The Beldam sat in her beetle chair. She was enjoying coco beetles from Zanzibar. She looked at one and mouthed "Coraline" then ate it in disgust. Normally she would have given up on one measly child but Coraline had the key, the carcasses of the eyes of the ghost children, the burnt doll and no button eyes. Temper filled her body and she threw the coco beetles on the ground.
"That horrible cheating girl" she screamed.
Then a terrible grin reached her face. She would get the key back and leave this world...to destroy Coraline's...
"Other Father" she screamed. Almost immediately, a pumpkin-sized blob appeared at the door. "Conjure up an immortality potion."
The Other Father frowned. "You will never win." he said in a hoarse voice, "Coraline is the Remedian. You need to get those buttons in her eyes if you are ever to win. But you are not as intelligent as her. Even with the immortality potion the Remedian is the only one that can kill you and she will."
The Beldam's button eyes turned a bright red. Then she contained her temper. "How can I defeat her?"
"You must go into the other world, cause chaos, kill the Remedian's love and sew the buttons. Then you can eat her soul. After that the Remedian will not disturb you and you can win. Beware though, any weapon the Remedian carries can and will kill you. Also with the immortality potion you can only kill one soul before the Remedian. So see her true feelings and do not kill just anybody. Kill only her true love..."
The Other Father walked away and appeared a few moments later with a vile of immortality potion. The Other Mother drank it and chuckled.
"I am the Beldam nobody can defeat me!"
"The Remedian can."
"I obviously know that. Every Beldam starts as a Remedian. She will be the next Beldam. She holds my power but we must not let her know otherwise she might use the power."
"You are correct. Except for one tiny detail. She can take your power and use it as her own or worse, discard of it completely."
The Other Mother looked furious.
"How dare you not tell me this! I will kill you!"
Again she contained her temper.
"Leave me to plan out my destruction of the mortal world..."
A few miles away, 400 meters deep the hand lay. As the Other Mother drank the immortality potion the hand rejoined and clawed the fabric of Coraline's blanket. It threw the rock away and took the key. It ran silently towards the Pink Palace. Then a noise appeared out of nowhere. It was a girl singing.
"My twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge and I give you bowls of ice... Cream." the song went.
Coraline Jones walked closer and closer to where her nightmare had ended last summer. In her arms she carried a body of a man. He was no longer breathing and he no longer had a heartbeat. She cried for the death of Mr. Bobinsky. She came closer to the well and saw it. The hand.
" No! You, you" she was out of words.
It carried the key and ran. She would not let the events from last summer repeat themselves. She dropped Bobinsky and ran.
When she arrived at her front patio she cornered the hand. Then with no choice it jumped over the fence into Ms. Spink and Forcible's home. Coraline ran down the stairs but she was to late. The hand had killed both of them leaving a trail of blood going to a staircase that led to Coraline's living room. Where the door was...
