Cat
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Wybie slithered up to his room exhausted He had just came back from the police station, they where still questioning him. Asking him if he and Coraline had had any arguments. The answer was always no. He flopped on his bed. Too exhausted to get changed in to his pyjamas. He lay on the bed, every bone in his body willing himself to go to sleep but he couldn't. Anything could have happened to her; even the cat had stopped visiting. Maybe he was looking for her too. Her parent's where distraught, blaming him. Obviously he couldn't tell anyone what really happened; they would probably lock him in the loony bin.
He tossed and turned and groaned, he ached all over. Her parent's where so mad at him, he didn't know what to do. She would though. Coraline would know what to do.
It was getting dark. Coraline was the size of a doll and dolls didn't have backpacks, so she couldn't pack anything. She had no food, water, nothing. She felt dizzy with walking and hunger, she felt all empty and hollow. Like the children she though sadly… they weren't ghosts as they weren't dead just empty, their lives and souls drained out of them. She had taken off in the direction to where Wybie's car had gone, but since she wasn't that tall it would take her maybe days to get there.
Groaning she heaved her tired body in to an alley with rubbish bins scattered everywhere. It stank like hell, but it was dry. Old takeaways fluttered in the corner. She eyed them hungrily. She hadn't eaten in ages! She had stolen a few things from the kitchen at Bonne's house but even then, not something warm and that would keep her going. She sat down on the hard soggy ground. It had rained through most of her journey. She out her head on the wall and sighed, rubbing her aching neck and shoulders. Not noticing the gleaming red eyes watching her closely…
"Woody! What are you doing?" cried Buzz watching his friend hunt desperately around the room for anything he could find, random things like needle's anything sharp. "Woody…"he started. Woody spun round. The needle strapped to his back with some string along with what looked like a small packet of blueberry sweets. Woody had saw Coraline eating loads of them in the corner. "She's gone, she went to go find Wybie." His face was a picture of anger and determination, their was no stopping him now. "WHAT?" shrieked Jessie darting up to them, "She's gone?" Poor Jessie looked as if she was about to cry. "B-but she can't be gone, I thought she liked it here…" her voice trailed off when she saw the book on both their faces. "Jessie" sighed Woody. "She can't stay here, she has a family, people that will miss her…and Bonnie is probably going to find her sooner or later. She won't be able to handle being a toy." Buzz put an arm round her. Jessie looked to the ground. "She didn't even say goodbye…"
Woody looked back at his friends from the front garden, only one person missing. Bo. With a heavy heart he set off. Hoping to find Coraline and…well that was it, he didn't know what then. "I hope she's ok."
You know that I love you. Rasped the other mother. Holding a black shining button between two long pointed fingers. "Don't worry darling sweetheart, honey, this won't hurt a little bit." She grinned a big fake smile. Sweetheart, honey darling, the words sounded horrible a sickly ordinary words twisted for an evil purpose. Her horrible blood red smile plastered on her face permanently. Closer. move! Why can't I move? Coraline screamed to herself. Then, the horrible distorted blood smothered face of Wybie popped up, his button eyes missing and his mouth swollen and sewed cruelly shut. His whole face drooping, he reached out a crumbling hand, reaching for her neck…"Sweet Dreams."
CLATTER!
Coraline felt her eyelids flutter open as she heard a faint scuttling noise in the corner and she forgot the nightmare. She knew that sound from somewhere…just where? She searched the dark dusty corners of imagination, knowing she had heard that sound before. A rustle and scuttling and an eerie singing. Coraline shuddered.
BANG!
Coraline leapt to her feet, and one word raced through her mind.
Rats.
And right there in front of her, Twice the size of her, with bedraggled sot black fur and glinting gleaming hungry red eyes. Yellow teeth bared, and its claws long and sharp, smothered in blood. Coraline stared up at in horror her back was against the wall and had no weapon or plan. Her heart was thumping so loud she couldn't hear anything else. The rat seemed to smile wickedly down at her. Before it started swaying slightly it sang a song and this is it;
We have teeth we have claws
We have eyes and we have tails
You walk on two we walk on four
Everything you try will eventually failes
And with that it launched itself at Coraline claws and teeth glinting evilly in the moonlight. Screaming Coraline dodged it and it crashed in to the wall. Reeling backwards it shook its head and looked for her, sniffing the air…then as if being told what to do; it snapped its head in her direction. Coraline had darted towards the entrance of the alley, the cold harsh wind tore at her face, and it was bitter cold that made her collapse on the soaking wet ground, coughing hysterically. The rat towered above her, its red eyes glinting. Almost immediately it lunged at her, fangs bared squealing. Coraline squeezed her eyes shut…waiting for the pain.
THWAK!
There was a horrible thump and a cracking sound, the sound of bones and blood. Coraline dared look. The cat had one paw on the blood smothered body of the rat, its eyes wide and mouth agape. The cat blinked and Coraline could imagine its smooth-as-silk voice saying;
I don't like rats at the best of times.
Instead it let out a small, meow. And that was all that needed to be said. Coraline smiled, and so did the cat. It blinked slowly, its blue eyes glinting. "Good kitty."
The next chapter I do should be the last, Get ready to say goodbye to this adventure and keep looking at my other stories! (Just don't read Alice in underland 2…it's not very good!)
