In school with Betty and Kevin
"So, are you thinking about any names?"
"It's still early days, Kev. But if it's a boy, Archie."
"Obviously."
"And, uh, if it's a girl, I was thinking maybe Polly would be nice." Then Cheryl came over
"Cousin, I need your mother to take the twins for a couple of days."
"Okay. Why?"
"Because some evil water nymph out of an M. Night Shyamalan movie is stalking the halls of Thornhill and threatening them. Will you let Alice know or shall I?"
"Uh..." Water nymph? At home
Vanellope was taking a bath while the boys were downstairs playing the TV. I was doing taking the food out the oven when I heard
"CELESTE!" Eden screamed in terror I dropped the food and ran upstairs I see him slamming the bathroom door
"Eden what's going on?" When I walked forward I heard a squishing sound I looked down and saw water stains on the carpet my eyes widen it was coming from the bathroom me and eden tried to bust the door down but no luck
"XAVIER!" I screamed he comes up
"Shoot the door NOW!" He takes out his gun and shots the knob then bust threw the door I run in and see Vanellope popping her head up coughing up water
"Momma!" She squeaks terrified I grab a towel and take my baby out
"I want professional to come and fix this mess now." Eden demanded Xavier
"Yes sir." I take Vanellope to her room and dry her off while I did I noticed bruising on her shoulders
"Mama who did this?" I asked her but she stays quiet
"Sweetie your not in trouble just tell mommy who hurt you okay?" She sniffles
"I was playing with my dolls then i saw a woman in black grab me harshly by the shoulders and pushed me down." She cried to me I hugged my baby girl I knew who she spoke about. Vanellope wouldn't sleep in her bed alone so me and eden let her sleep in our bed I placed her puffy fluffy noise canceling headphones on while I took off my jewelry
"My love what's on your mind."
"I know who she saw."
"You did?"
"You remember that old folks tale I told you about when my abuelita told us not let the children go alone by water."
"Oh..... her."
"The water nymph Cheryl spoke about this happen to juniper now my baby Rivervale is in trouble." I called Toni and told her and her and Betty believe is the same being attacking other woman children. The night after
I meet up with Toni Betty and Fangs
"Toni, I found something, a pattern, retracing her steps. So she's following a direct line from Sweetwater River. First Thornhill, where Cheryl encountered her, then Lucinda's, Then Celeste's, my house, Rivervale High. Now..."
"This apartment."
"Where she came after Baby Anthony. Her target was, and I bet still is, Baby Anthony."
"Well, how do you know?"
"Mother's intuition, I guess. Fangs, take Baby Anthony to the Whyte Wyrm. And surround him with the Serpents. I don't think she'll go after him with a crowd around."
"Okay. And where are you going?"
"Cheryl's. We need to contact that ghost bitch, and she's the only person I know who knows how to channel the spirits." Once at Cheryl
"Hear ye, hear ye, we sacred women have gathered here to summon the entity known as La Llorona, or the weeping woman. Spirit, your sisters call out to you. You who visited this house and the house of Elizabeth Cooper, the house of Celeste Cruz and the house of Antoinette Topaz. Spirit, speak to us. What is thy name? Spirit, reveal thyself."
"Spirit, reveal thy self. Spirit, reveal thy self. Spirit, reveal thy self."
"Is that the spirit? Who are you? Name thy self?"
My name was Martha Mallon. My employ was as a nurse in the children's ward of Rivervale's first hospital. In those early, hungry years, we lost many a babe from the pox, from the bitter cold, from a doctor's careless hands. The townsfolk blamed me for the loss of their children, accused me of being a witch woman. And they dragged me and my own children to the Sweetwater River, weighed us down with rocks, and threw us in the dark waters. We drowned, and I became this cursed thing that I am.
"Who summoned you here, spirit? Who called you to this earthly plane?"
"What's happening?"
"Do not break the circle or we'll lose contact. Speak, Martha, who summoned you here?"
"We have to stop, Cheryl, she's gonna drown."
"Not yet, we need a name. Speak, Martha, who summoned you here?"
"Who called you to this plane?"
"It was Darla Dickenson, who did so from her son's grave."
"Nana, I'm sorry, are you all right? Are you all right? Forgive me."
"Darla Dickenson, why does that name sound so familiar?"
"She's the woman whose son I killed. That's why she's doing this." In the rainy night we go and see Daryl who is on her son grave
"Finally... I've been expecting you."
"Darla, I'm sorry. Sorry that Danny was taken away from you. And I'm sorry that I was responsible for his death."
"Do you know how many sons I've buried, Toni? Danny was my last one. My little boy." My heart broke
"Darla. We know you summoned La Llorona. Now you need to call her off."
"Guys You can't call off La Llorona. Once summoned, once a child is promised, there's no stopping her." I told them
"She's right At least, not until Anthony's dead, in her arms."
"So that's what you want? An eye for an eye? My baby's life for your son?"
"Yes..."
"Well, it's not gonna happen, because there's a crew of Serpents surrounding Baby Anthony, guarding him."
"Oh shit Toni betty..." I just realized
"Toni... you're a mother. Even if there were men standing between you and your baby, would that stop you?"
"No."
"Exactly. Now imagine that primal maternal force times a hundred. La Llorona is a storm unlike any you've ever seen."
"Guys we have to go now." And we dash off once at the bar it was a watery mess
"Oh, my God."
"Fangs? Anthony? Fangs! Hey! Where's Anthony? Where's our son?"
"She... She took him."
"Where? Where did she take him?"
"Sweetwater. Go!"
"We need to beat them to the river." When we get there we see her la llorona with baby Anthony
"Stop! You're not taking my baby. He's innocent."
"No one is innocent. You were, your children were. I'm sorry for everything you went through, but you could show us mercy. You could spare my son."
"I was called forth. I can't return without the babe."
"Well, what if I could take away the suffering? For good. You could give it to me. And that way, you'd be free."
"Why would you offer that?"
"Because I would give up anything for my son, my life. But also because I killed another woman's child, and I should be punished for that. And it should be me. Not Baby Anthony. You've suffered enough, Martha. Let me take your place." My heart shattered oh Toni
"Promise me you'll take care of him, Betty. Celeste." I tear up as she gives Betty, Anthony and see Toni turn into the self her Llorona
"Protect him, Betty. Celeste And please let him know his mother loved him." We see her go into the river and disappear.