Coraline: Revenge of the Other Father

Rated T only for violence and the use of the word God. There are light cute scenes of love and affection, but there will be adventure, kidnapping, fight scenes, and strategy. It's not only for teens, but this is rated as such just incase children younger aren't interested in these sort of things.

Summary: Coraline's life after defeating the other mother, or the demon spider witch known as Beldam, got a little better when she realized she had everything she needed and needed nothing more but friends and family. Not as fussy about moving as she was back when she just came to her new apartment, she now lives her life like a regular girl and is starting her new school at the age of 12, a year from when she had opened the secret small door to the otherworld.

Though her life is fine with her new friends and neighbors, she often gets curious, as usual, about what had happened to the otherworld…was it destroyed when the Other mother was destroyed? Actually, what happened to the Other father? He was nice and claimed to have been controlled by the other mother, but was he really as good as he seemed?

Coraline ends up continuously thinking about the small door, and decides to have a look…

Chapter One: Life Goes On…

Yellow gloves with colorful stripes.

This was the only thing that made Coraline unique in her school of grays and whites.

She huffed gently from the tight and annoying collar of her uniform. She tugged with her fingers, and a dark hand took her wrist and pulled it down. Coraline glared beside her "Don't touch me!"

"You need to just get used to it." The boy said who walked beside her to her first class "Around here there are uniforms, and if you stop messing with them you get used to them much faster."

"Tell me…" Coraline asked "Why WERE you born?" The boy rolled his eyes, and she snickered. He then pointed "All your classes are with me, so we can just walk together in the halls." "Lovely." She said sarcastically as she tugged at her collar with her rainbow gloves "Wybourne, are you really this goody-too-shoes in school or is it just a fake image?" "I try my best to not stick my nose in so much until out of school, Coraline." Wybourne said gently. He still had the same hunch he always did, and though he didn't cock his head to the side so much in school, he still did the same out of school, and only if he was thinking about something would he do so during school. The two entered the classroom, and Coraline immediately was noticed by a few other students. Wybourne then went his own way towards the back of the room with a few other guys, and luckily for Coraline there was a seat behind him. She walked and sat down, and Wybourne smiled at her before talking with other guys. They all looked like nerds to her, just like Wybourne was, but compared to him, he was probably the cutest male there. Not that Coraline was interested in boys yet.

The teacher entered the room and everyone went silent. Coraline wondered if the room was being controlled, was the teacher a robot?

"Good morning, new faces and old. I am your teacher, Ms. Caroline."

What a mockery of her name…Coraline huffed in annoyance, loud enough for Wybourne to hear and shush her. Coraline glared and kicked the back of his chair, and he winced and huffed as well. Ms. Caroline cleared her throat, directly towards Coraline and Wybourne. The two silenced themselves, and the woman spoke.

Coraline wasn't paying attention to the words, more towards her appearance. The woman was large, like her downstairs neighbors in her apartment building. She was large and had on thin reading glasses that fell to her nose but were safely intact by the strings at the ends of them. Her hair was blonde and gray in a tight bun at the back of her head, and she was of regular light skin color. She wore what most boring teachers wore. Adult, boring, clothes.

She couldn't believe that she would be doing nothing but sitting in her class for a quarter of the day. The school decided to divide into 3 classes a day, the homeroom teacher was the simple crap of art, reading, and history while the other two teachers taught math and science. Coraline didn't need any of them, she needed a class that could help her find magic items to take her out of the boring world and maybe help her escape into a world of…something else than all this.

Sure it had been a year since she was in the new state, but she still didn't like it as much as her old home. She would never get used to the school, even if she already had been in it for half a year. As she thought about her life and how messed up it seemed, the class was introducing themselves. She didn't pay attention, but Coraline did hear one guys name, Maxwell, and one girls name, Brunette. She smiled from the girls name. Wybourne introduced himself, and then Coraline had to. She sighed and stood to her feet and mumbled "Coraline."

"I can't hear you," the teacher said "Speak up, now."

"Coraline…"

"What was that?"

She was getting irritated; Wybourne was looking up at her with a worried expression, as if he knew she was getting that way as well.

"Coraline."

The teacher held a hand to cup her ear as if she was deaf.

"I. SAID. CORALINE!!!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. The class gasped, Wybourne slumped in his chair, and Coraline was sent to the principal's office.

Worst. School year. Ever.

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Her new friends don't even go to the same school, except for Wybourne, of course.

