The last mission
ARTHORS NOTE
I still do not own Coraline or any of the places mentioned . . . sadly.
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By the time Wybie got to the pink palace it was already morning and sunny. Wybie stopped at the front door of the pink palace and sat down on the steps trying to catch his breath. He still didn't understand why he was not allowed to bring his bike. His bike is the best way of getting around other than his grandmothers ancient car.
"Okay so, what do you want me to do?" Wybie asked the Cat once he regained his breath and was standing up half straight. He made a note to open later "fix slouch".
"Do you want me to k-knock?" Wybie reached for the door but the Cat jumped up and hissed at him.
"Whoa chill k-kitty chill." Wybie said backing away from the door.
"What do you want me to do?" Wybie asked again with more urgency in his voice.
The Cat ignored him and began to climb the side of the pink palace disappearing into what Wybie guessed was Coralines window. Wybie stood there for a minute of two staring at the window then sat down wringing his hands together and patiently waiting.
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Inside the house the Cat is pawing at Coralines nose trying to get her to wake up. When the blue haired girl finally woke up the Cat was greeted with yet another question by a sleepy child.
"How did you get in?" Coraline asked the sleep was leaving her system quickly as the Cats knowing eyes looked at her.
"Do you know where Mom and Dad are?" Coraline was surprised to see the Cat bow its head, as if to say "Yes." The Cat jumped off the bed gracefully and landed on the cold floor beneath her. Coraline followed the Cat feeling sad and somewhat alone. Cat brought Coraline downstairs and began to scratch at the front door.
"Huh? What does that have to do with anything?" Coraline asked the Cat. But her question was ignored for the Cat kept scratching at the front door. Coraline shrugged and opened the door.
"Wybie?" Coraline asked herself, the Cat and Wybie himself all in one question.
"Um… Hi J-Jonesy." Wybie felt his head fall as he spoke to Coraline.
"Why are you here Why-where-you-born? I thought you said I was crazy." Coraline said not letting Wybie see the weaker side of her.
"The Cat forced me to." Wybie said really quickly, spying the Cat, who was giving him a nasty stare.
"Oh…" Coraline paused. She looked at the Cat then at Wybie then back at the Cat.
"Well… What do I do?" Coraline asked the Cat directly, not really caring if Wybie thought she was crazy anymore. The Cat began to walk away from the children and deeper inside the house.
"Well he is not very helpful." Coraline said to herself.
"He has been l-like that all morning." Wybie replied.
"Oh" Coraline was still confused as to why Wybie was there but more confused as to why the Cat brought him there.
The Cat made a very loud "Meow" sound and Coraline and Wybie, forgetting his one condition, rushed to his aid.
"Really Cat? It's just a dark hallway." Coraline said to the Cat. The Cat ignored Coraline and kept walking down the hallway. At the end of the dark hall way was an old full length mirror where Coraline saw the reflection of herself and Wybie not too far behind her. The Cat sat next to the mirror and looked at it. Coraline and Wybie looked too. It took a second but a faded version of Coralines Mother and Father appeared in the mirror shocking Coraline and Wybie. They stood in what seemed to be a huge very cold refrigerator. They were freezing and covered in snow.
Coraline gasped. Mel and Charlie looked at their daughter then looked around then Mel wrote on the glass HELP US. Then as if they were never there, they disappeared.
"Mom! Dad!" Coraline rushed to the mirror and banged on it with her fists.
"J-J-Jonesy! It's going to-"Wybie didn't have time for words he leaped and covered Coraline with his body shielding her from a thousand stray pieces of broken mirror glass.
"How did this happen?" Coraline askes Wybie looking up at him with tears in her big brown eyes. Wybie didn't know what had happened, even if it was stamped on his forehead, so instead of explaining how that particular thing happened he explained what he knew.
"Well glass is a versatile material that is ideally suited for any number of medical and ocular uses in addition to its wide production in the building and automotive trades-"
Wybie didn't get a chance to finish because Coraline had punched him on the side of his arm . . . hard.