Rediscovering courage
Before we start, I want to let everybody here know that this is just the prologue. I hope you can enjoy my story. Why hasn't anyone else come up with a Peter Pan-Coraline crossover. However, the latter will play a bigger role.
Oh, and for any South Korean readers, the Other Mother's origin story is loosely based on how Sara Kerrigan (Starcraft) became a Zurgian warrior queen.
It is now the year 2030. Coraline Jones and I have been thinking about publishing her other big adventure for a while now. After a lot of thought, she got me to divulge everything except the technology necessary to get to Neverland, and only because she doesn't want capitalists developing a tourism industry there.
Dateline, 1860. The Pink Palace Apartment has just been constructed, the catch, it was right over a sacred Indian burial ground. Moving into this new house is the Chetham family. The father of the household stumbles upon a place where the Great Spirit lived. One of the members of this family, ten year old Elizabeth is starting to question the traditional roles of the man and woman, and in the past, she has been very outspoken of her opinions. Something needed to be done to keep this loose cannon in line.
Rather than relying on more conventional means to discipline his disobedient daughter, Jacob Chetham tells her about the aforementioned spirit. He would then let her curiosity take over, and she would wander through the little door. The system of the Other World works more or less the same as it did when Coraline visited, except a man was in charge.
This was a terrible move on Jacob's part, and here are the reasons why. First, this was done with the intent of stabilizing his family's status quo by removing a very vocal critic from its ranks. Problem was, Peter Chetham, their star son, had visited the Other World the day after they moved in. Despite all the happiness that surrounded him, he had the ability to sense anything supernatural, and saw that this place only had darkness in its soul. So he got scared and left before he was even offered the buttons. When Elizabeth went in, Peter followed her, and watched her. When she was offered buttons, Peter tried to warn Elizabeth that this was not going to be a good move. Unfortunately, Elizabeth was having too much fun in this world, so she didn't listen to Peter. Later he found out that Jacob had intentionally done this. Not wishing to be next, Peter ran away from home, starting a journey that would eventually make him Peter Pan. For an effort to try to stabilize the family, it wound up backfiring pretty badly for Jacob.
And that's not even touching on what happened to Elizabeth. You see, Elizabeth was a developing psychic (abilities like Peter's and Elizabeth's are only found in a little over 1,000 people in the entire world today). After the buttons were sewed in her eyes, her energy went down, but her psychic abilities kept going up. She eventually got to the point where she could overwhelm the Great Spirit. She killed Jacob, and at the request of The Great Spirit, started to take revenge on the people who stole the Indian lands by luring their children into her lair and draining them of their life-forces. To kill this monster for good, man would need to adapt the same equilibrium to the land in 200 years, or The Great Spirit would come and destroy humanity.
Maybe sending her to bed without dinner would've been the better option here.
Hello once again, I come to you with bad news. I have to rework a good part of Chapter 2 to put more emphasis on one specific part of the story. Anyway, I'm sorry this is up a little later than it should have been, but I had some other stuff to do today.
Fun Fact: Did you know that I actually write the entire fan-fiction before I even post a single part? After that, I post them one chapter per day in the style of an old-fashioned movie serial (make sure to look it up on Wikipedia). However, I may not have the second chapter done by tomorrow, but I'll definitely have it done by Sunday.