I only own my OC, Taylor, I do not own any of the Coraline characters.


Taylor and Coraline soon walked into the kitchen, seeing the Beldam cooking, and humming. Taylor soon sees Coraline with a glare, as is she is saying in her mind, "Be strong, Coraline."

The two girls soon went to the table, and Coraline sees the box with the buttons, spool and needle, she sweated a bit, and looked at the Beldam cooking, and she asked, "Why don't we play a game?" The Beldam stopped, as Coraline said, "I know you like them."

"Everybody likes games," the Beldam replied.

"Uh-huh," Coraline replied back.

"What kind of game would it be?" the Beldam asked.

"An exploring game. A finding things game," Coraline replied.

"In a term a scavenger hunt," Taylor added.

"And what is it you two will be finding, Taylor and Coraline?" the Beldam asked.

"My real parents," Coraline replied.

"Too easy," the Beldam said.

"And the eyes of the ghost children," Coraline added.

"Along with that, you and I will do something else when Coraline finds the eyes, what it is, you'll have to wait," Taylor said.

"Huh," the Beldam said, she soon walked towards the girls with an omelet and bacon, and asked, "What if you two don't find them?"

"If we lose, I'll stay here forever and let you love me, but you must let Taylor go, for it's me you want," Coraline replied, causing Taylor to be shocked, while she looked at the present, sighed, and said, "And I'll let you sew buttons into my eyes."

Taylor and the Beldam are shocked, but the Beldam soon smirked, and said, "Hmm. And if you somehow win this game?"

"Then you let us go. You let everyone go. My real father and mother, the dead children, everyone you've trapped here," Coraline replied.

The Beldam exclaims, and then said, "Deal, with the condition that Taylor doesn't use her abilities."

"With the exception of the Staff Helicopter, since it is only meant to help me hover or glide, not for flying," Taylor added. The Beldam nodded in agreement, and extended her hand to Coraline.

Coraline looked at it, and said, "Not till you give us a clue."

The Beldam, winced back, and said, "Oh, right." She moved around the girls, and said, "In each of the three wonders I've made for you," she was near Coraline, then covered her eyes, and continued, "a ghost eye is lost in plain sight."

Coraline soon turned, and asked, "And for my parent?" The Beldam chuckled, and tapped her button eye, which caused Coraline to glare and say, "Fine. Don't tell me." She soon crossed her arms, sighed, and said, "It's a deal." She turned to extend her arm to shake, but the Beldam is gone. She went to the sink and asked, "What did she mean, 'wonders?'"

Taylor thought, remembering of what she saw through little friend's eyes, then said, "I think I got it, the garden, the theater, and the circus, they might be the wonders."

Coraline looked at the drapes, and opened them to see the garden, and said, "Hmm, I think you might be right, Taylor."

The two girls soon enter it by opening the gates, they looked at the flowers, and see the snapdragons. Coraline glared at them, and stomped on them, but Taylor looked at some blue flowers, and yelled, "Coraline, lookout!"

The blue flowers grabbed Coraline by the ankles, and she yelled, "No!" The flowers chomped on her, and rolled her to a stone brick monster. She grunted to quickly grabbed the snips, and cut flowers off her. She soon grabs her things, but some humming birds that were buzz around them. Coraline fan them away, while yelling, "Stop!" Two humming birds grabbed the triangular object, and carried it away.

Coraline soon grabbed her hat and threw it at the humming birds, which she hit. "Nice shot, Coraline," Taylor said.

"Thank," Coraline replied. The girls went to the humming birds which look like bird/insect hybrids, and sand was coming out of them. Coraline soon took the object they took and her hat, and asked, "Why steal this?" She looked into it for a bit, gasped, and said, "Wow!"

"What is it?" Taylor asked, Coraline gave Taylor the object, and looked into it, and see things were in black and white instead of color. "Cool, seems Miss Spink and Miss Forcible gave us something that came in handy." She looked around, until she something red and said, "Seems not everything is in black and white."

Coraline looked at what she meant and said, "This must be it!"

However, they were surprised that it was the Other Charlie on the Mantis contraption. Coraline and Taylor gasped, as the Other Charlie garbled, "Sorry." The Mantis tried to attack them, Coraline was dodging, but Taylor with her staff fought back as the Other Charlie said, "So sorry. Mother making me."

Taylor looked, thought of something, and said, "Coraline follow me!"

The girls walked up the bridge, as the Other Charlie said, "Don't wanna hurt you!" The Mantis soon was hitting the planks of the bridge, but the bridge soon collapsed a bit. The Other Charlie took one glove off, took the ball of the lever, presented the girls and yelled while he and the Mantis fall into the water, "Take it!" The girls looked down, while Coraline grabbed the ball, and see the Other Charlie and the Mantis sink into the water, then the garden loses all its colors.

Coraline was panting, then the ball glowed red, and the heard the boy's voice who said, "Bless you both, misses. You found me! But there's two eyes still lost."

Coraline looked at him, and replied, "Don't worry. We're getting the hang of it."

"Maybe you, but me, I've been doing this life-threatening stuff for a while," Taylor said.

They soon heard some thundering, and looked up.


The game is on, and Taylor and Coraline have found the first eye, though not without the sacrifice of the reluctant Other Charlie. Anyway, if you're reading this, thank you so much. If you want to know when the next chapter is, follow me or the story, write a review, but please no flames, add it to your favorites, and as usual, and if I get to it, the story will continue in the next chapter. SEE YA!