"Sucks that you got afterschool, Coraline. On the first day, too." Wybourne said gently as the two walked down a dried dirt path towards Coraline's house. Coraline was annoyed that the teacher, Ms. Caroline, would be offended. It wasn't her fault that the teacher couldn't hear.

"How're you going to tell your parents?" Wybourne asked. Coraline sighed "Luckily if it's something stupid they wouldn't care." Wybourne pulled out his skeleton mask with the three rotating lenses and he placed it on his head "Wanna hangout?"

"And search for bananas?" Coraline mocked. Wybourne smiled "Nooo…they're banana SLUGS…and we can do something else if you want." Just then the black cat appeared and landed itself on Wybourne's shoulder as they walked. "I dunno, Wybie. We can dig up stuff in the garden." Coraline stroked her finger on the black cats head with a smile, and a purr escaped him. The cat then jumped onto Coraline's shoulder and the two laughed lightly.

"Sounds like a plan." Wybourne said. Then they heard his name being called in the distance, and Coraline smirked "Maybe later." "Yeah…" Wybourne lowered his mask over his face and turned the lens "See ya, I'll ring the door bell." He turned and left, and Coraline in less than a minute made it home. She unlocked the door, and the black cat jumped off her shoulder and ran off to chase down Wybourne. Coraline shut the door behind her and announced herself "I'm home! Mom! Dad!"

"Coraline, hey!" Her father came towards her and gave her a hug, before he held a serious face as she took off her yellow rain jacket and slipped out of her boots "I got a call from the principal, you yelled at a teacher?" "She couldn't hear me!" Coraline protested and sighed "It wasn't my fault! She kept asking me to speak louder, and louder, and louder!" The man smiled "It's fine, let's not mention anything to your mother though…she'll get mad." Coraline made a happy smile, and then the two separated, her father going into the kitchen, and she went off into her room to do her homework.

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"Oh, why hello there…umm…"

"My name's Wybie, Mr. Jones."

"Wybie! That's it! Come on in!"

Wybourne made a nervous smile, before he played with his fingers "Um, actually, I was hoping Coraline could come outside…we're going exploring today." Mr. Jones stared at Wybourne for awhile, and the young boy titled his head. The man then yelled for Coraline, and she came running down the stairs with her yellow rain jacket and her long yellow boots. She nodded "I'm here!" She bowed as if she had performed in front of an audience, and then she stepped outside with Wybourne. Mr. Jones spoke gently "Be careful out there, Coraline…and watch out for your mother, she'll be coming home around anytime now." Coraline nodded, and her dad closed the house door.

"How'd your dad take the news?" Wybourne asked as he and Coraline walked down the path and to the garden, the flowers were fully in bloom now, and didn't look as dead as it did when they first moved in. Coraline sighed "He said it was alright, but it's my mom I need to watch out for…"

"Why? Your mom is scarier?"

"Way."

The two continued to walk, and soon the black cat appeared and leaped on top of Wybourne's shoulder.

Coraline sat down on the old bench in the garden, basically it was the only thing they didn't replace yet. The fog had gotten thick, it was a blanket on the earth floor, but it was typical weather. It was dark out even though it was only the afternoon. Wybourne was used to this, and he paid no attention to the eeriness of it, while, even if she had been there for a year now, Coraline was still feeling awkward and a bit nervous when the fog came in. She sat and watched as Wybourne and his cat assistant walked around carefully and cautiously. The cat was creeping around somewhere within the fog, and Wybourne had his mask on and his lens switched to what would appear as looking through a microscope so he could see better trough he fog and on the ground. He slowly slipped his hands through some black gloves that Coraline didn't even notice he had.

During the silence, Coraline let her mind wander. Though it wasn't much of a silence since Wybourne began to talk to her as if she was listening and talk with the black cat. She wondered about school earlier, how the teacher was being a lunatic and was probably a robot out to get her. She thought about evil adults, and the idea of evil adults brought up the door in her family room…the one that started all of the mess last year.

She zoned back in.

"- and stuff. But it's cool, since my grandma enjoys the company."

She stared at Wybourne, and he slowly lifted a yellow slug with his fingers and held it towards her "Juicy?" "Yeah." Coraline said with no expression. Wybourne threw it behind him, and the cat leaped from out of the fog and bit into it, before falling back down and disappearing.

"Hey, Wybie…can I ask you something?" Coraline asked as she slowly got to her feet and walked over to him. Her hands behind her back and she leaned forward as she walked, as if she was going to interrogate him. Wybourne lifted his mask on top of his head and then started to fiddle with his fingers "What is it…?"

