
She cheered up a little, they could really use some help. Angela told him everything, the stones rain, the children sleeping and the waking up, the possession, the attack she suffered, everything. While she was talking, a noise came from the children's room, something falling. Angela was scared. The reporter, Dominick, also heard it.
“Wait here, I'm going over there.”
She closes the front door and runs to the bedroom and witnesses a horrible scene. The girl, Walquiria, assaulting her brother, Fagner, who’s still in his bed. Angela tries to hold her sister, but she is pushed back hard, falling on the floor. She gets up, sees the amulet in her hand and runs to her sister, who’s facing away from Angela, attacking her brother. With her hand, Angela puts the amulet in her sister's face, the little girl screams:
“DAMNNN YOUUUUUU!!”
The girl turns around and begins to attack Angela, that screams for help. Outside, the reporter notices the confusion, hearing the distress call. On the road, was the film crew, a cameraman and the driver. He calls them up. The cameraman goes into action, but the driver stays in the car. The two enter the house through the front door and finds Angela being attacked on the bedroom door. The cameraman starts filming while Dominick tries to grab the girl. With difficulty, he manages to take her into the bedroom and holds her safe in the bed. The girl shouts hoarsely and shrill:
“GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!”
Some neighbors, noticing the news van and the screams, go up to the house. The cameraman has an idea. He sees the window open in the room and runs outside, opens the window from the outside and points the camera at the scene. The reporter is trying to hold the girl in the bed. Angela stands up. The brother next her doesn’t express any reactions. She goes to the sister's face and touches the amulet on her. Everything happens again. The girl tries to break free and calms down. Dominick and Angela move away and leave the room, while the cameraman, closes the window. Some neighbors are outside.
“Well, your situation is very interesting,” says the reporter.
As the two are walking to the front door, they can hear steps, like someone is running behind them. When they turned around they could see the girl, running to the back door. She opens the door and runs out.
“Oh, my God,” says Angela.
They run after her, but when they get there, they don't see anything. Suddenly they hear screams coming from the front of the house. Dominick and Angela go around the house. They notice a small group of people staring, scared, at the roof. Among them, the neighbor, Claudio. When they look up, they can see the girl, Walquiria, running around on the roof. Angela is in despair. The girl is running fast across the entire roof, but she falls where her father previously did. Angela rushes over there, opens the front door and finds the fallen sister. Claudio takes the initiative and follows her. The girl was lying on the floor. Angela near her. Claudio gets close, nods his head to Angela, grabs the girl and takes her to the bedroom. She didn't suffer any injuries.
“It’s so strange,” says Claudio to Angela. “She doesn’t even have a scratch.”
They leave the room and go out the front door.
Impressed with everything he had witnessed, the reporter, Dominick, says goodbye to Angela and leaves with his crew. Upon arriving at his office, Dominick shows the footage to several people. They’re all very impressed.
“This is very good, I was thinking of airing it only regionally, but I'm going to send it to the central. The entire country should watch this,” says Dominick to everyone at the TV Network.
The footage is edited and sent.
Meanwhile, in house, Angela is still frightened at home. Her brother and sister were asleep, but her sister’s aggression towards her brother forces her to stay alert. Some neighbors bring food, lunch, but they’re too scared to keep her company. Claudio goes back to his house. The night falls, Angela's parents come back and she tells them everything that had happened. Even the part where a TV crew filmed her sister running around in the roof, and what had happened in the bathroom, with the mirror. Mr. Wagner decides:
“There’s no other way, we have to get out of this house.”
A neighbor calls Valquiria. She picks up the phone. The neighbor tells her a TV show, regional, mentioned their situation.
“The TV is going to air what happened,” says Valquiria, hanging up the phone.
“Already?” asks Angela. “They left this morning around 9:00 A.M. and it’s still 6 P.M.”
“Turn it on, Valquiria,” said Mr. Wagner.
She turns it on, and they wait a while for the show with their story. They’re terrified with the scenes, but Wagner sees a bright side to it:
“At least now it’ll be easier to get help, if someone believes our history.”
Mr. Wagner's phone rings. It’s the town priest. He saw the news and offered the family a temporary stay in the city’s chapel. He’d send a car to pick them up. Mr. Wagner accepts his offer.
“Let's get out, now. A car will pick us up, we're going to sleep in the Chapel and stay there from now on.”
“This news will get in the way when we try to sell the house, that's the downside,” says Valquiria.
“I'm not going to sell the house,” says Mr. Wagner.
“You’ll rent it?” asks Valquiria.
“No, I'm going to destroy it.”
Angela and Valquiria are astonished.
“Let's get the children,” says Mr. Wagner.
They get ready. Angela goes to her bedroom and get some clothes, puts in a small suitcase, while Mr. Wagner and Valquiria do the same. They go outside. Mr. Wagner picks up the children, sleeping, one at a time, first the girl and then his son. He puts them on the ground, Valquiria takes care of them. He also takes the mattresses from the beds. The car arrives. The priest is driving. Angela, fearing a negative reaction from the priest, unties the amulet she carried in her hand and hides it in her pants pocket. They get everything ready, tying the mattresses on top of the car. They put the kids, sleeping, in the back seat. Mr. Wagner, goes back to the house, locks it all up, all doors and windows, gets in the car, in the front seat and they leave.
They are in the chapel. The children are still asleep. It's the middle of the night. Finally, they try to sleep for a while. Morning arrives. Far away from their home, Mr. Wagner and Valquiria don't go work, and they get a surprise. The kids woke up, as if nothing had happened.
“Where are we?” asks the girl, Walquiria, to Angela.
“You don't remember anything?” asked Angela.
“No,” she says.
The brother, Fagner, also estranges the place and asks:
“Where is our home?”
“I'm going to show you everything.”
She grabs the phone and shows them the news from the previous day. Dominick had, early in the morning, sent the footage to Angela. The two brothers were terrified.
News of their story spreads around. The family stays 3 days in the chapel. In the meantime, national TV shows tell their story. Mr. Wagner gets a new home. Someone donated it.
“Let's go,” he told everyone.
The phenomena ceased. Valquiria and the younger children go to a new home in the U.S. and Mr. Wagner finds a truck to remove their things from the old house.
“I want to go, dad. Back to the house,” says Angela.
“Come on, then.”
Everything is ready for the move. The house is empty. It's night already. A TV crew wants an interview with Mr. Wagner. He grants it, by phone, outside the house. Angela, realizing that her father is distracted and thinking he wouldn't let her enter the house, slowly hides, taking out the phone as she enters the house through the back door. It is empty. She’s scared. She grabs her amulet.
“Are you here?” asks Angela to anyone.
She films the house, every room, it's eerie, but nothing happens. She comes out the way she came in, through the back door.
She stays outside. A bulldozer arrives. At Mr. Wagner’s request, it destroys the small house. It was easy, it was a small wooden house. The neighbors watched. Angela too. The house was demolished.
Angela remembered what happened to her with the mirror, when her reflection said it was just a simple dream.
“What if it was all just a dream? What if I'm still on the table, sleeping over my German lessons?”
The End.
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