The Beldam smiled. Two new prey were going to fall into her spider web. She licked her lips, picturing the delectable tastes of the souls on her lips. The clicking of her needle legs echoed the room. Humming, the creature took out a empty case for a doll. The mouth was the only thing open.
The woman-creature started working on the doll, expertly filling the doll with fluff, sewing, clothing and adding gray buttons. The Beldam had some struggle with the dolls clothes but she had managed. English people's clothes were the toughest to replicate. Adding silver hair to the small doll she looked at it and smiled, cruelly. Placing it down she worked on a new one.
A boy doll instead of a girl.
Filling it with sand, having difficulties with the clothes then adding emerald button eyes. Grabbing the two dolls she opened a rusted window and let the dolls fly away from her grip. She closed the window.
She was going to make sure, these two wouldn't end up like Coraline.
The carriage bumped up and down as it went through the forest. There were seven passengers (including the driver). Alice the B-rabbit. Oz Vessalius, Vincent Nightray, Gilbert (Gil) Nightray, Xerxes Break and Echo. None was speaking, Break was the first to break the silence.
"My, everyone is so tense!" He chuckled unwrapping a peppermint, then popping it into his mouth. "So, you want that information on that Chain I was talking about earlier?"
Some of the passengers nodded.
"The Chains name is 'The Beldam'," He paused to see if Alice would make a comment. Strangely, the Chain said nothing. "This Chain does need a contractor, she lures children. To start a contract she is different, eats their soul."
"Yes, she slowly eats their soul then locks their souls away, from what my resource says." He added sucking on the candy. "Who's your resource, Break?" Oz asked he had looked away from the window and looked interested.
"Ah, a woman, she almost made a contract with the Chain." He only letting that much of the information out to the six.
"And that's all you get brat! Kekeke!" Emily adding laughing. Oz lightly glared at the doll.
Over the months, that doll got annoying.
"Will there be meat?" Alice said ignoring the talks of the Chain.
"Yes, of coarse."
Typical Alice.
Vincent Nightray had said nothing, he was busy shredding a stuffed doll with a pair of scissors. Echo silently sat next to her master. Her eyes were hallow as normal.
When they arrived to the Pink Palace, Oz and Alice ran out, please to be able to move around. Vincent followed his brother out, patting out the fluff the doll gave off. The six went inside the pink building.
"Echo, go outside and investigate this 'well'." Vincent said after secretly listening into Gilberts and Breaks conversation. They had mentioned of a deep, deep well, where a key was thrown in. Echo nodded and made her way past the living room but paused.
She walked and sat on her knees facing a wall.
The imprint of a small door was under the wall paper. Looking around she took out her blade and followed the lines, to open the door. She paused as she noticed that the door needed a key.
"Echo-chan!" Oz's voices said as he walked into the room.
"Just Echo." She reminded him.
"What did you do?" He asked looking at what Echo had done to the wall.
"There's a door. I need a key." She said standing up. "But I need to goto the well." She added turning to the kitchen and walking.
"Can I come with you?" Oz asked. "Alice is taking a nap." He added.
"Alright." She said walking out into the damp air. The two walked in silence as they walked to the well.
"Hey what's that?" Oz asked picking up something metal, he scratched the wet dirt away.
"It appears to be a key." Echo observed. She looked around. No well. Master Vincent would not be pleased on her discovery of no well.
"Hey, look at this." He lifted the key's end over his eye. Echo blinked.
The key's end had a button.
"Is that the only way?" He asked looking at the man. "Let her sew the buttons into your eyes and you're in the contract?"
"The Beldam is quite mysterious. Has not been caught by Pandora for hundreds of years, we believe this is the door the her world."
"So who is your resource Break?" The man asked.
"Coraline, the only child to have ever escape the chain."
"How does that chain lure them in?" "She makes a doll looking like the child she wants, the dolls have button eyes. The dolls are her spies."
"Oz-kun look at this." Echo said, she walked to a wheelbarrow and nodded to what was on there.
Two doll, identical to the two...
Just to let everyone know this is the anime version of Echo, I haven't read the manga yuet but I heard there's something more to Echo but I'm not doing the manga just the anime.
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