"Remember the stupid stuff that happened last year?"

Wybourne tilted his head to the side, before he nodded and pulled it straight up again "Yeah, what about it?" Coraline walked around him, as if inspecting him, even though it was for no reason and just so she could think about what to say. She breathed in deeply, before answering "Do you think it could still happen?"

"Hopefully not," Wybourne said gently "I wasn't with you there…but I know what I saw when we threw that thing into the well…seemed a bit creepy."

"I'm wondering if the world was left behind, though…not the things and creepy stuff, but the world, you know?"

"I guess…"

Wybourne and Coraline walked out of the garden and went to the front of her house, where Wybourne rushed up to his motor bike and started to smooth it with his gloved covered hands. As if he was petting the cat, speaking of the cat, the black one found its way to him and leaped on top of his shoulder. Then Coraline and Wybourne started to walk down the dirt path that swirled and lead towards the well, Wybourne dragging his bike with him.

"I just wonder, I might wanna visit there." Coraline said after an awkward silence of thinking. Wybourne sighed "Um…didn't we throw the key down the well to get that thing off of you?"

Coraline ran ahead so that she could turn and stop in front of him. She placed her hands on her hips, and Wybourne tilted his head "Hm? Am I right?"

She rolled her eyes "Yeah…"

She then looked back at him "Well?"

"Well what?"

"You know what we should do?"

"No…"

"Get it."

Wybourne's eyes widened and he shook his head "N-No, get it? As in…go into the well and get it? Are you an idiot?"

Coraline glared and huffed "You're the idiot…and it's a great idea, the thing down there is probably dead, and I just wanna take a peek, then we can throw the key away again, right?" Wybourne and Coraline started to walk again, and Wybourne spoke with a scared voice "S-So…Wh-Why the sudden thought of all this?" Coraline sighed and slouched as she stepped "Boredom…I need something new…"

"As always," Wybourne said gently "You're always bored, you should get a hobby so you wouldn't be so bored all the time." "What kind of hobby, Wybie?" Coraline glared "Bug and slug hunting? Stray cat feeding?" She threw her arms out as if she was going to give a falling cloud a hug "Tell me what hobby I could enjoy in a place like this?!"

Wybourne stopped walking and slowly kicked the bike stand out to keep his bike steady. He then slipped the black gloves off of his hands and shoved them into his coat pocket before rubbing the back of his neck nervously "Are you serious, Coraline?"

She nodded slowly.

He looked around, suddenly getting the feeling that they were being watched. With Wybourne hunched like an old man, and his head tilted to the side, he looked like a nervous wreck or that he was paranoid of the world. He then looked back at Coraline "Positive?"

Coraline nodded again.

Wybourne sighed as he kicked the stand for his bike back up and the two continued to walk and soon reached the orchard. The apples and leaves had fallen onto the ground now, some were fresh, some were dead, but the trees always looked dead. The first apple that appeared wasn't on the tree, it was on the ground…Spring was the only time you saw the tree in full bloom, summer was when it all died.

The two walked silently through the orchard and soon reached the mushroom circle. Coraline had nothing to say when she saw it, and Wybourne commented "The mushrooms have gotten larger…"

"And more…colorful…" Coraline added after him.

The mushrooms were as large as soda cans, and for some reason they weren't the yellow they used to be back then. The last time Coraline saw the little circle was when she and Wybourne banished the key to the Other world for good…this was the first time either of them have returned, and it was the same…yet different. The mushrooms were larger, and they were in colors of blue, green, red, orange, and pink.

"Is that healthy for them?" Coraline asked.

Wybourne glanced at her "Are ANY wild mushrooms healthy?"

Coraline smiled at his smart attitude, and they both kneeled into the mud and pulled at the cover of the well. With the extra mud resting on top of the lid, it was heavier than it would have been without. When it was finally removed, the two of them slowly looked down into the well at the pit of nothingness. It was pitch black, like they had remembered, and like tradition, Coraline took a small pebble she found in the mud and dropped it to listen.

She heard the splash, and Wybourne squinted "The well…it's-"

"More full." Coraline finished.

Indeed…the well was filled with more water that somehow managed to slip in. Back then, it took at least a minute or two to hear the stone hit the water at the bottom, but this time it took probably thirty seconds.

"Has this been left open?" Wybourne asked, as if he was worried about it.

Coraline shook her head "I'm not sure, but anyway…we need rope and scuba gear, this is going to be the day we dive in and start the adventures all over again…"

She looked at Wybourne with a small smile "And this time YOU'LL be going with me…"