(A/N): Consider this:
Book!Other Mother was not very powerful. One lame theater-show-thing (No offense, Neil!). She also wasn't very patient, what with showing the buttons in the first hour. Thus, Book!Coraline didn't need much help to defeat her.
Movie!Other Mother 1-upd Book!Other Mother – she had the power to create a miraculous feast, a fantastic garden, an amazing circus, and a breathtaking theater. She also was three times as patient as Book!Other Mother. Therefore, Movie!Coraline needed a good amount of help and tips to defeat her.
ThePamphlet!Other Mother has FAR more power than TWO Movie!OMs plus FIVE Book!OMs.
Yeah. As you can probably already tell, ThePamphlet!OM is going to cause a fuckload of trouble – directly and indirectly. Including the –
Wait! I wasn't supposed to say that!
Ugh. Whatever.
CHAPTER SEVEN: BOOK
Soon, Coraline found herself in the Other World's massive library.
Coraline read from the magical book the Other Melanie had shown her yesterday while the Other Melanie did a search in the library for the mysterious "Hatter".
She had been reading about a cat that could, of all things, talk, when all of a sudden an arrow drew itself underneath what she had been reading, pointing at the margin.
Then a few comments all of a sudden appeared out of nowhere, just like the arrow.
They read:
"Good evening," is a more accurate term, I believe, for our situation.
Coraline stared in shocked silence at the page for a little while before she spoke. "Who are you?" she asked the page.
I can't hear you, child. How about you write on me instead?
Coraline was quite confused for a moment, but picked up a pen and wrote in the margin, underneath the other notes:
Who are you? What are you?
Continue reading, the page responded.
She read down a few lines before the page underlined a sentence.
The cat shook its head. "No," it said. "I'm not the other anything. I'm me."
Are you the cat? Coraline wrote in the margin.
You could say that, the page replied, but more accurately, I'm the book, child. The one with the answers you need.
Answers?
Yes.
To what?
To this.
All of a sudden, the book violently flipped through its pages. After it stopped, it underlined a passage.
They went into the kitchen. On a china plate on the kitchen table was a spool of black cotton, and a long silver needle, and, beside them, two large black buttons.
Coraline pondered the passage before writing in the margin with the pen again.
What's that supposed to mean? she asked.
This.
The book again violently turned through itself, to a spot another forty pages or so ahead. She had no idea how the Other Melanie hadn't heard the noise; of course, maybe the library was so huge you couldn't hear a foghorn from the other side.
Another short passage was underlined.
"She will take your life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll awake and your - "
Coraline didn't have time to read the rest, as she heard the Other Melanie's hurried footsteps running through the library.
She must have found something, Coraline thought.
Coraline hurriedly scribbled on the page, The Other Melanie is coming back! I'll read later!
She barely glimpsed the book's response.
Later will be too late.
(A/N): So, the third character speaks!
Don't ask ME how the Cat got stuck in a book! Even I don't know that crap... :P
Anyway, for those of you who DON'T know much about Harry Potter, I actually based the Cat a lot off of Tom Riddle's Diary, both the book and the movie version. That's where the violent page-flipping and self-writing text came from.
Now, on one of the points, it's your turn to decide whether or not the Cat is messing with her. This one:
I can't hear you, child. How about you write on me instead?
If you want Word of God, or in this case, Word of Me, the Cat is powerful enough to be able to hear Coraline, but writing was safer and less likely to set off an 'alarm'. Plus, if the Cat showed that he could actually speak, Coraline would probably start screaming. The book can speak, it just chooses not to.
Hehehe... some of you know something along the lines of what I mean...
In the next chapter we will see what the hell the Other Melanie is going on about!
Other Melanie: I'm not really THAT annoying, am I? I'm gonna get my mouth ripped out if you say it too loud!
*gets mouth ripped out by OM*
Other Mother: We can't have that kind of talk when my dear Coraline is in this house. Go away. I won't fix you right now, but if Coraline even begins to complain you will wish you had gotten it ripped off!
*OM glues it back on*
Me: Ohhh... Kaaay...
Carry on with your lives!